TimR

12 character passwords are becoming the default. https://www.lastpass.com/features/password-generator People who moan about passwords are the same people who moan when they get hacked.

Generally people can't name members of bands unless they're close followers. eg. I can name all of Iron Maiden. I can name 2 of the Smiths. 2 of Blondie. 1 of Ultravox.

Pino Pallidino is a trained classical guitarist. But we digress. Theory isn't about reading the dots. It's about understanding chord structures, song structures, the requirement for a hook, the need to capture the audience in the first 4 bars, tension and release, the increased energy in the chorus, the complementary bass line. The space. I think that's missing in modern music that relies on production, it's going to be hard to find a group of musicians who can come together and work on creating something that has all those elements. It's easier for a solo artist to come up with lyrics and a melody and drag in a bunch of session musicians and a producer to finesse it. I'd suggest that's how the majority of the 'chart' muisc is finally produced, even if the original artist wrote it all in Garageband to start with.

There are a lot of bass players here that don't know theory. That's going to lead to bass lines that don't make musical sense. The claim that McArtney and Lenon couldn't read music is often cited, but they did have a producer, and they spent many years playing covers and learning how music theory worked.

My first gig. In the 80s. The singer didn't even show up. We tried ringing his house several times. No answer. Turns out his mum had made him go to his gran's birthday party. Rock and roll baby.

Actually we nearly did kill a drummer. He was also the singer, one practice he was complaining of a tingling sensation every time his lips touched the mic. I took the PA home and found someone had removed the earth wire from the 13amp mains plug. (Used to be done to cure ground loops with keyboards)

We once played the early Sunday afternoon slot at a local free street festival. A pop/rock covers band, sandwiched between 2 children's entertainers. A fairly big audience of mainly children and their mums. Plenty of songs had to have censored lyrics.

There's quite a bit of information in the "PA Setup and Use" sub forum. https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/122-pa-set-up-and-use/

Surely every band has at least one smoke machine story. Firstly. We are playing my local, a very small pub and I tell them, no smoke machine and no vapeing allowed in the pub (the singer is a chain vaper). Within 5 minutes of the singer arriving the pub is evacuated due to horrendously loud smoke alarm. No problem found, the alarm is silenced, we all go back in, only for the alarm to go off again. Singer asks why does the fire alarm keep going off. I ask if they'd been vapeing. Yes, but have been blowing the smoke out gently away from people. Secondly. Played a another pub gig. A bigger pub with a sound guy who was also managing lighting and effects. At one point the smoke machine came on, and wasn't stopping, the whole pub was full of smoke, no one could see anything. We continued playing until finally the sound guy reappeared and realised he'd turned the machine on and walked off outside for a cigarette.

The OP states the Amp can operate at 2ohms.

It's logarithmic. A 10dB (6dB) is a doubling of power. 2x watts. This gets confusing because to actually double the sound pressure (loudness) you need 10x the electrical power (watts). Loudness is subjective. Don't confuse sound power with electrical power and doubling perceived loudness isn't just doubling sound pressure. Anyway that's going off topic.

As long as both cabs are 4ohm or both are 8ohm, your amp will be fine. I am assuming you mean cab, as opposed to speakers, and calling the 2x10 a 'speaker'.

This. Everyone should have micropore tape in thier gig bag.

With bass it's often even easier. Just hit the first note of each bar.

This is one of my favourite tracks. Theme tune to the Radio 1 Friday Night Rock Show with Tommy Vance. I don't know how many tapes I had of the show. I would go to bed at 10pm and listen to it every Friday. There's a Facebook group where people share recording and playlists. What an era.

The stave is designed for piano. The lines and spaces represent the 7 degrees of the C major scale. That's why treble clef starts on middle C, the ledger line below the staff and the ledger line above the bass clef. The first note to recognise on the bass clef is E, which can only be played in one place. Open E string.

Not really. Bidders from 140 countries. It could have been bought by anyone.

All the money will go into Jeff Becks estate and be charged inheritance tax assuming it is UK based. So the people buying these instruments are technically indirectly paying your tax, in a voluntary way. They'll also be paying a %age to Christies. Who will also be paying tax.

I think you may not be understanding the key signature element. I don't worry too much about which individual notes are sharp of flat. Just if there are no sharps of flats then it's C. If there's one sharp then it's in G major. Two sharps D... I don't worry too much about relative minors when reading. If there's one sharp then all the notes on the stave will be just notes in the G major scale and the intervals amd accidentals (sharps/flats) will take care of themselves as long as you stay in G. First line G(root), second line B (3rd), third line D (5th). That's your G major triad. The others are very similar. Then its just a case of learning the notes on the stave. E is the ledger line below the staff, then A is first space, D is 3rd line and G is 4th space. Start with them until those 4 notes are cemented. There are other ways. But one note at a time is the best way to learn them.

Do you know the fretboard (or at least all strings up to 7th fret) inside out. If someone was to say play C# could you immediately put your finger on it (or them) without thinking? If not, then that's the first thing you need to do before even looking at the dots. Using tabs won't ever get you there. I think music teachers will try and teach you "this dot is this fret on this string", which I think might not help you.

I think people are scared of the 'reading' aspect. I've found playing bass in concert bands is actually fairly simple and you can feel your way through pieces initially not playing every single note. Work out what the key signature is. Then follow the lines approximately while staying in that key. Concentrate on the rhythms, which tend to be very similar for each piece, or stick to one note per bar. Record the rehearsals yourself for your your home practice. The band leader will cut you some slack if you're upfront from the start.

Usually there is "swing" written at the top by the arranger. Then it's up to the MD to get the band to swing by instructing during rehearsals. If the MD/conducter doesn't know how to groove then the band won't.

The other instruments will all be sight reading. Unfortunately if you're not confident in being able to trip along making the odd mistake and getting the feel for a piece, it's going to be very hard. It's a new environment for you. It's not like playing in a 3-5 piece band.

Did a gig once where during soundcheck the keboard was randomly turning itself on and off. I watched him playing for a while and spotted it was when he was tapping his foot. He was knocking the mains cable, which, on closer inspection, was about to fall out of the plug. So I said I'd open it up and rewire it quickly. To which he said he'd just keep his foot on it for the gig. 🤯 I rewired it.

Looks like he's sidelined that and made it a 200W guitar amp/amp for the 10" PA. I'm a bit confused. Is this bass combo available yet, or is it what's coming, or is it the 200W PA being used as a bass amp?