ambient

Anything by the Beatles. Anything by the Rolling Stones. Anything by Stereophonics. Anything by ZZ Top. Anything that comes under the description of 'classic rock', particularly Deep purple, Thin Lizzy, Free, Queen. Then also - Long train running. You really got me. Proud Mary. Sex on fire. Mustang Sally. All right now (god, do I hate that !). Brown eyed girl. Moondance (no, it's not jazz). Mr Brightside. Play that funky music. Superstitious. Summer of 69. Car wash. There's a whole toad to be honest .

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1451492573' post='2940955'] Quite. But which are the ones everyone knows? The pop tunes. Playing blues in E gets boring fairly quickly. [/quote] Knocking on heaven's door. Wild thing. You really got me. Sweet home Alabama. I saw her standing there. Mustang Sally. Long train running. Proud Mary. Most early Stones songs.

I remember seeing a book a few years ago. Called something like play these tunes with just 3 chords.

Pretty much any blues or blues based song will just have 3 chords I IV V7. There's literally hundreds of them.

They make some nice stuff. I use Kontakt 5 for my Spitfire Audio sample libraries.That came with a whole host of stuff that I haven't gotten around to using yet.

If you go for the gun case then be careful at train stations 😊.

You see the same on here though. There's a particular bass that's for sale at the moment, if you search through the sales adverts you'll see its been sold a couple of times before, (or one has that looks very, very similar), for a lot, lot less. Probably why it's still for sale.

It works fine on my iphone.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1450966703' post='2937461'] Trad? Never! Just conjures up images of cardigans, Brylcreem and Hush Puppies. Dixieland, with the likes of Kid Ory and King Oliver, every time. [/quote] I kind of thought that Trad was Dixieland, or at least the English take on it ? Either is fine by me. I'll happily play 'When the saints go marching in', over 'Summer of 69' or 'Sex on fire' .

It's certainly an awkward, and potentially an unpleasant situation. Personally, I'm pretty rubbish at this sort of thing, I prefer to just play for bands, rather than joining them. I would absolutely hate to be sax number 1, and find that I'm out of the band. He obviously seems to enjoy it, even though he has other things on. It seems to me at least, that the band isn't really a 'serious' thing, though I may be wrong. So could it not be more of a collective of musicians rather than a band ? So whoever can make it to a rehearsal or gig does, and if they can't, then they can't. The 2 saxes can work things out between them, as to who plays what, and when. It is Christmas too .

[quote name='AinsleyWalker' timestamp='1450987513' post='2937710'] Either I'm looking at the wrong thing but Session 1 includes two files. One is sheet music and one is a track... The whole point is that I can't read yet, so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to progress from there... [/quote] Lessons are a good idea. I good teacher should have a few different ways to explain something. It needn't be a bass teacher, I learned loads at uni from guys who were primarily pianists.

I played a few trad jazz gigs a couple of years ago. They were actually quite good fun.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1450817344' post='2936199'] [url="https://www.instagram.com/p/979Ec4kbhH/"]https://www.instagra...m/p/979Ec4kbhH/[/url] [/quote] That's quite a nice one. Some try too hard to be 'different', and fail quite miserably.

There are lots of very ugly ones out there. Some look very, very strange.The only ones I like are the Fodera models.

What has going to grammar school got to do with being working class or otherwise ? I wouldn't personally describe McCartney as having had a middle class upbringing.

I don't write songs, only music. I also don't use real titles any more, but when I did, I used to use titles that the music reminded me of. One piece the melody seemed to be saying 'Such a lonely place', so that was the title. Sometimes I'd name them after what my influence for the track was. I did a piece last year, the idea came to me while sheltering from a storm, I called it 'A moment of peace, after the rain'. Others have been quotes from books that I've been reading, words that I've seen while travelling around.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1450703614' post='2934971'] Like other things some will always achieve their potential much quicker than others. Graham Gouldman was writing hits for other people when he was in his teens. Lennon & McCartney had a bit of an apprenticeship but still can't have been at it for all that long by the time they were knocking out stuff that topped the charts then and is still covered to this day. Sorry I'm derailing the thread a little here. I think I listed my xmas faves around this time last year anyway... [/quote] It's a derailment but an interesting one 😊.

Interesting to see others with similar DIY skills to myself 😊.

Unusually not featuring any bass whatsoever . The three tracks here are mostly synth based, with some treated electric guitar, and the odd bit of violin and cello. [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/ambient3"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/ambient3[/url] [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/ambient2"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/ambient2[/url] [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/ambient1"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/ambient1[/url]

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