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  1. Over the past 10 years or so I've created around 200 charts (revised figure) for my covers band in a simple format which is easy to use for the whole band. The charts just show the chords and song structure and are particularly useful when learning new songs. Minimises disagreements about who's getting it wrong lol! Sample attached below, all songs are in this simple one page format. Too many songs in the archive to list here but suffice to say largely wedding/function band material. If free access to these charts would be of interest to anyone please drop me a pm and, if there's enough interest, I'll explore ways to make them available to download somehow. Also, if there are any particular songs you'd like charts for just let me know. I'm recently retired and have some time on my hands Chords-This Will Be.doc
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  2. I'm talking to ikay at the moment about potentially hosting these as a page on BC, indexed and with a 'requests' area. Should be useful!!
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  4. I am now a little gaseous for a Blasius
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  5. Hey! Why didn't that come out as 'Pinktorpedoos Reaper'??
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  6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic. For me that's Flea (and the band) at their peak.
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  7. One of my students was 80 in September. He's actually out of all my students the most dedicated. We're currently doing chord melody jazz stuff. He saw me showing off a few weeks ago, and wanted to learn how to do it. He's also getting a 5 string after Christmas. You're never too old.
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  8. Hi, One pain I've found with the NXT is that the clamp screw that set the tripod stand height is weak (I've had to replace it twice), and when tightened enough to hold the stand eventually starts crushing the support tube, so that the upper part of the stand starts not sliding down it. A very cheap solution that seems to be working really well - better than the original clamp - is a pair of "30mm barbell clamps" (designed for weight lifters), one fitted above and one below the sliding part of the tripod legs. These are the ones I bought for £7.99 a pair: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XGVXLVX/ref=pe_3187911_185740111_TE_item I just leave the bottom one clamped in place, and release the top one when I want to collapse the stand. Wish I'd done it before the tube got crushed...that was a pain to sort out! Hope others find this helpful, Cheers, Andy
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  9. Darkglass M900, second one I have owned. This one is a few months old. In very good condition and comes in original box with the intelligent footswitch. Selling as for various reasons, primarily I am moving all drive etc back to my pedalboard and using an amp for on-stage sound only, the rest going FOH from the board. I wont be using the drive circuit anymore, which seems a waste [disclaimer - I am still very much using Darkglass drive, just via a AO and B7K Ultra!] . A Mesa suits my needs better. An exceptional amp with the superb Darkglass B3K and Vintage circuits built-in, but is also capable of producing a hell of a lot of clean power and volume. The loudest Class D I have used, for sure, can do 900w at either 4 or 2 ohm switchable. £700, shipping extra at cost, happy to meet up to.
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  10. I want one. I don’t need one, but want one. Norman’s review is limited. However he’s playing does the job.
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  11. Hi guys, i've recently moved from the OC-2 for solo effect to a Electro Harmonix POG and it cuts through very nicely! here is a clip: Anyone else using these for bass solo purposes? Regards, Bill.
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  12. So, I will regret this but as I’d mentioned in my basschat status pre-update, one or more of three basses have to go to because I can’t afford to cover bills and get a piece of equipment I need for my work. Here we have a genuine Fender Japan non-export precision neck (which today would be known as an FSR equivalent) which is partnered with a Shuker premium Alder body. I specified a natural finish that looked like bare wood. It is rock solid but as a side effect is wonderfully resonant. Hardware comes courtesy of Gotoh which naturally is the best I could get. The bass comes with two pickguards. An official Fender USA 3 ply with a ‘road worn’ finish and also a brown/red tortoise shell guard too also with a ‘weathered’ look. The neck is wonderful and is a 70’s profile with a 40mm nut, so it’s a little wider than jazz but not as big as a precision. Perfect for smaller hands and those who don’t want chunky but do want the tone. Oh and I’m sorry, but these are finished to a much higher standard than a Mendel. Great edge and fretwork out of the box. The Shuker body was made specifically for the bass and as you’d expect is flawless. If you want it done properly with the best woods it’s gonna cost ya but I will be offering this up at a substantial saving over buying new of course. Not surprisingly all the routes are lined so the cavities are protected from noise. You’ll also get Dunlop strap buttons and a Fender Japan split coil pickup. The bass plays very nicely though I’m yet to give it the time for a full set up. As with any bass you will want to do that at some point. So i’ve factored that in to the final price. I have tweaked the truss rod and it was stiff but the relief is spot on. (I like a fairly flat board!) Fret wear is practically zero. A 70’s P without the weight issues. I’ll be very sad to see this go and maybe one or two others too Collection of course is always wise but shipping is possible but this will be the full responsibility of the buyer to arrange including insurance and tracking. (This will be very easy due to my work). Photographs to come soon.
