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[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='701740' date='Jan 5 2010, 03:39 PM']Yeah I'm always picking those up off my garden, bloody kids, there's a bin on the corner they could be putting their unwanted piano parts into.[/quote] [quote name='silddx' post='702646' date='Jan 6 2010, 11:42 AM'][/quote] Had me laughing as well. Don't buy a pedal just yet. The posts about technique are well worth listening to. (if listening to a written post isn't a contradiction). If you buy a pedal you will spend more time fiddling with it than playing, like I've done for the past few weeks. It's a distraction. Spending vast quantities of time on Basschat is not a distraction, that's educational.

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='706318' date='Jan 9 2010, 09:47 AM']Of course there's the other musicians (oops, sorry, you said drummer) prejudices - I didn't get a gig because I didn't have a traditional Fender![/quote] Their loss. Seems a little extreme though, not to get a gig because you don't have a particular bass. Very odd. I really like my Ibby and the strap (mainly because the kids got it for me). I point blank refuse to not play any genre that tickles me fancy.

That is nothing to be ashamed of Clarky. Although I've just been if informed by the wife that that would probably get me kicked out of bed just as quick as if I were to break wind.

Drummer I know said my Ibby was very hard rock/metal, and couldn't really see it fitting with some genres. Looks even more metal now, since I put a new strap on it [attachment=39650:_GS60_Tr...___Black.jpeg]

All turned a little sour. Friday night is takeout night. Mine's a curry.

[quote name='SteveK' post='703883' date='Jan 7 2010, 10:19 AM']Okay, no sniggering though [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3Usn3mFgI"]Embarrassing clip[/url][/quote] I'm not sniggering at someone who's achieved more than me. Good hip swinging.

[quote name='Geek99' post='705385' date='Jan 8 2010, 12:48 PM']Try [url="http://www.haax.se/basspatches/manualsite/index.php?unit=B2"]http://www.haax.se/basspatches/manualsite/index.php?unit=B2[/url][/quote] Cheers, now bookmarked.

I was roundly told off when I got my Ibby home. I placed it in the dinning room, and all through dinner I was found staring at it. I probably spend more time looking at my bass than I do playing it. Sad loser? yes I am.

I read and very occasionally respond to the posts of agoulding on BassChat. He being the brother of Ellie Goulding. To those outside the bass world agoulding is my best friend

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='704986' date='Jan 7 2010, 11:30 PM']Y'know, I'm not entirely sure.... I think he likes you, though.[/quote] Cheers, give him a pat on the head from me

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='704975' date='Jan 7 2010, 11:21 PM']Along with what;s already been said, it's strongly tied to groove, feel and dynamics, too.[/quote] Indeed. Please don't think I'm being rude, but the Camel, any particular reason or just fancied a change. Deep apologies for going way off topic.

You gotta start somewhere. And it depends what you do with the blues. I always end up playing a shuffle beat which p1sses the drummer I jam with off because he can't do shuffle very well - which I've always thought was odd.

[quote]I totally dig "Sub Dub" on my POD X3 LIVE. I think this a top idea for a thread and not silly at all. It's something I've always wanted to know without realising smile.gif[/quote] Thanks for that. Much appreciated. I've been noodling with mine most of the Christmas and new year (and this week as I'm on leave). Some of the presets I will probably never use, but the two I've picked out really do stand out for me. I know some regard these units as unnecessary, but they are incredibly versatile. Tonight for example, Bass, little box, headphones and I'm practising, brilliant. Did some scales and arpeggios and treated myself at the end with some heavy distortion and metal style beat from the 'drum machine', for some out and out hardcore style. Well pleased. Then all the other stuff, DI , USB interface and so on.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='704712' date='Jan 7 2010, 08:22 PM']as is Christopher wolst.... wolsen... wolsethen..... uh this guy. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7la0SndoCI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7la0SndoCI[/url][/quote] I've only recently got into Muse, I'd stupidly written them off previously as Radiohead rip off merchant's (I can be a monumental idiot). I don't know if he's over or underrated but Chris Wolstenholme has really changed the way I regard changing sound and tone of bass. I like his playing I like what he does, although I wish he didn't have to make it look so effortless. When I first read the OP's first comments, I thought John Taylor underrated bass player? he's boll0cks. But then I realised I have never actually listened to his playing so couldn't possibly come to such a ridiculous conclusion. As for the Wooten's of this world - massively talented. His solo projects do little for me though. I respect what he has done for bass, but I don't like the music he plays. So as to whether he or someone like Miller or Clarke are overrated I shall sit on my fence and say I don't know. Someone who I think is always overlooked and overshadow by others of his time is Andy Fraser from Free. I started listening to Free earlier this year just as I picked up the bass again and really enjoy his laid back slightly funky playing. He does though somewhat get overshadowed by the likes of John Paul Jones, Entwhistle and Jack Bruce.

I recently got a zoom b2.1u. Running through the factory preset's there are the lovely through to the strange. My personal faves are A3 auto wah. Great for a funky sound. and A5 Miller's Crossing. Emulates Marcus Miller's slap sound through a SWR amp For twiddling at home, great fun. As there are other similar pedals out there anyone else got any favourites?

