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BASS NOTES

Gail Ann Dorsey

• Check out Gail Ann Dorsey’s unique take on the super-melodic “Changes” bass line, interacting live with David Bowie.

WOODSHED

John Goldsby's Jazz Concepts: Simandl with Care! Optimal Fingerings in the Lower Positions

• Download a free comparative chart of bass fingering systems.

• Check out the original public-domain edition of Franz Simandl’s New Method for the Double Bass at the International Music Score Library Project database.

• Watch double bassist Geoff Chalmers explain basic fingering and shifting patterns for a one-octave Ab major scale.

TRANSCRIPTION

"Attitude" by Giants - Doug Rauch's Complete Bass Line

• Get down to the studio version of "Attitude."