PatrickJ

@Dad3353 posted a really great link for you. I agree with his advice that spending a bit of time reading up on basic theory is going to answer all your questions (and more). I just took a look st the website he recommended and it's perfect for you, reading these chapters will give you the knowledge you seek:

No problem, although I fear I have confused you more than helped. You wouldn't use the terms major or minor to describe the notes in the scale in the way you are implying, just the associated chords to those degrees in the scale. In a major scale, the II chord is always minor. For example in C major that is D minor, but in G major it would be A minor.

I'd recommend checking out some basic theory material, Joe Hubbard and Scott Devine have some great stuff if you don't mind paying to access it but there's a ton of free stuff on the web too. Very simply each degree of the scale has an associated chord to it, these are major, minor or diminished (ignoring the 7 for now). For the C major scale this is how the chords line up, the chord number to major / minor relationship is true for any key, only the note values change. I Chord - C - is major Ii Chord - D - is minor III Chord - E - is minor IV Chord - F - is Major V Chord - G - is Major Vi Chord A - is minor ViI Chord B - is diminished You could play the C major scale over these chords and it will (mostly) sound fine, but in the same way a rhythm guitarist or keyboardist plays chords as bass players we need to do the same. As the bridge between harmony and rhythm our job is to outline the chord progression by playing the chord tones / arpeggios - this is especially true with jazz where you could well be asked to play walking bass lines. Do.some research on intervals and chord tones, those concrpts should really help you understand this. Also since you seem to be into Jazz Learning Walking Bass is a great way to really understand this and where it all sits on the fretboard, or so I'm told. I'm still trying to perfect it myself.

That song does have a nice bass tone to it doesn't it. I was always a Alex Katunich fan, he popped up on my YouTube feed a couple of days ago promoting his new band (Eadt of June). Surprised to hear this was recorded with a 60s Jazz, I always assumed it was recorded with one of his Warwick Streamers.

I believe you are right, I think it was a 5 string Coda

Flea's tone on the BSSM album was incredible! i believe he was using his Wal bass and his GK Amps at the time - this album was the reason my first proper bass rig was a GK head & cab. Marcus Miller's slap tone on Renaissance is what I'm striving to get close to. I've spent quite a lot of time with my Helix trying to get the right levels of compression and EQ to get near it. And finally the drummer I play with loves some prog metal, in fact we are due to go see Steven Wilson in September but who knows if that will happen given the current situation, but Nick Beggs kind of nails that genre's bass tone for me. Again I've been working with the Helix to get close..

Another happy YSC user. I received mine a couple of days ago but I didn't have any AA batteries to hand (the kids had used them all in the xbox controllers) so I didn't get to actually use it until last night. I've previously had the VOX amplug and an EHX headphone amp. The VOX had some great features with built in drum loops and Aux in but the sound and build quality were pants. The EHX was a better built but lacked an Aux In which really limited it's usefulness for me. At 1/2 the price of either of the aforementioned items the Session Cake is far far superior. The sound quality is very good, no hiss even with treble maxed. I like you have a level control for the Aux in which made tweaking volumes quick and easy when playing along to different apps on my phone. Since my guitars are all active lack of EQ like you'd get on Ashdown's tone pocket wasn't an issue. Very grateful to the OP for sharing this!

I really enjoyed that !

That's a tasty looking VM4. Would love to hear what the black label pickups sound like.

Been thinking of trying his walking bass line course, since I can't buy gear this sounds like a great opportunity.

I'm looking forward to today's installment.

I love that he forked up and left it in the video. Never knew much about Leland before now but I'm really enjoying getting to know him through this series of videos. Thanks for posting @NoirBass

I found myself on the Barefaced website last weekend , seeing you flaunt my SC on here and the impending 25th deadline got my GAS going.

Wow, what a change in approach. Loved his playing in this one !

I'm currently studying Walking Bass lines with the aim of landing a place, or at least some dep work with a local traditional Jazz group or two a guitarist friend plays in. As part of my studies I need to be more familiar with standards and so I want to build a playlist of definitive, or at least well regarded, recorded versions of these to get started. I'm looking for the BC's collective wisdom on what I should include.

Lol, I assumed it was end of day 25th :).Lucky I checked or I may have failed on day 1.

Is 23:59 the deadline for any ordering ??

I had a UPS delivery yesterday 24 hours all the way from Italy, was very surprised, especially as it didn't arrive like this:

Similar experience - I find when the helix is connected via USB to my laptop all sorts of clicks and whirls transfer through to the amp

And serves the song completely. Apart from the outro on video 2 there's no overly flashy playing

Oh absolutely not going to be a substitute for the real thing, wouldnt claim otherwise.

I believe those settings represent the pre with treble and bass fully boosted. The 0/0 setting represents it set flat. Using these as the two extremes you could set it where you want in the middle. You could even use a exp pedal to dynamically control the settings. I think the important bit of the patch are the Q settings. Im interested to try it.

What a great video, loved how he comes across.