It played perfectly from the outset and the setup has remained very stable ever since. The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The setup is really good, but honestly that’s probably just luck with this particular bass. This week I’ve been experimenting with putting black nylon tape wound bass strings on my basses. Great musicians...all of them (of course it's jazz) shined on their solo parts. This leads to the sequence of fifths that you see in the exercise. Listening to Bona is like visiting a bakery that excels at making every kind of treat. The intonation certainly isn’t perfect, but I include it in my Bass Practice Diary as a demonstration of the kind of ideas that I like to use to help me improve my intonation on fretless bass. But I’m not interested in that stuff. All rights reserved. We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below: Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. The triads move in fifths, but in the opposite direction to the conventional cycle of fifths. You don’t have to follow the notes that I’ve written out. Music – Bright Size Life – Richard Bona – Pat Metheny – Live, Music – Mbanga Kumba (Two Cities, One Train) – Richard Bona – Richard Bona – Reverence, User Submitted Gallery Addition 2019-12-12, The Fixx Concert Review Boston December 2019. Amazing. Richard Bona’s vocals and bass playing are just sublime. When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device. i i realli like the shape. “Shiva Mantra” (Richard Bona: Ten Shades of Blue) Focused around an Indian-inspired sound scape, this song is layered with intricate harmonies, percussion accents, and unique melodies. He has also put out a handful of solo records, including Reverence, Tiki, Ten Shades of Blue, Bona Makes You Sweat: Live, and the latest record, Bonafied. I’m going to go back to using either bronze round wound strings or half rounds on my acoustic bass guitar. In this exercise, I’m playing major arpeggios. And the lower friction (the strings are very smooth to the touch) means that you potentially get less unwanted noise than you would get from round wound strings.