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That looks pretty cool. How long do you actually play for ?
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[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1426888433' post='2723266'] I'm pretty sure that if you post some original thing on YouTube, YouTube owns the rights to it. [/quote] I'm not sure that's right. I have a few videos on youtube with my music, I don't remember giving up my rights to the ownership of it.
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Surely all the copyrights belong to the original composer/songwriter ?
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Last price drop ! Bargain price now, and £20 less than I paid for it -
I use Status on my Modulus, not the greatest strings, but they're OK. If you want Thomastik, then get them from Thomman.
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The one thing I make a point of asking every student, at the end of every lesson, is "have you learned something ?". I plan my lessons in advance, they're not just made up on the spot. I also tailor them to suit a students wants. However I think a tutor also needs to say to a student what they think the student needs to learn, even if it's different to what the student wants. A recent new student of mine is a fairly old guy, who's owned a bass for almost as long as I've been alive, but has never really played it, other than to work out a couple of bass lines. When he first phoned me, we chatted and he said that he'd set himself a target, that by the end of the year, he wanted to be able to say that he was a bass player. On his first lesson I got him to play something, we then tackled the basics of holding the bass, and left hand technique etc, I gave him exercises at home to work on. I then gave him a diagram that I'd done showing the notes on the first 5 frets. He asked why he needed that, he wasn't interested in learning to read music, he just wanted to use TAB. So I explained I wasn't going to teach him to read music, but that in my opinion knowing what the notes were that he was playing would make a huge, huge difference, and it wasn't a difficult thing to do. He reluctantly agreed, went away, and to be honest I wasn't expecting him to come back the next time. He did though, and he'd made huge progress with his technique, and had learned most of the notes, and had identified how they repeat around the fretboard With regard to qualifications, I think it depends on the qualification, I think going to someone with an actual teaching qualification would be a great idea, rather than just someone with a music degree.
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I don't see the point in the improv bit at the start. I usually get the guy to play something that they know, and are comfortable playing. That's to see how they hold the bass, fret the notes etc. I would only play to demonstrate something, it's not [i]my [/i]lesson, it's yours after all. There's nothing more annoying than having a tutor standing there basically just showing off, or practising their chops for that nights gig, rather than teaching what they're supposed to be doing. Some guys think they can teach because they've been playing for a while, while in reality their knowledge is as full of holes as the prospective students, and being a great player doesn't make a great teacher, as I've discovered at uni. Check out the website music teachers uk, there's plenty of good teachers on there.
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This is like new, and probably the most versatile pedal that I've ever come across. It's a brilliant reverb, but also an amazing chorus, a shimmer pedal that sounds like a heavenly choir, a delay/echo and an infinity hold pedal, all in one. Just download the pedal customiser software from the website. I've just bought a strymon blue sky though, and already own a TC hall of fame, there's a limit to the amount of reverbs even I want 😊. From the website -[list] [*]Wet Reverb [list] [*]Trails or Normal bypass [*]Low Modulation version [*]with Modulation knob instead of Tone [*]New! Low Pre-Delay version of stock Wet Reverb (beta) [/list][*]Chroma Chorus [list] [*]Dual micro-pitch shift with tone control [*]Dual micro-pitch shift with regeneration control [*]Standard chorus with rate and depth controls [*]New! Quad Chorus unique modulated chorus (beta) [/list][*]Seraphim Shimmer [list] [*]New! Virtual Trim Pots for Tone and Loop Delay [*]with shimmer level knob [*]with shimmer tune knob [/list][*]Echelon Echo [list] [*]Stock Echo, mono or stereo golden-ratio ping-pong [*]Scatter Echo, modulated with scatter repeats, mono or stereo golden-ratio ping-pong [*]Soft Scatter Echo with soft-attack repeats responds dynamically to your playing [*]Digital Delay with adjustable stereo ping-pong ratio [/list][*]Infinity Hold [list] [*]with Tone knob [*]with Reverb Level knob [/list][*]Swap center/right knobs on any effect [*]Virtual Trim Pot Tone control (on select effects) [/list] Link to the website - [url="http://neunaber.net/collections/pedals/products/wet-stereo-reverb-pedal-v2"]http://neunaber.net/...reverb-pedal-v2[/url] Check my soundcloud page for examples, all the reverbs recently are using this. £90 including next day postage. [attachment=187020:Photo on 20-03-2015 at 13.25 #2.jpg][attachment=187021:Photo on 20-03-2015 at 13.25 #3.jpg][attachment=187022:Photo on 20-03-2015 at 13.25 #4.jpg]
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F/S Ebow Plus boxed - like new £50 posted - SOLD subject to payment etc
ambient replied to ead's topic in Effects For Sale
They work great with bass. Check out any of my stuff on soundcloud, bandcamp or YouTube. I'd like this as a spare if only it was next week rather than this. 😊 -
F/S Ebow Plus boxed - like new £50 posted - SOLD subject to payment etc
ambient replied to ead's topic in Effects For Sale
[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1426710796' post='2721235'] I think [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/28991-ambient/"][b]ambient[/b][/url] was after one of these. [/quote] I was, luckily I managed to fix mine which had been Jaked, Jake being my little nephew who has the destructive capability of of a tropical typhoon. -
Should every bass player play at least a little bit of guitar
ambient replied to CHW's topic in General Discussion
It's useful, especially if you at any time play in a band where the guitarist doesn't know what he's playing, assuming you know what you're playing. Playing keyboards/piano is very useful. -
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Personally, I would want to be able to do [i]any[/i] gig that was offered. I wouldn't want to not get one, that may lead to another, that may lead to another etc, because I couldn't sightread.
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[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1426625410' post='2720109'] [i]Desirable[/i] perhaps, but not a [i]necessary[/i] skill. It all depends on what kind of gigs you might get a call for. Suffice to say in 40 years of pro and semi-pro work, I've never been asked to read dots. [/quote] But if you got offered a gig that required you to read, then you'd have to be able to, or you wouldn't get it, kind of makes it necessary.
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[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1426623365' post='2720053'] The basschat Paradox Having a reading skill means your a better musician If you use that skill to perform live , your using a music stand so lose the better musician rating [/quote] I wouldn't say it means you're a better musician, it does mean you're a more versatile one, if it's a reading gig, then you're gonna get the call over someone who can't read. Same as having the ability to improvise a part fast over a given chord chart.
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As a professional it's a necessary skill to have, [i]incase[/i] you're presented with a notated chart.
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Exivious ? [url="http://www.exivious.net"]http://www.exivious.net[/url]
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When you realise you can no longer play a Precision neck...
ambient replied to cameltoe's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1426578554' post='2719388'] It's more of a short fingers issue. [/quote] Where do you position your thumb when you're playing ? There are a couple of older guys that I'm teaching at the moment. Both were holding the bass like it was a baseball bat, almost like they were afraid to let it go. The one guy was playing with just one finger too, sliding up and down the neck. I apologise if you're already using good playing technique, but an awful lot of people assume that because they've been playing a particular way for ages, then it's fine. Your thumb should be around the middle of then neck, maybe running along the stripe that you get on Fender type basses. You should just pivot off that. [attachment=186731:Photo on 17-03-2015 at 12.11.jpg] -
Surely it's not the bass, or the amp but the music ? I'm not inspired to play or create music by a bass or an amp, just by the need to create music. If you're not already in one, then join a band, go to jam nights, take lessons.
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Bum.
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When you realise you can no longer play a Precision neck...
ambient replied to cameltoe's topic in General Discussion
Is it maybe a technique issue ? Lighter gauge strings ? Lower action ?