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  13. My favourite jazz album is probably Jazz Pa Svenka by Jan Johansson. Fantastic, simple and timeless. As for something modern, I really enjoyed The Epic by Kamasi Washington. Ambitious as hell at 3 hours but brilliant more often that not. Picking a rock album is fairly impossible. I'm currently listening to Tool's 10,000 Days so I'll go with that purely because I'm still finding new things to love about it 11 years on.
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  14. I remember that shop and it was nothing special which I was hoping it was. The bass that I stupidly,foolishly passed on back in 1997/98 was a, 1978 Fender Precision in black & maple for £350 what an idiot I was. It was in this little shop where I used to live (long since closed) & I'm sure they didn't know what they had.
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  15. I tried some at the LBGS. I really liked the one I played, it was a really thin bodied Jazz bass. The guys seemed cool, too. Yours looks lovely, enjoy.
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  16. Having worked with copyright (pictures rather than music, but...) I can only agree with BRX, the whole thing is a minefield ready to trap the unwary and some sort of legitimate legal advice is the only sort worth having. MU or PRS should be able to assist.
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  17. As above. Entertaining 90 mins. I do love a bit of fretwank though.
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  18. Not as long as you ensure the speaker jack is properly plugged in before powering it up and don't disconnect it before powering down.
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  19. How did you manage that? How Did We Get So Dark was only released in June 2017 :-) Or have I lost a year somewhere?
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  20. Looks like a 70s hohner bridge to me mate
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  21. Please buy, I need the cash to get me one of these ...
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  23. I feel very lucky because as I have got older, gear has got smaller and immeasurably lighter. If I still had to lug around my old Trace stack I think I'd be fit for the knackers yard by now, but I have no problems with the new lightweight stuff. I'm 14 years older than the next oldest in my band and 24 years older than the youngest and they all seem to find it more tiring than I do. I want to keep going for as long as I can. The drummer in one of my previous bands now suffers from Parkinsons and he would give anything to have a nother chance. This isn't a rehearsal - it's the real gig.
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  24. Wrong website again, I think. *Hides in shed and attaches car battery to nipples with jump leads* Ow! Oww! Ow! Ooh, yeah.
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  25. May I try and outdo your own extension of your own analogy? I might suggest that it's more like saying, "you had all those shades of green in your paintbox. Why did you paint the entire forest in neon green?"
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  26. Pretty crazy to set limits on age. If you can and you enjoy it, that's all there is to it.
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  27. When I was studying trumpet at uni the big band leader was very excited to book Kenny Baker (the bond/ muppets legendary session player not R2D2). He couldn’t have looked more decrepit or over the hill if he had tried. The rest of the trumpet section and I scoffed, thought let’s waste him, but he blew us out of the water all rehearsal and evening, into next week in fact. Lovely about it too. If your heart’s in it, play.
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  28. Led Zep one was pretty transformational in terms of how bass guitar was recorded and mixed. Led ZepTwo followed it's lead and picked up where it left off.
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  29. I have a Sivcak that came a box of bits from a former student. Great bass, plays lovely and is quite light for a 5. Mines certainly lived a life, but is still great.
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  30. The one jazz band I play in is made up of guys all in their 70s. This is Les, my student.
