FORUM DE LA CONTREBASSE

Reality check #1 : You wonder if the audience is hearing you clearly, so you wait until you're doing a solid groove during someone's solo and you look around the audience.

- If they're watching the soloist, but their heads are bobbing to the rhythm of what you're playing, you're being accurately heard, and you're doing your job.
- If they're bobbing their heads, but watching you, you're being heard way too clearly, and you're not doing your job.
- If they're watching the soloist, but their heads aren't bobbing, either you're not doing your job, or you're not being heard clearly. You decide which.


Reality check #2 : You go down for a break and several people in the audience tell you how well you play.

- You're way too loud, or
- The stuff you're playing is either inappropriate for the music you're playing, or way too busy. Average people don't have a clue what the bass player is doing if they're doing their job properly. They just think the band is "awesome" because it's so tight.