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If you've got an adjustable bridge, the Full Circle is worth thinking about. Lots of fans on here, inc. me.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1378226860' post='2197355'] Here's some pages for reading practice... if you're interested. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/215336-learning-to-read-the-dots-sheet-music-to-learn-with/page__hl__spangled__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url] [/quote] Thanks grangur, need all the help I can get.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1378226009' post='2197333'] I have a solid top Gedo and Im not sure its such a good idea for live gigs, I think its the route of my feedback issues which thankfully are getting better after muting the tail piece and making some fetching F hole mutes, I might have been better off with a full laminate and putting the extra money I paid for the carved top on some lessons Gedo are a great company to deal with though and my bass is really nice, very happy with it so far [/quote] I honestly don't think a solid top is necessarily feedback prone. It's going to be a combinations of bass, pickup, preamp/amp control and the band/stage setup too. I have heard people say that all solid is more likely to give problems, but hybrids don;t seem to have that reputation at all. I wonder if you haven't just been unlucky with the permutations?

Reading through is certainly good advice. i'm inclined to charge in. The losing the place bit isn't cos of looking away; I think it's from trying to compute too many things at the same time. Reading a few notes ahead seems to cure everything. Amazing really, as I didn't think it could be learned just by trying.

Isn't that a G4M? Not much love around here for those.

I'd add, if you buy privately be prepared to take your time and do a bit of driving. Good luck with your search. it'll be well worth it.

I never found reading easy, always losing my place and generally experiencing it like I was dyslexic. Big progress lately though since I started to concentrate on [i]reading ahead[/i]. I'd heard it mentioned a hundred times, but really didn't understand that you can practice that very thing and get better at it. Suddenly i'm making huge progress. Just thought i'd report in case it helps anybody else whose struggling.

Thanks folks In terms of speed, i've notice it especially in fast triplets that are almost a rake but where i don't want dead notes. i didn't want to start doing stuff that's going to lead to bad habits, so it's good to be reassured that barring isn't erm barred.

But there's still the question of whether holding down two strings with one finger is ever a usable technique.

How do you guys manage fast fingerings across adjacent strings at the same position? Like from F down to C or E down to B. For speed, holding both strings down at once is obviously quickest, but tone suffers when i do that. Conundrum.

My Yita arrived in a week, perfectly packaged. Playing with it is another story altogether, but i can't rightly blame the Chinese for that. Pete, can I borrow the term 'misery stick' as per one of your posts? For domestic use only, all rights remain with you.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1377009480' post='2182157'] I will be having a good look when I get time! [/quote] +1 And big thanks for offering access.

Nice job! Thinking of asking a leatherworking mate of mine to make me one. Does it bang about when you jig the bass around a bit?

[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1376831251' post='2179613'] Silhouette of me and the Orchestra [/quote] Oh very good pic indeed. Would make a great poster.

May be worth having a look at DHA. http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/page42.html I find his stuff very good. He's on this site, and I think BC members get a discount (or used to anyhow).

Love the headstock A bit like the figurehead on a sailing ship but without the bosoms.

Just don't tell that girlfriend that double bass players are barred from washing up, lest they soften their delicate hands.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1376222771' post='2170890'] Lurk-Stagg-DB [/quote] And lucky Mr McNab has a girlfriend who will let him skip the Stagg part. Doesn't get better.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1376223052' post='2170896'] I won't be having a full volume practice for two weeks now but I'm hoping they will work, does the newer Fishman have the notch filter? [/quote] Looks like it. Mine is on my amp, so i can't report on how good the Fishman is. [url="http://www.fishman.com/product/pro-eq-platinum-preampeqdi"]http://www.fishman.com/product/pro-eq-platinum-preampeqdi[/url]

I don't know how wide the EQ bands are on the Fishman; maybe wider than a notch. The F-hole job looks really neat. Hope that works for you.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1376065328' post='2169297'] That sounds crazy! good luck Took the DB instead of the EUB to practice last night and my feedback troubles were pretty much just the same, the best thing about the Fishman pro was when I used the foam to block the F holes! I really need to sort that out but I might still gig it at the acoustic gig as I am hoping to get enough volume for that but trying to play while the others are building a shed with road drills is not going to work [/quote] You may have mentioned this in another thread, but did you use the Fishman to experiment with the resonating frequencies of the bass? You put the speaker full on behind the bass, make the bass feed back, then try to dial out the feedback with the phase reversal and/or the notch filter. Worked a treat for me. Once I'd found the most problematic frequency I just left the settings at that, and it pretty well solved the prob. I only raise the speaker up on a stand now when space is so tight I only have a couple of feet behind me. Any more distance and I'm fine. If this doesn't work, I'd dump the bassmax.

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1375472116' post='2162034'] Best resource? A big mirror so you can see what you're actually doing when you're bowing Steve [/quote] Except that the reflected angles can mislead you badly until you actually calibrate against the true angle of the hair on the string. Or maybe I should just practice sober.

Ah, but it's not the tunes as such that bothered me; it's that those tunes [i]played badly [/i]are especially horrible.

[quote name='AndyBass' timestamp='1375385262' post='2160671'] When I first started lessons I remember I'd played a decent paying gig the night before, then at my lesson looked at myself in the mirror as a bearded, tattooed adult struggling to bow "The Teddy Bear's Picnic". A healthy sense of humility always helps. Good luck with it! [/quote] Oh dear. I've already dumped one none too cheap bass book because it wanted me to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

OK. Back to school for me in the autumn. I've collected up the RIAM syllabuses and nothing looks daunting until 5 and above. I see the Grade 5 theory requirement for performance grades above that. Luckily my theory is not too bad; it's making yer actual sounds that's my problem. Big thanks for all your thoughts on this. I'd always been put off by the idea that grades were for kids.