Marvin

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='701367' date='Jan 5 2010, 10:58 AM']It sounds to me like you were given too rich a diet too quickly. In reality, all notes can be played against all chords - they all result in individual sounds/textures that can legitimately be used in the creative process. By KNOWING what each not sounds like against each chord and by KNOWING why and how it functions, you will be able to make informed decisions about what to do with each individual piece of independent information. Knowing that a dominant seventh chord resolves to a Major chord a fifth below (say G7 to Cmaj7) means you can always hear that coming a mile off. Knowing that it can also resolve to a Major seventh chord a major third below (say G7 to Ebmaj7), creating a completely different feeling, immediately gives you choices. The more knowledge you have, the more choices you have. A diatonic major scale over a dominamt seventh chord or a diminshed scale implying a flattened ninth? Or an augmented scale over a dominant? All different, all correct and all options you can use as a composer, orchestrator or improviser. But you can't digest this stuff in a couple of lessons. One of the most wonderful skills I admire, which is one I don't have although I do try, is the way great composers can use a simple theme and create a ludicriously complex array of compositions out of it. Doesn't matter whether we are talkng Kenny Wheeler, Javier Navarette, Pat Metheny or Edward Elgar - I would consider it almost unthinkable that these kinds of work could be achieved without some understanding of the building blocks. Throwing three chords together stopped doing it for me thirty years ago. Some of the greatest pop icons of the 20th century and beyond were only able to do what they did as entertainers because of 'trained' backroom boys like Quincy Jones, Lalo Schiffrin, George Martin, Geoff Gasgoine etc etc. And as for 'feel'. The celebrity 'stars' like Madonna, Sting, Whitney Houston, Paul Simon, Steely Dan etc etc are also often backed up by 'educated' players, be they Omar Hakim, Victor Bailey, Michael Brecker, Matt Garrison, Daryl Jones, Chris Potter and so on. So you cannot say that players who know their stuff are anywhere near being less able to 'groove' because they know sh**. After all, and with respect to those that groove their asses off seven nights a week, 52 weeks of the year, it ain't rocket science![/quote] I agree with the sentiment of the last 2 paragraphs in that knowing theory doesn't inhibit 'feel' and that many of 'stars' of today have been backed up by knowledgeable players. You can also site bands with one member who knows fu*k all yet is accompanied by someone who does. R.E.M always spring to mind. Mike Mills came from a musical family, his mother was a piano teacher and hence he has 'musical understanding' shall we say. Where as I read once that Pete Buck claimed not to even know one scale! So knowing theory is always good. However, I think for those of us who know little or no theory, we are turned off by the first paragraph. I, like Clarky, am a graduate and therefore regard myself as an educated person. Yet that first paragraph makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. And although I suspect that understanding it would only come after a sustained period of study, the main problem I, and probably many others find is that the explanation of music theory is so often unfathomable. Take many of the texts on music theory. In so many of them you read along and you're thinking to yourself 'I'm getting this' then out of the blue all the 'rules' you thought you understood are blown away by one statement. That statement will contradict all you understand yet no reasoning or explanation of it will be given. A simple example. C major scale. I read somewhere that the chords in C major contain 4 major chords and 3 minor chords. And that was it. Nowhere did it explain why in a major scale did you have even 1 minor chord (it highlighted Dm). Call me thick but I don' understand it: minor chords in a major scale chord progression. And that's why us plebs get so fu*ked off with theory, there do not seem to be any rules. They change, mutate and no one explains what is happening. I'm off for a big cry now 'cause my head's hurting

Just got a Zoom b2.1u. Similar to the digitech I think. It's good and fairly well regarded on the forum (i think)

I was only 12 when he died, so a little before my time. However, I was watching BBC4 a couple of weeks ago and he was performing The Boys are Back in Town live. Absolutely brilliant, really got into it. From everything else I've ever watched or read about him, his death was truly sad a big loss to music. Everyone always refer to a decent man he was.

[quote name='leschirons' post='701105' date='Jan 4 2010, 10:59 PM']Find a drummer that has a metronome in his head[/quote] Apparently the one you want is called Roland!

