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Need to watch the film again, now. 🤣

Terrific album indeed by a terrific underrated electric bass player. The first electric bass player, in fact : always musical and so complex sometimes. Wes was great, but we too often forget Monk and Buddy who were great musicians too. Right place, wrong time.

Sorry @Frank Blank, I don't get it.

Ok, fine and what about Percy Jones and Jeff Beck... They both were there, with an impressive technique, at the same time and even before Jaco Pastorius and Jimi Hendrix. Q : Why don't they get the recognition they diserve ? A : They have no "tricks" to appeal people, they just make music ! Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Jimi Hendrix, just like I do love Jaco Pastorius when he's playing bass and not demonstrating. And yes there is an after Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorius, Miles Davis or Esbjörn Svensson. They were milestones for sure.

The only thing that bothers me with Jaco Pastorius is that it's his eccentricity that has always been rewarded and also the fact that he was a great soloist. Some musicians tend to forget that the more discreet Percy Jones did also a terrific job on the fretless bass the way a fretless bass can be used with a different approach, and he also was a very early pioneer, a few years before Jaco Pastorius in fact. Like already said I like Jaco when he's playing with Joni Mitchell because he's playing bass and not trying to over demonstrate what he was able to do. I started fretless bass thanks to Percy Jones and Mick Karn, not Jaco Pastorius...

And also avoiding electric shocks, which is not a joke at all.

Funny as nobody answered your question. So yes, you have no noise at all with a (decent) wireless due to the isolation as you are not directly connected, so avoiding earth loops, which is often the origin of these buzzes. Now back to comments about quality of wireless. 😉

It also has a narrow strings spacing, 16.5 mm, IIRC. This could be a problem, just like the machine heads which are a bit odd. I've been playing an early Cort B4 FL as a semi-pro for a few years (oops, just realised it was 20 years ago), and it was a really good bass. I alway got compliments about the sound I had, and sometimes on my playing. 😁

It's also very nice firewood, that's were they land over here most of the time. 😱😁

This 😉 : http://leduc.fr/index.php/series-l/basses-de-la-serie-l/164-l-09-la-u-contrebasse-moai

I also have these AKG 702 as I can't stand closed back headphones (giving me headaches because of the higher pressure in the internal ear) and the AKG 702 was a revelation I didn't suspect as they are really good for almost all purposes. I found them better than my old late 90's (dead now) Sennheiser HD600.

IBTL. Oops, already in. 😁

Indeed, you need a setup involving the nut height adjustment as it's the culprit in this case as without a capo the intonation is fine. Go see a true luthier.

Nice pisse of art. 🤢

This Shred is a joke in fact, the bass is right, "John Coltrane and Miles Davis" are completely out of the key. This is a re-recorded kind of tribute to these two giant players made by jazz students, trying to show how out these two could be able to play. It looks like the guys behind this tried to do a dual key Coltrane king of thing. So nothing wrong with the bass, here, which is always in the right harmony for So what? It's a 2010 re-recorded footage. 😉

Read this, lots of information in there : https://musicproductionnerds.com/closed-back-vs-open-back-headphones

There is a lot of possibilities depending on your price range and the type of headphones (closed, opened, semi-opened)...

Wonderfully superb extraordinary concept bass, Owen, until I saw the price. 😮 Now, I understand Ultravox title The man who dies every day. 🤣 For those with money to throw away : https://ish.guitars/collections/bass-1/products/ritter-princess-4-concept-bass-first-ever

Because it's like this on the picture they have. Seems like anyone all over the world doesn't know that counterfeiting (or copying for them as it's totally legal in China) is actually deeply anchored in Chinese society for centuries, in fact even millenia : it's simply in their culture and some are very good at it, others are just approximative. It only has too look like the original, the rest doesn't matter AT ALL...

I've been watching the 26 minutes introduction video. Top notch lesson with a cleverer approach than the usual way. And Mark J Smith is going straight to the point and not jumping around and talking nonsense for hours. Thanks for sharing this @lownote12 😊

Please don't forget that jazz music is before all street music with simple harmony. It's then have been appropriated by snob musicians turning it into an intellectual music with complex harmony. Choose your side. 😀

When asked, say you were playing in a modal way. This will end the conversation and you'll be considered a true genius. Almost nobody will ever try to argue as modal playing is a total mystery to most of the musicians. And if it doesn't seem to work, there still is the "you know free jazz is quite hard to explain" sentence. Or use the George Benson technique, repeat your mistakes as they will then become an integral part of the way the notes were chosen. Not a mistake anymore, but a very deeply thought approach. Isn't life beautiful ? 😁

Their last CD is glued in my car radio. 😉Excellent all through. And always simple and groovy bass lines.

It's becoming even weirder now, the amount of frets doesn't change their exact position, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th being exactly at the same place on all 34 inches scales. But, maybe the overall shape of the bass is the real problem, because frets position is fixed even with fanned frets and strictly related to the scale length and this formula : scale divided by root twelfth of two equals first fret position. The first fret position then becomes the new scale for the second position, and so on. This is only valid for our tempered chromatic scale, of course. Another issue you might have is very badly set intonation, because you are talking of a semitone difference in the region of the 3rd to the 7th fret... Please give us some light as it's really strange.