Beedster

Mic is the only way to make an upright sound like a louder upright

On iPhone/laptop yes, headphones no. In a mix it would probably work though 👍

So Garmin use arm movement to estimate steps?

Hope they paid you well for that rather impressive and I’d imagine quite tiring ppm rate Lawrie? I tend to hold firm at around 1/10 that unless there’s some serious cash on the table 😆

What if you get it wrong…..🤔

That’s either some busy double bass playing or a hell of a long gig? Or Jazz 😀

Link would help?

Nice looking instrument 👍

Reverb is a nice place to sell as it's mostly musicians. It's generally slower than eBay and a little less user friendly, but I much prefer it, I've sold to US and EU there with no hassle

Exactly 👍

Absolutely, really not sure why anyone would think it was to be honest? You'd be bringing them to a slow market and adding a significant/prohibitive cost to any potential buyer in the EU. Add to that the fact above, that any decent shop will not risk the wrath of HMRC so you will pay duties plus the cost of moving them to UK. Furthermore while with eBay/Reverb etc you can negotiate directly with buyers to speed up sales, many instruments sit in shop inventories for months if not years.....

100% this. plus sell them on eBay with an international postage option (when I used to buy and sell a lot, I often found that instruments that didn't sell in the UK would be gone within minutes when I added an EU option). This is especially the case ad Denmark is still EU so buyers won't have to pay taxes/duties.

Agreed, it's not his best, there are some clips where his ensemble playing is perfectly balanced between creative technique and supporting the song, worth checking some of his other stuff out on that basis But yes, all too often slap shouts 'look at me' to an audience. Funny how the same audience member might cheer the upright player when s/he does a bit of slap at a gig, yet also turn to their mates in the audience and say how f***ing awful it sounded why can't they bassist just support the song (I know from personal experience.....🤔)

In essence yes, same notes & same timing to start with, with as much of the originally fingerstyle part slapped or popped as is reasonably possible, see how things work, and then adapt as necessary

I'd start by trying to play the finger style basslines you've written using slap. It'll probably sound crude at first but as you get more into the lines you'll find that using slap brings new ideas and options to what was a fingerstyle line

Pay the £18, money well spent and keeps the site going 👍

Ampeg SVT II: For when you need the whole room to feel as well as hear what your playing Mesa M-Pulse 600: For when you want to sound like you have a big tube amp but don't MusicMan Audiophile HD500: For when you want lovely clean and funky tone plus you want bassists to ask about it at gigs

PhD Psychology here. I now understand how little I and science generally really knows about the human mind and behaviour 🤔

Have a listen to Graceland and get a feel for just how great it can sound 👍

There's a big part of me would love to be able to play slap (well) on the DB, but I generally find that when I see other players using it, I find it something of a turnoff (although I did like the playing of Hugh Bradly you posted a few months back), as is very much the case with fretted bass. But slap on a fretless bass is a style I generally love both to listen to and to play 👍