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[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.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='698187' date='Jan 1 2010, 06:00 PM']Here's something else. When I learn a song I don't think about what the chords are. ie, I don't think, 'Right, this is A to G to C etc.' I think in patterns on the fretboard. I look at the fretboard as a grid and remember the changes as almost geometrical patterns. I'm sure other players must do this. Am I right?[/quote] I do that and hate myself for it. I'd much rather know what it is I'm actually playing or giving a bassline to.

[quote name='Doddy' post='698122' date='Jan 1 2010, 05:09 PM']I hate just being told the roots. I want to know what the chord is-I don't want to play a b7 over a major 7 chord,it'll just sound bad,and knowing what is going on will eliminate any guess work and allow me to just play.[/quote] I nearly took a blunt instrument to a drummer's head trying to explain that. "Well it's just a chord just play the note on your fretboard thing" he said. What a ........

[quote]Well, until I was 12 or so, I learned the scales, and played Beethoven and Mozart like a parrot, with all the passion of a typist. It all seemed like extra homework at the time, but I have since come to appreciate all the theory that was drilled into me, and the understanding of how all music, all chords, all keys are related, and once I reached the stage where I found music a means for expression, having all that experience behind me, made things a lot easier. [b]I've worked with several great artists, who, without that basic foundation, have had a very tough time simply expressing themselves. [/b][/quote] That's from Andy Fraser's website. And I've got to say, as someone (i.e me, not Andy Fraser) who knows little theory, I can't argue with that last sentence.

He seems to play high up on the neck at some points, so if he's mixing that with the notes where he has the capo (making it effectively an open string) perhaps he's just making life easier for himself. Rather than jumping around the fretboard, which could potentially sound a bit choppy. But WTF do I know As a trainspotter aside he's change his rig I think. He was using a marshall last night. I need to get out more.

[quote name='Hamster' post='697391' date='Dec 31 2009, 06:03 PM']Problem is, what program are they running it through? - 40[sup]o[/sup] easy wash with Ocean Colour Scene? - and that's got to be double continuous because it sounds bigger & therefore better........ RMS is the one to use as a reference point - because I remember Bill Fitzmaurice said it was! [/quote] It did seem a strange way to explain output. I've always preferred RMS.

Thank you. It was just that I'd never seen output put in those terms, which now you've explained is fairly intuitive. Cheers

I was trawling through the for sale section on the forum and saw and Peavey tvx410. To get an idea of spec I visited a website the name of which evades me but it put the output of the cab in these terms. 350watts continuous 700watts programme. Can someone explain what this means please as I have never seen this before. Cheers Rich

There's plenty out there for your budget. A Jazz bass simply refers to a style of bass, and the features of that bass, not what you play on it. Many players use Jazz basses due to their versatility.

Best of luck with your continued road to recovery. It's step by step and one day at a time.