StingRayBoy42

Oh, Thank God!

Apologies for the hijack... as you were.

If ever I'm asked "Are you a musician?" my answer is always "Good God, no - I'm a Bass player"

Oh don't worry about that, you can just make it up 😃

Apologies, the -> were meant to deonte moving from one note to the next

I know that 'Music Theory' is an academic subject but in my humble opinion, knowing note names, knowing which notes to play when and why *IS* music theory. Someone could have decent music theory knowledge without having studied it academically, surely? If a guitarist told you what chords he was playing and you knew which notes to play (or even just where to put your fingers) to make it sound good, that's music theory, surely? Maybe we should seperate it into Music Theory and music theory? Potato/Potato, Tomato/Tomato, let's Carl the whole thing Orff 😃

Yes, it is! That's why A -> C natural -> E will sound better under an A minor chord

I respectfully disagree - IMHO 'Music theory' is everything from knowing note names to knowing when, why and how to substitute a Subdominant for a Neapolitan Second chord and everything inbetween.

Not necessarily - 'Music theory' means knowing which notes to play over under which chords - A -> C natural -> E will (generally) sound better under an A minor chord than A -> C# -> E for instance, even if you couldn't read them on a score. You all know some scales and triads, even if you don't know that you know them!

Are you saying I'm fat?! I'll have you know it's all muscle.

Neither does Paul McCartney and he makes a decent fist of it.

Live Aid was on my eleventh birthday. I remember watching it and thinking "They're going to have to do something BLOODY spectacular for my twelfth..."

Year started playing: 1991 Number of basses: 7/8/9 (Depends what counts as a 'Bass') Music theory: 10 Technique: 10 Groove: 10 Modesty: 10 😃

Lekato sent me the manual - as I suspected it's pretty much 1. plug in. 2. turn on (3. make sure they're on the same channel) but I've attached it for anyone who wants it. It does GENIUNELY say attach the transmitter to "guitars, mussels, blowtorches etc" - I would strongly advise that you do not attempt to attach it to a mussel or a blowtorch. Anyone who can't work out that the one with the picture of a guitar on goes in the (Bass) guitar and the one with the picture of the speaker on goes in the amp (even with dymo and/or colour coded labels attached) should present themselves to their nearest freelance vivsectionist, police station, glue factory or tannery. I will ABSOLUTELY plug them into the wrong things at my next gig. WS-90 USER MANUAL M01582N.pdf

My Lekato WS-90s came without a user manual - has anyone got one they could scan/photograph and send to me? (I realise it'll probably say 1. plug in. 2. turn on. but I wouldn't mind seeing if there's anything else I should know!) Ta

One day at a time, mate.

I bought some wireless IEMs from Paul - good price, fabulous item (exacty as described), quick postage and great communications throughout. Deal with complete and total confidence!

Nice one, Andy - I'm in.

What if you like playing more than one type of music?!

I find it hard to believe that anyone's *so* busy they can't find an hour somewhere to look over some stuff they'll be playing live! Unless their other bands are Dragonforce/Dream Theater tributes, in which case, I'd probably believe them!

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I'm in lots of bands/dep occasionally and the golden rule (as others have said) is: If you've said yes to a gig and it's in your diary, you do it. I've just had to turn down a well paid wedding gig as I'll be up in Manchester (playing for next to nothing - an old mate's originals band) next weekend. This gig was organised months ago, so I'm doing it. If you start ducking out of gigs for better paid ones, people will quickly stop asking you to gig... you're only as good as your word. Use Google calendar and encourage everyone else to - this makes everyone's life a LOT easier and cuts down the potential for oopsies in my experience. As someone above said - if someone in your band is getting offered stuff like IOW festival.... that'd be a different matter. I'd imagine they've made that pretty clear from the outset! And as someone else said - get a few deps on board! As for people turning up to gigs/rehearsals without having practiced... that's just laziness, surely?!