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  1. [quote name='DawnPatrol1990' timestamp='1460336726' post='3024787'] ...any other advise would be appreciated! [/quote] We have an HA3500; had it from new. Very shortly after the end of the guarantee, it stopped working; the toroidal transformer (yes, that big fat coily thingy...) had gone duff. After much research, I finally tracked down that Korg address, and they sent me (here, to France...) the right trannie, and the problem was rapidly fixed. It's worked fine ever since (a few years ago, now...). The bad news, then, is that these trannies [i]can [/i]go duff. It's pretty rare, and not necessarily through abuse (ours was never 'thrashed', nor even half-used...). The good news is that, in the right hands, it's a quick and (relatively...) inexpensive job, and those Korg folks [i]are [/i]'the right hands'. An unexpected expense, which is always a sod, but once repaired, it'll probably give many years of loyal service. Don't mess about; just take it to 'em and they'll sort it out. Hope this helps.
  2. Good man..! Don't rush things; slow is the new fast. Don't forget to breath (more important than one imagines, and a permanent problem of mine since infancy...) Take breaks; I recommend Earl Grey and Rich Tea or Digestive biscuits, but a glass of milk is fine, too. Every hour of practise, take a walk around the house (yes, outside...) for 5 minutes. Raining..? Pah..! It's only water; it'll wash off. As you were; carry on...
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  4. Jack Casady, without a doubt; here's the start of the 'live 'Bless its pointed little head' album (the excellent Spencer Dryden on drums...)... http://youtu.be/Ca6sOFRWmRw The whole album is solid gold, for me.
  5. [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167485] ... and I'll have another look at the 'Notes' stuff..!
  6. [quote name='highwayone' timestamp='1460299760' post='3024445'] Anyone know where these can be bought? Have a dodgy one and wondered if the contemporary ones are similar? Cheers [/quote] Have a look here, maybe (scroll down to near the end...)..? [url="http://www.projectguitarparts.co.uk/Pages/hofnerparts.html"]Project Guitar Parts ...[/url] Look for these ones, at £28 a set ... [color=#800080]Repro 1961 style bass machine heads with rugby ball buttons[/color] [color=#800080]Set of 2 left & 2 right short scale bass suitable for 1961 Hofner violin bass[/color] [color=#800080]WE RECOMMEND THESE FOR REPLACEMENTS ON CONTEMPORARY BASSES AS WE FEEL THESE ARE MORE SUBSTANTIAL THAN THE ONES FITTED[/color] Hope this helps.
  7. [quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1460297878' post='3024430']...automation in Reaper... [/quote] I'll assume that you've at least come across the SWS Extensions for Reaper..? There's a lot there; a very useful one, I've found, is an LFO Generator; I have used it for simulating a wah pedal, for instance, or slowly fading between two sounds. Powerful stuff, indeed.
  8. [quote name='peteb' timestamp='1460294564' post='3024391'] But would he really be a good drummer or merely a Jack of all trades, equally unconvincing in all genres?? [/quote] I don't know where we're going with this, but I'll offer this as a 'Jack of all trades'. Is he playing too loud or too quietly..? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywO9JryFqo[/media] Simon Phillips on the subject... [media]http://youtu.be/356Gq0qMTdE[/media]
  9. [quote name='peteb' timestamp='1460291513' post='3024362'] Really?? Would you expect a drummer who plays in a small jazz ensemble to be equally convincing in a Metallica tribute?? [/quote] A [i]good [/i]drummer..? Yes, I would.
  10. [quote name='peteb' timestamp='1460284772' post='3024308']...a good drummer is a quiet drummer, and that is not the case… [/quote] ... and I would claim that a good drummer is one able to play all styles at all appropriate levels. Quiet when it's not needed to be loud, loud when it's appropriate. I've nothing against playing drums loud (I even moved to an isolated cottage in the country to be able to..!), but fitting one's technique to the circumstances is, in my view and experience, part of the package. A drummer incapable of playing 'forcefully' is not fully accomplished; nor is one incapable of turning down.
