Frank Blank

As well as 'smoking quantity' play along with the bass from the 2nd and 3rd Linton Kwesi Johnson albums, Forces of Victory and Bass Culture. When you are just listening the bass lines sound simple but when you try and play along it's quite difficult and you realise there is something quite fundamentally different going on to what you're used to playing. I am not a good enough theorist to analyse and decipher the differences but I've found that after a while of playing along with these tracks you somehow just switch into the groove and it becomes easy to follow. I've listened to a lot of reggae and dub over the last forty years and I think these two albums a perfect exemplars to get into that reggae mindset, simple but beautiful.

Smoke quantity.

I'm digging AES Dana! When I get the chance that is between repeatedly playing Wonderful World by Nine Horses...

B u g g e r

You post on this thread regarding Heist, was trying to garner info about them. I’m sure they were pals with Paul Raven from Killing Joke.

More new ones on me, thanks!

Thanks for posting this. As much as I love electronic music I’m beginning to realise that my knowledge of genre’s history is woefully inadequate, I know very little about anything prior to Tangerine Dream or Kraftwerk really so finding out about/listening to Éliane Radigue is cool.

There was a short-lived post punk band called Heist, two bassists, one fretless, one fretted, although I can’t find a thing about them online, maybe I was dreaming?

I do very similar finger exercises as the one you mention. When it comes to the scales and arpeggios on the French horn do you work through them systematically or in a specific order?

Do any of you have routines/regimes for practicing scales/arpeggios etc? I’m looking to establish such a practice regime so I thought I’d see if anyone had any kind of system or routine for learning such things?

Keep going, it’s one of the most informative threads on this forum.

I saw Modern English on several occasions back in the 80s, for a short while they appeared to be the default support for a few bands I went to see, notably Japan. I still listen to Mesh & Lace and After The Snow, an interesting and peculiar band.

Where are you, you could try mine...

Go try one, just in case.

I agree with @Paul S, try a short scale, wish I’d tried one thirty years ago.

He was a hep cat.

Yes, really digging this.

Thanks @CameronJ, they had just the case.

Just to qualify the term, first used in 1937, to refer to... A tune or song of established popularity, esp. in Jazz. From the OED.

Mine wasn’t too bad and improved post set up but still, if you dig in, it buzzed a bit.

Come on, it is little, compared with your whopper...

Absolutely. Actually, this is true, cheaper acoustic basses will cut it at home but gigging wise I have struggled with some cheaper acoustic basses. The three I mentioned (Kingman, Taylor, Godin) all cut it live but several didn’t. I’m beginning to agree with you about the cheap P with flats but if you do have the funds there are great sounding acoustics out there.

Bonjour Julien, bienvenue.