#cello jazz

[humongousfanhologram]

AKUA DIXON 4-24-15 Akua's Dance

[best-of-contemporary-jazz]

Track: Sailors Song Album: Citizen Artist: Artyom Manukyan Label: Ghost Note Records Year: 2015

[howtopractice]

Okay, so the thing with singing and playing is (I think) that the instrumental bit has to be totally mental. I mean, playing by ear goes out the window because your ear's already devoted to your singing, so you've got to have the fingering's down.

(learning this as I'm working on cello basslines, haha. When I was learning how to sing and play on bass I couldn't think about it; it just kinda developed, which totally left me in the dark when it got to applying it to other instruments.