musicbassman

Hi Simon, hello from Chichester. This is (with the rare exception) a very polite and friendly forum, long may it remain that way. Enjoy 🙂 PS - I can hear your rig from here, and I'm 20 miles away..........

That's an interesting looking venue, Mick, but somehow I suspect the acoustics would have been a bit tricky ?

A new name to me, Japanese band Koenji Hyakkei playing at the Lexington. Wish I'd been there 🙂

I worked 'pro' from 1973 to 1977, which was very exciting to begin with, but chugging up and down the M1 and staying in cheap hotels soon became tedious. Ended up taking any gig on offer just to pay the rent. However, I did meet and work with some great people and have many great anecdotes from this time. It was a hard way to earn a living then, would guess it's pretty well impossible now.

Barcelona is the home of the St Andreu Jazz Band, one of the finest schools for young jazz players in Europe. You might get lucky and find there's a concert on somewhere, but maybe this would be a bit off the mark for your students. Barcelona is a great city, sure you'll be able to find plenty to do 👍

Oh Lord, here he is again. His technique reminds me of Doug Johns, but not quite the same.....

Yes, some of it is great, some of it cheesy beyond belief ! Not to be confused with Brazilian House, which some say is a direct descendant from this. Isaac Varzim has a lot of lengthy mixtapes of Brazilian House and similar on YouTube which are great to noodle along to, my current go to for keeping my chops up. If anyone's interested, here's an introduction to Tropicalia:

Likewise. Bass players seem to fall into two camps - there are those whose equipment seems to be more important to them than the music, and those who put the music first and their equipment is really anything half decent. I fall into the latter camp - I don't spend hours agonising over minute EQ details or striving for the 'perfect sound' as I know only too well that any live sound is going to be so influenced by either the whims of the soundman or the acoustics of the room. And , let's face it, hardly any punters are going to care what bass you're using. It's all about the notes and the feel. So, I'm very happy to look at anything online that examines a piece of music or looks at particular bass playing techniques, but endless gear reviews whether in magazines or online leave me cold.

That's Finland, by the way............

Well, that is some notable achievement, @stewblack, especially for NYE. How depressing. But I'm guessing it's the pub management team that has the serious issues that need looking at here, nothing to do with the band whatsoever.

Well, why, of course - I mean, bass is so easy, anyone can do it. There's only four strings for a start, and all they do is play the first note of each chord 😬👍

Getting ready for a gig tonight and decided to clear out one of my lead bags. Here's a selection of set lists I've been given for dep gigs I've done over the last couple of years. Not sure whether it will be fully legible, but all kinds of everything on there, you name it, I've maybe played it.................

I'm surprised this topic hasn't attracted more comments and opinions - it's a fascinating concept. Both Jacob Collier and Adam Neely have put up videos with fairly clear explanations of the musical mechanics of this idea, but maybe the easy win would be for harvesting fresh songwriting ideas. How about this negative harmony version of the rickrollers favourite.

I make no apologies for reposting this simple lesson.

@Owen, thanks for posting this, absolutely excellent. Composing bass lines on the fly to accompany these tracks is easy when you have such a creative force as this. 🙂👍

Well, I wasn't quite sure when the band had actually started 'playing', but I think it's a couple of minutes in from the beginning. No bass player, so there's obviously a gig going there............ 😳

Declining an invitation to audition for a backing band for a new up and coming artist in the late 70's, as it clashed with my long awaited driving test. .....and that person was Elvis Costello.............. 😳

This has been around on YouTube a long time, but in case you've missed it, here's Olympic levels of concentration and skill in action.

Absolutely agree with this. There's always so much to learn, and so many ideas to try. I usually try and play for about an hour a day, and for example my current 'thing' is playing along to, and creating fresh basslines for house music from the noughties onwards, using continuous mixtapes from YouTube. (Maybe try Book Club Radio and a DJ called Tinzo if you're curious) I've come up with a lot of bass lines and fresh rhythm patterns from this, and I deliberately try and make it continuously challenging so it's a bit of a workout. More fun than daytime TV or weeding the garden 🙂👍

In covers bands, it's band members not learning parts prior to rehearsal that has always bugged me the most. Hey, let's all hang around in an expensive rehearsal studio for a good 20 minutes while the guitarist listens to the song for the first time........... 🥺👎

Knower are up there in my favourites list - always creative and original. If you're looking through their back catalogue, then this gem from around 2016 takes some beating - and here it's Louis Cole on synth bass and then Tim Lefebvre digging in on his P bass

That's a helluva lot of fairly complex material to learn in just 48 hours, so maybe the truth is he had a tip off about the possibility of getting this gig a few weeks prior, but only finally confirmed 48 hours before the first gig. And if he really only had 48 hours to learn that much material then the guy is clearly superhuman............😲

Maybe it's something to do with your browser ? I'm using Firefox, and I'm no techie, but all I do is: Go to the YouTube video I want Highlight and copy the YouTube address shown Go back to this site, Control and V (or right click and Paste) Press Enter. (maybe you're not doing this) If that's not working for you, then maybe post your query again and maybe someone with more tech knowledge will be able to advise.

A good plan, Mick, but let's hope this doesn't happen literally - not sure it would be a good look to peg out on stage !