ambient

In 2 of my bands, I'm the youngest by well over 30 years, I'm 38. The eldest guy who's a jazz guitarist is 84, but he only plays occasionally, but when he does he's amazing.

You don't like Bartok ?

This was composed using the Fibonacci series. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNw_2auj1RQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNw_2auj1RQ[/url] An amazing piece of music.

I've been experimenting using magic number cubes and the Fibonacci sequence. Which is something we've been looking at on my uni course.

Yoga, and eat sensibly. Drink just water when gigging.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1458638044' post='3009219'] What a beautifully musical player. [/quote] That's what a lot of people miss though. They maybe see his 7 string bass and don't get past that. Who cares how many strings an instrument has? It's what's played on it.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1458505478' post='3008193'] In my opinion, there's one element that is missing from many (or all..?) of the methods and books out there: patience. It is impossible to learn all of it, all at once, in one go. While one is learning one aspect (any aspect...), it is obvious, really, that the other (many...) aspects will, as yet, be unknown. One has to take it on trust that the conceptor of the book or lesson has this in mind, and that the rest will, i time, be revealed. Meanwhile, patience is required; one risks going too far too fast, and not absorbing the 'meat' of the book (or lesson...). If true understanding is not the goal, then, of course, skipping through will give what it gives, but if more insight is the objective, one should put in the effort and trust that all will be well. Often, a different, complementary book can help, as there can be useful overlap between the systems. No instrument, and even less a whole subject such as Music, can be absorbed rapidly. As has been mentioned above, running is not as fast as walking and crawling can be the best way forward, quite often. Take your time; enjoy the journey. You'll get where you want to go all the quicker. Just my tuppence-worth. [/quote] Patience is a virtue, and vital in learning an instrument. It's also something totally lacking sometimes nowadays.

[quote name='Horizontalste' timestamp='1458486333' post='3007952'] If I were starting over again from scratch I'd concentrate mostly on ear training. Start simple with intervals & build on from there, music theory knowledge is necessary to some degree but not the be all and end all. If you have a good ear you can pretty much play whatever you hear in your mind with little theoretical knowledge & if it sounds good then who cares why it works. [/quote] What if it doesn't sound good ? If you know what you're playing, and what you're playing over then it should sound good. You should have a good all-round knowledge of harmony, and a 'good ear'. That's what makes a good all rounded musician. In my opinion of course.

A tutor at my old uni introduced me to him when he found out I liked ERB, I love his 7 string playing.

You can try too hard.

I hate it too, but I hate most pop songs. Just tell him you hate it, and suggest something less crap in its place. After all, why are you doing it ?

All the background stuff here is my 6 string bass played using an ebow. [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/14a"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/14a[/url]

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1458243534' post='3005983'] A few years ago I bought a Phil Jones cab from them which turned out to be many pounds heavier than given on their website. When I brought this up there was not a great deal of concern and no offer of redress. I sold it on soon after with a significant loss. Most of the time deals go through ok, but that's business. Would they let me have a £5k bass to gig on appro? Probably not, but the that's service. [/quote] I would always get that sort of information from the manufacturer. You could've sent it back though, especially given that the advertised weight was wrong.

Nice. I will definitely come and watch you some day. I think I saw you're playing at Sonik in June ? If so then so am I.

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1458081960' post='3004642'] Bizarrely enough, I was looking at Fractal Axe-FX the other day, if they have anything Bass-centric, they're certainly doing a good job of not advertising it. To m knowledge, none of the high end processors cater for the bass player. I think Multi FX for bass are very limited, so it really depends on what you want to use the unit for, will it be for amp modelling and some effects, or purely as an effects processor? How about the Line6 M9 / M13 effects modellers for pure effects processors? The Boss GT6B & GT10B are more reknown for their effects rather than amp modelling, where the B3 packs effects and amp models. There's always the Line6 HD500 / Firehawk options, though you may need to add the Bass Expansion pack to them, or you could track down a POD x3 which has both guitar & bass model's already loaded. [/quote] I've personally found that most guitar effects, though sometimes requiring a little bit of tweaking, actually work fine with bass. The Lexicon MPX G2 for instance, is a guitar effects unit that Steve Lawson has used for years, and sounds incredible. Don't get too hung up on the fact they're marketed at guitarists, try them and see.

Notes and also the chords. If you know the chords the you can always improvise a part.

Great, well done. I could never do anything like that. I woodwork class at school, I specialised in taking a large piece of wood, and ending up with some smaller oddly shaped pieces of wood. Same now too if I try diy.

An ebow is an amazing little and relatively cheap device for this sort of thing.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1457860360' post='3002319'] Like above, I think this would be a hard thing to conceal for a month and the seller probably had no knowledge. How many times have you had a vehicle break down with a major fault? How many times were you aware this was going to happen 4 weeks in advance? I bought a car a few years back, and within 2 weeks the cambelt snapped costing me over £1000 to repair the top end of the engine. Absolutely no way the seller could have known this would happen. If you're confident he did know, you'd have to prove it had been concealed somehow for the sale. Hoping it gets sorted. [/quote] My dad has been in the motor trade for 40 years. The very first thing he does when buying any new vehicle, and something I've heard him tell others dozens on times, is check when/if the cam belt has been changed. If there's nothing to say it has been, then change it straight away. It's a relatively minor and cheap thing that can save you msmy hundreds of pounds. I know absolutely nothing about cars, and got my fingers burned a few years ago when I bought a car on my own. Which was actually a really stupid thing considering my dad and 2 brothers are all mechanics. I would always take someone with me to look at the car, and to check it's history, even if you have to pay them something for their time.

I'd have thought a month was too long to elapse. Did you get it checked by a mechanic before buying it ?