EssentialTension

Very nice indeed.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='391094' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:58 PM']* Just realised I've left out the biggest offender of the lot - "Progressive" Metal. I'd rather go down on a tramp than listen to that nonsense. Music to paint Space Marines to.[/quote] Agreed on the progressive metal (or pretty much any other metal) but what is a space marine?

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='390866' date='Jan 25 2009, 12:08 PM']It's the fact that those of you who have the dicipline to learn theory don't have the dicipline to just play the root when required.[/quote] I know and value some theory and I'll often play a root note, sometimes eight times in one bar, and sometimes for many bars consecutively. When you call a note the 'root note' I'd say that is theory. You might not want to improve your knowledge of theory but don't pretend that you don't have any knowledge of theory at all.

[quote name='artisan' post='390256' date='Jan 24 2009, 10:45 AM']i'm with tBBC,it's all about fun for me & to be honest i can't be arsed to learn how to read music & in my 30 years of playing i've probably learnt all the theory i'm ever going to need,& i didn't have to read music for that. i'm mainly a blues/rock player & have written a fair few songs over the years,although i will admit it would sometimes have been handy to actually "write" the song down on papper correctly but hey who cares ? i'll just stick to playing for fun thanks.[/quote] I don't understand this distinction between 'fun' on the one hand and 'knowing some theory and being able to read notation' on the other hand. Several commentators here appear to think that music theory is not and could not be fun. That may well be their experience or their emotional response to it but it can't make it that it cannot be fun for anyone else. For me, music theory is fun and I wish I had more time to spend on it. In fact, where is my 'Levine', I think I'll do some now.

[quote name='dumelow' post='387845' date='Jan 21 2009, 06:32 PM']has anybody found a store website where you can do this over the website??? it seems to me like you can only go into a store and do this. im lazy, id love to do this from the comfort of my own couch[/quote] This [url="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/takeitaway/questions.html"]page[/url] says 'Take it away loans are available on mail order purchases as well as those made in person at a participating store'.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='388652' date='Jan 22 2009, 03:55 PM']if I were playing jazz, even on bass guitar, I think it makes sense to stand on stage right because the ride is the main time keeping component of the kit[/quote] Despite what I said earlier about almost always on drummer's left, I think there might be something in what Alex says. In a new band I've been playing not exactly jazz but definitely jazzier stuff with a lot of timekeeping on the ride. The rehearsal studio is set up with the bass rig on the drummer's right and so that's where I am and it does seem to work.

Hi-hat side (drummer's left) almost without fail.

Is this my old Starfire still not with you?

[quote name='Rayman' post='388194' date='Jan 22 2009, 08:49 AM']I had one, it was brilliant. [b]In my opinion it never [i]quite[/i] sounded like a standard precision[/b], but was very versatile, and very easy to play. Great build quality too.[/quote] I agree never [i]quite[/i] like a standard P but close enough if you're not a thoroughgoing purist (and with lots of other sounds available too). I'm actually running mine tuned BEAD at the moment. Very happy.

I have an Amber/Rosewood American Deluxe. I love it. Great neck. Does P bass and J bass imitations and more sounds too. My only criticism is the lack of passive/active switching.

Does the book have a title?

[quote name='chris_b' post='384702' date='Jan 19 2009, 09:30 AM']He's playing the end section of the verse, running up to the chorus.[/quote] Agreed - and aimed at real beginners.

[quote name='Toasted' post='370689' date='Jan 5 2009, 10:30 AM']I find it strange that folks here say TB is too religious, considering religious discussion is 100% banned.[/quote] My feeling about that is that here you can have a discussion about religion (and most other things) but at TB you can go on about how great God is (for example in your signature) but that's all. The London bus would be banned at TB. Maybe I'm being too harsh.

[quote name='dlloyd' post='383678' date='Jan 18 2009, 12:35 AM']I'm only just getting into it properly now, and my experiences of Klezmer CDs have been pretty hit or miss. This looks like a decent list with some names I recognise.... [url="http://www.klezmershack.com/archives/007030.html"]http://www.klezmershack.com/archives/007030.html[/url][/quote] Thanks dll.

Slightly off topic I know but anyone recommmend some Klezmer to listen too - both of traditional and more contemporary varieties?

D'Addario Chromes on a fretless Jazz - excellent. But then I use flats on everything so I'm not a good source really. What sound are you after? Different flats won't all sound the same.

To me that's horrible in every way.

My first three basses were: 1972 second hand [u]Hofner Artist[/u] £25 - now £243.75 1974 new [u]Hayman 4040[/u] £150 - now £1249.50 1975 new [u]Fender Precision[/u] £315 - now £2261.70

Introductory and very friendly (or so I thought): [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Music-Musicians-Composition-Improvisation/dp/0879305711/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231714560&sr=1-2"]Dave Stewart, Inside the Music[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicians-Guide-Reading-Writing-Music/dp/0879305703/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231714560&sr=1-1"]Dave Stewart, The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music[/url] Neither are specific to bass but it's all relevant to any instrument and there is some stuff on bass.

[quote name='HarryPotter' post='376895' date='Jan 11 2009, 04:39 PM']I noticed today just how microphonic the pup is on this bass (and how weedy output voltage wise). Basically it needs replacing - the bass is great, pup aside. So does anybody have any ideas for a drop in replacement? Electronics and soldering etc. I am good at, I just don't fancy cutting wood. I've contacted Brandoni to see if they have anything and Andy at Wizard to see if he is able to help. Best price I can get a Dimarzio model one for is about £75 from Thomman. So what do you guys know / think. TIA[/quote] Expensive but ..... Dark Star

If you liked the look of that you can read about it [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=627.0"]here[/url].

[quote name='Delberthot' post='369898' date='Jan 4 2009, 01:21 PM']If you're interested in the Darkstar mod there's a guy on talkbs did the mod with his one. I can't remember his name. Something like Chef or maybe that was someone else.[/quote] The thread about it is [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=275848&highlight=telecaster+dark+star"]here[/url]. And you can hear it at [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BMk6Z5Dxxxk"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BMk6Z5Dxxxk[/url].

[quote name='The Burpster' post='368443' date='Jan 2 2009, 01:34 PM']Did you try flats? I have 'that' sound on my basses now with flatwounds and wondered if I could get g'tar faximilie of it with flatwounds and down tuned to A Something like these bad boys..... [url="http://www.daddario.com/DADProdDetail.aspx?CodaID=557&ID=1&Class=AADA"]http://www.daddario.com/DADProdDetail.aspx...&Class=AADA[/url] Waddya reckon.... worth a try?[/quote] My son has those heavy flatwound D'Addario Chromes guitar strings in his Epiphone Casino but in standard tuning, not tuned down . He uses it in his school jazz band. They do have a great sound but you couldn't bend them to save your life. (He's got a Gibson with 9-42 Bright Wires on for bending.) The Chromes are heavy enough to cope with a lower tuning but I don't know whether they'd be long enough for a 28" scale baritone guitar though.

[quote name='YouMa' post='367964' date='Jan 1 2009, 07:05 PM'][b]Come back tony hancock and bring rik mayall with you.[/b][/quote] Off-topic but... Is it just me or, allowing for what you can say and do on TV in the nineties rather than the early sixties, are Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmundson in [i]Bottom[/i] strongly indebted to Tony Hancock and Sid James in [i]Hancock's Half Hour[/i]?