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[quote name='jakesbass' post='1255073' date='Jun 3 2011, 09:25 AM']It's probably a good time to point out that theory as a learned subject is only half the battle, and further, as a technical subject is only useful for explaining the mechanics of music to others. Maybe folk should realise that it's how you utilise your knowledge of theory on the instrument that matters.[/quote] +100000 Garry

[quote name='ras52' post='1254197' date='Jun 2 2011, 04:24 PM']Burn the heretic! [/quote] [i]"Behold the power of the [linux]-heretic! Who can stand against it? It shall ride roughshod over its enemies like a searing tidal wave of righteous flame!"[/i] Something like that anyway. Garry

[quote name='davey_one_visits' post='1254022' date='Jun 2 2011, 02:27 PM']Quick question to the professionals out there.... How often do you have to deal with a treble clef? Is it worth spending time learning it? So far I've seen ledger lines and 8va signs for the higher notes but I haven't seen a grand stave used. Cheers Dave[/quote] It looks like you are putting in the time learning to sight read - always worth going the extra yard for the TC. Music is not just about Bass. Reading the TC opens access to various higher register instruments, seeing how they approach melody, Harmony and solos etc, which at the end of the day all helps to make you a more rounded Musician. Garry

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='1253911' date='Jun 2 2011, 01:16 PM']So if anyone has a project requiring pre-EB circuit capabilities, Higgie is your man.[/quote] Thanks for heads up Bass Doc. Who is Higgie? and how can i contact him? Garry

[quote name='51m0n' post='1252449' date='Jun 1 2011, 10:38 AM']Nope Reaper doesnt have any such metering built in that I've found, I've used a few other bits and bobs with Kmetering though ([url="http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/"]voxengo vst called span[/url]) which is pretty damn fine, try it...[/quote] Yep - i have been using it for a while and i find it very useful. Last year some time i started to read up on all the Bob Katz stuff, And it all started to sink in regarding Kmetering. [but then you would be up on all that] Interesting little read. [url="http://www.digido.com/level-practices-part-2-includes-the-k-system.html"]http://www.digido.com/level-practices-part...e-k-system.html[/url] Garry

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' post='1251314' date='May 31 2011, 12:15 PM']I doubt that Deacon, Taylor and May really needed the money! It was interesting to see that they did not make any money at all off the first three albums because of a bad record deal.[/quote] People always want/need more money - and especially when record companies are involved. Yep, it was interesting about the first three albums not making them much money. Kinda makes it worth carrying on to earn more money then... Garry

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' post='1251234' date='May 31 2011, 11:17 AM']I never understood why Brian and Roger tried to carry on with the name Queen what was the point?[/quote] Money/Finance/Business. At the end of the day the brand name 'Queen' was still very financially viable. And of course it all led to the stage show 'We will Rock you' which is a huge world wide hit, which in turn still helps shift shed loads of Queen albums. Weather or not that was [i]their[/i] intention, or being urged by their record company - who knows? But it sure worked. A very good viewing i thought. Garry

[quote name='Robert Manning' post='1250613' date='May 30 2011, 06:41 PM']then after studying music tech full time, you realise, that most musicians are in fact; idiots*[/quote] Garry

[quote name='SteveK' post='1250210' date='May 30 2011, 12:59 PM']Yeah, I think there is an unhealthy fixation with [i]getting this bass, getting that rig[/i] trying every conceivable combination in the search for "that sound", when, in most cases, the player would do better looking closer to home. Yer Palladino's and Di Piazza's etc are quite happy to turn up and plug into anything available...me too![/quote] Another +1 Reading through the thread there seems to be a bit of a Spinal Tap going down. Garry