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  31. The women. I gave up on that. At 64 they're not interested vin me and I'm not interested in them. Blue
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  32. ambient, he's probably the most dedicated because he recently gave up chasing women and has more time on his hands
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  33. Thin speaker cables are far better. Instrument cables are fatter cables because of the insulation and shielding for noise, all of which are irrelevant for speakers, the conductors in and instrument cable are very fine for flexibility and not designed to take any power. Speaker cables are just a lot of copper and a very small amount of insulation
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  34. For the OP: The key thing in "jazz chords" is that they extend the harmony beyond root + third + fifth... at the most basic adding the seventh. In major keys this will give you maj7 on the I and IV, dominant 7 on the V, m7 on the ii, iii and vi and m7b5 on the vii. So in C major, you have Cmaj7, Fmaj7, G7, Dm7, Em7, Am7 and Bm7b5. Voicings I use depend on the situation, but with no other context it'll usually be root on the 6th or 5th string: Cmaj7: 8 x 9 9 8 x or x 3 5 4 5 x G7: 3 x 3 4 3 x or x 10 9 10 8 x Am7: 5 x 5 5 5 x or x 12 10 12 13 x or x 12 14 12 13 x Bm7b5: 7 x 7 7 6 x or x 2 3 2 3 x I frequently swap the maj7 with a 6 or a 6/9 and the m7 with a m6 Fun comes with the dominant 7 chord... you can do all sorts to it... add 9ths, 11ths and 13ths, swap it with a tritone substitution, using C#7 instead of G7, add b5s,#5s (drop the natural 5), #9s, b9s... This all helps to make a "jazz sound" but it won't sound like jazz unless you're using them in the right context (which involves learning songs).
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  35. Thank you to all those who have contributed to a thread that's ranged widely and thought-provokingly. Been on this forum 10 years and it never ceases to amaze me. Have a good Christmas one and all. Mickey
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  36. Just finished shielding the bass this morning and buzz all gone whether I’m touching the strings or not, that’s a lesson for me, shielding not grounding!!
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  37. I tend to agree with Sean. At £700 and local collection it might go, but TBH £900 is pushing it even if seller would courier, IMO.
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  38. I'll say if you consider songs filler just replace them with better songs! I've had this conversation in bands before...if you're deciding the set then there should be no filler. Compromising to accommodate all members ....that's different. First rule of a great cover band: No filler, all killer! Be good band name that too though its always so objective
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  40. Here... GK MB500Fusion GK 115 & 210 dba compressor On the left: Echolette BS40 2 x Traynor 15” I have not yet played the valve amp in anger or both combined, but I would bet that it rocks. Hard.
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  41. Yes. Gator do a 3u shallow rack - http://gatorcases.com/products/racks-portable/molded-racks/grc-shallow-molded-racks/3u-audio-rack-shallow-gr-3s/. I use one. It's about 315mm front to back without the lids attached, so will take gear up to around 340mm deep. One thing I find worth doing is to use support for the amp, so the weight isn't all taken by the front plate. Something like this - http://cpc.farnell.com/pulse/rksu-1u/rack-shelf-universal-1u/dp/DP32725 (you want one without a lip at the rear) - attached to the rack strip at the back of the case helps spread the load. The rear of the amp can just rest on it.
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  42. My Gibson EB-3 from 1969. Great bass I don't remember the gig or what happened to it. Wow, I had a lot of hair in 69.😁 Blue
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  43. I've really enjoyed this thread, it's made me feel better about my unscrupulous money making shenanigans... My most recent; I bought a bass earlier this year for a tour that didn't happen... played a few rehearsals and one gig... then listed it on Ebay for more than I bought it for, cuz I love the cash. Just to make the story even more perfect, it sold back to the original seller, for more than he sold it to me. To his credit, he didn't complain once, he just accepted that it was now mine and I could charge what I liked... and ultimately he's just happy to have the chance to buy it back and hopefully won't make the same mistake of letting it go again
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  44. Some official Warwick pictures to this beauty.
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  46. I really like this, but unfortunately don't have the cash ?. That's a great price for a most excellent bass. GLWTS type bump.
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  47. I defretted a few. F(ake)ender Jazz Bass V Squier VM Jazz Bass Westone Thunder I I bought one. Warwick ProSerie Corvette Std 6 FL And built one myself. https://s20.postimg.cc/iu7nclf31/black-beast-b.jpg de afwerking mk4-5 fl
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