TimR

They generally do on the back if you look.

Which is why it's a strange thing to put on the package. I could understand if it was something to make sure it was disposed of properly, otherwise what's the point?

A product that has a latent danger to someone when it is used in the normal way. I don't know how it works in other counties but if you sell something in the UK that you know is dangerous, you have to design out the danger. eg I do know that in the US PPE is the first thing you do to protect people, in the UK it's the last thing you do.

You don't have that labelling on peanuts. Peanuts are not nuts, you will have a warning on peanuts that says may contain nuts because they are prepared in a factory that prepares nuts. People who are allergic to nuts are not necessarily allergic to peanuts and people who are allergic to peanuts are not necessarily allergic to nuts.

It's a crazy country. You wouldn't be able to sell a product like that in the UK, let alone absolve yourself of any legal obligations. Imagine trying to sell brake pads with 'warning: contains asbestos'

I'd hazard a guess that those bands never heard of dynamics internal or external. If you're playing with good musicians that should never happen. Songs evolving is why covers bands are popular. Otherwise just put a CD on.

Technically when it comes to music, the only thing you learn is which parts you need to practice.

Some wild assumptions made there. If you're learning 6 new songs a week then sure you need to practice every week, if only to get the arrangements sorted. Although being the best you can be with an hour or so set aside to sort an arrangement and practice it to be whatever high quality you seem to aspire to, seems to be at odds with your assertion that you need to practice every other week to keep the songs you know up to speed. The issue is, when you have 4 people who are company directors/owners it becomes increasingly difficult to find a day that all 4 are available. I have other hobbies besides playing bass guitar. I'm busy 2 days a week doing other things not sitting at home watching TV waiting to be called for a band rehearsal. And who practices on a Friday night?

We also have 2 directors and one company owner in our band. One is a single mother of two children under 5. Rehearsing and practicing just to hang out together is a luxury none of us can afford. Playing live with one's chums is much more rewarding than going over and over tunes we can already play backwards. We haven't rehearsed for 2 months now as our last gig was the middle of September and we have nothing on the radar at the moment.

Which is why endless rehearsals perfecting tunes that bomb can be soul destroying.

Depends on whether it's a rehearsal or a practice. A gig is worth 1000 rehearsals. I'm not interested in being in a rehearsal band along with a bunch of people who want to be able to say they're in a band, but don't actually want to gig. Practice is for working out new tune arrangements. Rehearsal is the last couple of practices before a gig. If you're gigging regularly you don't need rehearsals, just practices to learn new material. Assuming your band is made up of competent and experienced musicians.

Only if you're giving them an itemised bill. Most of us will be just charging for a gig. Let's hope we don't all have to join a preffered suppliers list, and have to provide insurance, PAT certs and Risk Assessments. Pub gigs will become a total nightmare.

My Apologies on further investigation and fully checking the facts. It's in 3 movements. No bars, tempos or time signatures were written: I TACET II TACET III TACET

But it's not tab is it? It's just pictures of a fretboard. Tab is bars with the strings on. The Cage Song is 120 bars odd of rests. Depending on what tempo you play it at.

I'm sure I'm being trolled or missing something vital here. But I'll bite. What do these photos of guitar fretboards have to do with bass tab?

Is now a good time to say I play cowbell during the verse? I spent several days selecting the correct cowbell and perfecting my timing.

There's also a danger of spending too much time getting a line exactly right as it is on the record. 'Learning' your part is just the initial step. Once you get to rehearsal, you'll undoubtedly have to change what you are playing to fit whatever alterations to the arrangement your band have to make to suit the abilities and instrumentation of the rest of the band. Learn your part. Practice your part to be competent Meet with the band and work out the arrangement. Practice your new bass part. Rehearse the whole thing with the band. Some or all of those steps may or may not apply depending on different situations.

I've been playing it for years. The bass part under the guitar solo is tricky but the chorus is 3 or 4 notes in E.

Maybe, but I was always taught to listen to as much material as possible and to play with as many people as possible. And I've grown up around musicians. Learning tunes when you don't have to, is never wasted time, you learn more about how songs are constructed and how they fit together. And in the long run develop vital skills as a bass player, which ultimately mean you're not sitting over a cassette player fast forwarding and rewinding while looking at the counter and trying different notes to see if they fit. Maybe nowadays that's not such a chore, highlight a section music in pro tools, set it on repeat at half speed and pick out the part. But I think that listening properly and applying theory to their playing is skill that some people have lost.

It's bizarre.

I'm not sure what exactly your problem is. I haven't set any criteria and I'm not telling anyone what to do. I'm giving my opinion. Why are you taking it so personally? Really, if you just want to listen to one genre and a set of tunes that's fine by me. Why join a covers band playing tunes you've never heard before? It's either because you want the money, in which case, listen to more tunes and expand your skillset and repertoire and you'll be more attractive to bands. Or its because you want to expand your skillset and repertoire. Bass playing is my hobby too. If I'm in the car I'll be listening to tunes I have to learn or listening for upcoming artists.

Just play TO the chords. If you know the chord the individual notes are usually pretty intuitive. You shouldn't have to be sitting there picking out individual notes of a run.

Don't see how? It was a question.

No it's not. Lots have people have taken my comment that most songs can be learned with one listen literally and then extrapolated that to all songs with one listen or you can't call yourself a bass player. I've never said that. At one point I questioned whether anyone should be playing in cover bands if they've not heard the covers that the audience will be familiar with. I'd question any musician who doesn't listen to a very wide range of genres. You're painting yourself into a corner. I didn't say you couldn't or shouldn't. At no point did I say they shouldn't call themselves bass players.

Why. Most cover versions should be on people's radar from hearing them on the radio. Loads of them, apparently, are played by practically every other band. Sitting down and actively listening to a song with your bass in your hand should be all it takes for the majority of songs you'll be asked to play. Most songs follow a simple format and chord progression. The bass lines consist of notes within the scale and chord. Which leaves a chunk of material you may have to listen to several times to pick out. No one said you should be able to learn all cover songs from hearing them once on the radio. The key word here is listen.