visog

Boo - never play roots and syncopate...

Thanks for the input... will investigate if I can find somewhere to let me try...

Hi All, Any experience of the Tech21 VT DI pedal? Does the 'Bite' sub-sonic filter/presence boost do the job? How the SVT crunch tone? Views welcome... visog

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1409254550' post='2538076'] A friend of mine attended every show when Ry Cooder played 8 nights at the Hammersmith Odeon 30+ years ago when Cooder was well known for varying the set list, often playing a totally different set each night. As far as i remember he played exactly the the same songs and set list for all 8 shows. [/quote] Course he did... consider what it would take in terms of effects, mix, rehearsal, etc to play from a songbook. Not going to happen at scale. Wish i'd seen KB too. Great set list.... would love to hear how the essentially 'Weather Report' rhythm-section played... along with Maestro Giblin

I had the same when I went to the Billy Sheehan three finger pluck... Just run your usual scale patterns in threes and emphasise your downbeats.

All good advice above. I'd just add, be careful about what tunes you learn as, to misquote Rush, 'playing that song that's so elusive' over and over - part by part can render it over-familiar pretty quickly. I know sometimes it can also reveal hidden depths and all that but be careful with your faves... just saying. Jeff Berlin usually has too much to say about most aspects of music but he's good on learning and metronomes and re. the OP, his advice boils down to NOT switching on the metronome until your head and your hands know what they're supposed to be playing. Good advice for hard pieces when sometimes we're inclined to have a bash at an unrealistic tempo and get demoralised at the resulting train wreck.

HD gear pictures are pretty tempting...

(On my iPad) you have to 'buy' the back issues for £0.00 and then they download... Think there's 8 going for free with the recent and current chargeable...

Can't get Alan Partridge miming the fretless line off 'Music for Chameleons' in his caravan out of my mind...

Tasty...loving P and J make-overs of older designs... How does it play and sound?

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1405708122' post='2504634'] Gotta start here, rhythm the most important for me. [/quote] Enya anyone? No rhythm... Just sayin'... (I'm not disagreeing...)

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1405705800' post='2504574'] If you haven't got decent rhythm, you'll have no groove, IMO [/quote] Right so here's the thing: Yes and Holdsworth don't groove... but they're both great music... (I know Ernest Tibbs and Jimmy Haslip have introduced some groove to AH.. I'd say Jimmy Johnson whilst awesome, was primarily harmonic...)

Forgot to mention - you can only really have one primary then the two secondarys - and why?

I ask 'cause I've been listening to various musics where each is the most important: - Melody: Squire playing a line through Yes' chord changes - Harmony: Jeff Berlin/Gary Willis playing off chord tones - Rhythm: Rocco rippin' up the 16ths What's the best? You decide!

£2K! sh*t the Bed! I'd go the whole Dingwall hog for that...

Stop!.... urge to splurge rising

Nice... if it's a through neck it could be a real goer... especially at a sub-Dingwall price point. Those features are killer: monorail, nordstrands... What's 380,000 yen in new money? Do we agree that 35.5 on a B is long enough?... I'm hearing a 'no' from the Dingwallers...

[quote name='jimbaby' timestamp='1405499374' post='2502357'] I saw him with the original Flecktones a couple or so years ago, an amazing player, have fun. [/quote] Me too... awesome

Nice interview... very humble considering his experience...

2:23 he's on his way... but's not quite right... having said that, it;s a tough line to nail getting the accents right. Anyone else care to take the challenge and be filmed taking a lesson in a Motown bassline with CK?

Hmmm I have to agree with the other posters - in the first instance go to the seller.. and also as always, don't render your product un-returnable...

Actually you need a lot of 'clatter' to punctuate the pitched notes. Experience will help corral these noises into intentional percussion. Low action is the way to go to enable economy of motion particularly in right-hand. Also worth experimenting with is your tone - a 'smiley face' EQ will boost your bassy pitched notes and turn your percussive sounds from an over-bearing full-range clank to more of a high-end click which sounds better and takes up less sonic space, also is also easier to manage technique-wise.

Oliver, Bass Direct is only 30mins drive for you. There's probably the best collection of (hi-end admittedly) 6ers there than anywhere else in the country. But, if the Ibanez bass 'clicked' for you, I'd go with your instinct...