JakeBrownBass

Is this the same guy who said Stuart Hamm couldn't keep time?

I can't say much about the bag in question but i got a double Mono m80 2 weeks ago and have been using it everyday for the past two weeks. The case itself is extremely light so if your carrying it on your back, its the weight of the basses that makes the difference.

Forget the bass playing, that drummers left hand on the hi-hat is insanely tight at those speeds!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1336675171' post='1649404'] Wow, I thought MJ was dead!! [/quote] So did i, imagine my surprise!!

[quote name='Stickman' timestamp='1336667965' post='1649256'] On a major chord the perfect 4th (or 11th) is regarded as an 'avoid' note as it clashes with the major 3rd. The #11 is considered quite a 'hip' note to play though so it is often substituted in its place. [/quote] +1 to this, if you play a perfect fourth in a chord, you essentially replace the 3rd.

Photo from last nights show.

A 4th is not part of a standard chord. As you start extending chords, they are simply different flavours to add. The 2 most important notes in a chord are the 3rd & 7th. These create the platform on which the extension to sit. So for example, a Cmaj9#11 in theory has C E G B D F# but in reality all those notes played together sound clumbsy so you'll find piano players with play just the C E B F# to get the sound, or some instances E B D F# and forget the root altogether and leave other players to take care of it.

Had a great gig last night. 2nd show with Tej'ai Sullivan on a Michael Jackson tribute tour. Played to a packed house and had great engineers throughout. Here's a picture looking onto the stage whilst setting up.

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Listen to the engineers & producer. They're there for this very reason. To guide you in decisions to get the best sound for a recording.

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1336389865' post='1644767'] Thanks, makes sense but I bet SWR are not best pleased about that! [/quote] If they're not happy about it surely it's their job to sort it out though, if they're not available it's not Marcus's fault.

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1336388064' post='1644731'] Saw him at Cheltenham Jazz on Saturday and agree with everything you say! One thing puzzled me though given that he launched the SWR Marcus Miller pre-amp last year how come he still uses EBS as you can clearly see in your pic? [/quote] He mentioned something about this at bass day but can't remember the exact details he said. I think it's something to do with hire companies in the UK have the EBS gear and not the SWR, so as he's had years with EBS he's still more than happy to use it if it's available.

Really nice playing on the mate, i've been ticking away at this for a while when i get chance and it really is a monster play. You do have a B string that your not really using, so when your playing the Ab after the run, why not try going to your 9th fret on that instead of having to make the massive jump back down to the 4th on the E.

[attachment=107044:Screen Shot 2012-05-05 at 20.25.43.png] Quick snap for OP.

It's Jerry Meehan playing bass if that helps in any way....

There's a guy on this forum who's taken this job already, i read it recently.

My rig for a Michael Jackson Tribute tour. Not quite as impressive as Alex Al's on This Is It but its getting the job done.

[quote name='MrTaff' timestamp='1335966899' post='1638754'] If that was true nobody would use it, it has the advantage of being much easier to read for new players and much more easily available than sheet music. As I said above, I'm not saying don't learn to read dots but for a typical sunday band there's more important things to learn, like playing by ear. I wonder how many new guitar and bass players would have started playing without tabs, there certainly seems to be more new players now than 10+ years ago when the only way to learn was to keep rewinding your cassette until you learnt the part. [/quote] TAB is only easier to read because that's what you've learnt.

[quote name='MrTaff' timestamp='1335964582' post='1638696'] Only if the person tabbing it was lazy [url="http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/anthrax/caught_in_a_mosh_ver3_btab.htm"]http://tabs.ultimate...h_ver3_btab.htm[/url] Shows timing and note length. [/quote] Your barking up the wrong tree mate. That is still just showing numbers that could mean absolutely anything. Written music is a way to communicate things that have been said between other musicians. Just as writing is communication between 2 people. That is the entire idea of it. Saying "5 on the bottom line to 3 on the 2nd line then the chorus starts on 1 on the first line' means absolutely NOTHING to anyone but you. Music is a language, not maths. Tab has absolutely no advantage over notation.

[quote name='MrTaff' timestamp='1335963276' post='1638664'] I'm not saying don't learn to read music but if you're playing in a typical sunday rock/metal/punk band don't expect to see many dots, being able to play by ear is much more important. What's missing from tabs that you get with dots? I find tabs are generally a good starting point, some are right, some a wrong but learning by ear doesn't guarantee you'll get it right either. [/quote] Note length, timing, articulation. All tab shows you is a number on the fret board, notation shows you music.

Your in the perfect situation to learn to read music. Its not hard, it's just practicing and keeping up on it. If you don't know how to read tab, don't learn. Your playing music so learn to read it. Reedingtabizlyketryingtoreedthissentense. Where as reading music is like reading this one. You get me?

I've browsed through the thread but in reply to the original question, the people that are holding the auditions in this instance choose the songs. The auditioning listens and does what they're told.

[quote name='Gordon 'Thudmaster' May' timestamp='1335712954' post='1634862'] [b]Would just like to say that I've had a couple of dealings with Thomann and both have ended up in tears![/b] [b]I wouldn't buy from them even if they were offering 'buy one get one free' [/b] [/quote] On the counter side, i've ordered loads through them and never had a single issue....

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1335703354' post='1634722'] Thanks guys! Generally we prefer to play with bands doing something vaguely similar to us, but TBH we've not really had a problem keeping audiences, even if it's just that they have to stick around to see what Mr Venom is going to do next as he strips down to stockings and panties and is out amongst the audience molesting them... [/quote] Yeah that's what i mean, can't see the typical crowd that go to Night & Day sticking around for that.