Bilbo

I got my first royalty cheque!!! It won't buy a house, it won't buy a car, it won't buy a bass ( ok, maybe one of those Sue Ryder ones) but it's real!! Have sold about 540 copies worldwide. Says I have sold none in Australia!!! Philistines!!!

Always makes me laugh. Like bass guitar scales are different to other instrument's scales.

Always

David Hungate?

Eric Dolphy!!!

I did a gig last Sunday with a UK pianist composer called Andrea Vicari (Streatham) and a Chelmsford based sax player called Zak Barrett (the geography is relevant). Myself and the drummer were local. Andrea turned up with charts for some rearranged standards and a couple of her own tunes. The standards were a mixture of dots and chord sheets but her own compositions were dots. One of them, which had an African Hi-Life vibe, was wall-to-wall dots. There was a 16-bar section which she referred to as ' the Weather Report' bit (gives you some idea of what it was like). No time to rehearse. She said we could leave it out if we wanted but Zak and I looked at each other and said 'let's do it'. Remember, the performance of this tune (and all of the others) was in front of an audience in a live situation. We hit about 90%. My point is, in no way on God's earth woudl that have been even near to possible with tab. This coming weeked, I am performing with a quartet featuring a guitarist from Oxford, a saxophonist from Brighton and a drummer from Gateshead. We are hoping to get an hours rehearsal in to 'top and tail' the charts. We will be playing a whole gig of Pat Metheny tunes (about 16 charts?). Dots and chords again. There is NO WAY this would be possible with tab. I know people will say 'I don't need to be able to do that in my situation'. Of course, that is true. But that also means that your situation will never change. Being able to read, even at my level (I am not as 'fluent' as a top pro), is a MASSIVE boon to playing the best music possible given the variables at play (travel, geography, time etc). Tab would just not deliver that level of flexibility. To me, it's a no-brainer.

Raf did some stuff with Brand X, IIRC.

I have a weekly gig that shows me how deficient my playing is but it is not my technique that is the issue (I occasionally find myself falling short of expectations but usually this is on soloing so any technical inadequacies are of my own making). Where I find my lack of experience shows is in harmonic knowledge. I 'know' what things mean intellectually (e.g. a maj7#11) etc but cannot always 'hear' things as clearly as I should and it shows in my solo lines. When one is playing alongside some of the people I now regularly play with (see the website linked at the bottom in my signature), one is inspired and devastated in equal measure on a regular basis! It is never the execution of ideas that is the problem, it is the depth of those ideas and how they relate to the potential of the music. This week's artist was heard to say that she was 'inspired' by the rhythm section. I was thrilled to hear that but, at the same time, was aware of what went well and what fell short of the mark. As I always say, this is a journey, not a destination.

It is by no means infalable but, much of the time, the LAST chord of the song is the key it is in. But the point is a good one. A little knowlddge is a dangerous thing.

I always find explanations of theory much easier to comprehend when you already know what everything actually means!!

I have done two solo bass pieces using nothing more than a Zoom H1. I have done one with a solo VST cello and one with a two piece VST ensemble using tuba and vibes. It doesn't have ot be all bells and whistles. I actually think some of the compositions with all the tricks and technology are some of the worst in that there is no core 'idea', just a lot of 'stuff'. Just think about what you want to do and make it happen in the easiest way possible.

I think Doddy means more like TTSTTTS, the sahpe of the scale

You win! Your turn

Here is a sample of the discography of a session bass player. WHoever guesses the player gets to set teh next challenge. The sampling is necessary because the whole list would be pages long!! No googling (it's no fun) 1977 David Sanborn Band David Sanborn Warner 1977 Tornader Johnny Winter Polydor 1979 Monuments Jackie McLean RCA 1981 Wrapped In A Cloud Gil Goldstein Muse Records 1984 Living in the Crest of a Wave Bill Evans Elektra 1986 Live at Sweet Basil Gil Evans King Records 1986 The Color of Money Soundtrack MCA 1986 Upside Downside Mike Stern Atlantic 1987 Nothing Like The Sun Sting A&M 1987 Three Way Mirror Airto Moreira Reference 1988 Forbidden Colors Tania Maria Capitol 1989 Tears of Joy Tuck and Patti Windhamhill 1992 Rocks in the Head Roger Daltrey Atlantic 1994 The Power Of Cool Donald Harrison CTI 1994 Tropical Escape Craig Peyton Earth Flight 1996 Relish Joan Osborne Blue Gorilla 1997 From a Parent To a Child Art Garfunkel Columbia 2005 The Body Electric Cyndi Lauper Sony

I'll get my wife to shout at it. It normally gets me to work!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_notes

I have another mic that works fine and the lead is a brand new OBBM lead. It's driving me nuts.

Yes. It's not the Focusrite.

I got it back and the guy said it was fine. Got it home and it worked fine the stopped. Then worked fine. Then stopped. Query. Can humidity/damp do this to a microphone?

I think, next month, I will submit a pdf of a score. People can read it and vote on what they think it would sound like if it was played!

Mozart played the Joanna!!

I don't hear Rock music really, Dad. I started w. NWOBHM but never wrote anything back then. I am studying composition and try to use what I am learning but there is the whole thing about actually PLAYING a piece that limits my options with the Composition Challenges. I learn a little more each time, tho'.

https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/iron-giant Here we are. I wanted to reflect both the power of the machine and the melancholy of the body language. I think I got it.

My favourite Warwick....

Not read the whole thread but I had this problem and got an ergonomic keyboard and upright mouse and it cleared. I think the problem was, when using the PC, my wrists were bent and any bass related fatigue was never getting the time to heal. Once I got the keyboard/mouse, it was a lot gentler on my wrists and, fairly quickly, the discomfort ebbed away never to return.