Bilbo

Add diminished and augmented and you have the lot, pretty much. Its the modes of each scale that make it complicated. So Major, Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Blues Scale Diminished and Augmented. That's 99% of the music most of us will ever play. Oh, and don't forget the Chromatic Scale (every note)

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1103225' date='Jan 26 2011, 09:51 AM']Great stuff! From a recording pov, particularly impressed with the drum sound, given that it's someone's front room - how was the kit mic'ed up?[/quote] Two mics, as I recall. Not sure which. It was a nice sounding room, tho'. Wood panelling on the walls helped soften the sound.

I don't look at all and the more I practise the better my intonation gets. Odd that....

Interesting to see that 78 people have opened the first excerpt (Straight No Chaser) and then the number of listeners goes down as the list progresses. Are you guys trying to tell me something

On the one day a year when I do a gig big enough to need to play through a rig, I don't care

[quote name='Conan' post='1100846' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:33 PM']Either you drink less beer than I do, or your bladder is stronger!! [/quote] One diet coke lasts me all night and, yes, I have a bladder like a Blue Whale.

2 or 3 x 45 minute sets is normal around this way, depending on the venue, the style of music, time of day, fee payable etc. I always operated on the 2 x 45 minute norm but have seen a move to 3 x 45 minutes. Would prefer 1 x 2 hours myself. I find intervals pointless.

Will try as soon as I get a chance.......

A few recordings we did to produce a demo for getting function band gigs (hence the short tunes and excerpts). The band played together once and hadn't played three of these tunes together before this session (which took 3 1/2 hours). The piano player is singing. I am on double bass on all but Black Friday (the Wal). The 'studio' was someone's front room and this was all done using Cubase and with the double bass DI'd using a K&K pick up (the Wal went straight in) . Guerilla recording!! I have to say, I am really happy with the results; no two handed tapping, no double thumbing, nothing flash, just journeyman bass playing. Oh, and I have called the band Whither Then?

Hi, Mike. Its a nightmare, isn't it? I have tried this one on and off for years and have never got anywhere near anything credible on solos and even disappoint myself on the basic walking lines! Despite the mistakes, your efforts are certainly better than anything I can pull off and you have, at the very least, inspired me to try again!!

[quote name='silddx' post='1097701' date='Jan 21 2011, 03:54 PM']Frank Zappa[/quote] He isn't dead. He just smells funny.

John Scofield

ALways fingers, never pick. It's not prejudice because that is defined as an 'unfavourable opinion formed beforehand without knowledge thought or reason'. I played pick for two years when I played heavy metal and then realised (gained the knowledge) that the sound pretty much sucks (reason) and that the bass sounded better (fuller/warmer) with fingers. I get that people like a pick to play some musics but I almost invariably don't like those genres (punk, thrash metal etc) and only really play music which invariably sounds better with fingers rather then pick. I love Steve Swallow, who only uses a pick, I love Anthony Jackson, but not when he uses a pick, I love Chris Squire who only uses a pick etc.. so I am completely hypocritical. But, as the OP implies, this is about ME and I don't use one ever by choice (except when I play guitar, where, having spent time working on Al DiMeola's methods, I have a better picking technique than most guitarists )

Keep it [i]musical[/i] Sometimes that means simple. Sometimes it doesn't. 'Being a bass player means getting off on making other people sound good' - Robert Hurst III (Branford and Wynton Marsalis). It takes what it takes. If the part screams sixteenth note unison lines, then nail it. It its minims, nail it. If its triplet 5's against 4, nail it. Play the music, not the instrument. The more I study music, the more the notes matter and the less important the instruments and players are. Serve the music not the id.

[quote name='TheRev' post='1096615' date='Jan 20 2011, 05:55 PM']Moondance? [/quote] He said jazz standards not [size=7]unmitigated drivel[/size].....

[quote name='morsefull' post='1095678' date='Jan 19 2011, 09:16 PM']Who would've thought it. I've just learn't the first part of "So what" including a walking bassline. Until the chord changes threw me off![/quote] THe tune consists of 4x8 bar section, three of which are D minor/dorian and the 4th Eb minor /Eb dorian Dm/// //// Dm/// //// Ebm/// //// Dm/// //// (/=one bar of 4:4) Impressions is exactly the same changes but played faster

Little Sunflower, So What, Impressions, Song For My Father, Canteloupe Island, Watermelon Man, C-Jam Blues - 4 minutes each and you're home and dry!! Personally, I have seen any one of these last the full 30 minutes

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[quote name='cetera' post='1094092' date='Jan 18 2011, 05:04 PM']OK, I'm not convinced that you possess 'THE ROCK' [i]anymore[/i]! [/quote] I possess it. Its under the bed, gathering fluff.

Scroll through the Theory and Technique forum here and you will find loads of charts for reading. I have posted a few dozen and other have also so you should find plenty of material to practise on. Remember, you are trying to learn to read, not to play so make sure that is what you are doing during your practice time. Tab is no help in learning to read as it does the work for you instead of you developing the rskills/knowledge required to handle the process yourself.

Its the first chart in Standing in the Shadows of Motown. Where have you guys been?

[quote name='cetera' post='1093777' date='Jan 18 2011, 01:20 PM']Sorry Bilbo.... I'm not convinced that you possess "the ROCK"! [/quote] Post 41..... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111549&st=40"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111549&st=40[/url]

Or you could just not bother because, when you have finally nailed it, you will never play it again, except at music fairs, bassdays and when trying out basses in shops. Spend the time learning to read music instead.

Can't help with your specific problem (haven't got a bass with me) but I wanted to add that you do not need a fretless to play Portrait of Tracy. It is, in fact, marginally easier on a fretted. Continuum would sound better on a fretless but, for PoT, fretlessness is all but irrelevant.

That Dave Grusin version is stunning. Have had three copies and given two away as gifts!