TimR

What a bunch of f....ing moaners. Wind it in guys! £3000 a school A YEAR buys a lot of equipment that can be SHARED between pupils. Imagine what you'd buy with gas if you had £3k a year to spend. As for the moaning about all kids want to do is play on computers, you're the parents, stop them! I get sick of this getting trotted out in the media. Then when the kids play in the streets all the grown ups complain about the noise and whether their precious cars are going to get scratched. Unbelievable. Kids are not all stuck at home on computers all day. I spent a whole day at Olympia last Saturday at the drum show. Plenty of talented kids there playing drums and testing kit and bugging their parents to buy them £800 worth of cymbals (no son lets just get the hi-hats for Christmas and a set of sticks today.) Electirc drum kit for under £300 excellent for learning on. .

Have a look at some Elton John songs. They're horrendous for the number of chords he throws in. However, they're usually resolved into an I, IV or V fairly quickly. Are they strictly a chord progression or are they just created from passing notes?

Someone with more theory will help me out but: Say you're playing in C major. The only other major chords available to you are Fmaj and GMaj. The IV and V. You could play minor chords but that really affects the mood of the song. All the 'other' chords you bolt into a song after those 3 are really just inversions with added notes or passing chords leading to one of the three. .

Singers and guitarists also commonly display that trait. Playing in a band is a group effort where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Quite often less is more, especially when it comes to filling from keyboard players and drummers (and slap bass solos)

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1478766723' post='3171418'] I see this written quite a lot on Basschat (not really aimed at you Tim). Why are Keyboard players in covers bands playing Bass lines? There are plenty of things to cover, Keyboard wise - Like the Keyboard part for example. Or Stg/Horn section lines. If playing a cover that has no Keys part, just play light 'Pads'. Or just drop out and come in on the chorus etc...but playing Bass lines? [/quote] Usually because people are unimaginative and slaves to the original. What does the keyboard player do if you're covering a song originally recorded by a two guitar band? There are very few bands able to deconstruct a song and write their own arrangement. Those that can are refreshing to listen to. Doesn't just include bands with keyboards, includes any band who limit themselves to only doing covers of music where their line up matches the line up of the band that originally recorded it.

I play with a keys player who said "I like playing with you because you don't just stick to the roots and that frees up my left hand to do something other than the bass line." Bass lines are not just 'bass' lines as you're finding out.

Yes. That's a more comprehensive reply.

In the UK we have a different attitude to sickness. If we are ill we go to the doctor (paid for by the state) and have a day off (paid by the company/state).

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1478547624' post='3169828'] The local heavy hitters have an established stable of bass players they use. I guess the question is how you get in the stable. Keep in mind this is a clique of musicians that are native Milwaukeans that have worked together for years. Blue [/quote] You're completely missing what I wrote. Where do you get your drummer/guitarist/singer deps from. Get the details of the guys you want to play with and get them to fill in your band when someone can't make a gig. Although, from previous posts about the way you treat your band, you probably have no say whatsoever about this.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1478543220' post='3169777'] I've played shows with one of our heavy hitters, it hasn't been of much benefit yet. I wasn't really comfortable asking him to stick around to hear me perform. I know where your coming from because that's the way things happened for guys in the old days. Not sure that's the way it works anymore. Blue [/quote] But have you spoken to the other heavy hitter band members and got their details and asked them to cover players from your band when they can't do gigs?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1478524012' post='3169587'] It doesn't work that way over here, your nor going to get a local heavy hitter to attend your gig if your not in their click. Blue [/quote] Hmmm. The way it works here is you pay a dep to play in your band. Once you've had a few different pros play with you they start asking you to cover when they need someone. Are you saying that 'heavy hitters' only play for big names? There must be a middle step between what you're doing now and backing Phil Collins on tour?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1478052563' post='3166425'] I don't know much about the depping world. However what seems to be the case in my part of the world,its another closed clicky scene. Blue [/quote] Unfortunately. This means getting out socially to the places where these people are and being nice to them. Invite them to your gigs so they see and hear how good you are. When they come, make sure you buy them drinks and keep them entertained, not just with the music. Go to their gigs and complement them on what they're doing. Clicky scenes are not that hard to get into if you know how to socialise and make it work. Even BassChat is fairly clicky at a certain level. You have to give and take a bit and get a few decent posts in before people start listening and respecting your comments. .