I was going to seek out a new text on theory and the like but I think I will work through your very kindly constructed threads. With regard to fingerstyle, I've been trying one finger per fret on the lower reaches and failing miserably. Hence if 1,2,4 is good for Jaco on the lower frets I think it's time I modified my fretting to something that is more comfortable and hence probably will result in better playing. I read your paragraph on fingerstyle and breathed a big sigh of relieve. Thank you for providing this resource, I think I might be using it a lot in the next few weeks and months. Cheers Rich

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='700495' date='Jan 4 2010, 02:36 PM']I think that's the most sensible thing anybody has said so far. To not have the time, the inclination, the interest to learn some theory are all reasonable excuses but to advocate that having knowledge is a bad thing is nuts.[/quote] [quote name='wateroftyne' post='700676' date='Jan 4 2010, 05:24 PM']Yip.. that's the situation I'm in, and I agree.[/quote] I agree entirely. To say that learning theory will inhibit your playing seems a truly bizarre thing to say. Time is what hinders my learning theory, unfortunately. Which is why lessons are off the menu.

[quote name='dangerboy' post='698083' date='Jan 1 2010, 04:29 PM']It's a pity that they didn't put an aluminium neck on it too. I love my all-aluminium hollowbody. [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dangerboycreative/2053175941/in/set-72157603263405555/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/dangerboycrea...57603263405555/[/url] I wonder if all those rivets mean that there's a wooden core running through the body with the bridge, pickups etc bolted to it.[/quote] I quite like the original link (like the finish, not the shape though). And really like the all-aluminium hollowbody. Aesthetically I prefer them to the exotic woods, but then again I have quite an industrial taste when it comes to design.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='700326' date='Jan 4 2010, 11:39 AM']What's up with that website? click on one the links & it tries to download a php file. Try to go to the home page, at worshipguitars.com and it says access denied. I wouldn't be surprised if those basses were coming out of the same factory as sx - generic copies sold under any number of names at a similar price. Then again Jesus was a carpenter by trade, perhaps he made the basses, but isn't quite as good at making websites.[/quote] I thought it was just my connection for a minute. At one point it said I didn't have permission to access the server. They look ok, and for some reason I quite liked the pink one

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='700425' date='Jan 4 2010, 01:31 PM']Sorry Marvin, beat you to it in my original introduction post - the old ones are the old ones...(trio sounds far to poncey)![/quote] Darn, thwarted again

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='700411' date='Jan 4 2010, 01:22 PM']Get the new three piece out gigging.[/quote] A sofa and 2 armchairs? Suit? I chucked all my waistcoats out! sorry couldn't resist.

[quote name='stonecoldbass' post='700357' date='Jan 4 2010, 12:18 PM']Yeah good work mate, great to see someone getting into what their doing instead of the usual 'bedroom bass face'![/quote] In total agreement. Really great playing. Just wish I could get my fingers to move that quickly and fluently. Me wife reckons thought it sounds more Turkish than Oriental All the best Rich

Had never heard of Karnivool. From what I listened to on myspace, really liked John Stockman's tone and playing. You know it's there but he's not trying to steel the show. I'd need a few more listens to say if I liked the music overall, although I didn't not like it if that makes any sense whatsoever.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='700308' date='Jan 4 2010, 11:16 AM']Take ear training a bit more seriously and at least be able to recognise all the single note intervals in an octave Learn the major and minor scales, and arpeggios for the keys C to B in the circle of 5ths ......[/quote] Mine are probably close to yours. And will be of a similar vein. Also must try to get into a band!

