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I prefer this nutjob..... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otbe5c2OIxI&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otbe5c2OIxI&feature=related[/url]

A world without real books? God forbid!! We'd all have to write our own tunes!

Satin Doll, as I recall, is Dm7, G7, Dm7, G7, Em7, A7, Em7, A7, D7 / , E7b9, Cmaj&, A7 (repeat) Your changes resolve to the Fmaj7 too soon and lose the tension too quickly. Try this set of changes, they are the ones most people use....

Sounds great. Will look that one up later!!

I am getting the impression that my generation (born 1963) consist of significant numbers of people who floundered around in the dark a little in their early days and found their way to bass later simply because it was not 'there' when they were younger. In my 'yoof', I was a singer and won the school Eisteddford competition every year from 6 to 10 years old. I them stopped before Comprehensive because I somehow knew that singing like a choir boy is a great way to get your head kicked in at the big school! I remember a cousin giving me a guitar at a very impressionable age (I think I was about 12) and me fcuking about with it for about 5 years without really playing anything other than a few 'party pieces' (not whole songs but odd riffs, bits of Beatles tune, odd solos and melodies). I would have had no idea what a bass was at that age and there was certainly noone around who would be able to tell me about that kind of thing. Saxophones were absent, as woudl have been anything like oboes, French Horn, bassoon etc. I got hold of the idea of a bass at the age of about 15/16 and was playing bass lines on that old guitar a long time before I got a bass but the real thing came after I started work aged 17. Bass was then the priority although guitar was always there and moving forward concurrently (although more slowly). But bass is the only instrument I have ever really gigged on. Now I'm off to learn soprano saxophone (ordered one this weekend)!!

I have used ebay and paypal as a seller and buyer and it has never been a problem. On the single occasion I didn't receive any goods (a cd), I went into dispute via Paypal and they got my money back in a matter of days (it was only a few quid). Personally, I think it is a case of being careful with what you are willing to bid for and what you would want to see in person before parting with cash. I look for feedback and, if it is an ebay company, I look them up on the 'net and get an sense of whether they are kosher or not. So far so good.

I too have a stand although, as my music room is by default a 'me only' space (no kids and my wife just never goes in there because she has no reason to), it tends to lay on the floor on its side as to put it on the stand, I need to retract the spike which is a hassle. At gigs, it lays on the floor.

A simple but pretty little piece. I don't know Nick Drake's stuff but this is sweet and the overall recording/performance is cool too.

I intend to. I am not playing this seriously but to get out of the bass/guitar space I have been in for 31 years..... just to get some new perspectives!! Oh and its light to carry

One of these is on its way; it'll get me started without wasting vast sums of money [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGi-_zLfwjw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGi-_zLfwjw[/url]

I think 'Cats', in the jazz fraternity, refers to hardcore jazzers who can do it, as opposed to those on the periphery of the jazz scene who are not there yet. So, say Jasper Hollby could be a 'Cat' but I wouldn't be as I am not in that league. So if someone like Branford Marsalis or whoever called you a 'Cat' it would be a compliment. So old farts playng Jazz in pubs in Sheffield who call people Cats are kinda poseurs. Personally, I think you have to be a Cat to decide who else is so its a minefield and if you try to call someone a Cat who isn't, you coudl look a bit of a dick. I can't call anyone a Cat yet because I am mere cannon fodder. Alternatively, I could be talking total bollocks!

He must be good, he plays fretless. Fretless is hard.

I suspect he just plugged it in and there it was.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poNxrtz_p40"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poNxrtz_p40[/url]

Yes.

They're bleeding well making it up as they go along. Courageous but ultimately a failure. Rather listen to Spoombung.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2blyaechv0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2blyaechv0[/url] Bob being all wavey.....

Can't really hear it but it sounds like chromatic passing notes held over a little longer than is ordinarily accepted (that's a posh way of implying that the notes are poor choices, if not wrong). Can't say anything else other than 'accurate' transcriptions of wrong notes are more common than most of us would like!

Not heard it. What's the line-up?

A lot of this is why I prefer to play KJazz because, if you do it properly, the predictability element is minimised and every gig is different. I can do rehearsed sets but I do bore easily and it comes out in my face and pisses people off.

Thanks, Jake. Will have a look at that next chance I have.

I am the same; odds and sods. Love doing it when it comes around, though. Daflewis is a member here and he is (or was) doing Wicked in the West End.

The way it links the last six 16th notes with one beam. I would want to see it as 2 16th notes and then 4 seperate ones. Coralling them as 6 notes makes it harder to read, IMO. But I can't amke Sibelius stop doing it. The only option would have been to write it as 5 bars of 3:4 which, for me, wasn't how I heard it.

The thing is, I see the ornamentation elements of a players vocabulary as just that and, used sparingly, it can be the loveliest enhancement. When I listen to the greats, however, I hear about 5% ornamentation and 95% straight playihng. Its a bit like slapping in funk; 'less is more'. The more ostentaious the bass player, the more the swing is vulnerable to collapse. But for me, that 'DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM' thing, when it locks in, is the best feeling in the world. Its not the only facet of Jazz that I love by any means but its one of the most viscerally exciting.

Ps I don't like the format but Sibelius defaults to that and I can't figure out how to stop it doing that!!