You’ve got the gig, but your bass player has another appointment - or you’re going to record an EP and you want to enlarge the band to give a better recording?
Let me help. I enjoy a wide variety of music, I can learn new material fast, and I have experience of dep work. Because I enjoy the work, my rates are reasonable.
Location
I am based in Cambridge, England, but I’m willing to travel for the right project.
Certification
I have a Grade 5 Bass with Merit from Rockschool, London.
Learning the basslines to your songs
Obviously, I need to know what to play. There’s various ways to achieve this quickly:
* I can read chords or dots. If you’d like me to read the parts, please would you send me the music a couple of weeks in advance, so that I can check it for problems and get familiar with it.
* If you’re playing well-known songs, just give me a list - I can play these (and others) already, and I can research most of the ones I don’t know. I’ll let you know if I have difficulty with any of them.
* If you’re playing your own songs, send me some recordings (they don’t need to be high-quality), preferably with chord charts.
The Jammers
I’m the dep, at a barbecue at the Rising Sun,
Spooky Slim
Here’s what they said when I helped them out.
ULU Big Band
Swing jazz tunes, read from sheet music. And yes, we played “Stomping At The Savoy” at the Savoy!
