Earbrass

No personal experience, but a quick google came up with these: [url="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120222151710AAu9mrU"]http://answers.yahoo...22151710AAu9mrU[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9IX3erSt0A[/media]

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1348098812' post='1809438'] One of the reasons I've spent a lot of time working on my technique and studying music is because I want to be able to play ideas that I hear. [/quote] I think this is a key point; the more technique one has, the easier and more fluent is the process of getting what's in one's head out into the world. Having played keyboards almost all my life, I can usually play what I hear in my head pretty easily, without thinking much about the mechanics of playing it. That process is a bit harder for me on bass, and a lot harder on melodeon, which I've only been playing for 3 years - I usually have to go away and work out how to play something on that. I find in general that the less technique I have on an instrument, the more my playing is determined by what comes easily to the fingers, rather than by what I can imagine.

[url="http://soundcloud.com/octobersky"]These guys[/url] started following me on soundcloud, so I checked them out - good stuff!

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1340215196' post='1701260'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Whoops! Didn't realise I was so shallow! Not proud of that.[/font][/color] [/quote] Sorry, didn't mean to make you feel bad - I think we've all felt the "basschat effect". When I first joined I went through a little phase of bass acquisition / swapping, but I'm all better now and back down to the one old faithful.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1340208250' post='1701099'] In over 30 years of playing I have had one bass at a time apart from the last 3-4 years and now I have 5. What changed? [/quote] [quote] [b] 4 Strings[/b] Member Since 19 Oct 2009 [/quote]

[quote name='4000' timestamp='1340196258' post='1700778'] I seem to be getting the impression, although I could be wrong, that some people feel that making a living as a musician, or more specifically as an artist, that the possibility of developing your art or craft without the distractions of a full-time job, is no longer something to aspire to. [/quote] Another thought on this: if you rely on your music to pay the bills, you are going to have to devote your time and energy to the projects that bring in the cash. Unless you are very talented or very lucky these won't always be the projects that you believe in, or which will allow you to develop your art and craft. You may find that you have less time and energy to devote to those than if you had an income from a less demanding day-job. Being a pro can be something of a double-edged sword.

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1340133708' post='1699798'] [size=5][b]buy this man's LP ^^^^^^^ ![/b][/size] i just did. it kills. [url="http://alphamaleteaparty.bandcamp.com/"]http://alphamaleteaparty.bandcamp.com/[/url] [/quote] +1 played some of the tracks from the site and am now awaiting the CD ..although I was less than impressed by the confirmatory email: [i]If you haven’t [b]gotten[/b] your download already...[/i] ugh. What's wrong with "received" ?

[quote name='Wil' timestamp='1340198681' post='1700867'] If all music were free, the only people with any reason to make music would be those who had something to say or a deep love of it. [/quote] This. [quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1340199116' post='1700880'] Yes but I think "your day" is longer ago than you realise [/quote] Harsh.

[quote name='4000' timestamp='1340196258' post='1700778'] I seem to be getting the impression, although I could be wrong, that some people feel that making a living as a musician, or more specifically as an artist, that the possibility of developing your art or craft without the distractions of a full-time job, is no longer something to aspire to. [/quote] It's a nice position to be in if you can manage it, but my point was that it's not a [i]necessary condition[/i] for making great music, and that it's quite wrong to assume that anybody who is making music on an unpaid basis can only be producing, in Nigel's choice phrase, "underdeveloped hobby music". Having said that, I should perhaps add that it probably [b]is[/b] a fair description of my own output.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1340192522' post='1700665'] No, can't find it. Where is it? [/quote] It's here: [quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1340191696' post='1700634'] For example, there's a guy who works in my office who sings in a choir in his spare time. They do a fair few international concerts at top venues, and have had their performances at the Royal Festival Hall broadcast on Radio 3. By your definition, that would be "underdeveloped hobby music", I presume, yet the quality of musicianship far exceeds the majority of commercial pop acts. [/quote] [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1340193595' post='1700712'] You have not understood me. Where do you get time to develop as an artist? [/quote] Some people will "develop as an artist" despite having many claims on their time, others will never develop even when they have all the time and money in the world. There is no simple correlation between the quality of music produced and whether the artist is getting paid or not. There are plenty of stunning amateur musicians out there making great music, and plenty of highly-paid professionals churning out dross.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1340192003' post='1700647'] Why is it? [/quote] Please see my edited post above. [quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1340191696' post='1700634'] [/quote]

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1340190562' post='1700610'] The music you are happy to give away is [b]underdeveloped[/b] hobby music. [/quote] a rather patronizing assumption, don't you think? For example, there's a guy who works in my office who sings in a choir in his spare time. They do a fair few international concerts at top venues, and have had their performances at the Royal Festival Hall broadcast on Radio 3. By your definition, that would be "underdeveloped hobby music", I presume, yet the quality of musicianship far exceeds the majority of commercial pop acts.

I joined MysteryHornyAnimalChat the other day. I still don't know what came over me.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1339757729' post='1693778'] That thread is from 2010 BC. [/quote] Quite old then . "This flint-knapper is at the wrong henge" was a popular thread at the time, I believe.

"Windy isn't it?" "No it's Thursday" "So am I - let's have a cup of tea"

1min 30 secs (tried to put the time into the link, but not working for some reason) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt1Oy5uQ0w&feature=youtu.be&t=1m30s

You spend more time making music than thinking about what to buy next.

"It sounds digital" - ie you can hear the quiet bits clearly instead of having to pick them out from amidst the analogue hiss and grunge

If you want to cut a "real" CD, rather than the CD-Rs that are used for smaller runs, you may find that the cutting plants won't make your CD unless you fill in forms confirming that you have all the necessary permissions from the composers. Not usually an issue for CD-Rs, as anyone can make them.

Perhaps related to [url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/24/nickelback-popularity-contest-pickle"]this[/url]?

I take it the objective is to make the flame look cool and interesting by comparison.

Sounds very impressive. Are you the double-bassist in the band?

When I got the synth bug a few years ago I ended up buying a second-hand [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr02/articles/novationkstation.asp"]Novation K-Station[/url] on ebay for not very much. Small keyboard (but I also have a 76-note stage piano I can use to play it with), but everything you'd expect/want from a proper synth*, with a sensible user interface (unlike the microkorg). (* I mean the "build the sound from scratch from the oscillators up" kind of synth rather than the "choose from hundreds of real instrument samples & presets" type synth.)

[quote name='GriffJamerson' timestamp='1338820908' post='1679647'] Im a student in my second year of my degree... who simply has to right an essay by Thursday! [/quote] Spellchecker won't help here...

We're performing at some kind of festival on Saturday night in Beckenham - 30 mins to do a performance and a workshop . No idea whether it's Jubilympics related though. I found Zoe's head in my uncle's attic. Appears to be all original. Will be on ebay shortly.