Dad3353

Alice..? Who the ...

Get your spectacles repaired.

Good, I'll be able to read it myself and learn something at last.

Aha..! Just the piece I need for my puzzle..!

This one..?

Be wary what you wish for..! I listened to the track, and couldn't help but to find resemblance (you may not agree..!) with a melody I composed nearly ten years ago, for our monthly Basschat Composition Challenge. A very different treatment, naturally, but, to me, the echos came across the (close to a ...) decade. As for your piece, and notwithstanding the above, I can't deny that's it's well played, if slightly stilted in the fingering, but (again, to me; you will not agree...) lacked the fullness to be thought of as complete. The sound of the instrument is finely detailed, and is not in question. It's the mere solitude of the intrument that holds it back. I would be loth to listen to a whole album played in this fashion. Well, you asked for opinions; this is mine. Congratulations on a fine recording, of course, and well done for composing and performing so well, and for sharing. I'm sorry if I come across as harsh; I would have liked to be more positive. Peace. Oh, and here's the piece evoked, from 2013, composition inspired by the picture offered by the previous month's winner (a ghostly wedding dress...)...

Happy daze..!

Well, to judge by your last (more likely 'latest'..?) demo, the 'process' works well..! Good Stuff (shades of 'Hysteria', but that's no bad thing...); thanks for sharing.

I seriously doubt that that would be a problem. Go for it...

@KingBollock : That looks fine, and I can't see much of an issue using tubes for the bars, as long as they don't rattle about in their holes. If you choose internal dimensions to be very close to existing cabs using similar speakers, you can't go that far wrong. It's certainly an interesting 'look'; I'm not sure how it would fare in the 'functions band' market, but there's no reason to doubt it would sound perfectly acceptable. How about a 'build topic' if/when you get stuck into the project..?

Any chance of a mock-up sketch, to show the main elements..? I'm trying to imagine the proportions of the cab. Just a rough, with some idea of dimensions. Please..? Pretty please..?

Miss Trellis..? The eldest daughter of Mrs Trellis, of North Whales..? Shirley not..! Or maybe serendipity, that such a name brings on these missives..?

'Creativity' is a criteria amongst many others. Not everyone is, nor wants to be, creative, and there is a lot of creative stuff that is really... well, let's just say 'not very good', eh..? Is music, already composed, never, ever, to be played again, by anyone..? Maybe not even by the original composer, if one is to be strict about it. What's wrong with reading aloud a Good Poem, for folk to enjoy..? What's wrong with playing Good Music for folk to enjoy..? What's wrong twith playing bad 'creative' music for folk to enjoy..? (Ignore that last bit; it's so rare...). If the Players wish to go out on a limb and play whatever their 'creativity' dictates, that's fine, and if anyone has the temerity to suffer it, good on 'em. I'd rather play my Schubert's Ninth for the umpteenth time, and hear again something I'd not heard in there hitherto. One day, I might even go for a different version, and see what the conductor and/or orchestra have managed to 'create' from this old soup. To each his/her own, naturally.

There seem to be a lot of ... ... sour grapes out there.

Here's the range of Ibanez gig bags. Is there not one suitable there..? Ibanez Gig Bags ...

Maybe say which bass this gig bag is for..? Just a thought.

Rain - The Beatles

(... and get that keyboard repaired..! )

Here is my contribution to the September 2022 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by the previous winner: Doctor J It all started innocently enough. A fun day out in the fresh alpine air... Two Monster Drums tracks for the percussion, four Kontakt tracks playing a new (to me...) Foundations Synth Bass, Staccato Strings and the Text To Speech samples, Little treatment, other than a bit of compression/EQ on the voices, and my standard Reaper NY Glue on the Master tracks, as usual. Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy.

I'd suggest that, in the same way as reading literature gives opportunity for enlarging one's vocabulary, so reading music (dots, Tab, whatever...) allows expansion of one's musical vocabulary. Listening to stuff does this, too, of course, but once past the 'Janet and John' stage of reading music (without necessarilly being able to play what is being read; just understanding it is enough, hearing it in the head...) a whole shoal of new worlds can open up. I'd certainly differentiate between 'reading' and 'sight reading'. The first is available to all, without too much study. Not so the latter, which requires (and rewards...) much more practice.

T'was my friend Marc who dubbed his native land thus. For my part, I've only really driven through, except the one time we went as a family (prospecting a move, for professional reasons...), and went for a 'meal' at a Quick outlet. That place was beyond tumbleweed; it was shockingly filthy. We left, and ate only once back in France.