If you live for live music and you are climbing the walls waiting for that point where you can get back into the world and start gigging again, well then this video is for you.

Now that staying in has become the new going out, musicians around the world are having to rethink how they make music.

But on the flip side, there's more music being written now than ever before so

with that in mind we thought now was the perfect time for you to sharpen your

skills when it comes to actually how to get a great gig for when the world opens up

again in this video we're delving back into the SBL interview archives and you're going to find out and hear how some of the best bass players on the planet landed the great gigs that they've got in their careers and how your social skills are actually a lot more important than your bass chops. So with that said, let's jump in. One way or another, I was, after I moved to New York, I was single and able to not have any responsibility and able to go out to the sessions that were out until four or five in the

morning. Were you trying to get cards? Did people do that anymore? No, yeah. Were you trying to get

sort of like contact and like hookup sort of like plays where you could go and sort of like, yeah.

I mean, there's like a definitely stereotypical jazz musician that is out there that after you finish playing

here's my cardless jam sometime right you sign a braids jam sometime and then they'll never ever

call you they just want to get on stage and you're blocking the way yeah and so i kind of got out of

that early i mean um if for me if if i if i meet a musician that i want to work with, and I was approaching and be like, listen to you sound fantastic, you know, let's, and I'll actually take down their phone number. I'll try to find them online, Facebook, whatever, and I'll actually reach out to them and be like, hey, the show's coming up, not just make it a passive, oh, you sounded great, let's jam sometime. End of story. Yeah, basically try and sort of like follow up, at least create some sort of like relationship with them so you can actually build on something. Yeah, people kind of see through that very quickly. Yeah, yeah. And so I've, especially in the last like a couple of years, I've made it a point to just really develop the relationships that I have and new relationships that I make too to make every

encounter kind of a special thing you know where it's where that that person instead of just

walking into the gig and being the bass player you know and you know I can I can impact the

projects that I work with in a positive way when you when you first hit the jam when you got here, how long and how long do you think people should expect to commit to, do you know what I mean? Like, just to give you some context, a friend of mine, in fact, you know, because obviously I'm from the UK. Yeah. And, you know, people moved to London and the ones that seem to really get embedded in the scenes in

the scene are either the guys that would go to music school there right but the guys that are kind

of coming in and not going to music school are the guys that commit to I would like wet finger in

the air so like six months a year possibly yeah like hitting the jam sessions every like literally

like every single night yeah every night yeah like

really committing to it yeah yeah i mean it definitely takes time um and it takes some full commitment like

you know it's when i first was doing it i had a i had a part-time job selling shoes and uh i it was

it was difficult you know i'd finish finish some work at like 10 have to go out to the gem

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