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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

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!!

I am now a little gaseous for a Blasius

Hey! Why didn't that come out as 'Pinktorpedoos Reaper'??

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic. For me that's Flea (and the band) at their peak.

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.

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

I want one. I don’t need one, but want one. Norman’s review is limited. However he’s playing does the job.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As above. Entertaining 90 mins. I do love a bit of fretwank though.

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.

Simply go to the first post in the thread and click edit.

Expanding upon dlloyd's post above, here are some very useful voicings for diatonic seventh chords. I've presented them here in the key of C major but they are movable shapes so you can transpose to any key.

Unfortunately that's not going to happen with an acoustic bass guitar unless the only person you want to entertain is yourself.

under $300 Street,looking very good!

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.

Wrong website again, I think. *Hides in shed and attaches car battery to nipples with jump leads* Ow! Oww! Ow! Ooh, yeah.

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?"

Pretty crazy to set limits on age. If you can and you enjoy it, that's all there is to it.

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.

I think I speak for more than just me when I say, more pics please.

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.

Welcome....never to old to start releasing your creativity...

The one jazz band I play in is made up of guys all in their 70s. This is Les, my student.

The women. I gave up on that. At 64 they're not interested vin me and I'm not interested in them. Blue

You may well be right. He's a very happy boy despite his chronic arthritis and perpetual waxy ears. We actually went to see a 2 year old Lab called Ben with the intention of giving Posie a lively playmate, but he was so excitable (2 year old Labs tend to be) that we declined him. The staff walked us past our Ben and he just walked over to us wagging his tail and smiling at us. He's given us so much joy and love that we wouldn't hesitate to take an older dog again. He's cost us a small fortune in vet bills (thanks to a pink torpedo-up on the insurance) but we wouldn't change a thing.

ambient, he's probably the most dedicated because he recently gave up chasing women and has more time on his hands

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

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).

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!!

Ha ha, you all know what I mean though. And you are spot on, the ones I think are fillers are probably another band members killers. In our case we've only just started gigging and a lot of songs remain from that original 'what do we all know' set list. Inevitably they are also in the 'bingo' list too.

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.

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

Never realised this topic was going to be such a hot potato Anyway, ordered a speakon to quarter cable from OBBM and it arrived in next to no time and top quality as always. Can thoroughly recommend him to anyone. Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons though I was reading through the quick start guide that came with my Ampeg PF-500 and here's a curious thing for you. The Ampeg has both a speakon and a quarter jack input on it. In the hook up diagrams they recommend the standard set up should be speakon to speakon and also daisy-chaining using speakon as well. But they also show the possibility of a parallel setup with speakon to speakon connecting the first cab and quarter jack to quarter jack connecting the second cab. Now I'm guessing that with two cabs connected they feel the load to the second cab will be low enough to get away with quarter jack connections but surely if it is such a no-no Ampeg should have put two speakons on the amp instead of a speakon and a quarter?

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.

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.

Thanks. They stack vertically too!

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

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

Also why only man?

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