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I must say, I was very excited by your thread title as the first thing I thought was that someone was making some moonshine to share with us all Joking aside, another great story for all to read and the reason why we all stick around here. Also helps newbies to realise that this is a forum full of really fantastic, knowledgeable and helpful people Long live Basschat!

There's some interesting stuff coming up in this thread, particularly Scott's reasoning. My pupil today was not wearing all black, but I have a feeling she may have been wearing them for fashion-related reasons. MB1, so seem very eager to find out about gloves making you better in bed

Was teaching a private lesson this afternoon and one of my pupils turned up wearing fingerless gloves. It was cold outside, but surely full gloves to keep your hands warm and then take them off when you begin playing would be the 'norm'? However, she didn't take them off at the start of the lesson and I asked her why she was wearing them, to which she answered with a *shrug* I've seen quite a few players who either play with fingerless gloves or full gloves and even sometimes wrist-supports. I understand wrist-support, but as for the variety of gloves, I fell like I've missed something. Does playing with gloves protect your bass? Does it make you play faster, etc? Does it feel more comfortable? Is it just some new fashion, like sweatbands? I'd love to know what people think, or if anyone has experiences to share

Here's mine - Mark Bass LMIII and Aguilar GS112

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1186987' date='Apr 3 2011, 07:24 PM']I guess he will just say Im free to come and look at it anyway. Anyone live near enough to have a look?[/quote] If he's playing the "sneaky descriptions" game I might ask him if I can go and try it, as I'm desperate to see how it sounds when you try a hammer-on it

Yup. Tell him you're a collector and really interested but suspect something fishy is going on and see how he attempts to resolve it?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1186957' date='Apr 3 2011, 06:54 PM']Just got this back, "To my knŵledge it has not been reliced the body has not been rounded and it is one of the first ones made" What do we think?[/quote] He's clearly talking rubbish. "To my knowledge" is the most obvious way of knowing your talking crap but covering your own backside. If he wasn't talking rubbish, he'd be expressing some concern that you would question it's authenticity and attempt to prove it was authentic in order to get the sale.

[quote name='icastle' post='1185509' date='Apr 2 2011, 03:52 AM']Nope, you're kinda stuck with it. Only advantage is that it'll not blister so easily next time.[/quote] Yup, had the same problem when I first started to practice the technique. You'll get a callous soon enough

I do it. It's really useful for getting ideas in your head onto your fingers quickly. I also sing most scales/modes and notation when I practice. I would advise anyone to give it a try

Good work. I'm looking forward to the response Maybe he could join the 'fakers club' mentioned in the 'back to basics' thread

To the OP, I just want to say that you should probably be careful not to fall into the "reading solves all" trap. I know a LOT of very good musicians who learnt to read from the start and as a result, they can play anything that's put in front of them but their ear is dreadful, because they don't need to rely on it too much. I think reading is useful for LOADS of reasons, and the OP should definitely learn, but just make sure that you don't neglect the ear training bit or expect that your ear will develop through reading without any extra work.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1180560' date='Mar 29 2011, 10:58 AM']That guy needs a right kicking. He a pro/semi pro bassist and has been on the go since forever, so he should know better.[/quote] The new listing says you can try before you buy. Someone should get his address and then we can all congregate at his house, like a last-minute 'bass bash' in his front room, and judge him/his bass!

What's an encore?

[quote name='Doddy' post='1178387' date='Mar 27 2011, 03:42 PM']Done [/quote] That picture + 'tablature disapproval specialist' should be the campaign poster to make tab extinct. Nobody would argue.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1178374' date='Mar 27 2011, 03:29 PM']I'm just watching the Taylor Swift concert on the BBC red button thingy. She's a pretty dodgy singer,but the band is ok and she's got some alright songs. Anyway,she just did a duet with her bass player where he played a nice solo. Not particularly technical,but it was melodic and sounded really good....and on a P bass. Oh yeah,her backing singer is hot. [/quote] Nice one! I'll get it up on iplayer and have a watch. As for the backing singer, without pics - she doesn't exist. Get her as your avatar

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1178264' date='Mar 27 2011, 01:43 PM']+1 Also when the vocalist wants his mike turned up!! [/quote] Yeah, mike is always trying to be heard. All the bliddy TIM!

[quote name='Beedster' post='1178220' date='Mar 27 2011, 01:11 PM']On EB, yes, I've always done it because you get more control over the tone, volume and sustain of the note of you fret it than if you play open. Since moving to fretless and DB I've had to learn to use open notes to check tuning[/quote] +1 Apart from reading gigs because it tends to be easier (for thinking and playing) to let positioning dictate where to play the notes.

[quote name='icastle' post='1177084' date='Mar 26 2011, 12:53 PM']For studio work I charge £xx an hour for the first four hours. Anything over four hours I class as a day rate and charge a £xxx flat rate for the entire day.[/quote] I once read something about Pino Palladino's session rates and he did something similar to this but tailored it to the job, which I have also taken on (at certain jobs) as it makes sense for both parties. Pino would say; For studio work I charge (for example) £60 for the FIRST two hours and then £120 an hour for hours 3 & 4. Anything over four hours I class as a day rate and charge £xxx as a flat rate for the entire day. This works because sometimes you can get the ACTUAL bass playing done very quickly (if it's basic stuff) and by offering a really cheap first two hours but then doubling after, it makes the engineers work quicker and try to get you in and out a.s.a.p. This also stops them wasting time faffing about with your sound/amp for no reason. It also means you get the job done quicker and waste less of your own time and they only have to pay you a small amount if they can get you in and out of the door quickly. Only advice I have is that you have to be really careful when offering such a deal, because you have to be a really good judge of how quickly you can get the specific job done, because they will NOT want to pay you a doubled rate if you said you could get it done in 2 hours and then couldn't. They will only be happy paying into the doubled rate if it's their own mistakes that result in keeping you at the studio.