Oscar South
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Is the loudish fan just part of the bargain with these amps? Is it possible to put a quieter fan in or anything?
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Hang out and play at open mic nights and just chat to people.
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Thanks I've added pictures to my original post in this thread.
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Great playing, I think you could get a better slap tone if you brought your thumb round so it was pointing upwards instead of diagonally down, and also modified your wrist action a bit. I used to play exactly like you do until about a month or so ago my tutor showed me how to do it this way, and the difference in feel and tone is pretty big.
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[quote name='ryan0583' post='458755' date='Apr 9 2009, 07:43 PM']Not that I'm a professional musician or anything, but I have done bits and pieces of session work and pit orchestra stuff, and I would say that it would be advisable to at least own a five string and be proficient on it. It doesn't have to be your main bass, but I would say it's better to have the option should a job come up which needs a five string. A lot of pit orchestra stuff is actually notated for five string, and just wouldn't sound right on a four. Just my 2 cents.[/quote] Yeah I do agree, but at the moment I need the money to fund a good 4 string, I've got a few decent 4's knocking about so I'm going to string one BEAD in the meantime, but I do intend to get another good 5er in a few years time. This bass is now for sale only
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I love the sound of bass double stops and major scales Just kidding, aside from a few parts where its a bit obvious what you're doing its really well done, the tone and production are great and there are some really good melodic bits in there. Funnily enough it reminds me a lot of something I recorded years ago when I'd only played bass for a little while, I think the bass invites a certain 'sound' (playing wise) in its use as a solo compositional tool.
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[quote name='liamcapleton' post='458622' date='Apr 9 2009, 05:45 PM']I think your music teacher probably needs to stop being so ridiculously close-minded and misinformed! If one of my lecturers told me to downsize to a four I'd tell 'em to kindly 'F' off! Where abouts do you go? Best of luck with the sale. Hope that wasn't hijacking your thread too much.[/quote] Chester. He advised me to downsize after seeing me play both and I agreed with him: I do play better on a 4. Nothing closed minded about that, plenty of other bassists here play or have played 5 strings as their main, he uses a 5 string in our tutorials a lot of the time.
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Thanks, Rich. [quote name='MartyBRebelMC' post='458123' date='Apr 9 2009, 09:38 AM']would an Ibanez SR900 be of any interest as a trade?[/quote] I'll do some research on that bass, where are you located? [quote name='OldGit' post='458110' date='Apr 9 2009, 09:15 AM'] Eh? What are you studying?[/quote] '[url="http://www.chester.ac.uk/undergraduate/popular_music.html"]Popular music & performance[/url]' Its actually a pretty good course and moderately well regarded, the lecturers really know their stuff and are great musicians too. Its nothing like a traditional course obviously, its not so much a course to teach you to play as to teach you how to work in the modern music industry. On the musical side of it they focus on session musicianship skills; as far as learning your own instrument its a case of the course showing you what aspects you need to improve, and giving you the resources, expertise and knowledge of how to improve them, the session musicianship stuff is pretty intense though and very good experience. Academically they teach you about the business side of the 'job' and there is also a lot of work on the more 'theoretical' academia of music.. standard analysis, journal reading, essay writing stuff, it is interresting though. I know on internet forums because of this Jeff Berlin stuff and other factors people like to critisise any music course that isn't well established over hundreds of years of standard practice, but I think this one is ahead of the game because it focuses less on individual playing and more on actually making a career out of it and on developing the skills required for that. Who does a music course for the qualification anyway? (unless you're strictly a classical musician). Its about what you get out of it and the contacts you make. As far as the 'under orders' thing, I'm not actually literally under orders, I played a 5 for the first year and a half then switched to 4 for a change a few months ago after I picked up a nice Cort (from here actually) that I wanted to try out. I was much better on 4 than 5 and they recommended I stick with it, and I agree.. I played 4 strings for 4 years before I switched to 5 and I just simply 'play better', I get more productive practice done, I'm technically better and I rarely even use the low notes anyway, I'm more of a middle regester guy.
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After being the biggest fan of this bass for the 2.5 years I've had it, I'm letting it go, I've downsized to 4 strings under orders from my university tutors and I really need to get a higher quality 4. This has been my main bass for a good while now and apart from the battery compartment lid coming off (I just put a bit of tape across it now) and a few tiny dings in the finish its in perfect condition. [url="http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=79015464.jpg"][/url][url="http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=57740342.jpg"][/url][url="http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=60903753.jpg"][/url][url="http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=31968490.jpg"][/url][url="http://img27.imageshack.us/my.php?image=85644651.jpg"][/url][url="http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=70308984.jpg"][/url] Some manufacturer info: The Yamaha TRB 1005 is constructed to meet the demands of bassists looking for a bass that plays, sounds, and looks beautiful. The TRB1005 features top quality woods and versatile electronics. The body is made from high-grade Alder and crowned by a stunning Quilted Maple top. The 35 inch scale neck is constructed from three pieces of maple for extreme stability and is topped by a solid rosewood fretboard. The TRB 1005 is fitted with two Alnico hum-canceling pickups, made exclusively for the TRB in Yamaha's Japan factory. The pickups are mated to a proprietary active preamp that features a three-band EQ, master volume and blend controls. Key Features of the Yamaha TRB1005 Active Bass Guitar: * Unparalleled playability with quality and features to rival the world's finest basses * Alder body with quilted maple top * 3-piece bolt-on maple neck * Rosewood, 19 11/16 inches radius fingerboard * 35 inch scale length * 2 Alnico hum-cancelled pickups * 3-Band EQ * Master volume, pan-pot, and 3-band EQ controls * Solid brass bridge A few reviews: [url="http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Bass/product/Yamaha/TRB-1005/10/1"]http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews...a/TRB-1005/10/1[/url] I cannot recommend this bass enough, I've never played a bass that feels and sound as good as this one for the price band its in. I'll upload some pictures of the actual bass pretty soon. I'm looking to get hold of a good 4 string so I'm open to trade offers (specifically, if anyone has a 4 string TRB then I'd be very interrested in trading for that, but I'm looking for potentially any bass) and I'll also sell for cash. I'll put a price on it soon but for now its open to offers. [b][I've since bought a new 4 string and so this is now just for sale, £370][/b] Thanks, Oscar.
