tauzero

Certain types of bassline go with certain types of music. Country, for example, is very much root-5th dominated (and is handy for other music forms where you haven't quite worked out what to do but want to add a little variation). "Saw her standing there" uses a variant on a walking bass line, which generally takes the form root-3rd-5th and then either 3rd-root or 6th-flat 7th and back down. Someone has written a treatise on the walking bassline with all the rules about what you can and can't do, and it gets quite mind-boggling, so I just stick with the simple variants. Anyway, that will serve for most blues songs. Note: Folsom Prison Blues is a country song, I've heard it played with the bassist (who is a guitarist who owns a bass) doing a walking bass line and it sounds utterly shit. The basic pentatonic square is a useful device - root, 4th, 5th, flat 7th, octave. Dropping the 9th in after the octave as a passing note can be effective too. Transition from major to relative minor (eg C to Am) - drop in the 7th as a passing note, so C B A in that case. The more strings you have, the more chances you have to look flash by playing the same thing in different places on the fretboard. Sliding up an octave and then doing a fill on the pentatonic square is guaranteed to impress (as long as you hit the octave).

The only MIDI signals that Zoom document are PC, values 0-100.

You could always add a comment to the Youtube video asking her for her settings.

Might be feasible to change it to a 3+3. I'm sure he of the Perfect Balance bass could do it easily. Ideally, of course, the headstock would go entirely. Strip off the paint, slim down the horns a bit as well and you could have quite a good looking bass.

FTFY

Hang on till New Year's Eve, then you've got a clear run at 2025 and you'll have done 99.7% of 2024.

The three five-strings are fine although the one I defretted has a rather short top horn (it's like the dragon one with a Thumb-length top horn), the 7-string had pickups that only worked across 6 strings (now replaced) and a rubbish nut (I shimmed it up as a temporary fix, still have to get round to sorting it out properly).

It's working now.

I have a 5-string which has been somewhat neglected despite having a superb neck, as good as my Seis. As it's not a headless, it's been getting somewhat neglected for a few years - first because I was playing fretless, then because I was using various headlesses. So it got taken out to the last gig I did and did the first set. It's an Antoniotsai with upgraded pickups and preamp (photographed prior to the upgrade).

Find the most comfortable neck that you can. Bonus tips: Experiment with alternative fingering positions Stick with the 5 Everybody will have different approaches - mine is that I base fingering around the 5th fret. That's not to say I don't go below or above it though, it's just the "home" position.

Brim full of Asia on a 45?

Please hurry up and do and dust it, I'm not getting any younger. I'm a bit worried about starting any long books these days and the thought of waiting years for a bass would give me the heebie-jeebies, so I'd like it all to make sense sooner rather than later.

Mine too, and that's after having supported them. I remember the Strawbs much better, and we supported them at the same venue a few weeks before.

Wait until you've had a bit of back and forth before leaving negative feedback. They've done their side of things and sent the cab, it's got to you, so I'd say the worst you could do is leave neutral feedback.

Funky Gibbon?

Had a reply from him, should have posted this sooner. So no volume or tone on the instrument. Looking tat the pictures again, the output socket looks like it's halfway along the body on the underside. And apparently it's awesome (the seller may have read one too many copies of Motorcycle News).

Either write a description yourself or nick somebody else's description of something similar and change the wording slightly. Auto-generated descriptions are not only dreadful but also show you can't even be arsed to do a copy and paste.

Generally I'm not a great fan of painted basses (especially for me, as I'd be petrified of chipping the paint) and I love my natural Warwicks. This is really beautifully done and very unusual. I think the scratchplate sets it off nicely.

FTFY

Although Jools Mk I is still running with full-on boogie-woogie.

How do you think the established boutique companies start?

OTOH, it is mint - like a Polo.

Plus the other two for the thumbrest.

Ah, you're actually an AI from the 1960s aren't you?

I read the "i" as "l" at first.