If the tune is in Concert 'C', Bb instruments would be written in two sharps 'D', Eb instruments would be written in 'A'. etc. The added problems are things like Tenor sax would be written in 'D' treble clef, but sound an octave lower. These things have to be thought about when writing a part then putting to paper. Protocol for commercially produced material going out to orchestras would certainly be to transpose into the correct instrument keys. Zoom to about 200% [bit on the small side] some of the Octaves are different, but check the charts below. All are sounding the note of 'C' [attachment=81282:C_CONCERT.pdf] Some transposing and pitch charts here. [url="http://www.apassion4jazz.net/transposition.html"]http://www.apassion4jazz.net/transposition.html[/url] [url="http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/transposition.html"]http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/transposition.html[/url] [url="http://www.secretcomposer.com/Secret_Composer_Blog_Demo/Concert_Pitch_-_Instrument_Transposition_chart.htm"]http://www.secretcomposer.com/Secret_Compo...ition_chart.htm[/url] Garry

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='1247716' date='May 27 2011, 11:20 PM']but I assume it'd be a showcase of sorts of GK amps but with the intention of [b]being interesting to the average person[/b] (as much as possible) instead of just a tour around the amp.[/quote] Slap the cobblers out of your Bass - that will interest the average person... Garry

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='1247974' date='May 28 2011, 10:13 AM']In a previous disscusion about this (it used to puzzle me too) I heard the wise words "ask a violinist if the keys of C# and Db are the same", then batten down your hatches.[/quote] But [b]don't[/b] ask a Viola player - they are the Morris Dancer of the Orchestra. Garry

[quote name='witterth' post='1247840' date='May 28 2011, 01:55 AM']Dosen't "chops" go along with such antiquated terms as "gear" "love and peace(Ringo style)" "cool" "hip" "dig" "daddio" "square" all that stuff that people who wish to identify themselves "musos" ( oh,theres another one) in general , Idly thrown into conversation to Identify themselves as proper musicians....they probably call their mates or people they play in bands with as "cats " too gahh![/quote] You have missed out 'he's a good groover, got great chops and knows all the changes' Garry

[quote name='silddx' post='1247588' date='May 27 2011, 09:01 PM']To reduce the chance of a trainwreck even further, why in god's holy name aren't the notes named ABCDEFGHIJKI ??[/quote] In some instances of written German notation [used throughout Europe] H=B... So in a chromatic line descending from 'C' you would get C - H - B - A. [as opposed to C B Bb A] Quite an interesting read on notation here. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note[/url] Quarter tone notation - don't even go there, the flat symbol is reversed. [url="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/215/quartertone.jpg/"][/url] Garry

[quote name='51m0n' post='1246723' date='May 27 2011, 10:05 AM']Cheers![/quote] It was for you really - I just knew you would be the first along... I was not sure if Reaper had K Metering. Garry

If anyone likes to use K Meter and your DAW does not have it. A nice freebie here. [url="http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12376"]http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfi...?group_id=12376[/url] [url="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/84/kmeter.png/"][/url] Garry

[quote name='BassoRidiculoso' post='1243287' date='May 24 2011, 07:07 PM']Basso Ridiculoso and the factory of underpaid software monkeys is proud to annouce a handy little web thing for creating combinations of any four notes you want. [b] The Bergonzifying Transmogrifier[/b] is a free web application that generates all the possible combinations of any four musical notes that you choose and then notates and creates an MP3 file of the combinations. It "Transmogrifies" the set of four notes you choose, similar to a method outlined by the saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi in his "Inside Improvisation" series of method books. Check it out here: [b][size=4][center][url="http://bassoridiculoso.net16.net/"]http://bassoridiculoso.net16.net/[/url][/center] [/size][/b] You can read all the details on ways to use it here as well at the ol' bass blog: [size=4] [center][url="http://bassoridiculoso.blogspot.com/2011/05/announcing-bergonzifying-transmogrifier.html"]http://bassoridiculoso.blogspot.com/2011/0...smogrifier.html[/url][/center][/size] __________________ [url="http://bassoridiculoso.blogspot.com"]bassoridiculoso.blogspot.com[/url] • [url="http://twitter.com/#!/BassoRidiculoso"]twitter.com/#!/BassoRidiculoso[/url][/quote] I would find it very interesting if you took it a major 7th further and incorporated it into an Arpeggiator within a DAW. To generate a series of notes on the fly like that would/could be useful. Garry.

