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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXJ-3dAMH8 Try this!

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1430594857' post='2763014'] great - start a thread and let's talk [/quote] There was a thread on here not so long ago asking, 'what is feel?' Or groove or something. Might be worth dragging up. For what it's worth, any studio work I have done has been dominated by pros talking about the rhythmic approach. I sometimes get work with a small production team that has some real, genuine full time pros where we back singer songwriter types who want a fuller sound. Top of the menu for each song, regardless of the tastes of the client and demands of the producer is the tempo and feel of the track. Once we think we've got the master take the first thing we check is whether or not we've played ahead, on or behind the beat. How's that for starters?!?!

I'd rather listen to a pro describing how their music works than a weekend warrior saying they need this bass or that bass for their sound! It seems crazy that most people will read for hours on what gear to use but then just go, oh the music bit, when I'm playing, that's just me. Nuts. I was watching a questlove video the other day and he explains how he has had to learn how to play behind himself to do the d'angelo records. Software companies have spent a fortune developing quantising grids, or top producers spend ages shuffling waveforms around to get the music happening- quantifying rhythm is what we should be talking about on musician forums, not so much 'I use these strings to play the dog and duck!' Sorry, ranting.....

[quote name='bootsy666' timestamp='1430168568' post='2758661'] https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/132041529@N07/17293397785/ [/quote] Monster! Looks like it bit the headstock off.

In an extraordinary piece of blagging and luck, I did a session with Dave Weckl this way! Unfortunately it was recorded prior to my meagre attempts, and I didn't end up on the final recording regardless, surprise surprise.

Got the lmt500 and a similar bass to yours. I use mine in a wide range of musical genres and can't recommend the Aguilar db112s highly enough.

I don't have kids but teach classroom music. My top tip is to leave the instrument out of its case. Kids then pick it up for five minutes here and there as well as proper practice. Helps you keep it sneakily in-tune too. Grades are fine as goals but my dad taught me and performances were where it was at. He'd say if you can get some barre chords down then you can sit in at church or whatever and that really floated my boat. At work if we don't have a performance scheduled the attendance and quality of rehearsals drop like a stone.

Anything by Florence and the Machine. Impersonating a man shouting is not singing. Anything with Ellie Goulding. Just get the vowel out for the love of Pete!

If you need a dep, never book one who's blonde and female. You'll never get the gig back.

Very lucky with one band to have 2 good frontspeople- both great singers and have a natural rapport with an audience. Another outfit the singer thinks he has charisma and good repartee. He doesn't. Gets great gigs but if he gets on one boy can he kill it. 3 hour gigs with 5 minutes of 'banter' in between each one. If he's disciplined he's actually much more interesting.

Thank you for your replies. No cab it is! Harry

Hi folks, quick question. I'm playing in a show and just found out the sound guy is planning on everybody in the pit using headphones. Can I use my markbass Little mark tube 500 as a preamp without hitching up a cabinet? Thank you in advance Harry

Whatever you do don't lose any of the screws. G&L are like Yamaha motorbikes and have all custom size threads etc.

Get the tempo advance app metronome you can the accent pretty much anywhere you want!

When I play I look like a scarecrow getting electrocuted.

I saw them in 95 on the voodoo lounge tour. My girlfriend at the time and I exited the tube station at Wembley to see the stage (a giant metal cobra) sticking out the stadium, and realised our gate was the other end. A long wait ensued, but when the place was opened it was empty. Geoff Hurst didn't do a length of the field as quick as we did. Great gig, lots of bands can rock but they can roll.

A +1 for the d'angelo stuff, although after a few listens I felt the rhythm section was better than the songs. And that Christians track (song title escapes me)someone posted on here the other takes the Michael.

Jack my happy love whole. An arrangement of hit the road jack, happy and whole lotta love. Not a medley, we have vocals over different songs etc and finish with parts of all 3 going at once. Floor filler jaw dropper!

It's not necessary. Make money being a band anywhere in the country and then they'll come looking for you. Not that you'd need them then, you'd be making more money without them!

Timely thread as I've only recently started having a warm up routine. My band thing I'm a bit pretentious sometimes having my 15 minutes of scales, arpeggios and right hand exercises but I've found it's helped my finger stamina and lessened the strain on my wrists. Still don't play well in shops though, can't think of anything to play no matter what!

[quote name='Chrismanbass' timestamp='1427315937' post='2728902'] you've quite clearly never worked with a sound engineer who knows ANYTHING about live sound because i can assure you that most presets in digital desk (i'd be interested to know which ones you've worked with) are total rubbish and pretty much unusable. [/quote] Sound engineers I've worked with- Live The guy who did the Olympic opening ceremony at henley festival. London Jazz festival at the Barbican. Cheltenham jazz festival. Studio- I've been recorded by engineers who've worked with john giblin, Alan Johnson, guy Pratt, geddy lee and Paul McCartney. This is the top stuff I've done. I'm not saying they used presets. Hacking round the small theatre circuit and what passes for music venues in London now, I have my suspicions about presets at those gigs. Can't prove it. What I can tell you is that the top guys are always very friendly and helpful and you're much more likely to come across the 'I'm the expert' attitude a rung or two down the ladder. And I always ask whether they want pre or post and the top guys want post.

We try to a quiet band! Anything louder than acoustic drums is too much. Therefore we just rehearse with our monitoring. Which again we try to keep to a minimum. We have the good fortune of having a dedicated building (the guitarist has his own studio) bringing the extra perk of rehearsing with the drummer in a different room.

We're out in the Friday on the outskirts of the Forest of Dean. Our public liability doesn't actually let us play any further in....

1, and play it well!