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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...

Re-read the OP and agree entirely with your proposition about [u]how [/u]a line is played - simple or complex. (*went off on rant about Pino fans lauding his 1-note per month approach.*)

Careful - over simple and you reduce the quality of the music and limit the bass player's voice. Jaco spoke in 16ths. Anthony Jackson uses some pretty hairy harmonies. Up to the player to make it work. Don't use personal limitations to make arbitrary rules about so called 'profound' simplicity... Create a musical part, make the song better - that could be breves on the root or semi-quavers on the ninth.. whatever...

I'd be cautious about a maple board... don't take the strings as well as ebony or rosewood. Only fretless players I've seen go maple are Sting and Christian McBride - both of whom carry it off well though...

Well in the end, the show was OK. Not much new in terms of musicians who played with her. Max Bennet being the only new commentary I've heard. Not too much about her guitar playing either but none the less a good listen. Jaco gets a couple of mentions but only in passing.

R2 tomorrow night (Monday 30th) has got a special on her guitar playing... Good to hear Coyote on R2!

Sadowsky?

Exactly... you're paying for the name, the trendy make. Don't get me wrong, they're great basses and have that swoopy tone thing happening but at the end of the day, you're still faced with dishing out Em on the plank just get something that works and hit the 'shed...

Coo... that's erm interesting. It's kind of got a Spitfire body and the peg-head reminds me of his old 90's basses. Would love to have a go and compare with my regular Spitfire. I'm sure the sound and playability will be Bernie's usual high standard, even if you're not keen on the looks.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1402916688' post='2477773'] Less than a year to go for mine! [/quote] What does that mean? The 2nd hand one looks nice but that pricing if for the current trend for them surely. Is it worth that? (You could get most of Mark's other stock for that and he's got some amazing basses....)

Bit more cash to spend? What about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVFpNUEvx0

You'll wait for years, get the dolphin of your dreams... and then you'll prefer the cheapie you've grown used to in the meantime... Hope you find one..

Never mind the vocal, I want his hair!.... P.S. Is that Flanders on high vocals?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1400758658' post='2456668'] Another convert here. Just finished reading the text cover to cover. Now I just need to get to the exercises and start to put the bits together!! [/quote] Bilbo, can you give us a review/blog to let us know if you think it's worth the curious investigating... I'd appreciate your thoughts. It's a bit like getting into Charlie Banacos or Pat Martino's approach. It's kind of 'what religion are you going to devote your life to...?' So please tell us if we should be Jewish, Catholic, Protestant or God of Fire... No really, I'm open apart from circumcision...

Agree with OP although the tone and perspective is important. Whilst I think Jaco's music and impact are incredible and must have been over-whelming when they broke-out in the early-mid '70s, his genius had a sad flaw. I hope the doc gets the balance right... There have been a few biogs - the infamous Milkowski bood (which I quite enjoyed although those close to Jaco say it was inaccurate). To my mind though, Charles Shaar Murray's BBC radio documentary is the best and I hope the film takes its queues from this. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTcbTg8O548"]https://www.youtube....h?v=tTcbTg8O548[/url] Some personal eulogies are better than others. I find Joe Hubbard's fact based version just puts him on a pedestal too much: [url="http://www.joehubbardbass.com/1287/10-things-to-know-about-jaco/"]http://www.joehubbar...now-about-jaco/[/url] Such lists obscuring his genuine innovations and talent, and ignoring the contributions of the legions of people who helped Jaco along the way, e.g. re. orchestration and composition, where he got pretty intensive 1:1 training from Charlie Brent and Peter Graves. So I hope the doc strikes the right mix. Anyway, I like Will Lee's musical memories of Jaco: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RfhkkFcGo0c"]https://www.youtube....d&v=RfhkkFcGo0c[/url]