[quote name='arthurhenry' post='1244589' date='May 25 2011, 06:38 PM']My keyboard player is only into bands with keyboards and doesn't enjoy anything else. So do you have to hear bass guitar to enjoy a particular band or piece of music? It's not essential for me, though I find it harder to make an emotional connection with music without bass. Eg. could never get into Jeff Beck's Guitar shop album - [b]all keyboard bass.[/b][/quote] Stevie Wonder - don't get any better then that. So a 'like' here.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1244417' date='May 25 2011, 03:59 PM']Having spent 15 minutes last night trying to make a B root fit a C7 chord and not sound like a train wreck, I would too I'm with Doddy. Its wrong. [/quote] What..!! you could not make a B sus add maj 7 [-9][#5] work ? Try harder. Garry

[quote name='JellyKnees' post='1243250' date='May 24 2011, 06:44 PM']Nuendo is good...I've used variants of cubase for years and never seen the point in changing tbh.[/quote] Nuendo is just the post production version of Cubase, and in fact you have to purchase the add on pack to get the same amount of stuff you get with Cubase. IE -the score editor and some of the Vst's/Vsti's. The Audio engine is the same. Nuendo will give you the extra stuff to work with when using Video files, and as i said above - post production. There is a huge price gap between the two - so just for recording and composing purposes, Cubase is the better option... Unless of course you are working in Broadcast [and in that case you would know what i am going on about] If thats the case forget what i have just said... Garry

[quote name='Wil' post='1242744' date='May 24 2011, 11:25 AM']When you sight read, you don't think of the note by it's name typically, you tend to associate the dot on the page with the note position on the fretboard at a subconcious level. You tend to have to read the bar ahead of the one you're playing with more complex pieces so you don't really have time to think "that's an A, which is here on the fretboard". So, I'd say to sight read fluently, at a decent pace, you have to have practiced it to the point where you no longer have to think about it.[/quote] Pretty well summed up. One good thing when reading Bass charts - is that you tend to get a lot of 2/4/8 bar repetition, so it makes it easier to scan ahead for tricky phrases, key/time changes, codas etc - and more importantly when you are doing a show, you can keep you eyes on the MD/conductor. Garry

[quote name='silddx' post='1242347' date='May 23 2011, 10:04 PM']Try a minor 2nd against the tonic, then try shifting either note an octave, that should serve to illustrate the very basic principle.[/quote] Some nutter called Bernard Herrmann had a go at that, the Gypsies in the Orchestra thought he had been sniffing glue. Ancient music used drones all the time, some peasant blowing his horn while a busty wench fingered her Harp up the Octave. Garry

A Daw's a Daw...... But i can't live with out Kontakt 4. Garry

"A morning to kill in London" And the choice of weapon would be ? Garry

[quote name='davey_one_visits' post='1241453' date='May 23 2011, 12:27 PM']Has anyone ever worked on one? Did you have a positive experience? What kind of music did you play? What skills do you require? i.e sight reading How often did you work? Did it pay well?[/quote] Quite a few in the past. Ranging from two weeks to six months. Great experience [for me] Toured the world and met Musicians from all over the world. Every thing from Disco/Pop/Jazz through to working in the Pit for shows & turns. Reading & busking skills [knowing plenty of tunes] Worked nearly every night - getting the odd night off in ports that had over night stays. The P&O cruises at that time payed very well - it was MU contracted, so you were paid extra on top of your wages if you went over hours... IE extra show rehearsals, extra performances etc + plus you got holiday pay. Not every ones cup of tea, i was in my very early 20's and straight out of Music collage, so i was up for it. I also did a couple for American companies out of Miami and just going around the Caribbean - that was fantastic. Hours you work depend on the gig you do - if you are in one of the Bar trio/bands you can be working day times as well as the evening. Different companies all have different schedules for the Musos - and the dosh can go from good to terrible. [board, food and flights included of course] For me it got my chops & ears together - but for some they just drank till they dropped, everything passed them by, Then spent the rest of their lives moaning how crap cruises are. If you get a chance - at least try it once. Garry