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This is her best stuff, for me (not really into funk and groove). [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0RnqqwaNvw[/media] Excuse the music stands .

A long reverb will do it.

I've got a transcription. Had to play it at uni. I just found the best thing was, like you say, to start slowly and build up to speed. We had some quiet detailed notes about the preparation, I'll try and find them. I remember it being incredibly hard, made worse by the drummers and guitarists playing it too fast. The tutors examining us had to stop the performances a few times and tell them to slow down.

I like her 'jazz' album with Matt Garrison.

I think I've maybe bought three copies in all the time that it's been out. One had John Patitucci in it, the other Steve Lawson. My friend writes for them, I bought one copy recently because she'd reviewed a Wal 6 string in it, so I bought it for that. I just don't find it particularly interesting. Chances are I've either never heard of the featured players, or am just not interested in them. The tuition pages, for me at least, are ridiculously basic. So there's really very little point in buying it.

I use a pair of Yamaha HS7s which are nice. I think the thing to do, is just get to know whatever you buy. When you mix something, listen back to it on a few other set-ups. That way you'll start to know how your monitors are biased.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1476471980' post='3154703'] I stopped off in Cleethorpes last February , en route to Scarborough. It was so bloody freezing I had to buy some extra clothing. It was also pretty deserted. I loved it. I sat in a really nice fish restaurant and had fish n chips completely on my own. All the funfairs etc were closed. It had a wonderful ghostly atmosphere. I love English seaside towns in winter. [/quote] I love that coast. My grandparents lived in Lincolnshire, my parents had a caravan in a place called Market Deeping, ideal for exploring all around. A cool place was somewhere called Gedney Drove End, absolutely nothing there !

[quote name='borntohang' timestamp='1476455834' post='3154509'] Could be worse, could be Cleethorpes. A seaside town which only has the sea for two hours a day and whose motto translates as "Sometimes Better Than Dying". And lies. Had some grim times in Northern seaside towns, bless em all. Back in the eighties my dad spent one January in Blackpool on a training course with no car; by the second weekend he was reduced to trying to buy a lad's bike off him so he could cycle down to Liverpool for a night. [/quote] I went to Cleethorpe once as a child. The sea was there when we arrived, we went and had something to eat, maybe taking 30 minutes or so, came out and the sea had vanished !

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1476446511' post='3154384'] Plenty would say that's a good thing! [/quote] I meant getting out 😊.

Playing a 5 or in my case a 6 string does make reading a whole lot easier. I tend to do most of my playing from the 5th fret upwards. So low F I'd play at the 6th fret on the B etc. It's easy then to play Ds and Es on the G string, they right below you.

I played at the Butlins at minehead at few years ago. That was quite enjoyable. My nan used to live in Lincolnshire. It was cold even in the summer, winter it was like Siberia. Mainly because that's where the wind blew from 😊. The main problem with Skegness is the lack of motorway there.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1476397640' post='3154053'] OMG, funny stuff. Finally British humour that doesn't go over my head. Blue [/quote] Glad you like it .

[quote name='paul_c2' timestamp='1476396879' post='3154047'] Look at the example provided, it goes into G harmonic minor, then later Bb minor. Yes there is no key signature change so its not a notated "key change", instead its written with no key signature (when its clearly not in C major/A minor) and uses accidentals to show the modulation. This is normal, if that modulation/chord/whatever only lasts a few bars - as chords do in this kind of music. It deliberately uses non-diatonic and sometimes distantly-related changes for dramatic effect. [/quote] Harmonic minor doesn't have a key sig, so you'd only get accidentals. Yes, you're right about short, maybe 1 or 2 bar sections. What I'm saying is if there's a key change, then you'd get, or expect to get a double bar line followed by the new key sig. If I was given that to read, then I'd put exclamation marks around bits like that, to show them. Do whatever to not miss them when they came up. I remember my tutor at uni saying "don't be afraid to pencil in".

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1476395045' post='3154028'] Ok guys, most know I'm a Yankee. What is a holiday camp? Blue [/quote] This is a holiday camp. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOag3Fcig_Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOag3Fcig_Y[/url]

[quote name='paul_c2' timestamp='1476359632' post='3153602'] Great, thanks for the tips. I guess its down to 1) Recognising the accidentals quickly enough to see if its just a passing note, or a modulation into another key which could help out with reading it 2) a SOLID knowledge of scales, ie knowing all the positions and all the patterns so you know without thinking too hard, where to place your hand and what notes fall under what fingers, quickly. For example here: [attachment=229816:star wars music extract.jpg] bar 76 is G harmonic minor and bars 126-128 is Bb natural minor, but best done at the 8th fret and shift for the final Bb onto 6th fret E string (or a bit earlier if you want to). The rest is pretty easy. [/quote] If there's a key change you'll have a double bar line, then the new key sig.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1476377159' post='3153820'] Very good point this. I`m similar but with Jazzes, I love the sound of them except when I play them. I`ve had numerous Jazz basses and sold them on, sometimes you have to accept that a particular type of instrument just doesn`t work for you, even though they sound great when played by others. [/quote] I've tried jazzes, Ps and musicman. None work for me. A friend used to have a really old stingray that sounded great when he played it, but rubbish when I picked it up.

Maybe you don't like how [i]you[/i] sound on a P bass ? I was talking to a friend a coupe of days ago. He loves jazz basses, I always sound rubbish on them. You were hearing another guy play one remember, you liked how [i]he[/i] sounded on it.

[quote name='danonearth' timestamp='1476311278' post='3153332'] Ah, yes... I forgot the b5 on the 7th Ok, got it! I think I am confusing the difference between minor 7 and dominant 7 - my friend told me the dominant 7 was a b7 - but I am using it wrong in this sense... I understand now I should have used minor 7th (as you did! Thanks! [/quote] The dominant 7 is a b7. It's maybe what's confusing you. The chord built on the 5th degree of the scale is called a dominant 7 chord. It has a major 3rd and a b7. If you play it as a 7 chord, it's called a dominant 7 chord, as a triad it'd be a major triad.

If you're harmonising a scale, it goes major 7, minor 7, minor 7, major 7, dominant 7, minor 7, minor 7b5, then back to major 7 on the octave. The only dominant 7 is on the fifth of the scale. The others are called minor 7s (except the 4th major 7).

Take time to read through it first. Don't be afraid to pencil in notes and circle things. Pencil in specs and exclamation marks, anything basically as an aid beforehand.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1476191086' post='3152119'] The Boss LS-2 will split the signal for an fx loop for the laptop, give you individual level controls for each channel and mix to a single output for the bass amp. [/quote] [quote name='Byo' timestamp='1476195091' post='3152175'] +1 [/quote] Brilliant, thanks .

[quote name='Lightlyseared' timestamp='1476226343' post='3152577'] Just looked - it may just be the site but I can only see Dingwall sets - presumably multi scale? [/quote] I think there's a header missing. The first 6 are Dingwall, then there's a space, and more are listed. I think they're for other basses. Drop them an email, see what they say.