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If you bought one single string of the appropriate guage ( thinner than the high B ) then you could just remove the lower B , move the other five over and add the new highest as a high E , then tune like a regular guitar . Maybe . Maybe not .

Apparently when Jack Bruce was in Manfred Mann ( pre- Cream ) they were amazed that he could turn up to recording sessions unrehearsed . They concluded that the chord changes must have seemed obvious to him .

Analogue ? Superglue a small mirror / tinfoil to an old speaker ( maybe a car speaker ) and shoot cheap pen lasers at it .

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1465502051' post='3068873'] What made Milwaukee famous... [/quote] Its the only major American city to have ever voted in three socialist mayors . [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EAk5CA53Bc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=8EAk5CA53Bc[/url]

If you train horse with the whip , it becomes servile through fear . - Authority by Intimidation . If you train a horse by horse whispering methods , talking it;s own language , it wants to serve because you become it's friend . - Authority by Respect . The respect method tends to give better results .

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My background was percussion too . I had lessons from James Blades when I was a whippersnapper . Doing " A " level music at school I found the aural harmony and melody tests so difficult I taught myself piano and organ so that I could understand the theory better . Then when I left school I landed work 6 nights a week playing piano and copying for a Music Publishers during the day . Never played drums again . Now , coming back to music after a complete break for 25 years and trying to learn upright I get great enjoyment from picking a song I know on piano , reducing it to a bassline and trying to play it on upright whilst singing (and maybe ending at the same pitch I started ). The process has taught me more about music and what makes good songwriting in these last couple of years than I had learned in the previous 40 . Ukuleles are fun and inexpensive too.

Hmm, ... here comes a twopenneth : You can play and read percussion , play and learning to read bass , so how about taking up ( wait for it )........ vibraphone ? Understanding melody and harmony would compliment your rhythm and bass knowledge . Vibes is an unusual instrument nowadays and you already would intuit half the technique , the rest would grow with learning harmony and melody at your own pace . Just experiment with a harmony/melody instrument ,(even ukulele!) , till you find your own sound . - Plan B : get an upright .

I have noticed that " Kingston Town " goes down well with the French holidaymakers down here in Jersey . The UB40 cover was in the French charts for 25 weeks , including 3 at no. 1 .

Linseed oil based drying oils can be tinted with small amounts of linseed oil based artists' paint . A handy source of coloured wax ( for use after the drying oil has dried ) is shoe polish .

Ah yes . Dynamics ( George could hit a Rhodes hard when he wanted ) , and a Sense Of Humour . George said that Zappa "opened him up" to comedy , and the Duke/Cobham project was a vehicle for experimenting with that :- [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Azlcf5ruY[/media]

[quote name='joey1234' timestamp='1461147888' post='3031799'] hello all, thanks for the feedback. I suppose my question should have bee which jazz standards should I learn as someone who doesn't really know the genre back to front. For instance if I go to jazzstandards.com and look at the list of standards there are 300 songs listed ( I assume there are many more to be considered standards as well). I have mainly played, rock/blue/funk and of course original music in bands. So my knowledge of jazz is limited, in the above for instance someone mentions Autumn leaves so ill start there but any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for your time. joe [/quote] If you are familiar with the common 12-bar blues variations already then I would suggest getting a grasp of the Blues page of the Theory tab of jazzstandards.com , and then learn " Blue Monk " and " Girl Talk " . Once one understands the chord substitutions in the familiar 12-bar territory it makes it easier to see the patterns in further studies .

" The inside of the tune ( the bridge ) is the part that makes the outside sound good . " - Thelonious Monk

A taxidermist stuffs a dead animal and calls it a horse . A horse-whisperer talks to a live horse in it's own language . If we adopt for a moment the model that musical inspiration comes from something or somewhere labelled " the Muse " , then I have noticed that it's temperament is somewhat like a wild horse , or a fickle cat . One has to let it come to you (and not try to grasp it) , and talk to it in it's own language , until it feels safe and unthreatened and maybe wants to visit . The Muse prefers conducive atmospheres and openness . It feels excluded if the mind is full of judgemental thinking . It likes a sense of innocent play .In time it is possible to gain enough trust and friendship to be allowed to ride the capricious creature . This is so beyond the realm of the taxidermist / critical-thinking-self that it takes repeated practice to suspend the judgemental thinking in order to allow room for the inspiration . However , like a lot of skills , the more you practice the Muse-whispering the easier it gets . [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA"]https://www.youtube....h?v=86x-u-tz0MA[/url]

Could it have been Robert De Niro waiting in the queue , talking Italian ?

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1458025353' post='3003913'] Didn't Billy Joel do that one already? [/quote] It was all qoutes from Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful ( Part Three ) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIMNXogXnvE[/media] Norman Watt-Roy on bass . " Elvis and Scotty " refers to Scotty Moore , Elvis's guitarist , a big influence on later generations of guitarists such as George Harrison , Jeff Beck ,etc . Maybe ZZ Top were not in specsavers because they prefer cheap sunglasses .

Buddy Holly, Miss Molly, The Bolshoi Ballet, Nanny Goats ? Dominica camels, All other mammals ? Elvis and Scotty ? Wee Willie Harris ? Bantu Steven Biko , Harpo, Groucho , Chico ? Woody Allen , Dali , Domitri and Pascale , Adie Celentano , Bueno Colino ?

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Favourite ? Why this was until the karaoke pub next door to me adopted it :- [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqjoHKISCVU[/media] - Also the Little Joe Cook version of " Stormy Monday Blues " , which wasn't the real falsetto-singing leader Little Joe Cook of Little Joe & The Thrillers at all , but Chris Farlowe ( of the No.1 " Out Of Time " and the first release of " Handbags And Gladrags " fame ) using a pseudonym .

Cobalt Nightride . -ditto

[quote name='mike 110' timestamp='1457081513' post='2995047'] It was his cover of Soft Cell's Say Hello Wave Goodbye [/quote] Thanks .

I just did a quick search for " midi drums pattern android " and found this free one among others :- [url="http://slideme.org/application/drum-machine"]http://slideme.org/a...on/drum-machine[/url] Was that any help ?

I'm trying to remember which David Gray song it is that he quotes the beginning of Van Morrison's " Into The Mystic " in the outtro .He sings the line "We were born before the wind " etc .

The magic word to search for is ...... Ferrule

The old cat food bowl trick !