This game comes from the illustrious bass player the Victor Wooten, in his book The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music. It is a wonderful reminder and a reward for leaving space to breathe. And Victor also says it always results in the crowd cheering wildly for his solos!

Just before you end your solo, plan ahead to end a little earlier than the rhythmic cycle that is supporting you.

Leave a moment between the end of your solo and the end of the cycle; Leave enough time to take a breath.

Breathe in. And in your mind take a silent bow as you inhale.

Then breath out and rejoin everyone exactly when the beginning of the cycle comes around.