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='700059' date='Jan 3 2010, 10:32 PM']1. Having just looked at the video, I found it a lot of fun. He's a good player with a good grasp of technique & didn't hook his thumb over the top of the neck once or look remotely sloppy in any way. 2. We see a lot of these threads on BC where people automatically decry anything technically interesting, or more to the point, automatically lambaste what they jealously realise they cannot emulate or hope to achieve themselves. My point? [i][b]Don't you dare[/b][/i] decry any professional musician until you've put thirty years' worth of hard practise into your own playing. 3. Stop arguing over nothing. You make yourselves look like a bunch of girls! [/quote] As someone who has much to learn, although I could appreciate the technical ability of the playing, nothing about it inspired me. Furthermore, I simply didn't like it or get it really, there was nothing I could take away from that performance and apply to my learning. To me it sounded like someone who picked up the wrong guitar, ie he meant to pick up the one with six strings and tuned an octave higher.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='699962' date='Jan 3 2010, 08:49 PM'][attachment=39262:old_fart.jpg] My drummer took this and made me feel a combination of wanting to punch him and wanting to smile, he is a consummate twat.[/quote] For some strange reason I had you down as looking similar to Nick Cave - dark hair, beard, moustache et al. Sincere apologies if that offends you. Consummate twat - brilliant, venomous insult if there is ever one.

[quote name='silddx' post='699852' date='Jan 3 2010, 07:17 PM']Get in a band THIS MINUTE young lady! You are too much the hottie to be sitting at home watching Poirot this evening [/quote] We can rejoice when said young lady does join a band that the audience will be transfixed on the bass player for once. [quote name='Sarah5string' post='699858' date='Jan 3 2010, 07:23 PM']I would if I could find a sitter for my 2 kids! Trust me, it's on my list of resolutions this year [/quote] Kids are like wormholes in space they just consume all time. I'm fortunate to have the good lady Mrs, but time in general seems to speed by. Haven't played a note in weeks. [quote name='silddx' post='699880' date='Jan 3 2010, 07:45 PM'] Wait 'til I get on that stage again! I'll be totally smokin' [/quote] Filthy habit, I'm moralising now And Poirot clashes with Wallinder on the beeb.

I is currently going through a crappy stage. In part due to not playing for about 8 weeks. So from this week on I've decided to work out a sort of practice schedule. Nothing overly rigid, just some goals to achieve, learning a bit of theory go back over stuff and maybe learning a few songs that I like not necessarily anything that might get played in public. (which is unlikely at the moment as I'm not in a band!). Everyone gets to a plateau where they are unsatisfied with their playing. Mine is usually down to trying to play material that I'm not up to yet.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='697607' date='Dec 31 2009, 09:58 PM'][/quote] You've left the label showing your trouser waist size showing, young man. One should be more careful.

[quote name='maxrossell' post='699550' date='Jan 3 2010, 02:11 PM']Yes. Yes you should. If I don't approve of your record collection you should hang your head in [i]shame[/i].[/quote] Thank you

I didn't particularly like the clips of Colin Hodgkinson. Much in agreement with Prosebass, he seems to be a frustrated guitarist. Don't much like the tone either, way to clanky for my picky palette. This is a discussion forum, and if someone thinks something isn't much cop then they're going to say so on occasion. I personally didn't see the term 'lame' as offensive. The thread wobbled when this statement came up [quote]idiot being the only one passable here..[/quote] You could see how things were going to progress after that. If someone says " oh that's just the biggest pile of sh1t i've seen" it's not a personal attack on the OP. I'm sure if I were to list my record collection on here it would be met with howls of laughter, but as no one on here really knows me should I take in personally? Sorry for going way off topic!

Mine really are tenuous. Met Nigel Benn, said hello and shook his hand. My brother's wife's aunt's partner is Mark Flanagan from Jool's Hollands band. My sister in law's cousin is Gill from River Cottage thingy ( I don't watch it) Wife claims to be distantly related to Kylie Minogue. (Probably as a result of deportation and criminal activity)

Tight thumping growl. Bit like a chest infection!

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='699162' date='Jan 2 2010, 10:50 PM']Anyone seen this on the tv shopping channel? [url="http://www.guitarwiz.co.uk/"]http://www.guitarwiz.co.uk/[/url] Imagine turning up to a gig and the guitarist was using one of these? & they'll sell you a £13 tuner for £30 [/quote] Watched QVC for half an hour in sheer amazement. Stupendously bizarre.

never. if I try to sing ( and my singing is awful anyway ) my hands stop moving for some odd reason.