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  1. greghagger
    Interesting, good to hear your story about your limitations... You are totally correct, none of it is rocket science, even technique or ear training. It is just knuckling down to some hard work and practice. But all elements of music improve you as a musician. Knowing music theory can be a brilliant aid to help train your ear too! Think of interval training for example. But it sounds like you’ve got the music theory covered so good for you!
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    I love his background on the video and it’s a nice lesson. I agree that Blues is a great style to use to learn bass. It has a lot of transferable musical ideas and techniques.
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    Ah cheers, didn’t know Roscoe had an instructional video. That will be interesting to look at. I think we have similar tastes. Tommy’s feel is just so on the money!
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    Great, they are both particular favourites of mine too. Saw Roscoe Back with the Blue Line back in the late 90’s and I was blown away by his tone and lines. As for Tommy Shannon, he’s such a powerhouse and love his ‘Texas Shuffle’ line on ‘Pride and Joy’! Solid suggestion to study the playing styles of Blues bass players 👍
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    I highly recommend an Xtender and have put them on a couple of my basses. You’ll have fun getting use to fretting the E string though when you have an Eb or D selected! It does make a 4-string much more versatile in certain situations and can save you having to lug a 5-string out for a few low D’s or Eb’s. Bass looks great by the way.
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    Hey Bass-chatters, If you could have any resource to help you to learn how to improve your Blues bass playing, what would it be? For example, backing tracks, video instructional course, coaching, etc. Also what is your preference with styles of Blues? American or British Blues? Or do you just love it all like me?
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    Out of interest, do you have an area of music theory that you particularly struggle to understand? Do you feel that it is holding you back in developing as a bass player too?
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    Brilliant article and I wasn’t aware of the ‘Notes with Attachment’ album. Just ordered it and very interested in giving it a listen.
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    You are absolutely hilarious my friend. I’m just a working pro who also has an educational website. That’s it! I’m proud of what I do but I certainly don’t think too much of myself, whatever that means anyway. If you are going to try and have a pop at me then do the proper research or you are going to start to look a bit foolish. You certainly won’t find anything online to contradict what I am saying. as I said previous, I am happy to talk basses with you but not interested in this playground banter! Go troll someone else...
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    Yep the bulk of my gigging work is in the West End. Well done 10 points for being able to use Google. Keep going though...
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    Absolutely, all the information is out there online if anyone wants to look! Nothing to hide there! Anyway about that neck 😜
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    Nah, just what I do for a job (in normal times anyway). Now back to basses...
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    You guys 😂
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    Yes, when I said “the victim of a teenager’s bad craftsmanship” I meant me! Quite happy to admit to this 😃 I think you missed me talking about that earlier in the thread. Don’t blame you, as you have to wade through quite a few pages to get there. Anyway, yes my handiwork I’m afraid. After stumbling across this bloke called Jaco on a cassette called ‘Heavy Weather’, back in the early 90’s, I decided to ‘modify’ my bass. Big mistake but we live and learn don’t we! Anyway I am glad I kept my original bass as it certainly has a new lease of life now. A quite badly build Encore bass now plays John Deacon bass lines in Stadiums and Arenas (with the customary COVID break of course!).
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    @Cuzzie Here is the victim of a teenager’s bad craftsmanship back in the early 90’s. This will answer your question about why I decided to go for a new neck 😂 @Teebs you were spot on!
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    Yep totally agree! Glad we are on the same page now 👍
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    The advice has been dished out already. Happy to talk basses with the ones that want to 👍
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    Happy to talk basses Ricky! 👍
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    I’ll even talk basses with sheep or jealous people. All are welcome here to talk about basses! 😀
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    Cheers, it would actually be interesting to find out more about the bridge. Maybe someone has some knowledge of Encore bridges?
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    Read my message above. Happy to talk about basses my friend!
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    Very true, that’s where I invested the money.
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    Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately because of COVID and my job as a professional bass player being taken away for over a year now, I don’t have the income to pay a marketer. Online bass education is something I have been doing for a few years now, and it has been especially important to me to keep my family going over the last year. So yes, maybe I do sometime misread a group or get my marketing off. BUT I do think that some people are losing a bit of perspective here. After all Basschat is fine with people posting their YouTube videos. I have learnt over the last few years that jealousy does also come into play. The very fact that someone puts a video out on YouTube makes a particular sort of person jealous that they ether can’t or haven’t themselves. By ‘keyboard warrior’ I mean the general sheep mentality that you sometimes find online. One person slags something off and predictably the online bullies pile in. It’s easy to hide behind their computers and I’m not sure of the boldness that would actually happen in a real life exchange. Anyway the post is out there, enough important opinions have been cast. Let’s move on and if anyone wishes to chat about the contents of the video and basses in general, I would be very happy to oblige!
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