petebassist

Welcome Stef, what type of music do you play? How's the music scene up in Bergen (pandemic aside of course).

I'd say go for it, I think the brain can adjust to any changes given a bit a time, and you'd soon adapt your finger positions to a different scale length. Caveat, I'm not classically trained in upright bass, so I go on what I think I'd do myself.

Tab-haters look away now... This could be your new lockdown daily bass workout: https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/jaco-pastorius-chromatic-fantasy-bass-tab-s15326t0

Mark Knopfler is also a great producer, having 43 albums under his belt, including, as a found out recently reading my Dylan book Down the Highway, Dylan's Infidels and a couple of other BD albums. And of course he's an incredible musician and songwriter. Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Nice to see some proper playing videos. It sounds pretty good to me.

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Listen to these and see which sound you like? It's all about the tone. There's a Bass Sounds vid also by the same guy 🙂

Always loved DG's keyboards on their Walk On By cover, particularly the beautiful and hypnotic solo.

Been checking out Miles M on YT, some fab stuff a little bit different from the usual.

Got or had tickets for Supergrass, Bristol Canon's Marsh Amphitheatre middle of June. Tried to see them years back when they played Leed's Duchess of York in 1995, but couldn't get in. Denied once again...

Hopin that by August, smaller scale outdoor festivals will be allowed and maybe smaller venues. All with a social distance-lite policy of course. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one... There is a well known paradox about pandemics, that if you do the right thing, you minimize the impact and some people wonder why the measures were so draconian when the impact was minimal.

I'd assume a new NXT would have NS Contemporary Bass Strings by D'Addario™. You can get NS Traditional also, which are standard on the CRT models. It could be an expensive swap though I think if you buy the NXT and then have to change strings. Maybe you can mute the strings a bit with some foam near the bridge if you did want to tame the sustain. Or put on an old set of double bass strings.

NS Design seem to make some great quality instruments, but as you've found they don't create any decent videos showcasing how these can sound - even the expensive CR range sounds little better than a cheap electric bass to me on most vids. I think anyone wanting as close to an amplified acoustic upright sound as possible would ditch the stock strings and either get the Traditional NS strings or put on normal double bass strings, Evah Pirazzi, Spirocores, Prestos etc to kill the sustain. And the action is usually too low to use a proper pizz technique so you'd raise the action way up.

Supersonic by Oasis. Technically simple to play, but it has some nice little syncopated parts to drive it along,

Hi mate, just wondering whether you had to do the wired-connection thing? I don't have a 100M ethernet cable to run from my front room to the back kitchen, but maybe I'll move to the front room if I can get hold of a cable? The latency is "fair" on wifi, and I'm gonna test tomorrow, so I can report back. The user interface is a bit out of date (by about 10 years a least), but it's good to hear that it works at least. Tips appreciated 😉

I find DiscoverDoubleBass really great to use, and very affordable. Lots of courses available and the website is really good to use.

I think a lot of people will be doing a lot of practising in the coming months. I did a quick search on Youtube and found some people playing bass for this song, no tab, but you should be able to work out from the finger positions. Best of luck mate, let us know how you get on.

Wargirl at Crofters Rights in Bristol last night. Tamara definitely the coolest & best bass player I’ve seen in a while 😎 sad they might have to cut the tour short because of shows being cancelled...

Pub gig planned for next week, though if the country goes into lock down I wouldn't be surprised if it gets cancelled. I don't fancy playing dressed like this either....

Sting’s Moon Over Bourbon St. I’m finding this is great easy piece to practise my sight reading and focus on my tone, and sounds great on upright bass and fretless electric 😎

Great video and harmonica !

I grew up listening to Abba, and with two elder sisters, one blonde and one brunette, so psychically I was Bjorn - we were missing a Bennie though.... Incredible songs and vocals. Now I have to go & check out the isolated bass and vocal tracks on YT and obsess about that for the next couple of months. 😀 BTW Gearwise, you only need a blonde wig. No one will give a toss about the bass tone.

If you like a bit of new stuff, Cross-Platform Interchange by Misha Mullov Abbado has some lovely double bass tones.

I think it's the law of large numbers - no matter how tiny a percentage of amazing players, given a big enough population.... That said, it does teach people a little of bit of humility seeing one of these V talented frigging nine year olds on YT absolutely smashin whatever it is they've made themselves a genius at.