Dad3353

... and so young. Bless... How Was Your Gig Last Night ..?

Like this..? ...or this ..?

Hofner Verithin bass, so an Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire (My Dad had one just like this for quite a while...)...

I can't stand the stuff from any punk, ie sex pistols/ramones etc. I have yet to find a song from that genre I like.

+1 ^^

Ah, this is new. One can say 'bloke', but not 'bird'. Hmm...

Here is my contribution to the June 2021 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by the previous winner: myself..! Down to the sea goes Brittany, to listen to the waves, gulls, passing ships with their sirens and horns blaring occasionally. Inspired by the festive ambiance (although it may rain...), she dances, waiting for her uncle, the diver, to immerge from the salt water. Recommended to be listened to on decent headphones, quite loud, but not so loud as to be uncomfortable, naturally. As seems to be my wont, I sit down and try out a few things, sticking samples, licks, riffs and rhythms into Reaper, and suddenly I can't stop until it's finished, and I'm surprised myself when I listen back to it all. All of this is samples, coerced into partnership, sometimes against their will, but it seems to work, goodness knows how. Some very slight automation tweaking with the levels and a spot of reverb, and that's about it. A couple of compressors are in play; all is standard Cockos (Reaper...) Fx. That's all, folks. Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy. Edit : I've re-rendered the piece through a newly-acquired Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain, using the Pop & Dance preset; it's brought out a fair bit of detail, improving it enough to keep, I think, so I've replaced the file.

It's pretty unique; it must be the same one; they added elephants and giraffes later. Bloomin' crazy, in the nicest possible way. But anyway ...

How much work do you want to put into it, or are you looking for a one-box, 'plug'n'play' drum set..? Do you have a sample player..? If so, which one..? How about Kontakt (can do more than drums, but has some decent stuff...)..? I can recommend several, but it depends on what you'll be using. More detail, please..? (Disclaimer : I don't know anything about Logic...)

Basschatters.

For those that may not know the story, here's a background video. The team came to our village once; unforgettable...

... or at least something from Nine Inch Nails..?

Have a look here, perhaps..? Thomann post-Brexit ...

You've obviously not heard me play a guitar solo. ...

Wow..! Again, a bit of a cliff-hanger..! I would like to thank my many supporters, my agent, the publicity team (that did a splendid job with the Hollywood promotion effort; Great Stuff, kids..!), and of course, those without whom I wouldn't be standing sitting here : You, The Voting Public... (Pause for peals of thunderous applause resounding around the stadium...) Please allow me a few moments to compose myself (dabs at watery eyes with monogrammed pyjama sleeve...)... I'll be back, shortly, with a... ... ... ... Brand New Picture For The June Challenge..!

And the winner is... Dad3353 ..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2021_05.pdf ... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...

Yes, if there's only one that you truly like. Or two, of course. Or the three you like the best. Or none at all. You're the Boss.

Well, we'll wait until ... ... but after that I'm getting a head-start with 'Rock'. We'll see what others come up with to beat that. I'm pretty confident, as rocks are very strong.

I'd not advise doing things this way. To each his/her own, of course, but I find it better to use just the stave, with no markings. As slow as it needs, just work out each note, say what note it is out loud (at pitch, if possible...), then find and play it on the instrument. At first, it's darned slow, but little by little, the association of the dots on the page, the name of the note and its sound work there way into the brain. Fifteen minutes a day, every day (or twice a day if really keen...) get it all engraved on the neurones, and there's no time wasted in writing down all those marks. It's the quickest, and surest, way I know, and has worked for me for drums, keys, bass and guitar. I'm still not a 'pit-man' sight-reader, but I can figure most simple scores out reasonably well. Get a 'clean' score of something and try it out, maybe..?

No, just a keys player. Most folk can do plenty with either hand, really, if they decide to just 'do it'. There are few left-handed pianos, so keys players, whether righty or lefty, just do the work and get the results. Same as sax players, cellists, flautists... In fact most musicians.

Reading that post, I'd say you've covered the essential bases. The metronome stuff sounds like a Good Bet (although, really, a bit of metronome stuff should be in your weekly routine anyway, if not daily...). Bare bones theory sounds about right, too; after all, if you had it all down pat, you wouldn't want to be going to classes, would you..? Brush up on the ones you do know, and look up any other one, just for fun. As for mode names : it's not a Greek course you're going for. Look up one other just the same, over a coffee or tea break, and that'll do fine. For reading, each evening, from now till audition, just get any piece you have on hand and read it through once, then read it through playing along. Just the once each; no need to over-do things. It's just to make it pretty 'ordinary' to reach for a page of bass , scan it, then play it. You've done all of this before anyway, so you're already pretty much 'in the zone'. It's looking good; you're going about this the right way.

Oh dear, here we go again. Another tie-breaker session needed, probably. It would help if we could garner more than ten voters, perhaps, but how..? Meanwhile, it'll be 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' again.

I can listen to the studio recordings at home, in excellent conditions. I like to see a group perform, not just play what I already know. It can be risky, naturally, but, in balance, and for the genre of music I went to see 'back in the day', I was but rarely disappointed (I'm excluding The Edgar Broughton Band, naturally, as they were never good, either 'live' or on disk ...). The very different versions of the Floyd sessions, spontaneous improvisations from Fairport Convention, the free inspirations of Jefferson Airplane, various moutures of Frank Zappa's line-up, and many more, painted a much wider palette than any collection of disks could have done. It could be mentioned that, at the time, PA systems were well below even the domestic hifi set-ups I had at home, and listening conditions were seldom optimum comfort. Classical concerts were much better (no PA, so...), but I would still prefer to hear what the conductor and orchestra were up to that evening than to hear the version I had at home. Different strokes'n all...

This occurred nearly half a century ago now. Yes, there's a bass (or several...) in every room, drums set up at either end of the cottage, and we trip over guitars, keys, cabs, PA stuff and more. We squeeze a little furniture in between the cracks.