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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.

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

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.

I think it’s because it’s missing the word ‘in’ OK enough legal chat (unless we have a lawyer onboard) - leave it with me. Thanks.

Whenever I see it mentioned I (perhaps mistakenly) just presume they mean the preshape and that’s what I always have in mind. A slightly clipped mid cut sound. I completely agree many amps can provide this - Eden and SWR have a mid cut control, Ashdown have a very similar preshape etc etc - but for some reason the “Trace sound” is the one which sticks in mind! I’m only speaking for myself of course

I'll be 72 next May and play in two bands,a quartet that plays mostly jazz standards and a seven piece swing band that also plays a few Dixieland tunes.I average at least two gigs a month and usually two rehearsals a week in a practice room that is an hour from where I live.I also drive at least an hour to most gigs and that can be interesting in the middle of our Canadian winters.I play mostly my Yamaha SLB 200 EUB(standing up,I can't play sitting because I like to move around too much)but also my Yamaha electric bass and I play tenor banjo on some Dixie tunes while the bottom end is taken care of by a tuba player.Great fun and playing with really good players has improved my skills immensely, especially reading since some of our material is legit arrangements and the parts have to work together and the other members are great readers so I have to keep up.Band members ages are from 32 to me at 72. I intend to keep playing and learning as long as I can which I hope will be a good while yet.I played my first gig 56 years ago and I have no plans to quit, even after some angioplasty and stent work on my heart in October .I missed one rehearsal but no gigs. Keep going, it's easier with modern equipment as the OP and many others have pointed out.I still love playing gigs and in the bands I'm in a rehearsal is always a learning experience. We are so lucky to have music in our lives!

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.

woow... sometimes the easiest things are the hardest to find THANK YOU!!!

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

The best DAW to use is the one that most closely matches the way you want to work, or failing that the one that majority of people you collaborate with use. Other than that they are all much of a muchness these days when it comes to features, so I'll take ease of use and ease of transferring projects between different machines over everything else. I'm a Logic user because back in the mid 90s when I bought my first computer for music, the person I was mostly collaborating with, was also a Logic user and that meant it was simple to exchange song ideas. Left to my own devices I'd have probably chosen Studio Vision, because of all the DAWs I'd seen this was the one that most closely matched the way I'd like to work. Luckily I didn't because within a couple of years it was dead following Opcode's acquisition by Gibson - a similar fate that has recently befallen Cakewalk. TBH once you've got used to how a particular DAW works its becomes easier to use, and you are going to be reluctant to change hence... And that for me is the next most important thing when it comes to picking a DAW. How long is it likely to be around. Logic is pretty safe because it is one of Apple's core Pro Applications, as for the others it very much depends on the whims of their parent companies. The future for ProTools has been looking particularly dodgy for the last couple of years with Avid's on-going problems. Plus their reliance on the less than brilliant iLok copy protection. And that brings the last key feature - copy protection. Reaper doesn't need it because it's essentially free and if you are going to pay for it, then it is stupidly cheap. Logic is also relatively cheap (certainly these days the full version cost less than the price an upgrade used to) and is tied to your App store account so it doesn't really need anything more than that. Personally I'd be suspicious of anything requiring an iLok to function. Whilst the idea is excellent the implementation is less than brilliant, and if there is a problem with iLok it can render all your iLok protected software useless, as has happen several times in the past few years to large numbers of their user base.

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!

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

I loved the JJ Burnel sound, and his bass on the Stranglers first album "Rattus Norvegicus" was what first made me listen to the bass guitar So that's my contribution - not necessarily my fave album these days, but it's what got me into bass

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...

Its only a tiny amount that they’re lower, but it was just enough for what I needed.

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.

Here's my dogs. Ben is our old gentleman Lab who we got as a rescue just before his 8th birthday and is now coming up to his 13th. It was 5 years ago last week that we got him. He has a Dentastix in his gob in that photo - he doesn't just have the biggest doggy grin. My wife is now on the board at the rescue home we got him from. Posie is our Cocker Spaniel who we've had since a puppy. She's almost 8 years old now but still as manic as a puppy - but sharp as a tack. Nothing gets past her, not even my cack handed upholstery techniques.

I first played bass in a college band when I was 18, because the other guitarist was better than me and we didn't have a bassist. Did a few gigs then we split up and I moved back home to raise my family. I've just started again with the intention of learning to play it properly - I'm 58 so I'd say your 15 year hiatus is more of a little break. Think I'm probably too old to have aspirations about joining a band again but I'm having fun

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

I have a BS40, too. And I love it! What a great little amp. I put it in a custom tweed case to match my tweed 1x12" cabs.

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 really like that. What is it?

Welcome to the site

Nah, that would have to be an Uber Art Recurve 5! Congrats to Alan for the Award, hope lots more people find his stuff.

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?

I found Reaper not too hard to learn, comes in at about £60.

You need to look for effects cases... they are typically around 35 cm deep. Perfect for what you want. So... http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/manufacturer/product.asp?item=spider-3u-rackmount-flight-case-360mm-deep-5793-6631 Is a contender for starters. https://www.thomann.de/gb/thon_rack_3he_economy_ii.htm is another... The gator is a good call also - although strictly speaking, it's 1 cm too short, so the amp will overhang a gnats ck when the back door is off.

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.

Probably a bit of a safe choice, but I'm very happy with my Fender Precision Deluxe Special. It's switchable between active and passive so you can get the classic p bass tone as well as a lot more 'modern' options. The only possible down side is that there's no passive tone control, but you can get a lot of variation by panning between the p and j pickups. Having said all that, I'd also be very interested in trying one of the new Yamaha 734s.

The new Styx album 'The Mission'....... just fantastic! A proper, old-school 'concept album' featuring supreme musicianship, songwriting, arrangements and vocals. Here's a vid of their amazing drummer Todd Sucherman playing my favourite song on the album:

Also why only man?