Mr Fretbuzz

Bummer my bulb has gone after 2 months...... if its a conventional bulb and its just a matter of unscrewing the 4 philips screws, slotting out the amp from its surround and popping in a new bulb, I can do that..... but if its soldering something, I'll have to take it to an electricians or tv repair shop or something

Strange but true Its sounding great with just the front pick-up, playing over it... Well worth two hundred quid even if you do have to think like a German off is on and all that

Welcome Joe from another Paul down the M4 :-)

Arrived yesterday..I'm using solo with bass and trebble off which seems to mean both pick ups working. Didn't like the sound fingering off the bridge pick up so I'm fingering off the neck pick up and it sounded ok. ... Some fret noise and I guess more mid range sounding than my P Bass ... Sounded good playing I can't explain by the who but not good playing Honkey Tonk women by the stones. Played it on my ashdown mag head with mids turned up a little, half over drive, and half sub-harmonics, half compression.... 4x10 cab with tweeter

As an experiment I put my first set of strings on my squire P yesterday...ernie ball slinkies, all went well but haven't heard them yet...... So I'll be able to take a good look at this thread and pick some strings for my fender....not sure about flats yet though :-0

Whats O Level German for "Come to Daddy".... something like Comm zu Vater

Ah, now it's becoming clearer why they are mostly in E.

Thanks guys..I'm learning to transpose by looking at key charts so that's good :-)

Only met the guys once and they seem ok and the good thing is that they are willing to give a newbie a chance... Unless they're desperate :-). Yep, had some experience tonight of working out how to change the notes so all is good so far :-) I'm sure I'll learn a lot ..it will all be experience, good and bad

Eh lol :-)

Funny you should say that :-) I'm just putting it down to gaining band experience and maybe at some stage I'll pinch the drummer and find another guitarist :-) Hopefully I'll get to play a note before it all goes tits up :-0

Well I'm in my first Band and haven't played a note yet. The guitarist gives me his set list of 11 songs, says something like he doesn't want to be a tribute band and wants to play them his way. So he scribbles the Keys against each. I go away and try and find some tab for them. Most of them are in the wrong key. I find a great tab for Green Onions on Songsterr and it's in Fm . He's got E on my sheet so I suggest to the drummer it would be good if we change to F. I'm a bit concerned about open Es ringing out forever on my P Bass. The reply from the guitarist is no, it's in E because the next song on the list is in E too!! WTF Anyhow I've transposed it to Em and added some fretted notes to stop the open E ringing. He can play in E maj if he wants lol . I guess I don't mind changing within a min or maj scale but changing outside that I dunno... I doubt he'll hear the difference anyway as he'll only be able to hear his guitar :-0

Thanks guys and to gelfin for sorting it out and for letting me have a go on his Rickie :-) Great to meet you all and to hear 15 inch cabs as I'm just about to get one as a second cab :-)

I'm really looking forward to being in my Band. So far I've just met the two guys for a coffee, seemed to be good guys, good chat , enthusiastic , looking for a bit of fun, and happy to give a newbie bass player a go with no pressure. :-)

Cool Deb, unless someone else has flats on their bass and can save you lugging it :-)

I saw some tab, it was like sixteenth triplets from say fret 24 down to 1 :-0

Well I'm out of the bedroom and in my first band, a Mod Band. Met the guys last night and I'm in. Got to put my leathers and Harley aside for a while and get a Tonic Suit Got a set list of 12 pieces but most are really obscure eg Slim Harpo and I can't find the TAB anywhere to be able to make a start. I thought that was some kind of cleaning product. Thing is that the guitarist says they don't want to be a tribute band and they want to play it their own way. Along the side of the list he has put the key he wants the pieces in. One is Green Onions by Booker T..he has put E alongside it. The tab I've found is mostly F on the E string so I guess thats in F? I'm happy to play the difficult stuff easier if I can ..eg Who stuff where I'll not be able to play like the Ox after 9 months obviously. So guys, do I learn the tab I can find which is the right way to play the piece, sound great and let the guitarist sound crap? Am I starting to think like a Bass player ... or throw everything out of the window, play the wrong way, sound iffy and hide at the back behind my Rig? How do you change a piece in tab for one key to another?.... keep the same finger pattern but start it on a different fret and/or work out the note relationship? I'm in deep

I've only got one pedal...... So far :-) It's an Ashdown LoMenzo and it's great fun :-D

I've been looking for a lot of tab lately. I've got songster and found some free stuff on ultimate guitar. Found this one too..... I posted the strangers tab link on another posting. Know of any others? http://www.bigbasstabs.com/

Nice, a 115 T is my next purchase :-)

PS I would like to have a go at some flat wounds...don't know how they feel or sound...... Want to see and hear the Rickenbacker too :-)

I've bought some earnie ball slinkies for my squire P bass but only as an experiment in changing the strings for the first time. If I get it right, then I'll get some good strings for my Fender P Bass.... Maybe elixirs as they seem to have a good write up but I've never tried flats and don't know how they'd feel different to playing with round wound ..l don't know how different they'd sound either but the plan is to get the best sounding playing strings for the fender P but I'm not sure if that is like looking for the holy grail?

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1352120554' post='1858902'] You're new around here, aren't you? OK everybody, tin hats on; you know the drill. [/quote] LMFAO :-)

It was naff :-(

I had a day just like that yesterday ... Trouble was it was my Grade exam :-( Why couldn't it have been the day before....