Another way to close out the end of a tune is with a blues fill
So we're gonna play eight bars the last eight bars of days of wine and roses and when we hit that tonic that F major
Will have a two bar space afterwards that's still in time where?
Jamil is going to play a blues lick and then we're gonna hit the F major chord together again anyone can play the lick
In this case Jimmy was gonna. Do it first and then I'll demonstrate what I can do to also cue the final ending
But this is this is common. You'll see here this along
You know you'll hear this on a lot of recordings. You'll see a lot of people do this on gigs totally acceptable idiomatic musical ending
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two three four
Yeah, that was great
So I'll take a crack at it now we can do the same thing again anybody can fill and fill this in so I'll take
my turn
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Two three four
It's also common on a gig where you might set up the momentum to do a fill
But no one actually takes up the space to fill it so that is also. Okay, if that happens
We'll do this. We'll we'll play we have no idea who's going to fill it in
But we'll still have that two bar space and we'll see what happens well. We'll just make something out of it, okay
So basically don't worry. It's not going to be a disaster if you get into this situation
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Great yeah, we saved it
One of the dynamics of being in a trio is knowing when it's your time to lead and when it's your time to follow
So I'm always aware of what my role is as a bass player
And how I'm sort of projecting what I want the music to do and how I can
lead my bandmates to make some decisions that I think would be appropriate for the music in a situation like that the ending fill I
Usually default to what the piano player does but because we're working in a democratic process
really anybody can can take it, but it's in those moments where Caroline stepped in and
played the press role as soon as she heard that there was something missing right and that was great so she
Led the group, so there was never a moment where we were like oh man. This is gonna fall apart
We'd knew instantly that it was gonna. It was gonna happen
It was going to go through and then we joined in the last two beats to hit that F
chord so all this to say just
Really, don't be fearful to make decisions if there's a space
Lead your band mates through you want to create confidence in the other musicians
Through your at least in my case through what I'm doing on the bass
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