ambient

It's definitely the marmite of body shapes 😊.

I wouldn't have thought an inch would make much difference. I tend to do 99% of my playing from the 5th fret upwards. Low F I'd play at the 6th fret B string, F# 7th fret etc. I find that way more comfortable than playing the same notes on a 4 string.

I've got Funkifise too if you want it.

[quote name='AdamWoodBass' timestamp='1476660595' post='3156152'] This is all super useful and I'm definitely going to check out Notion. I've been battling with Sibelius and getting pretty frustrated with it but that's probably more a user interface thing than anything. I guess the general consensus then is that transcribing stuff is a big help in learning to read? [/quote] I've been battling with Sibelius for four years, it's not the most user friendly software.

[quote name='paul_c2' timestamp='1476643908' post='3155940'] Also worth mentioning, I believe (sight) reading music to play on bass guitar is a bit of a separate topic. I can never remember the acronym for the lines but the spaces are "All Cows Eat Grass". I started a thread about it because I wanted to improve too, I put a more complex example but the general guidelines and hints are universal, so would apply to simpler stuff. [/quote] Green buses drive fast always .

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1476642711' post='3155925'] Although I have to use Sibelius for work, I much prefer Notion since they introduced handwriting recognition. It works an absolute treat. You can use fingers or stylus for input of notes and articulations. I think it might have been you, Ambient, who was enquiring about this type of software last year sometime. If I remember right, it was Staffpad and Surface pro though? I take it you didn't go down that route? Notion is good for integrating between iPad iOS and the desktop version. Mac or PC. [/quote] Yeah, it was me. Someone posted something on Facebook, but it wasn't available on Mac, can't remember what the software was now. I want a new iPad, so this will definitely be something I'll look at getting. Thanks !

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1476642711' post='3155925'] Although I have to use Sibelius for work, I much prefer Notion since they introduced handwriting recognition. It works an absolute treat. You can use fingers or stylus for input of notes and articulations. I think it might have been you, Ambient, who was enquiring about this type of software last year sometime. If I remember right, it was Staffpad and Surface pro though? I take it you didn't go down that route? Notion is good for integrating between iPad iOS and the desktop version. Mac or PC. [/quote] A friend of mine was saying just the other day how good notion is. I use Sibelius because I got it free, and had to use it for my degree.

Sibelius, and sometimes pencil and paper.

I ditched all of my pedals about 6 months ago, and I'm now using a MacBook, soon to be replaced by an iPad .

I think he's a great bass player. Quite jazzy when he started. I was looking at his line to message in a bottle with a student a few weeks ago. Explaining how he used to double track his bass lines using electric and EUB or double bass. The Police were a great band, but he's done some amazing music solo, though his albums are sometimes a bit patchy. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWl45J8XI-E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWl45J8XI-E[/url]

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1476601542' post='3155454'] The Police, one of the best live bands I have ever seen. Saw them at the old Mayfair in Newcastle, not long after the first album came out, they were pretty much un known. Blew me away. No modern technology, no in ear monitors, no backing tracks. Just three good musicians with great songs playing off one another. Great harmonies, lots of jamming.and light and shade. Rekindled my love of music and inspired me to take up the bass. [/quote] One of my tutors at uni saw them while he was studying at Newcastle uni.

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I'm not too keen on the track off his new album that I keep hearing on Facebook.

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 !