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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]

Kind of odd the way the greatest players generally use simple set ups, passive fenders etc, and still manage to sound, well amazing, yet always different to the next guy. 😁

From what I read in the guardian today, there's more to this, it's just one part of the story. It's true they're not going to pay for the first quarter, but they pay more afterwards, so you're maybe better off in the long run ? Spotify pay me 0.0004p per play. They currently owe me 40p that I can't withdraw because the amount is below the minimum withdrawal limit. That's an awful lot of plays to get 40p, how many other 40p's are they sitting on around the world ?

It's all the problem of the word 'tone'. Tone as in sound, as in what makes you sound like you. It's a mix of gear, obviously, a Jazz bass sounds like a jazz bass, and a P bass sounds like one of them, a fretless sounds like a fretless and Stingray sounds like it does. Then comes the hard to define part of what really makes you sound like you, the articulation in your playing. That's how you play, the force that you strike the string with, the angle that you engage it with, the part of the finger that makes contact with the string, whereabouts on the bass you pluck etc. All of these little things add up into a whole lot. Which is why you sound like you, albeit playing a Stingray, a jazz, a P or whatever. How many guys back in the 80s went running out and bought a JD bass, a Trace Elliot amp and whatever strings. Hoping in vain to sound like Mark King ? Of course most didn't, they sounded nothing like him, because there's a whole lot more to 'your sound', or 'his sound', than just the gear, and without really examining a players real style, and also examining your own, you're not going to get there.

When you think she's about to start and shout, you turn to the band and do it ?

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1434725968' post='2802259'] Apparently you can have it clipped on the back of the headstock and all you see is one end of the clamp. Not really a big fashion fau pas, is it? [/quote] I think most of them can be, I've got an intellitouch PT10 at the moment, I have that clipped to the back of the headstock, facing towards me.