Oscar South

Years ago this was the song that turned me onto Jazz.. [url="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/134504/03%20Moanin%27.mp3"]http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/134504/03%20Moanin%27.mp3[/url] Still my all time favourite jazz track.

I looked in the amps forum after this was moved from the main one and it wasn't there so I just assumed it had been deleted, just rediscovered it . Thanks for the help everyone, I tried to make a tool to get it out by attaching a bit of rubber to the end of some wire and putting superglue on it, didn't work though, eventually I got a piece of wire and bend it a bit then just poked around inside the jack for about 45 mins and finally got it out . Now my amp has started crackling however , going to take it to a friends house to try out on their cab and see if its the amp itself but I have the feeling its a cone, it it expensive to replace a 10 cone?

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='325923' date='Nov 10 2008, 01:58 PM']If you ever do get into it at any stage, it is amazing how two-dimensional all the stuff you used to like will sound. Its just a different way of listening and very rewarding.[/quote] I think that's a pretty misguided comment, I love, listen to, play and study jazz and I certainly understand it. I also understand and enjoy many other genres equally as much, there is as much beauty in simplicity as there is in complexity, just because something is more difficult (on any level) does not make it by nature better.

I've heard people say that although its incredibly difficult to do the bass to that song right, its actually relatively easy to fake it with chromatics.

I play a steinberger when I can't be bothered to carry my yamaha into uni. Unless headless basses become a lot easier to get hold of, and a lot cheaper to pick up a decent one I doubt they'll catch on big again any time soon.

I've never had any sound quality loss when using this pedal personally, tell him to check his blend and filter settings.

Yeah the writing it on two staves thing works really well, especially if you play each part to metronome separately and listen to how they interact with the beat. I think learning to carry out two separate tasks independently is one of the most satisfying things in music, earlier today I was practising a two handed tapping arrangement of 'Mad World' and just for fun instead of playing it the regular way played a walking bass line with my left hand, messed about with the melody a bit and added a swing feel. I've been doing tapping stuff for a while but I always just worked counterpoint stuff out by rote, a bar at a time, I was really pleased with how well and fluently I did it and how good it actually sounded, I think I'm going to play the jazz version instead of the 'direct' arrangement from now on ^_^ .

Even though its a pretty hard song vocally and bass wise, I found singing/playing Tom Sawyer was quite easy (the bassline and melody are pretty much the same rhythm and/or notes for most of the way through) and helped me develop my singing/playing a lot.

The end of a jack lead came off and remained inside the jack socket of my Hartke HA3500 head today, there is no way to get it out and there are no places that repair amps within my travelling radius so I'll need to replace the socket. Can I just replace it with any jack plug or do I need to get something specific? Thanks, Oscar.

A lot of people have a problem with adventurous bass playing because they simply don't know that it can and does work in a band context. I used to 'play what’s best for the song' in all the bands I played in, then I started doing solo bass performances here and there and some of the people in the bands saw what I could do. Now I get asked to go out on a limb with fancy trickery because they know I can do it tastefully and add to the song.

I like using the delay+mod set to play semiquavers, 3-5 repeats and set the mod on quite subtly, about equal blend and filtering etc. Really good when you need to do something interesting solo wise (you can even combine it with the looper to cover the bassline), it also makes harmonics sound beautiful.

[quote name='Wil' post='308007' date='Oct 16 2008, 04:56 PM']Poppycock. There are loads of bands making exciting music, you just need to look for it.[/quote] I know there are lots of new and exciting bands, but that doesn't mean they're doing anything to develop music. I'm drifting increasingly far from 'popular' music forms into avant garde electronica, modern experimental classical and jazz genres and also post rock and its derivatives; genres that (for the most part) embrace the development of the genre as a vital part of its existence, rather than the entirely commercial (and hypocritical) approach of re-using the same cash cow cliches over and over while preaching on about originality and authenticity. Frank Zappa only did his 'popular' music projects to fund his modern classical ones, and his 'popular' music is century's beyond anything released since. On Topic, 'Cross' by Justice has some good bass guitar work (albeit chopped up and processed), Both 'The Sixth Extinction' and 'Every Red Heart Shines For The Red Sun' by Red Sparowes have some terrific bass playing on them.

The development of 'popular' music stopped the day Frank Zappa died. Can't really think of anything released recently that stands out (for lack of listening to anything much recently), the bass playing on 'Fight With Tools' by Flobots is pretty decent though.

Learned 'Tink Walks Amok' by Zappa, ridiculous but great song, good time sig practice heh.

McCartney's violin bass sounded decent and worked perfectly in the mix, and Entwistle's bass tone sounded awesome.

I've not really heard much of their stuff, I've got to play 'Chain Lightning' for my uni course though which from a players perspective I can't stand, eeeasy.

Listen through a few times and work out + write down the structure before you pick up your bass and start to figure it out.

A piano arrangement of 'Yesterday' 2 hand tapped if I'm holding a bass, 'Day is Done' by Nick Drake if I'm holding a guitar. Seems to impress most people. 'Rappers Delight' bassline on either if I just can't be bothered.

[quote name='bnt' post='287918' date='Sep 20 2008, 11:45 AM']NS Design has a [url="http://www.nedsteinberger.com/instruments/basscello.php"]Bass Cello[/url] that can be tuned CGDAE. The website doesn't give the gauges for the string sets they sell for it... but at $190 a set, I don't think I'm interested. If I try it, I'll get a custom [url="http://status-graphite.com/"]Status Graphite[/url] set - they even do them in double ball, which would suit my old Hohner.[/quote] I'd just buy individual Rotosounds or something, I wouldn't go too overboard for a trial run.

If he doesn't have much foundation in harmony yet I'd advise him to leave the Levine book for a bit. There are 2 Associated board 'introduction to theory and harmony' type books that I recommend, they got me on my feet and are pretty interesting to read as well (especially the second) while still being to the point and getting a lot of information in a pretty small, cheap and easy to read book. [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/AB-Guide-Music-Theory-Vol/dp/1854724460/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221905865&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/AB-Guide-Music-The...5865&sr=8-1[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/AB-Guide-Music-Theory-Vol/dp/1854724479/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221905865&sr=8-2"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/AB-Guide-Music-The...5865&sr=8-2[/url]

Octaves are pretty easy, you just have to get used to the reverse octave pattern you hold to play them.

I've toyed with this idea, I'd just go with CGDA cello tuning though.

Band(s): Alauna | Her Silent Silhouette | [untitled jazz band] Genres: Rock/Metal www.myspace.com/alaunaband | Math metal/hardcore punk/emo | acoustic jazz (dbass, guitar, percussion, vox, piano) Area: Chester support can also get together a mostly original acoustic folk/pop set with 2-3 people pretty quickly

I've not practised theses for a while so I'm revisiting them a bit, am trying to mix up my practice methods though like rather than practice from the bottom of the neck playing the scales up then down playing from the top of the neck down then up, practising on 2 strings at a time playing one position then jumping to the next then next down and up the neck etc. I'd be interested to hear what methods other people have dreamt up to practice these things.

I messed around with my friends a while ago, works fine with bass. Be warned though, its almost entirely unusable in any bass playing situation.