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BassTractor

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  1. AFAIK there's only one effective routine. Possible important caveats below. - Take one song at a time, and do NOT play all through it as a practice routine. Initially rather spend time on repeated listening - first to the song as a whole, and then intentively to the bass line and its intricacies. - Learn every section thoroughly before connecting the sections. - Do not practise for speed. Rather the opposite! Practise for precision and for effectiveness in your movements. Speed is the freebie. In this, practise by repeating correct notes with correct fingering. This is how one programs the brain. Repeating errors is training the brain for errors, and this is part of the practising slowly bit. - Do not learn a few songs and repeatedly play them whilst learning the next one. You'll use a lot of time this way, and in the end you'll have a set of songs you know by heart and a set of songs you never learned well. Rather program your brain for one song at a time, and when all songs are done that way, revisit every song and augment its quality. Caveats: - IME the practice routine depends a lot also on how demanding the stuff is. If the band has relatively easy material, I'd start with the song that seems the most difficult. Things learned learning that song make the time spent on consecutive songs shorter. Conversely, if the stuff is demanding, then start with the least demanding ones so as to build up a certain acquaintance with the typical intricacies you're going to meet. - I'm writing as a classical musician who's done some jazz and a little rock. This background may be a bit wrong for the music you're learning, but me adopting above practice routine has made I can still play through some relatively demanding pieces well over 30 years after I last touched them - partly by heart.
  2. Venice Beach? VENICE BEACH? That's 5,500 miles off topic !
  3. [quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1497303357' post='3317225'] They weren't really anything to do with Canterbury, although Dave Stewart joined Hatfield and the North some years later. Think they were all London boys. [/quote] Oops! Sorry for that bit of misinformation, and thanks for the correction.
  4. [quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1497284453' post='3317030'] Kinda spooky you mention the band Egg. 2 of my friends were both members of that band at different times, and i also have their first 2 CD's, which were Albumen and Travelator. I've also jammed with the Scott brothers who were founding members of Egg [/quote] Cool! Not that spooky though, considering your Egg is still fresh, whilst mine is excruciatingly rotten (for the uninitiated, Fleabag's Egg is from Oxford and still active, whilst mine had one or some member(s) from the Canterbury area and became defunct in the early 70s).
  5. [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] Cricket ground? OK, but now back on topic: [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8tozNBVHk[/media]
  6. [quote name='Rich' timestamp='1497178171' post='3316280'] You soulless old buggers [/quote] Hey..! Less of the 'You', if you don't mind..! ... ...
  7. [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1496053191' post='3308368'] Played properly there's nothing wrong with any of the songs mentioned so far. But that's the problem. They are very rarely played properly. [/quote] This hits the nail on its head, I think.
  8. Good man. The world needs more TractorBass.
  9. [quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1495816666' post='3306864'] It's gonna hate w***el Rotary Engine, then. [/quote] Also, thanks for explaining "sw***y" for me. I really had no idea what word was meant. Will look it up.
  10. Shhh... Peaceful.
  11. [quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1495519562' post='3304316'] that and Yes - Fragile, and THAT song. My older mate pinched the LP from his older brother and I asked what instrument was making that sound, 'that's a bass guitar" he said [/quote] Do you mean The Fish or Roundabout? Or something else? I'd assume The Fish, but as it happens, for me personally Roundabout was the eye-opener (as a single, and before the album was released in Holland).
  12. [i][b]Start[/b][/i] playing? Baroque, or more specifically: only Bach. But then electronic music came along, as well as prog and jazzrock, and pop and punk and... ...and it made me not stop playing.
  13. [quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1494705801' post='3298078'] the E word we're not allowed to mention here. [/quote] Er... that's not a Porsche! That's a Jaguar, and thus safe to mention! "Exit"... avec chapeau.
  14. You nailed it.
  15. [quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1492948792' post='3284285'] Winging a Yes song [/quote] Oh the Silent Freedom of Winging!
  16. As a customer: 1 - Physical medium if possible - preferably CD or DVD/BluRay music formats. Vinyl if must. If it's an artist I wish to support extra, I'll buy the downloads in addition. 2 - Downloads if must. 3 - No streaming ever.
  17. [quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1490206683' post='3263266'] It's the old one of getting you to click a link. [/quote] Ah. Thanks!
  18. Thanks! Is the point here that they want you to click on a link, as usual, or is there a new element or principle in this one?
  19. [quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1488554169' post='3249996'] Butthole Surfers [/quote] Good call, and one that reminded me of another love of mine, though one that has seen some mention on these boards: Flux of Pink Indians.
  20. Bach --> Penderecki --> Squire --> bass.
  21. [quote name='mateusz' timestamp='1487607167' post='3241150'] listen .. I put post because I fight with this man for 3 weeks. I was looking for help on the internet can someone also was cheated by him. flocks of my new account. I'm not a fan of guitars and audiophile equipment. my amplifier cost the 1,050 euros and I did not receive it from this man. [/quote] OK, and I apologise. This post sounds very reasonable. I now see English is not your first language, but initially went wrong when I thought that your first posts were written by someone with a great command over the English language who just tried to copy the style of a foreigner. all the best, bert
  22. Gearslutz is actually a British forum and has a sales section. However, its main membership seems to be Mercan plus worldwide, so you'd have to somehow filter any search results. Dunno whether the forum software offers this type of filtering. I also wonder whether the Sound on Sound forum has a sales section. Good luck!
  23. [quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1487596455' post='3241003'] you need to be prepared for a certain degree of transparency IMO. [/quote] Transparency is good, and I'm all for it, BUT this is a forum where everybody can be expected to have strong opinions about every aspect, as evidenced in the past - especially when the fee was installed. Transparency soon becomes a Weapon of Mass Forum Death - so to speak hyperbolically. My old firm f.x. was extremely transparent, but its own forum was totally not. Practical reasons as well as principles.
  24. Er... Mateusz made his BC account yesterday and within two hours wrote his first post in this thread. How can he have been scammed by the Germans in the mean time? I ask you... I mean everybody knows the Germans are meticulous, and would never take just one hour to scam people. Seriously though, i feel it's safe to assume the Mateusz account was made as some sort of a joke or scam. I for one don't believe for one second that what is said really happened, and would rather believe the "Mateusz" account to be a new account for the Gearmans character or a friend - for example.
  25. Horslips and Gordon Giltrap were known to some in Holland - AFAIK only to music afficionados, who'd tend to know much more music than the average radio listener. Both were however played on the radio to some degree. Me, I owned Giltrap's album "Perilous Journey", which AFAIK was the first album of his that got any attention in Holland. As to my own: [b]Mo[/b] (I disbelieve the WP claim they're called "The Mo"). I've posted them here before. This is something as odd as post new-wave pop with prog leanings and a bassoon instead of a bass. They were not on a regular record contract, but Philips had a backdoor for tiny acts, on their Backdoor label of course, and the band thusly were given three chances to release an album. When, finally, a CD was released (24 tracks - 8 from each album), and I ordered it a few years later, the record company reacted: "What? That's the first time someone's ordered that CD!" [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEozWmF_YMw[/media]
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