stingrayPete1977

What a result!

I certainly hope so, I just don't want to transfer all my bad habits from elec bass to upright!

I can't imagine the bow will be a priority once it arrives to be honest, I'm going to try to do a half hour practice every week night and a few sessions a day at weekends, bit of open ended question but what's a realistic time scale before I could do a song or two in a covers band do you think?

Carbon it will be then! Can't wait to get started now, I have been tapping out rhythms to try and do what I can before it arrives.

Well that could be tricky then keep an eye on pmt's stock, that's where my blue one came from.

Almost every bass I have played made in the far east I have preferred to every real Ricky anyway!

[quote name='Jellyfish' timestamp='1355659737' post='1900973'] Well I say that, but what I really mean is 'I've not seen any in the shops that I regularly visit'. If anyone knows of any stockists of Musicman basses in Birmingham then please let me know. [/quote] Just had a look and they are not as easily available as they were are they? PMT have none at all in any stores and Guitar Guitar have one black one but I can't see which store it is at? I'm not far away (25 miles from B'ham) if you wanted to try mine, as you can see I have both a ceramic 2007 and an Alnico new spec one 2010

Mine has arrived off ebay now, cant complain at £45 inc the postage. I think I am glad I went for the big one now too, its very stable when tuning too

I'm not familiar with it but I will give it a go, love cats is the first song to learn as its in our set and obviuosly the one to impress friends with

Loads of things for next christmas though when people are stuck for ideas! Just looked at the bows, what a minefield!

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1355655314' post='1900903'] Ooops that was the wrong link Pete, that bow was for a 4/4 bass, mine is 3/4. But you get the picture [/quote] I was typing so you have answered my first question already

If your not sure imagine where I am with it I presume you buy a 3/4 or a 4/4 depending on the bass rather than your preferance? So 3/4 for the Stagg? I will wait until the wife calms down before I order any more stuff from thomann, I have found the evolving bassist book for £12.15 plus p&p on Amazon so I might treat myself to that Its a whole new area and I guess all the same threads run here like they do in the rest of the forum, why have a 5 string, why learn to read blah blah? I can see a divide between the EUB and DB players but most people look to be happy to accept the two in their own right, Its looks like some DB players dont class you as an upright player on EUB? Im sure I will fall into one of the traps like I did asking about 5 strings a few years ago in general chat

I ordered it saturday so It would be nice to have it by next weekend All the hours to play it (try and learn how to play it) instead of watching crap christmas TV has to be good

So are they made by Tokai then?

I haven't ruled out anything, I'm not a big classical fan......yet. I'm very open minded and happy to try all styles, I already do on bass guitar. I have mentioned a bow earlier in the thread so maybe your the man to ask, is there a budget bow worth trying or am I looking at an expensive one? One of thevreasons I went for the stagg was because of the reviews saying it could be played arco unlike some others with flat boards, may as well just hold a stingray on end if its like that!

That's it, you can hire our village hall unsupervised which includes the bar and kitchen all three phase. Rcd and plug testers all the way

Very true doddy has lessons himself

If money was no object I would go see him every week, its also a 45 minute drive away. I have had a few lessons off him on electric bass but mostly regarding reading, he didnt seam to think my playing was too bad which is nice as his is very good! I'm hoping I can follow a regime better with upright as its totally new and try and get better at reading/theory, after all the years playing and gigging electric bass its hard not to try and miss out the easy stuff. I might look for a local class but I'm not sure anything useful exists, also I currently have a broken arm but the cast is coming off on monday! No point having a lesson until I have the strength to play it but hopefully in the new year I will be sorted. I'm waiting for a reply from doddy, I bet he is working as this is his busy time with the shows so I won't badger him

Cheers the lower the better, how simple is grade 1? I have no idea what level I am at.

If you think of places like kitchens then its unavoidable, some appliances are even 3 phase that unskilled persons or even the public hiring the venue are using, dishwashers, mixers etc. The thing you touch the most is a lighting bank of switches, these often have 415 present unlabeled. I would certainly not mix phases in one cabinet though and a warning notice between more than one is a sensible addition. Truth is its all around you!

One mm won't make any difference imo just get an mm sr5 you say nowhere near stocks ebmm but your avatar thing says birmingham?

Ebmm are the cheap ones, see sig below

My teacher should be able to tell me if they are ok or not, what about a bow then?

Cool I will see what its like and file them down a bit at a time then, I have factored in about a ton for strings as and when so I'm not too far off. The next bass up looks like the ns nxt at about £800 which I could go to in a year or so if things are going well, I'm sure I could sell the stagg with the probable mods and proper strings on here to put towards it too.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1355593673' post='1900387'] On books and reading, the classic tutor book is SImandl which teaches the various left hand positions but also bores a lot of people (me included) to death. Lots recommend Rufus Reid's Evolving Bassist http://www.amazon.co.uk/Evolving-Bassist-Rufus-Reid/dp/0967601509/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355593614&sr=1-1 The following link is to a good cheap book with melodies from well known jazz and big band songs transcribed for double bass, so it has the benefit that you are playing recognisable melodies rather than painful (albeit necessary) scale type stuff http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mckee-Andy-Jazz-Bass-Double/dp/1423489535 [/quote] That evolving book looks worth having anyway, had a look inside and its very comprehensive, history types of bows and strings the lot.See what santa brings