Bilbo

Found another one! Produced by Paul Gray of The Damned

Westbourne Sports College in Ipswich (wherever the hell that is!!)

1982 2009

Some courageous stuff on there, Jase. Good to hear it.

I actually 'remember; stuff by visualising parts of the score. If I play it a lot, its not necessary but if I am not familiar, it serves as an aide memoir to me that is more effective than trying to remember the notes. I often learn stuff and forget it. Writing it down reduces the time necessary to relearn it.

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1032763' date='Nov 22 2010, 03:45 PM']I don't doubt it would be for many people - I'm just a little surprised that Bilbo is one of them, if indeed he is.[/quote] Playing shows is cool - low input high return stuff (except this one which is high input). I like doing them for the reading practice but couldn't do them all of the time like some do. But this is a challenge so I will enjoy it.

I have sold everything I have ever put on here. Bass, amp, cabs, cds, books.... all without any problems

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1026693' date='Nov 17 2010, 10:52 AM']Use yer computer keyboard! Still a bit slower than hitting the note on a bass or a piano, but I got an average of 0.81s and a title of Bass Clef Great Wizard. <--- (if only that was a wizard's hat)[/quote] Good advice! Av. 1.34 = bass clef wizard!!!

I got Bass Master (av. 1.7) - says more about my mouse control than it does my reading

Welcome, friend. I have been researching a biography on Paul Chambers who hails from Detroit so have had to deal with several people from that area. Good to have you on board.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='1025829' date='Nov 16 2010, 01:19 PM']Think Bilbo's might be longer![/quote] Its a cross I have to bear

[quote name='chris_b' post='1025696' date='Nov 16 2010, 11:53 AM']I guess even pop songs can be a challenge.[/quote] Have you [i]heard[/i] JCS? I Don't Know How To Love Him and the title track are easy enough, its the timing changes, sixteenth note grooves, slap etc etc. Its more like Opera than pop. Its not the PLAYING of it that is hard, its the reading of the charts!!

Three works for me. If its Close To The Edge, Supper's Ready and The Ring Of The Nibelung

I am doing a show next month; Jesus Christ Superstar, and got the charts through on the weekend. Spent some time with them yesterday and, 'kin 'ell, they're hard to read cold. I got there in the end but, flamin' Nora. I didn't know he had it in him!!

Poor - 120 in 2008, 50 in 2009, 40 in 2010 Better quality gigs, though so not all bad news!!

Try soloing on one string (and, no, I am not joking). Try soloing with just three notes (any octave but only three notes).You need to break some habits and free yourself. In order to do that you need boundaries.

That and the fact that paint/laquer etc usually covers second rate lumps of wood I think a little of it is that wood doesn't date quite the same as some coloured finsihes. And many people just have an aesthetic preference for wood - wooden tables, wooden beds, wooden doors, windows etc.

[quote name='lowdown' post='1019899' date='Nov 11 2010, 12:07 PM']No it's when the someone gets lost in 'So What'...[/quote] Someone [b]ALWAYS[/b] gets lost in 'So What'.....

Learning to read music does not require a 400 page tome but a short 'these are what the dots mean' explanation. THe difficulty (which is less so now) is finding source material to [i]practice[/i] reading. In my day, the books were full of Campdown Races, Franki and Johnny and excerpts from The Trout and had no value for me as a player then or now. Nowadasy there are more options (many transcriptions are on here). FOr instance, learning what each note means is easy. Take a blank sheet of music paper and write a series of notes in straight crotchets, four beats to the bar (i.e. no rhythms to read). Write out 8 bars of two notes, say A and B in a randon sequence (ABBAABAABABBAABABABBABABAABAB, for instance) - concentrate on reading those two notes alone until you get the 8 bars right (if you find you have learned the sequence, write out another one - you are learning to read, not to play this sequence of notes). Then Write out eight bars using only A, B and C. THen try 16 bars of A, B, C & D. and so on. I recommend you don't learn those mnemonics (All Cows Eat Grass etc) because they tie you into a process that slows you down. Just learn two notes, then add a third then a fourth and so on. You will be reading sraight crotchets in no time. Then you can start looking at reading rhythms after you know what the notes are.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1018953' date='Nov 10 2010, 04:30 PM']It's a harmonic minor with a sharp fourth, is it not?[/quote] A kind of bastardized Harmonic Minor/Blues Scale hybrid.....

Don't know it. But I think it is, in any event, unhelpful at the stage the OP is at to start throwing in obscure variations that are not common currency. Just looked it up. This scale is obtainable from the Arabic scale by starting from the fourth of that scale. Said another way, the C Hungarian minor scale is equivalent to the G Arabic scale. That's clear, then There's the Neopolitan Minor The Welsh Minor (deep and dirty)

That is a good cd but look for a Wynton Kelly cd called Blues On Purpose. It was recorded around the same time as the Smokin' lp and is really strong. PC does a 10 chorus solo (12-bar blues) that just lifts and lifts and has the audience really whippedu up and he takes it further that any other solo I have heard him play (and I have heard hundreds and hundreds)

Welcome. I had a Bath once.....

Sometimes but not often. I like hearing some of what's about in the genre but seldom buy any. For me, the tension arises from the fact that jazz is about the sound of surprise and funk is about repetition. As the repetition in jazz funk is primarily on the part of the rhythm section, I usually get frustrated quite quickly and look elsewhere. But there are exceptions.

[quote name='urb' post='1018688' date='Nov 10 2010, 12:43 PM']Looking forward to the London Jazz Fest Bilbo...? See you on Friday Cheers Mike[/quote] Absolutely - all set for the experience and really looking forward to it.