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Everyone has on opinion, and is entitled to share it. However sometimes it may be best to keep it to yourself. People do have feelings after all. Just because someone makes a mistake, that shouldn't entitle someone else to use that mistake as a basis to criticise someone, or make fun of them. If you do share your opinion, and the result is that you upset someone, then you should be prepared to apologise for that. There's someone on here who I'm ignoring at the moment, he used an error of mine as the basis for a smart and sarcastic post. He obviously thought himself too clever to apologise.

Mine directs you to my bandcamp and soundcloud etc. Sell via bandcamp, it's free, easy to use and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's used by a lot of guys like Steve Lawson for example. You can sell merch on there as well as CDs and digital.

Have you heard of the band Rothko ? They were 2 sometimes 3 bassists. What I do here is solo bass, I've also done some with another bassist too, I'm always looking for collaborations, and playing in a band situation would be great, you're maybe a bit far away though. [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend[/url]

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1434536546' post='2800482'] W150615 is born... ...available to pick up in two weeks time [/quote] I've never seen a 6 string Wal before, that looks amazing !

I used amazon, I don't remember paying anything extra. I'm buying something new soon, but I'm waiting a few days to see if the exchange rate drops in my favour.

Is the auto tune for effect ?

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1435487139' post='2809165'] Independent, Telegraph and Guardian seemed to love it... [/quote] The review I saw in the Guardian gave it 3 stars, that doesn't show much love to me.

Something I learned at uni was to play intervals through the scale, start with 3rd's, then 4th's, 5th's etc. That's a nice exercise.

Has anyone had a problem getting insurance because they are musicians ? When I was getting car insurance quotes last year, the prices were prohibitive when I said my profession was musician, but came right down when I said teacher.

Michael Manring. He has to be the most inventive and creative bassist/musicians in the last 25 years or so. He does play 'real bass' too.

This is an improvisation to a tape loop played on my Revox A77. [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/27062015a"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/27062015a[/url]

I've tried a these a couple of times. They're great looking straps, but in my opinion badly thought out. Way, way too long, even the shortest ones. They're also quite slippery on your shoulder.

My single bass, and macbook are included with my mom and dad's house contents insurance, as an added extra. They are covered outside the house, that's usually why people have them. It didn't cost much extra to include them, but I had to provide all details, serial numbers etc. I also get insurance from the MU.

Looks a good idea. Maybe a bit shortsighted not doing a 6 string bass model though ?

Do you have backups for the backups ? Now that would be OCD 😁 Computer and recording stuff yes, anything else no. It'd be too much to carry around and store, and too expensive. I saw a photo on Peter Gabriel's Facebook page yesterday, he runs 3 backup hard drives whilst recording.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1435150868' post='2805948'] Who need a record deal when you can just do it all yourself [/quote] Exactly 😁

Doesn't the Warwick Thumb have 26 fret ? I had a fretless Tom Clement 6 string last year that would have had 26 frets. My Modulus is amazing for playing harmonics, I think it's to do with the carbon fibre neck, I've heard that Status are good too.

I have a new 7 track album out at the end of the month. It's going to be available as a download from iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp etc. For the fist time it will also be available on a CD too. It will come with some really nice artwork, including a hand printed CD wallet, and a bonus digital download. There will also be a special deluxe package. This will include the CD, a load of extra artwork, and also pages and pages of notes detailing the recording and background to what I do, and also my philosophy towards music and art. The deluxe version also includes full transcriptions of each of the seven pieces of music on the album, and also notes on the recording and playing process for each one. The transcriptions each average about 20 pages, so this is quite a package. The deluxe comes in a bespoke display binder. This is the culmination of many hundreds of hours of work, and is something that I am extremely proud of. All will be available from either my website, or from Bandcamp.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1435072407' post='2805128'] So what was the 'p' symbol for? [/quote] Well the p stands for pence, the 0 before the decimal point would be pounds, pretty obvious to me, but I'm obviously a bit dim. I wouldn't go around quoting other members posts, and leaving pedantic and condescending replies that may cause offence though. I've opted to ignore your posts by the way

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1435053149' post='2804896'] Marillion pioneered the crowd funding idea. [url="https://www.virgin.com/music/how-marillion-pioneered-crowdfunding-in-music"]https://www.virgin.c...unding-in-music[/url] One of the bass players here has done it too but I'd have to do a long search. [/quote] I was about to say this, you beat me to it.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1435061473' post='2804991'] [i][b]Exercise 1.[/b][/i] Q. Multiply 0.0004p by 1000. A. 0.4p [i][b]Exercise 2.[/b][/i] Q. Multiply £0.0004 by 1000. A. £0.4 which is also known as 40p. [i][b]Exercise 3.[/b][/i] Learn to distinguish between pounds and pennies, especially if you hope to earn a living from music. [/quote] Your reply comes across as rather condescending. But thanks for thinking my rubbish would get 100, 000 plays though

Just try your regular string for a day or two ? I don't use concert tuning, I'm not quite as low as you though, but have never found the strings too floppy, depends on how hard you play though I guess.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1435048063' post='2804848'] You've had 100,000 plays on Spotify? [/quote] 1000, that's since last year though. Coming up to 4000 on soundcloud.

Not a bass line per se, but bass never the less, and very, very beautiful. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7IofD4lSq0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7IofD4lSq0[/url]