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If I need volume during practice, I find Boot's travel earplugs work pretty well. I love the ER-20s though.

[quote name='presoulnation' post='65757' date='Sep 26 2007, 11:00 AM']Everyone here must have a few lil widdles that they always play on a bass. Maybe it's what you sound check with? Maybe it's what you play when you are trying a bass in a shop? Whatever it is, everyone has a few of their favourite noodles. Tab them or record them and we can all exchange cool lil noodles!! I shall stick mine up here this evenin![/quote] I kinda have an alternate picking excersise I use to warm up, it's just 12/11/10 on all 5 strings, alternating the fingers and descending / ascending. Mostly to discipline my fingers into independance. XD

Hmmm... I really like the bass in Days Turn Blue To Gray by Machine Head. Always thought it was a funky guitar effect starting the song until I saw 'em live.

I've wanted to play for years but it was hearing songs like YYZ, Metropolis Part One, The Light That Blinds and Dig that made me really want to go out and finally start learning.

Sorry to sound like a plonk, but how would one go about changing strings? I have to admit, I failed to ask that when I bought it. *feels silly*

Terrible picture of me. XD

I'd say underrated only because I practically never hear anything about him compared to the other two. Saying that, Dom Howard is by the same token a really underrated drummer.

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='64498' date='Sep 23 2007, 09:34 PM']use your left hand as well. You should have a spare finger tip to mute with...[/quote] Ah, cheers mate, I'll start working on that as well sometime. =]

Adam Duce, Jon Miller, Jeanne Sagan, Paul Pomanko, William Murderface, Chris Wolstenholme... they get my vote.

I bought it in Dorchester. I'll ask Ben in my WoW guild, he's a five minute drive away, he'll probably know. But the head turns ok, it just sounds a bit hacked off. Maybe it needs some lube?

So... I go to tune my big pile of bass tonight. And as I tune the A string, anytime I move the machine head there's like a little mechanical squeaking sound, like nng-nng-nng as if it's protesting. What can I do? I've only owned this bass 3 weeks now.

So how would you go about muting a note on the A string, say the music says x 7 x 8 on a tab sheet? Something that I'm kind of trying to figure out at the moomin.

I know rhythmic measures of notes, but I'm poor on actual note-reading. I know that the fat little bum who sits down a way and has a line through him is C, though. XD I can't read 'chord charts', I should add. They confuse the hell out of me.

Aw man, I caught Dream Theater at Download... There's one of the big reasons I wanted to take up bass, as well as watching some mates play YYZ on Guitar Hero II... It's all well and good having something that widdles but low end is where it's really at.

In terms of what I listen to, not really meself... I've never really enjoyed anything more than a good mosh fest!