  11. [quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1460248600' post='3024082']...and heating the neck for a ski jump is not a method I've heard off. [/quote] Well, you wouldn't have, would you..? Melts the snow, y'know. ...
  12. [quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1460248294' post='3024079']... I really would like to mic a cab decently! At some point. However I would surely pick up the fan noise right? [/quote] Duff joke n° 1 : "Your cab has a fan..?" Duff joke n° 2 : "If you can hear the fan, you're not playing loud enough..!" Duff joke n° 3 : "A bass player..? With fans..?" Duff joke n° 4 : ... Nah, sod it, that's yer lot...
  13. [quote name='JackPlug' timestamp='1460241489' post='3024038'] [color=#141414]Here it is...[/color] [/quote] One has to remove the 's' from 'http' to get an embedded video, thus ... [media]http://youtu.be/zEJQ5duc7Qs[/media] I've removed the other, less successful, trial topics.
  14. [quote name='peteb' timestamp='1460241439' post='3024037'] I’m sorry but I don’t believe for a second that Kenny Aronoff would ever go out and play a rock gig in public (in a club or wherever) at anything less than full pelt. After all, he has a reputation to uphold. And so have I, although obviously to a far far lesser degree. No rock band that I have been in would expect a drummer to ‘reign in’ their playing – it’s full beans or nothing! Frankly I would not go and see a band that would do that. Whenever we take a pub gig I always ask the landlord if he has any serious noise issues and if his crowd want to see a pretty loud rock band. Obviously there are some gigs that we can’t do but we still get plenty of work and draw a healthy crowd, mainly because they know that we will never ‘reign in’ a performance! [/quote] A misunderstanding here, I think. By 'reigning in', I mean from a volume point of view, not in intensity of performance. I, too, play rock, amongst other styles; I had, for weddings and the like in smallish restaurant halls, a set of elasticated cotton 'shower hats' which could slip over the toms and snare, cutting down the volume enormously, but retaining a pretty decent 'crack' when using rim-shots. Brushes, hot-rods, even mallets... they all help to give the tone required, in any circumstances. How many TV shows are to be seen with a drummer belting away like billy-o, but muted by the pads on the drums and cymbals..? Big players, playing big venues, can go full-tilt; when they play smaller places, they play the same way, but quieter. I maintain, stubbornly, that rock does not [i]have [/i]to be loud. Intense, yes, exciting, pulsing, hard-driven... All of that and more, but not [i]necessarily [/i]loud. Play as you wish, and good for you, but please don't tell me it can't be done. It can; all good drummers know how to, and do so.
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  16. [size=4]Here's a Start-up kit for Crossroads... A pdf to download (and change the file extension; the System messes it up but it's a pdf...) with tab and dots... [attachment=216607:Cros_Bass_Simp.pdf] ... and a Soundcloud file to listen to, illustrating the contents of the pdf... [url="http://soundcloud.com/dad3353/cros-bass-simp"]Crossroads Bass, simplified ...[/url] Hope this helps. PS: let me know if you want a play-along track to download...[/size]
  17. [quote name='Lardy' timestamp='1460223289' post='3023861']... a really simple way of getting through Crossroads by Cream?... [/quote] Don't attempt the studio version at all; that relies heavily on being proficient, and having a proficient drummer driving along..! The 'Albert Hall' live version is much more appropriate (even Cream changed it for 'live' performance...). Start off by playing only the root notes over the track, only two notes required (one short, one longer...), slowed down if necessary. Once you've got the structure firmly established, you can add the 'riff' part, again, slowly at first. Keep it simple; just the bare bones. Once that's acquired, you can work out for yourself a couple of chromatic runs (that's to say: climbing up, semi-tone by semi-tone, till you get to the target note, which will be the starting root note of the next line...). These runs don't have to be fast, or even on the beat (playing them in between the beats would be playing 'syncopated'...). Get back here if there are questions or problems, and... enjoy..! Hope this helps..
