chris_b

THat's good. . . . but no one creates out of "thin air". Every player has a library of influences, lines and sounds in his head which have been accumulated from years of listening and assimilating the music of others.

Get used bass so you can sell it on without losing too much if you decide you'd prefer a different bass. Put your 4 string basses away and play the 5er exclusively until working with the new layout becomes second nature. What cab(s) do you use? You might need an upgrade to do the sound of the new bass justice.

I don't know about entry level 5 string basses. My first was a Musicman Sting Ray 5. Which I though was a great first 5er. Lakland Skylines are great instruments and a lot of bass for the money.

All in a days work for a bass player.

Sorry I haven't read through 14 pages. . . . . When I list Unread Content the message at the end of the page is "load more activity". That's OK, but it says that when there is no more activity to load, ie on the last page. Surely the software knows if it has loaded the final post? At that point it would help if it automatically flagged "There is no more activity to display" rather than telling me there are more posts to display when there aren't!

Why limit yourself? I play in covers bands AND originals bands and often both in the same band. Playing a written line, adapting one or coming up with a new line is all part of our basic craft. If you're serving the song then neither is better than the other.

If the BF Four10 is out of your price range (personally I'd be saving up the difference) and you really want a 410 so you're having to look at an "regular" 410. . . . how about checking out a BF Two10. IME the point of Alex's cabs is that they all punch way above their weight, so a BF Two10 should be able to take on a "regular" 410. Maybe save up for the other 210 later, if you need it, which you might find you don't.

Good news. Don't stop looking around and see where this takes you in the mean time.

I can't hear a C in there.

She was just seventeen. You know what I mean. Nothing was the same after that.

One finger bass lines and move your hand a lot to get to the notes (a la Rocco Prestia's style). . . . you'll get by.

Good move.

+1 Muff Windwood had one of the worst bass sounds of all time and he wasn't half the bass player many are here. Make this line your own.

You can hear the bass line in the first 4 bars of the SDG version.

I don't believe I've ever noticed a radius on a bass!

The PF-500 has been good for a few years now. Get the budget up a little and you enter another level of amps. Markbass, Genz and one of my favourites, the Aguilar TH500.

Whoa. . . . backup. . . . I just noticed the footwear!!

Looking good JA.

What cab(s) are you using? There is always something "better" out there. The clever bit is to know when to stop looking.

Nice one.

A bigger carpet.

Yeah, but IMO if you got the song down it's not time wasted.

Firstly, if I broke a string I'd be amazed. It would be the first one ever! Depending on the band I could easily lose the G or B strings and get to the end. Again depending on the band I could loose 4 strings and root note it to the end if I had to.

The guitarist I play with writes songs containing some dodgy guitar riffs including hammer-ons, pull-offs, pushes, slides and generally too many notes. . . . and then wants me to play them in unison. . . . and then counts the song in too fast when we're on the gig!!! Apart from that I don't get stressed by bass lines. Work them out, practice slowly then speed up. I did feel pretty satisfied when I put together good slap-less versions of Let's Get Serious and Uptown Funk.

2 each? Jazz? Not really a big fan. . . but I did like Oh Yeah and Ah Um by Charlie Mingus enough to buy them in 1967. Rock? Too many to choose from but I'm picking Waiting For Columbus by Little Feat and Delbert McClinton Live.