Bilbo

Melodic minor arpeggios. CDEbFGABC. That one changed not makes a massive difference!

No, mate. The guy I gave it to is busy at the moment with a new baby so I can't push him. May need to think again. Fortunately, it is not urgent.

Was at the Oxford gig. No complaints at all. It was a Yes gig. Have seen them 3x. Each gig had a different singer (Anderson, Horn and Davison). All different, all credible. I only heard JD struggle with one note and, on a repeat, he nailed it. What I did notice was the virtuosity I applauded as a kid was illusory. The magic of Yes is the composition, arranging and vocal harmonies not the playing.

It is not in sync with the video but may be a starting point for finding your way through.

Come on, Skol!! Where is the May picture?!! PS congratulations! (mutter, mutter) ;}

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1398974507' post='2439678'] I never do any good at this! [/quote] We just have to accept that our works are a minority interest sub-genre.

Me at The Bull in Colchester recently, doing a Charlie Haden Tribute band.

Our band calender

I am beating the Sausage.... [size=4] [/size] Errrm. I think I better rephrase that [size=4] [/size] [size=4] [/size]

Definately 3/4. There are three giants in the world who have a full size bass and they play orchestral music. [size=4] [/size][size=4] [/size][size=4]Us little folk need a smaller bass to get around on it fast enough to play Jazz/Folk/Rockabilly etc. [/size]

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I would but my wife wouldn't have let me (really). And she would have been right.

These kinds of details are pretty unimportant. Know the scales and learn to play them musically. That is all that matters. The finger you use is your concern not mine, Billy Sheehan's or anyone elses!! The chances are this will matter only when doing the Sheehan exercises, noever when you are playing a tune!!

You need a phase switch like the one on the Fishman. They also have them on Acoustic Image mics. I have no real idea how they work but they stop the problem you are describing, which is actually very common. You can usually pick up a Fishman for less than £100.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1398491874' post='2434600'] After approaching several bald men, I found my chap, who had a Hawaiian shirt and an eye patch :-D [/quote]

Just to add to the debate, many define improvisation as real-time composition so definitions are as varied as interpretation s. It is what the listener wishes it to be in the same way that it is what the composer considers it to be.

I agree that compositions should have some sense of theme and variation but 'sections' is not the only way to do that. For me, there has to be some element of forward motion and momentum and there are all sorts of ways of doing that. Doing it successfully is the art of it. I don't think I do that at all well and really struggle with any form of modulation so a lot of my compositions feel frustratingly 'static' to me. So, hands up, I think I am guilty of the charge as levelled. Will try harder next month!! {PS worthy of note is the fact that I also wrote a second tune this month (after the above was uploaded) but it was not inspired by the picture in any way and so was not submitted}

My favourite recorded bass sound was a Rickenbacker (Greenslade - Time and Tide). Rush, Yes - all sounded great. Fugly things but great sound. Can I have my tablets now?

Voted.

Even I know the start of Phantom of the Opera, karlfer. You'll be playing 'The Chain' by Fleetwood Mac next I remember playing 'Peaches' at a jazz rehearsal once before realising that no-one else in the room had actually been BORN when the Stranglers had originally released it!! Ref: the 16 year old singer. No-one that young should be allowed to make decisions about repertoire. No-one.

£7247, IIRC

If you like scars so much, here, have another one!!! (DOINK!) Seriously, if it is not what you signed up for and you don't like the 'new' genre, I can't see any point in hanging around. Alternatively, I guess you could tell them to point you in the direction of the kinds of recordings that are getting them excited and see if it floats your boat. I know that reggae doesn't really interest me, for instance, but there are some amazing things out there that come under that heading. I suspect you know what you want to do.

I hereby designate this to be the most boring thread of 2014. So far.

I have got to 50 without ever saying the offending word out loud so I guess I'll cope. I also made sure my bass was made of Mahogany, American Walnut and Ebony before I bought it, just to avoid this particular issue.