Pete Academy

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1022118' date='Nov 13 2010, 03:00 AM']I looked it up, she's got a page on Wikipedia. She says: Yes, this is the bird in Pete's avatar in the low-cut dress thrusting her massive tits at the photographers. Presumably she was doing that ironically.[/quote] Oh, how I envy Doddy still being on your 'ignore'.

[quote name='bythesea' post='1021869' date='Nov 12 2010, 07:58 PM']Am I the only one who has no idea who she is? [/quote] Mad Men

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='1021797' date='Nov 12 2010, 06:33 PM']I have to say pete.. those are some fantastic knockers you've got there.[/quote] Yep, I've got plenty of knockers.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1021759' date='Nov 12 2010, 05:58 PM']I think this is what happened after your last short absence too. Can I be the official BC Sarah-fetcher?[/quote] Ahem...who started the thread?

[quote name='Conan' post='1021499' date='Nov 12 2010, 02:43 PM']I already suggested that, but apparently they didn't.[/quote] Most women actually love Christina Hendricks.

[quote name='Bass Culture' post='1021430' date='Nov 12 2010, 02:02 PM']Damn me, I suspect this is for the panto that is but a hop and skip away from the University I work in. If only that pesky day job didn't get in the way![/quote] Oh no it isn't!

[quote name='fingerz' post='1021217' date='Nov 12 2010, 11:47 AM']Hi, I'm advertising this on behalf of an MD I work for, looking to fix a bass player in Wrexham this Christmas. I don't know many people around that neck of the woods, so thought i'd stick an ad on here. The gig requires you to be a decent reader, professional and punctual. Dates: 6th Dec - 2nd Jan @ £425 per week. If you are interested, then call me or pm me, and I can put you in touch. I'd really appreciate any questions be asked directly as I don't have many answers, just putting this out on behalf of the company running the show. I hope this is of use to somebody on here! Cheers, Jo 07719154668[/quote] Try PMing Doddy.

[quote name='SaxxyBass' post='1021304' date='Nov 12 2010, 12:43 PM']Don't I count? [/quote] Sorry!

[quote name='Conan' post='1021308' date='Nov 12 2010, 12:44 PM']Without going over old ground, is it just a teensy-weensy bit possible that their disappearance coincided with a sudden increase in avatars featuring semi-naked women? Naaah. Couldn't be that.[/quote] I was waiting for that one. I doubt it, as they haven't posted for months. And I don't think that would bother Sarah.

Mrs T and Endorka seems to be the only female posters. What happened to Zoe BillySheehan and Sarah 5 String? Was it something we said?

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1019748' date='Nov 11 2010, 09:40 AM']Learning to read music does not require a 400 page tome but a short 'these are what the dots mean' explanation. THe difficulty (which is less so now) is finding source material to [i]practice[/i] reading. In my day, the books were full of Campdown Races, Franki and Johnny and excerpts from The Trout and had no value for me as a player then or now. Nowadasy there are more options (many transcriptions are on here). FOr instance, learning what each note means is easy. Take a blank sheet of music paper and write a series of notes in straight crotchets, four beats to the bar (i.e. no rhythms to read). Write out 8 bars of two notes, say A and B in a randon sequence (ABBAABAABABBAABABABBABABAABAB, for instance) - concentrate on reading those two notes alone until you get the 8 bars right (if you find you have learned the sequence, write out another one - you are learning to read, not to play this sequence of notes). Then Write out eight bars using only A, B and C. THen try 16 bars of A, B, C & D. and so on. I recommend you don't learn those mnemonics (All Cows Eat Grass etc) because they tie you into a process that slows you down. Just learn two notes, then add a third then a fourth and so on. You will be reading sraight crotchets in no time. Then you can start looking at reading rhythms after you know what the notes are.[/quote] That does seem like great advice.

[quote name='Vibrating G String' post='1019387' date='Nov 10 2010, 09:37 PM']I just saw Jeff Lorber Fusion and the Yellowjackets last Sunday so that's a big yes for me In general I'm a big fan of mixed styles.[/quote] Jeff Lorber? Wow, that's a blast from the past.