  18. [quote name='peteb' timestamp='1460220014' post='3023809'] I’m going to go against the grain and say that good [b][i]rock[/i][/b] drummers tend to be loud. That’s just the way it is! Go on YouTube and look at all the top guys who get all the big gigs and you will see that in addition to being great technicians they are all pretty loud. Kenny Aronoff (an orchestrally trained percussionist) is a monster, as is Josh Freese, etc. Even someone like Gregg Bissonette isn’t what you would call quiet. I want to play with drummers who have good time, feel and (yes) power. Of course a lot of them are pretty loud, which is why I went and got proper hearing protection. A lot of the worse drummers I have played with have been some of the quietest. [/quote] Those big names (and they are all truly great...) won't be playing loud (I mean, not [i]overly [/i]loud...) when they're playing pubs or smaller venues, whatever the style. They know how to get what's required from the kit at the volume and dynamic that the venue needs; that's [i]why [/i]they're great. Yes, in an outdoor festival, or a stadium gig, or even the Woodstick halls, the volume can go up; they're miced up, too, for the PA, but also for recording.the event. In such a venue, I play louder,too; that's not a problem. When playing pubs and clubs, however, one plays rock 'reigned in'. There is only one reason why some drummers don't, and that's because they can't. It's a skill, it's not magic, just ordinary, good, solid, technical ability that can, and should, be learned and applied. If not, then I maintain the term 'lumberjack', not 'drummer'.
  19. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1460196395' post='3023413']... I am also quite sure that all the drummers who for some reason are on this bass forum are lovely people who behave properly, can play quietly when required and have their own equipment and transport. [/quote] Indeed. Of course. What else..? ...
  20. I'd suggest confidence; hopefully not mis-placed confidence.
  21. On the 'scales' front, I'd recommend saying out loud the name of the note as it's being played. Singing it to pitch is even better. This, especially at first, has the double benefit of slowing down the whole process, so one is not 'belting through' just a mechanical exercise, and also engages the brain more, obliging one to really think about what's going on. Playing scales is not (or should not be...) about speed, but more about assimilating the notes and their interrelations. The speed comes (slowly...) of its own accord, but is not the objective. There are other exercises for that (for what little it's worth as an objective in and of itself, in my view...).
  22. [size=4][color="#222222"][font="Arial, sans-serif"]And the winner is... CamdenRob..! Well done, sir. [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167486] Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ...[/font][/color][/size] [attachment=216571:BC_Nood_Cert_2016_03.pdf] [size=4][color="#222222"][font="Arial, sans-serif"]... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...[/font][/color] [font="Arial, sans-serif"][/font][/size]
  23. [quote name='The-Ox' timestamp='1460163906' post='3023272']... Do any of you recommend any decent electric drum kits?... [/quote] Here's a cheeky one to start off the debate... [url="http://aerodrums.com/aerodrums-product-page/"]Aerodrums...[/url] Not a toy, nor a gadget; I've bought one and they work, but there's a learning curve to 'em. The sound quality is only limited by your PC software. Worth a look, at least, especially for home studio only (very difficult to gig with these...). As a starter kit on a budget, these do the job... [url="http://www.dawsons.co.uk/blog/alesis-dm6-usb-review"]Alesis DM6 ...[/url] ... but it won't stand up to gigging (well, not frequently, anyway...), nor does it have 'real' response like mesh heads, for instance. It has a USB MIDI output, though, so can trigger DAW-based drum Vst's instead of using the 'brain' sound set. The other, obvious, 'usual suspects' are any of the Roland V-drums, where the quality and features are mirrored in the budget required. You set the budget, and you get what you pay for, dual zone, realistic hi-hat, fine setting of dynamics and sensitivity, mesh heads... The list is long. State your budget, as that's the deciding factor. Second-hand is a good idea, of course, but be wary; many sets are or have been, 'thrashed', and some do not stand up to punishment at death-metal level. A youngster who wanted a set for Christmas, never played it, so the parents sell it on can be fine, but I've a few buddies that, through 'practising' double pedal and power strokes, have reduced even quite recent kits to rubble. They may look OK, but don't respond properly. A bad buy, in that case. Beware, then, when considering second-hand stuff. Hope this helps...
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