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When the Police first started gaining traction, Sting<\/a> was bound to have his hands full with every single song.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s one thing to be the one weaving together all the melodies whenever you walk into the studio, but having to anchor down the rhythm section on bass was bound to be a bit more difficult when you\u2019re trying to keep up with a madman like Stewart Copeland. But Sting was already a professional, and he wasn\u2019t afraid to show the rest of the world that he did his musical homework based on the people he worked with.<\/p>\n First of all, it was already insane for that much noise to come out of three people across their records. A lot of Sting\u2019s handiwork came from the melodies that connect tunes like \u2018Every Little Thing She Does is Magic\u2019 or \u2018Message in a Bottle\u2019, but it\u2019s about the way that the rest of the band attacked it that made an impact. \u2018Every Breath You Take\u2019 and \u2018Walking on the Moon<\/a>\u2019 wouldn\u2019t have sounded the same with those massive chordal landscapes that Andy Summers created, but by the time Synchronicity was winding down, Sting wanted some more people to play with.<\/p>\n And Dream of the Blue Turtles saw him pull out all the stops that he could. It was one thing to get a solo band to help him perform a handful of tunes, but the fact that his contemporaries were members of the jazz world, he was definitely looking for something more than a few pop hits. He was following the lead of people like Joni Mitchell by venturing into new territories, but there was never going to be any line that he played that could come anywhere near the level of Jaco Pastorius.<\/p>\n Having already done work with Mitchell, Pastorius\u2019s touch on the bass guitar is still the benchmark for what everyone should try to do on the four-string. Jimi Hendrix may have worked his magic when playing electric guitar, but through his use of harmonics and knowledge of every single scale that you could think of, Pastorius was using the bass as a tool for creative expression more than a musical instrument, especially when playing beautiful pieces like \u2018Continuum\u2019.<\/p>\n