Playing dead notes in a groove is difficult. I started by using them in sixteenth-note bass lines. It might be advisable to play your favourite bass lines and insert the dead notes in between or amongst the actual line. That's just my opinion.

[quote name='cetera' post='1018916' date='Nov 10 2010, 03:59 PM']Peter Cetera (Chicago) Tiran Porter (Doobie Brothers) Gene Simmons (KISS) and of course they all link back to McCartney/Jamerson [/quote] Have to agree with Tiran Porter. Very underrated and understated.

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1018976' date='Nov 10 2010, 04:41 PM']Not my most diplomatic effort, I'll grant you. Sorry if you found it unduly abrasive, but then playing all that 'Dan music I expect you're used to taking the smooth with the smooth (I'm just making it worse now, aren't I). Peace to readers and non-readers alike. When one considers the vast extent of human knowledge, it is clearly inevitable that we are all ignorant in more areas than we are knowledgeable, and, as silddx pointed out above, we all have to make choices and prioritise how we spend our time. Ignorance is therefore not always a cause for shame, though it is never a cause for pride.[/quote] Fair enough. I'm down your way in January and didn't want to get beaten up.

[quote name='tauzero' post='1018752' date='Nov 10 2010, 01:40 PM']Reggae's dead easy if you know the seekrit, which is that the bass player is too stoned to remember to play on 1, and by the time he remembers, he puts a few extra notes in to make up for it.[/quote]

Bernard Edwards Verdine White Marcus Miller

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1017386' date='Nov 9 2010, 12:20 PM']Can you point to any such statement? Or does it only happen inside your own head? Really? Who are these people, and where have they said such things? I don't see it. I see thread after thread about how reading and/or theory isn't important. I don't see any stating that no matter how much feel or groove a player may have, they aren't worth anything unless they can read music. What I see are insecure people who feel the need to downplay and de-value the skills they don't possess themselves. I used to hang out on a sampler/groovestation website, as I used to use a hardware sequencer for MIDI arranging, and you'd find the same thing there - kids who could only work a beatbox going on about how just because they'd never bothered to learn to play a musical instrument that didn't make them any less of a musician than anyone else and decrying the "snobbery" of those who thought otherwise. All just a bit sad, and reminiscent of the scene in Time Bandits where Napoleon, trying to demonstrate that shortness is no impediment to greatness, sits and reels off the names of every diminutive commander in history he can think of, along with their precise height, and in the process simply proves that he is deeply obsessed with his own lack of stature. EDIT: just for the record, although I have a fair knowledge of theory and can read music, I am a rubbish sight-reader, and not a particularly accomplished musician. If I had to rely on my musical ability to make a living I'd go hungry pretty quickly, and I have no doubt that either Pete Academy or Nigel silddx could play me under the table any day of the week.[/quote] Any chance you could be a bit more civil with your responses?

[quote name='risingson' post='1017899' date='Nov 9 2010, 06:05 PM']Bernard Edwards's style isn't exactly easily copped. People might think they can play Good Times like the record, but so many people lack the feel because Bernard Edwards was a stupidly good bassist who isn't easy to copy, simples. If you want to be a funk player, you either had to grow up in 70's Philadelphia or New York, and if you didn't, then you need to emerge yourself in listening to The Meters and Slave records for years at a time.[/quote] True. Good Times is tricky to play correctly. I've seldom heard it played right. Slave? Mark Adams is one of the best funk players ever. Truly unique.

Crusaders?

I think jazz-funk has produced some of the best bass lines ever. Chameleon, anyone?

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='1017819' date='Nov 9 2010, 04:44 PM']Jazz mixed with extremely tight funk and uber minimalist zen groove philosophy = Nik Bartsch's RONIN [/quote] Love it!

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1017808' date='Nov 9 2010, 04:39 PM']Mines 11 inches Truckstop[/quote] Mine's 12 inches, but I don't use it as a rule.

Do you like your jazz mixed with funk or served neat?

I know some people thought this was a pointless thread but it has yielded some interesting and informative stuff.