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[quote name='casapete' post='457622' date='Apr 8 2009, 05:22 PM']Heard a story about a Black Sabbath roadie falling out with Geezer Butler shortly before a big gig. Mr Butler apparently walked onstage,the band then launched into their first song (which was in E), to find his bass had all four strings tuned to Eb.[/quote] Didn't all the members of Black Sabbath use Eb tuning?
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Wood with a black or maroon stain.
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Any difference between 4 and 5 string pickups?
Oscar South replied to Oscar South's topic in General Discussion
They're not too bad, I only use them in active mode too. They're just only really that good for fingerstyle playing I find, anything else and the tone suffers, also theres not a great variety of tones to be bad from the electronics, tone seems to deteriorate with the blend dial on anything less than dead center and the bass/treble controls don't seem to do anything too dramatic either. It'll be a few hundred quid though to gut it, put a new set of good pickups on it and redo all the circuitry, I'm thinking of just keeping this as a 'cheap' (its damn good for a cheap bass) bass and getting something higher end for my main. -
Any difference between 4 and 5 string pickups?
Oscar South replied to Oscar South's topic in General Discussion
I measured em up, they are a bit longer even thought they look similar. Yea I've been watching the marketplace, only prob is soapbars seem to be sold as singles a lot of the time so its a hassle finding a good set for an 'affordable' amount. -
I have a Cort C4 Ltd which I bought off basschat a while ago, I love the neck, feel, setup etc. of that bass but I want to replace the Mighty Mite pickups (pair of soapbars) as I can get a decent but not entirely versatile tone out of it and I'd liek something higher spec. I also have a Yamaha TRB1005 which I like as well, but I much prefer the feel of the cort. The Yamaha has much better pickups in though, I've not measured them up yet but they look similar, If they're the same size can I just swap them over and use the cort with the better pickups? (even though one is a 4 string bass and one is a 5)? Thanks, Oscar.
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Theres no quick fix or easy formula for this, but its by no means complicated. Practice your scales/modes/key signatures, practice your 7th arpeggios, practice your pentatonic scales, practice your chromatic scale, listen to and analyse music where the bassist plays in a style you're interrested in copying and apply all you've learned musically. You now have the vocabulary, the technical facility and the aural intuition to play how you want to play. If you want an 'easy option' though, just learn your pentatonic scales and use little runs, 7th/octave licks, slides etc. out of them. Its not as interresting but it'll get you part way there and its all you really need in a rock context.
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Can't believe I'm doing this at nearly 60
Oscar South replied to leschirons's topic in General Discussion
You should put 'The Seeker' on there, good song. -
Mingus was the best there ever was.
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I saw them at Lichfield Jazz and Blues festival last year, great performance but I felt like the electronics stuff was unnecessary and pretentious. Othewise amazing though, I loved the bass playing especially.
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Accent annoys me, don't think it suits her. Great player though.
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Hey, I'm looking to get hold of a few decent lick books, a jazz based one and one that focuses more on pentatonic stuff, or at least has some degree of focus on it. Preferably not a 'guitar lick' book as I prefer to read from sheet music. Also, please don't say "work them out by ear", I'm approaching a specific few shortcomings in my playing with these, I do regular transcription practice and I don't have a problem with that, so I want to focus on these few elements and eliminate any extra factors that'll just hold up my progress with those. Can anyone recommend any? Thanks, Oscar.
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What this thread reveals to me, is that a lot of people learn most of what they consider 'fact' about todays youth, from television.
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Its all to do with the abundance of learning matierial and 'easy options' you can take these days. There are a LOT more bad musicians, but on the other hand the people who are serious about what they do and know how to utilise the expanded pool of talent and resources properly are at a higher level than musicians have ever been. The other thing is in a large pool of players with an ever expanding legion of 'virtuoso' players individuals stand out a lot less than they once did. There may be a lower 'average' talent across the generation, but don't be fooled by the lazy majority bringing us down, there are players these days who are (or will be) literally the best there ever was.
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[quote name='Twigman' post='447506' date='Mar 27 2009, 05:00 PM']Battery? What you need is a passive bass - no batteries required - no memory required.[/quote] And you lose half your frequency range. Fine if you want that sound but not fine for everything.