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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1323606632' post='1464871'] Alternatively, spend some time learning something useful like how to read music or some advanced theory That classical fugue showed everything that is wrong with that technique. Take a perfectly servicable piece of music and turn it into a juggling act with no musical merit. [/quote] Maybe you should brush up on music history as that Fugue isn't classical And technically he didn't play it as a fugue either! I enjoyed it but each to his own, (don't worry Bilbo i too love jazz! Although i find jazzy bass playing very difficult) and how do you know we can't read music or know some advanced theory? (depends on what you mean by advanced i guess haha!) But i can read bass, tenor, treble, alto, and contra-bass clef better than i can read english Sorry if that sounded really like lash-out-ish it was all in mild humour my friend!

A little off topic but Mike do you think i could try out your gear some day? I saw you before when you played in Banchory, and sounded good! And you also have a gear list of things i've always been curious about We should have a mini aberdeen bass bash me thinks!

Not really sure if i'm understanding but from what i think that riff is as an exmaple it's just practise! Your first finger should be moving as the octave has/is souding. Have you tried alternate fingerings?

If you're on facebook look the guys band page up, the speak to their fans enough! Henrik is a great bass player!

Depending what you want to do, Billy sheehans tutorals are good, as is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbqcblG-6Do

[quote name='Mikeg' timestamp='1323111241' post='1459470'] Sadly im too far away from anywhere to have regular tuition. And that book does look good, from what I can see on youtube Jean plays bass's with silly amounts of strings, can the book be learned from with a 4 stringer? [/quote] That isn't close minded at all. The entire book is done with his 5 string. Though the sound clips are from his 11 string, and not silly bass. He is a wonderful teacher, i've had several lessons from him very down to earth and his bass lines are AMAZING

I HATE the term "Lead bass" like when in interviews people say "I was asked to play lead bass" or "I took a lead bass point of view" If you're playing the bass, and you're the only one you're the 'lead' bass player. I know what people mean by it but it annoys me! (I do seem like an arse =S ) Do you want it's your music, if it "fits" (fits being sounding how you want and what not) then do it. There is no right or wrong. Though having the bass act as 'another guitar' is what i do, i love it's abilty to mimic a guitar lick an octave below, carry on the groove below it or go above it. I love the sonic range of the bass guitar, same reason i play Bass trombone and tuba and sing Bass (when i can sing baritone and lower tenor parts) i find that area of pitch my home and where i relate the most. Everyone is different. If you like what i do and appreciate it and enjoy it great, if you don't cool, go do your own thing and listen to what you enjoy! It's music and that's why we love it!

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1322863326' post='1456919'] Wow, 2007! Was it really that long ago! [/quote] When you first got the Doodle was it designed to be F# to C or was it orginally B-F? Or was the nut re-cut as you hadn't found a chunky enough F# yet and the .145 was there to make do? Time really does fly!

You'd shred your hands! Could be very cool,

Dimarzio Model P every time.

Where did you get the GTBD? Was it from Bass-direct or?

If you know what and how to practise then 10 minutes of practise a night is plenty, and will do you better than 3 hours of faffing. I know that from expericence! No-one in my family is musical except my brother and I, I took up trombone, he then took up guitar then i also took up bass and piano and then stopped playing piano I think it shined through as i completely let my self down in my music examination for my Trombone yesterday after 11 months of hard practise (minimum hour a day as i get insanely jittery and nervous for performance exams) and i balls up everything. Though thats not totally related that's performace skills. [end stress rant] It's not gentic, if your parents were world class musicans but you were never exposed to it i don't think you'd be a musical wizz even if your folks were mozarts and child proidgies! [quote name='skej21' timestamp='1322168137' post='1447586'] + 1 EssentialTension... How does the OP come to the conclusion that the child must have been born with talent that was passed on from the parents. The only thing the OP's observations highlight is the theory that multiple pieces of research into children with musical ability have concluded... Nurture and a musical enviroment are the conditions needed in order for any individual to progress musically from an early age. Perfect pitch is probably the most obvious example. We are all born with the ability to train our ears to recognise frequencies as different pitches (in the same way we are all born to recognise different light frequencies as colours), but we need an environment in which it is developed (i.e. through the encouragement of musical parents who recognise the skill and can develop the ear through training) and consistent practice, otherwise we lose the skill as we grow older and use it less regularly. Those are just scientific truths... whether "talent" within any individual helps this process to happen at a higher speed with less need for practice is simply speculation really. [/quote] Also, Perfect and relative pitch don't develop you either have it or you don't. Always that way or never that way. Though something akin to the two can come with pure experience but perfect pitch it self, or relative pitch? You can't learn,

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1322244515' post='1448616'] Not at all. Totally in your face and aggressive if you want it to be and they both have Boost "channels" for grit. [/quote] grimbeaver, you ever heard of a rock legend, growling tone monster called Duff McKagen?

Welcome to the forum! Don't spend too long in the Marketplace or you'll end up pennyless like the rest of us Unfortunately i can't really reccomend anything as far as tutors or DVDs go though,

Took me ages, but the steve vai tour version of Shy Boy i can now play even if it is a Sheehan! On the 4 string The real me by the who makes me sweat and i usually play it a little choppy, and Addicted to that rush by Mr. Big with the extended solos intro. And Had enough by Mr Big, that intro makes me cry it's so hard haha! But my nemesis has to be "The Dance of Eternity" By Dream Theater, i always make mistakes in the solo and end up playing one or two many notes so come in with the ending a fraction late making the entry to the unison section sound horrible as i'm out of time! it's as at least the way i learnt it/soudns right to me and easiest to play there is a 1-3-4 then 3-4 on the next string up (at the dusty end of the neck) which i find very hard at high tempo!

Rich recently did work on another of my basses, turned a cheap lump into a super comfertable ultra playable bass, all at affordable prices! Once again, no hesitation in saying Rich is a top guy who i whole heartedly recommend!

[quote name='gadget' timestamp='1321125367' post='1435694'] For me, the nicest sig bass out ther is Yves Carbonne's 12 string Fretless Jerzy Drozd bass, but I doubt many 'copies' of it have sold, so think it probably doesn't qualify as a 'Signiture' bass? After that, its a close tie between my old 'Pedulla MVP5 Signiture' or the Shuker 'JJ Burnell' P bass? Think the Ped would win, even if it doesn't have a specific persons name attached to it. Its still a Signiture bass! Does Dan's 7 string 'Dood bass' count as a 'Signiture' bass? Cheers G! [/quote] The sub contra is a lovely bass, they play so nicely! I've played Yves one at a clinic-y thing he did was great! And The Doodle is Dan's signature bass so i'd say so