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I guess you can divide music theory into a number of areas - - science (acoustics and psychoacoustics) - cultural knowledge, like 'a minor chord sounds sad' (to most people) - terminology - notation - 'recipes' for writing and playing music in certain styles - (probably more I can't think of) As I said, my music reading is bad, but I'm happy doing the interesting chords bit... I pretty much use numbers and shapes, rather than note names or dots, to think of scale degrees, and use tab if I need to write anything down. I reckon I can learn 'recipes' for different styles OK without bothering with the dots. I [i]used[/i] to read notation OK - it's just a skill I lost cos I never used it.

Do you have a use for it? I understand music notation but can't read it at any speed, and it doesn't particularly bother me. If you basically 'get the idea', maybe dive in and use it for what you want to use it for, and if you have no use for it... don't bother?

...and I bought a bunch of books, which also arrived rapido! Thanks again!

Kind of appropriate for the weekend... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4RyYtkifTM[/media]

Basses can be very different to each other, even within the range of 'normal basses' - an active fretless 5 with a ramp, flats and 16mm spacing sometimes doesn't even feel like the same instrument as a standard P bass with rounds - different techniques are possible on each.

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Any more themes on the way?

Suggest a few additions to your repertiore - which, of course, just happen to have ridiculously complex guitar parts, in a style he can't do. Stick with them long enough that he realises that he ain't all that. Don't say anything to him of course.

It's well weird for a studio to not have a DI. If they had loads of outboard gear, surely they had something with a HI-Z input? I'd say a bassist's responsibility ends at the jack socket.

[quote name='Vibrating G String' timestamp='1320628782' post='1429236'] If you still want to play if you can change things you could try talking with mr. negative alone. If you do it in front of the band the competitive side will make things escalate. Start by telling him what you enjoy about playing with him and then go into the one thing that bothers you and then ask if he could change it for you. If you make it easy for him to change he may. [/quote] Sounds good to me. Some people who adopt a provocative public persona are all squishy inside, you never know. Alternatively, every time he says something critical, repeat his words verbatim in a camp voice. "Taking the piss? Not at all, I'm just agreeing with you".

Very fair price on a Boss pedal and accompanying plug-wire-thing. Sent straight away too! Many thanks, Ivan

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1320315355' post='1425114'] Anyone [i]still [/i]not getting email notifications? I'm not and I've tried all suggestions so far... any more ideas? [/quote] I thought I was fine (I am basically getting messages) but just yesterday I noticed that I wasn't getting mails for [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/159127-fs-washburn-rb2002-hammerhead-bass-l175-immaculate/page__hl__washburn__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/159127-fs-washburn-rb2002-hammerhead-bass-l175-immaculate/page__hl__washburn__fromsearch__1[/url] which I was following....

I'm another one that likes the band! They are using my favourite chord, I think... I think almost everything is Midrangey compared to the Sansamp and Big Muff, both known for their scoop. I agree that there's nothing wrong with the Phat-Hed PD7. A couple more to check demos of would be the Xotic BB Preamp (a bit warmer/more traditional) and Aguilar Agro (more grindy).

Nice easy purchase of an Xotic BBeauty. Many thanks!