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='703308' date='Jan 6 2010, 07:20 PM']bluesparky - Many thanks! Much appreciated![/quote] +1 cheers [quote name='99ster' post='703622' date='Jan 6 2010, 10:53 PM']That is superb! Thanks for posting...[/quote] another +1. Love that man's playing.

Great selection of instruments. I've got to be honest I have never seen the Steinberger before, I mean one like it. Wasn't even aware such a double existed. The Wilkins is very nice. For me though that white corvette is sublime. Ever since you did the paint job on it, great looking bass. May you be very proud of your 'children'.

[quote name='gnasher1993' post='703374' date='Jan 6 2010, 08:04 PM']- Paul McCartney (sorry excuse for a bass player, sorry)[/quote] Probably because he's really a guitarist. [quote name='EssentialTension' post='703375' date='Jan 6 2010, 08:06 PM']Underrated as a bass player and has his own (large) sofa: [/quote] Plenty of room for BCers on that baby! Got a few bottles of vino, customers gave me at Chrimbo. As I don't drink I'll bring 'em around for anyone who wants them

[quote name='tauzero' post='702923' date='Jan 6 2010, 03:04 PM']It's all annoyingly illogical. I mean augmented and diminished - easy enough, you sharpen or flatten the note. Major and minor third, fair enough, that's what distinguishes the major from the minor, although this is multiplying terminology, and if you know enough to know what augmented and diminished mean, you should know what flattening a major third does, so why can't it be a third and a diminished third? And as for the dominant 7th, that's really confusing. TBH, I really don't understand why it gets to be referred to as the 7th because to me that would imply it was the 7th in the major scale, but it isn't, that's the major 7th. And the dominant (when referring to notes in a scale) is the 5th, thus adding another nomenclative confusion.[/quote] I'm ready to stand corrected but from my limited knowledge in a major key if you lower the 3rd by a semi-tone the 3rd it becomes a minor. It only becomes diminished if you lower it by a whole tone, or if the interval you or lowering is a perfect interval. Is that right? Calling it a dominant 7th does seem counter intuitive. I often see the 5th referred to as a perfect 5th.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='702575' date='Jan 6 2010, 10:47 AM']Oooh, if you've got it, I'd be interested too![/quote] +1 please

It was nothing at all to do with me. Sorry, I can't help you whatsoever, not one jot.

You know theory Clarky, what's a fifth?

[url="http://www.jhs.co.uk/kinsman.html#bags"]Visit My Website[/url] I got one of these, if you scroll down it's the KPEB9. Kinsman Premium Bass Bag, it's the image last on the right when you scroll down to the premium section. It seems OK, but I don't haul my bass around much. It's quite well padded, got some handy pockets in it. But the zips seem a little tetchy. Cost me about £30. Although if I was looking to use it quite a bit, I would be more inclined to consider the mono or iGig.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='701606' date='Jan 5 2010, 02:06 PM']I just jizzed a little.[/quote] Hope you had some Kleenex to hand! Cool bass. Don't usually go for that style, but it's definitely got something. Like the black and chrome.

[quote name='tauzero' post='701563' date='Jan 5 2010, 01:35 PM']I didn't understand Bilbo's post either. I can, however, give you a quick and dirty insight into the chords in C major. C major = all the white notes. Chords in that key are made up of the root note (C, D, E, etc) plus the 3rd and 5th notes above it in the scale. So we start with C as the root and get C, E, and G as the three notes. Move up to D, and you get F and A as the third and fifth notes, which makes a Dm. Similarly E, G and B gives Em, F, A, C = F major, G, B, D = G major, A, C, E = Am, and B, D, F = something odd that Bilbo can tell you about. My grasp of musical theory is pretty tenuous - it means I'm more likely to find a good note to play than a bad one, and it also means I've got a basic palette of chords to use when writing a song. Knowing the rules and deciding to obey them slavishly are two different things, though, and I almost invariably use a chord or two which shouldn't theoretically be there. Given that I also can't read music, what purpleblob said is almost exactly my position.[/quote] You don't know how thankful I am for that, it's been bugging me for ages and I couldn't find an explanation anywhere. Now it's been explained it's so logical. Thanks again. [quote name='Doddy' post='701579' date='Jan 5 2010, 01:44 PM']I've worked with Joe aswell. Top Bloke. Whereas,I am not a graduate and understood every word. Music is the same as anything else-if you don't study it,it is difficult to understand. I've been teaching a dentist recently,and he was amazed at how I could remember things like key signatures. I asked him how he understands dentistry,and he told me that it was easy!!!!! I never studied anything to the degree that I studied music,but understand very little about science-I suppose it's all relative. Oh, and the diatonic chords in C major are 3 major ( I,IV,V) and 4 minor.[/quote] The graduate thing does sound somewhat arrogant, but was not intended to. Apology Some of the theory I've read tends to ' make jumps ' and assumes the reader has made the same leap the author has. This sometimes leaves gaps in understanding that unless filled, inhibit you from progressing any further. You are entirely right, I spent 3 years studying full time to get my degree. And I'm trying to understand theory a little bit here and there, with job and family competing for my attention!