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I'm pretty happy with my '91 Thumb tbh. If I could find a 5-er from the same year I'd be marginally happier - I know the old 5s were nice from playing them back in the day. I'd also like a sunburst Jazz with tort guard, rosewood board and mop block inlays. My first bass was a copy in the same style but it was horribly awfully sh*t. I'd like one that isn't. I did later have a US Jazz but that was sh*t too. Maybe I'm being unreasonable in my pursuit of a bass that looks nice but I probably won't like...

Glad you got it. It was one of the first "funk" basslines I learned when I was... 17? Luckily when I was 17 Gilles Peterson was telling everybody to listen to people like Roy Ayers so it was easy to find classic grooves like that one.

[code]g|-------3--555---|----------------| d|-----35-------54|3---11---------0| a|3---6-----------|-------3--1-----| e|----------------|------------3---| g|-------3--555---|----------------| d|-----35-------54|333-11---------0| a|3---6-----------|-------3-x1---1-| e|----------------|------------3---|[/code] The x is a mute note. Sometimes he only plays the one high 'C' rather than three of them, etc. I've spaced it so if you count the empty beats as semiquaver rests it should be easy to get the timing right. Just don't get confused thinking the bar line in the middle is a chord at the first fret.

[quote name='Rasta' post='286426' date='Sep 18 2008, 08:47 AM']Yeah...thats the tune....well funky...but how d'ya play it????? [/quote] Are you wanting tab for it or something? I could probably do that for you, but it's really easy to work out from listening to the intro. If you're officially giving up, say so and I'll knock up a tab.

I remember I went to see them when that album came out. I wasn't a fan particularly, I just went to see any band that came within range, but anyway yeah me and my girlfriend went along to see Rancid and the venue was full of 13-year-olds with their parents. So we left again. I think we ended up catching G Love & Special Sauce at a place just down the street so it wasn't so bad.

Expansions is all in a C blues scale. You should be able to cop it from the record easily enough - there's plenty of bass up front in the intro.

It seems there's a whole pile of "X Year Old Plays X" videos on the you tubes. What I want to see is the video of all the pushy parents having a punch-up.

[quote name='TheDarkReaver' post='285028' date='Sep 16 2008, 02:07 PM']Is it just me or is he always slightly off time? I mean good for a 9 year old, and I'm sure he'll become a great player, but he doesn't seem as prodigious as other young musicians I've seen.[/quote] He didn't seem like he was really digging the tunes. My money's on that little three-year-old dude on YouTube who can't play a note yet but has oodles of groove.

[quote name='BassManKev' post='284335' date='Sep 15 2008, 04:15 PM']i actually want a Bongo [/quote] People will see you playing it. Bear that in mind.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='284118' date='Sep 15 2008, 11:28 AM']I recommend learning piano yourself, if you can find the time. Not virtuoso stuff, just arrangers piano. Opens up a whole new world and makes you listen differently![/quote] I tend to write using keys rather than guitar or bass, partly because I don't really know what I'm doing on keys. So I find the notes in my head and try to find the chords I need and sometimes find I've got that wrong when I do pick up a bass, etc. But it means I have to do all the writing, there's no falling back on what my hands know. Of course one day when I've done this often enough I'm going to find I've learned to play keys and maybe I'll need a different instrument to write on, but hopefully I'll have learned enough about harmony by then to be able to write songs more easily. One downside of this process is when you then have to go to your guitarist and say "Yeah it's E minor 9, then B augmented... Yeah. Augmented. Yeah. I just found it on a keyboard. No you can't just play B..."

Sounds like time to write songs.

I'm having a retro morning while I clean my house and sort out my desk. Currently: Beastie Boys - Sure Shot.

For a bit of picking to syllable practice: The Cure - Love Cats The Specials - Blank Expression I used those to practice when I first started singing and playing at the same time. They're tricky to get right.

There's a close-up of Bernard's right hand at the start of this vid: [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQcOrqQLN8"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQcOrqQLN8[/url]

To be taken seriously in anything you do, you need to take it seriously yourself. If you're not willing to put in the hard work, you can't expect your adopted peer group to give you any credence. How can anyone claim to be an expert in a field that they haven't actually studied? I'm currently involved in another creative pursuit which I'm far too shy to discuss here because I haven't yet had any measurable success at it, but suffice to say that while I'm actually pretty good at it, I realise that I don't know nearly enough about the mechanics and theory of it, and that under professional scrutiny or even peer review I would look like quite the ignorant git despite my enthusiasm and good intentions. I'm studying part-time (formally - something I have never done with music [intended to in my teens, parents were having NONE of it!]) to support my efforts but also to avoid appearing to be a complete charlatan. That's sort-of accepted in some pop music circles, and all it does IMHO is devalue musicianship generally.

+1 for the Bilbo posts. -1, I'm afraid, for the bizarrely indignant, proudly ignorant respondents.

No love for Adrian Sherwood?

Most fun: Giant inflatable Fyffes' bananas. Least fun: Dousing the venue in TCP, wearing TCP as cologne, generally causing extremely strong TCP smells.

If you don't learn theory as you're learning to play the instrument you'll end up in a position where you can physically play the thing OK but you're constantly frustrated because you can't come up with anything [i]interesting[/i] to play. It might seem boring now, but it will save you from getting stuck in a very deep rut later.

I think Deeder only did the first two or three albums, then decided to pack music in and go do human rights work. Shame, although I feel a bit guilty saying that . His solo stuff isn't too hot either. I mean it's alright, but it's not ADF quality. Edit: No he definitely wasn't around in 2003, I think he left in 2000.