Bilbo

Tell me what your budget is and I can put you in touch with loads of folk.

Not read the whole thread but every bass I play sounds disappointingly like me.

As a 29 year fretless man, my advice is do not practice reading music in a darkened room. It will ruin your eyes. There is only one thing in the fretless canon that is different from the fretted and that is the need for good intonation. You have to play with your ears and not your eyes. Make sure that, when you are playing with others, you can hear yourself. If you cannot, you are in no position to guarantee the accuracy of your intonation. Otherwise, a E major scale is an E major scale.

Movies Howard Shore – Lord of the Rings Trilogy Pat Metheny – A Map Of The World Javier Navarette – Pan’s Labyrinth Schindler’s List TV Bill Conti’s Theme From Cagney and Lacey. Great lines Mr Benn – A Don Warren (Duncan Lamont) composition that featured UK Jazz/session legends like Kenny Wheeler, Ken Baldock and Ray Swinfield (the musicians are featured on the Mr. Benn credits; how rare is that?) Noggin The Nog – a solo bassoon thing by Vernon Eliot. I loved it long before I had the faintest idea what was required to make it happen!

I know the feeling. I lost my drummer last year and, for a Jazz trio with sax, bass and drums, you need a certain quality in your drummers that is frighteningly rare. It killed the trio, basically. I now have about 50 tunes sitting on a shelf and never getting played.

I have had enough of this. I am leaving the country. I may go to Italy and [b]Live In Pompeii!![/b]

Me Mum popped over last week and I was preparing a salad. She said 'what's that red thing'. I said 'It's a tomato, mother'. Work with me on this.

There aren't enough of them, I think.

Stonking great gig with Alan Barnes. A monster saxophonist and really funny guy. Great humour, great playing - sore fingers (again) but what a way to go!!

It's been too long!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ionJMtalyPA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc52vCJ83LA

Are you gonna tell 'im?

As for dodgy vocals, why do you think all of mine are instrumental?

I have had this 29 years now. It's 30 next March.

Any time practising is useful. Jazz gigs without drummers used to fill me with dread. Now I prefer them.

I am sitting here listening to Swallow (with Carla Bley and Andy Sheppard) and he makes me want to get a five string fretted bass (E-C) and play like Jim Hall.

I finf Ornette to be one of those artists who produced some absolutely sublime material interspersed with some which is all but unlistenable! "Kathelin Gray", a track of his Song X LP with Pat Metheny is deep stuff. What is unquestionable was his vision and his commitment to his own artistry. One of the greats.

Did a gig in a theatre last night. Apparently it was built in 1905. I think that was also the last time it was cleaned.

Don't worry. It will appear at your door in a massive box that you will easily be able to lift into your living space so you can unpack it (the box was big enough for me to stand in and I am 6'1"). Double basses aren't heavy, they are just big/unweildy. They tend to come with the bridge collapsed so you have to set it up yourself (line it up with the notches in the f-holes. It's easy; takes two minutes and no tools are required). You will be playing it within ten minutes of the door kocking. Enjoy.

Mike is a monster. He has played with Billy Cobham, Trilok Gurtu, John McLaughlin, Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and many more. His own trio with his brother, called MGM until they were threatened with litigation, were interesting (I saw them supporting Bill Bruford's Earthworks in the 1990s). And a nice guy to talk to also, very approachable.

I cannot comment on the issue of suitability for arco as I don't really use the technique but I can say that Gedo-Musik's service is exceptional.

Techno - John Scofield (Darryl Jones)

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1433792573' post='2794048'] And further I would say that the pieces that I put up and like the best ,tend to get more listens , one thing that does happen though, is that when I play a tune on soundcloud then it plays another straight after , and invariably it picks one from your playlist Rob [/quote] Result!!!

My point was simply that people do listen.

I just wanted to comment on the fact that my piece has been listened to 49 times since I posted it last week. I have friends who are professional tv/film composers whose sound cloud pieces have 7 or 8 listens. Most of my stuff gets listened to a couple of hundred times! Power to the Basschat Composition Challenge!!