Graeme, PM Trevor and ask for details on this. I'd really recommend it as a way forward. [quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1463435983' post='3051400'] Hey there Graeme, Long time! Didn't realise that you were hanging around here! We chatted SB700s many moons ago... On a slight tangent, have you ever thought of transferring the content of the site over to one of the free blogging platforms like Blogger or Wordpress. That's what I did with my Wal history blog when we changed ISP a few years ago and I lost the free 20MB of webspace. They are dead easy to learn and very intuitive and, best of all, free! If you just copied all the website pages back onto your hard drive via your FTP programme you could load them up bit by bit. That's how I rebuilt the Wal site. Anyway, just a thought... [/quote]

Whichever you chose make sure you have telephone support to the UK. I'm managing a website hosted on a 1and1 sweet. Contacting them is a complete headache/impossible. I can't find any numbers that aren't sales or any email addresses of their support team. Might be just me though...

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1478180047' post='3167322'] If it's an originals band, why would you bother with a cover? It's simply going to put your song up against something that people know, and so the perception is they prefer the song they know to your song. Pointless. I struggle with this in an originals band I play for, they have plenty of great songs, but still insist on putting in one or two cover in as 'crowd pleasers', what a waste of a song in a set that could be used to turn people onto your music instead. If you're a covers band looking for work, fine, I get it. If you're an originals band, I simply don't understand it. Si [/quote] It increases the audience. Unfortunately (watch XFactor) a large proportion of people are not open to new music and have to listen to a tune several times before it grows on them. On the radio new tunes are introduced alongside well known ones. If you play only unknown originals you limit your audience to a very narrow set of listeners.

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1478156007' post='3167117'] Thanks for the feedback My opinion as a writer of origonals is that I would l;ike to hear people playing my stuff. It's a tribute or recognition of your work by fellow musicians. On the other hand if someone was making a lot of money on the back of it I would feel entitled to some of it. No moral worries here and it sounds like no legasl worries either as our activity will be below the radar [/quote] It will depend on the copyright holder. If you try to YouTube Beatles numbers they're pretty sparse.

I created a video and used music from a CD. YouTube flagged it up, knew what the music was and verified that as it was already available on YouTube that it was OK for me to use. I'm guessing that the actual licence is with YouTube not the person who uploaded/made the video or the account holder. As long as you are not selling the actual video or song I would think you'd be ok.

Domain transfer. http://www.wix.com/domain/connect-domain

I can't see any Wix info unless I log on. Usually the host (Wix) will have an option for you to use your own website address. First you'll build your site using one of their free domains and then 'map' your own address onto that site. It's quite simple there should be a help page somewhere. Nominet handle all the domain names and the host (Wix) will update them for you.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1477990806' post='3165695'] Sometimes some folk have got quite upset when I've sellected parts only from a quote, even with the "...". [/quote] Sone folk are just looking for stuff to get upset about though.

[quote name='Rocker' timestamp='1478005076' post='3165884'] I noticed that too. But the cynic, that is me, wonders why the guy expends so much energy into just proving that something does not perform as the manufacturer claims. If buyers believe it works, then it works for them. If not, it doesn't. I believe that the so called 'retail therapy' can make us feel a lot better about ourselves. The new suit theory... What is wrong about feeling better about ourselves? There are enough problems without someone adding to the list and calling us liars if we believe something works, even if it can be 'proved' that it does not. [/quote] That's a different thing though. One of the posters here is a PHD researching the Placebo Effect. He was on Horizon? a couple of years back. It's certainly real and researchers have to go a long way to eliminate it from their experiments.

It's the musicians curse. Once you learn an instrument you will be forever listening to what it is doing during a piece of music. The best producers and musicians are those that can rise above this point and go back to listening to music in the same way as a non musician does. It's no surprise to me that there are a lot of very good ex-bass player producers. I don't think you'd get this discussion on another forum. Bass players need to be able to understand melody, counter melody, harmony and bass to be good players. You don't get that by only listening to the bass.

Don't forget to add ellipsis if [quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1477947020' post='3165500'] ... you quote just sections of a post ... [/quote] Otherwise you could unintentionally misrepresent the OP.

Haven't got a clue. The set list has all the first notes written on it so I get that one right, after that I just wing them.

I guess looking at it from the other point of view. I've played in a few situations where I've had to borrow gear or use house gear. Basses, amps, leads and cabs. Assuming all the gear is good quality, a rubbish lead can be a nightmare, I've never managed to get a decent sound out of any 4x10" cab. So maybe for me it's a cab, not a deal breaker, but I'd rather avoid using them.