stingrayPete1977

So a depping sax player isn't allowed a stand, must learn the whole set off by heart possibly for a one of gig perhaps £50-100?

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[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1468028008' post='3088202'] I was going to recommend my girlfriend but... I will wait until I know what you'd want her for. edit: StingrayPete got there first, dang... [/quote] Snooze you lose Jose

Ouch!

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You can get a machine that you load the pages into that flips them with a foot pedal.

My wife is Polish........ah hang on I see what you mean, I like this Dunlop 65 stuff.

If he puts a capo on I would move away from the chart quick and revert to ears!

[quote name='Mottlefeeder' timestamp='1468003467' post='3088043'] Lots of interesting comments, and just a little bit of negativity towards guitarists. Just to recap, a guitarist turns up at an open mic night with the words and chords he/she needs, and an indication of where the capo goes to get the song in the right vocal range. A bass player introduces himself and asks if he can join in. There is no way that the guitarist's notes for his/her benefit are wrong just because they do not help the bass player. Moving on, a couple of posts suggest mentally converting a song into Nashville notation, and then moving the playing pattern further up the neck. That's fine up to a point, but only if the chord progression makes it obvious what the key is. For example, one of the songs that I play has the chord sequence Verse: Dm /A7 /Dm /A7 /D7 /Gm /Dm /A7 /Dm /C7 / Chorus: F /C7 /F /F7 /Bb /Gm /F /C7 /F /A7 / If I was presented with that and I did not know the song at all, I would use 1 'If it starts and ends with the same chord, that is probably the 1 chord' (so check it out) 2 'If it has three major chords in it, they will probably be I, IV and V (so check it out) 3 'If it has minor chords they will probably be II, III and VI (so check it out) 4 Oh sh#t this is going to sound awful. Firsty, 1, 2 and 3 do not work on that song, so what key is it in, and secondly, what rules do you use to determine which chords are foreign to the key, and what the I chord is? David [/quote] I would just blag the chord chart on a gig if I had that cheat sheet to hand, roots are always there, fifths for flavour chuck the minors and 7s in on the fly, if all else fails take all the treble off and play with my thumb, sorted

[quote name='luckydog' timestamp='1468001543' post='3088025'] Yup, that's another way to fly ! LD [/quote] I am actually just doing this now, been sent a homemade chart for a Fleetwood Mac number than was sounding off at practice, the record is in A maj, he says he uses a capo so he has sent it me in G? we do not do it in G, he must be playing off the capo as the nut, no problem now as I have read his chord chart without looking at the neck pretending my A is a G so we can do it in any key now.

I play almost everything as fretted notes on a five string, if it gets moved 2 or 3 frets it's no biggie.

Everything I own is speakon these days, I've made some short speakon to phonos just in case I come across a pesky Ashdown or similar in a practice room so I can use my head with that cab or that head with my cabs if my head should fail mid gig and a kind offer of an Ashdown head was taken up. I'm amazed putting the speaker input into the input of an active speaker (both sides of the stage!) didn't kill them, I was going to say maybe they have an idiot proof protection circuit built in but that would be rude to the OP,

What sort of wattage is an xlr designed to take? I've just sold a pair of Mackie c300s they didn't have xlrs, two speakon and two phonos on each all in parallel.

Yes I've never seen xlr on a passive speaker more likely a phono, sounds like you were sending the amplified signal to the line in on the active subs? Imagine taking your speaker lead and instead of putting it in your bass cab sticking it into the guitarist's amp input! Same difference really. I wonder if the passive tops have sub out connections? Designed for passive subs rather than active.

Was it TimR? Apologies if not.

Until people grasp the idea that the carefully honed sound they created in the practice room may or may not sound rubbish as the front of house sound regardless of how good or expensive the equipment is or how well you know the kit this argument will continue forever, my bass amp is a couple of grands worth but the sound from my pa with a clean di is better than it as the front of house, it also sits in the mix easier, throwing £350 worth of post eq head at what is sometimes thousands of pounds worth of PA is quite odd really. If your backline is your front of house that's a different story.

We play every song in C major and just fumble about in time to the drummer,No need for dots or anything then.

I hate myself for wasting money on these disappointing or toy town basses, if only I'd put an order in and waited two years for a custom bass because no one ever sells those on a few months later for a fraction of the purchase price do they? Junk, lol.

I can't even which member here said they would walk out before hearing the band if there was stands on stage?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1467919126' post='3087363'] The most replaceable bass player in music [/quote] You'd think wouldn't you but there is some kind of unteachable element to rock music, it's why bands like cold play and maroon Five, snow patrol etc all suck.

I've got a mate who keeps ringing me, he's a great singer but he wants to do some weird blues prog stuff with various revolving members except me, it will take months of practice and the gigs would be non paying,I'm being as polite as possible but he keeps coming back! As soon as I hear "more of a sociable thing really" I'm generally busy or washing my hair!

[quote name='zero9' timestamp='1467896257' post='3087122'] Nice Stingrays Pete, hope that music stand isn't used at gigs though... [/quote] Oh no never, can you imagine the shame, toy town bass and no audience after they all walked out at the sight of it?

I've burnt way more than just that one, best part of £7000 including the toy town EBMM ones and the John east pre amp not including the acoustic bass I hardly use! Lol Can't take it with you mate. [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141102_103353_zpsagwfsjcd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141102_103353_zpsagwfsjcd.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Ta, it's my 'suits any gig' bass, most people don't even notice it has a B string with it's retro looks!

I'm crazy too, who'd want a well finished 2013 jazz 5 with perfect frets, nice hardware, graphite neck reinforcement rods, rolled board edges,light weight tuners, nice dark finger board, super thin urethane finish and lighter than almost every P bass I've ever played? [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_171416_zpsprg4tqe4.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_171416_zpsprg4tqe4.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Flash has spoilt the picture, it's more brown in the flesh,tort looks better and the rose wood is darker.