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Off to band practice now, this will be mentioned immediately!

Really gone off playing in A major, despite many hundreds of great tunes in that key. Another fan of F#, a nice purpley key and Ab, green with a silver edge.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1422351095' post='2671385'] This article doesn't talk about the key but it's a fascinating insight into the recording of the original. Also a great excuse for your keys player to use when he says that Stevie's clavinet part is impossible to play properly live http://homerecording.about.com/od/mixingyourmusic/a/mixing_superstition.htm [/quote] That's fantastic, thank you. Have written this tune out for several bands but those horns, man, perfection!

The show was called 'you bet'. It's up there somewhere!

I saw it too! Wonder if a clip exists and we'd all fare!

Another fan of the lmt500 here. Good bargains secondhand too.

Stagecraft is such a loose term. To me it covers how you get on and off stage, what you do between songs, the pace of your set, how you interact with the other band members etc. if I recall rightly there was something on the bbc website a while back saying 90% of a persons opinion of an act will be based on visual clues though so how you perform is crucial. And balance really important, but that varies depending on what music you're playing and to what crowd. Our function band is great as everyone moves, looks at each other and the audience and smiles, we genuinely enjoy it. But I also play with a singer songwriter and I have to tone it all right down (I have the opposite problem to you, my default setting onstage is to spasm like a scarecrow being electrocuted) and again that varies with which guitarist is with us. One would give Malcolm Young a run for his money, and I have in past done my usual thing and frankly it looked ridiculous. The other guy is statuesque at best and I have to take a bit more responsibility for visual entertainment. Anyway, the audience needs to see the right balance. If you're singer is good at performing, all you might need to do is tap your foot and the odd glance up.

[quote name='Weststarx' timestamp='1421944301' post='2666951'] Only a bloke would think about this as a problem... [/quote] Took me a few weeks to get used to it, not a problem now. My wife can't play guitar wearing hers though, it becomes an unwanted bottleneck slide on certain chords!

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1421328923' post='2659894'] Nope. I don't think anyone will be taking Mark Ronson to Court over that one. Not even vaguely similar. [/quote] Both uptown funk and really wild show mining quite a well worn seam of musical inspiration, both fun. Great to see the really wild show intro again, loved a bit of nutkins me on a pm. (Hums living in America to himself.....)

Taxi driver- Bernard herrmann. Bi polar score, just like the protagonist.

Every time I hear uptown funk I go away singing living in America!

We do a short pastiche of 'I've had the time of my life" but break into the blues brothers version of "do you love me?" Which has a little bit of mother popcorn in it, linking to "jailhouse rock" straight to "pencil full of lead" straight back to a quote of "time of my life". Does the trick. Love a bit of showbiz schtick me!

For me I've got to know the vocal. Which bit follows which bit etc. if I can hear it coming up I can just about cover it.

That's blinking marvellous. Not sure the video has stood the test of time but the bass playing is sublime.

Just had a trawl through jamareo's Twitter feed and there's a lot of love for uptown funk. He also mentions that 5 strings are uncomfortable to his fingers. Now that's taking the.....

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1420568459' post='2650757'] Me neither. The polish for 'Driving Licence' is Prawo Jazdy. This confused the Garda, who had been writing it down as the first name and surname of drivers they stopped. For a time he was Ireland's most wanted man. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm [/quote] Love it!

The Brian Clough school of management. We talk about it then agree I'm right.

Don't call joss stone, Ellie goulding, ruby turner or Paloma faith singers on last nights evidence. Glorified shouting, not sincere, not entertaining. Sorry, gets my goat! Continued watching just drool over swift's guitar and rig.

Smile, learn their names and make no fuss. They won't be wanting a robo-pro just looking for a gig.

Blues Brothers soundtrack.

I'd be speaking to my tutor about this. If the title of your course is jazz performance then stick to that genre by all means, but if it's just bass performance then we'd have been told on our course to broaden our palette. If you do a bit of Parker and a bit of Jaco that's only a 40 year snapshot. Worst case scenario (and I'm not saying you'd do this at all) but examining 45 minutes of burpy back pickup jazz would be wearing even to the most enthusiastic of experts, and would only demonstrate you have the persistence to improve your dexterity after a while. Have you looked at the examination success criteria? Is there any mention of musicality and expression? (To clarify I'm not saying Blues for Alice isn't expressive, but I'd have thought you need to have more than one flavour on your plate as it were!)

Variety would be nice, not only of genre but of tempo and timbre as well. I'd definitely get a baroque piece in there, along the lines of a Bach cello piece. When you say solo, is that all by yourself or will you have accompaniment? (When I did my finals solo meant piano accompaniment if I wanted)

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1419766410' post='2642493'] Bass Player live interview and a little bit of playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slJKsSWe9Y [/quote] These bass player live videos are annual treat! This one though I thought was disappointing, not least because the razzle dazzle you hear from him in the dirty loop songs is conspicuously absent. Micheal manring from last year, or Bobby vega the performance is right there, Nathan east's is great- dammit I could go on. Henrik though is flat. Far less viewed from this year and way more informative is chuck rainey's, but he talks about music making not playing.

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1419638309' post='2641585'] I attach the IEM to my strap, over my shoulder, low enough to be able to reach round and adjust the volume. I run the wire up the strap itself (woven through the leather loops) and then bring the buds in from behind my neck. Comfy, easy to fit, no tangles. The whole topic is covered in depth in the other thread but cable placement seems to be the only area not really touched on to any great degree. [/quote] Thank you

If anyone can help with where to position the cables that would be useful too. I have tried the traditional iPhone arrangement up the front, round the back, one ear in one out, gaffa taping bits, in and outside of clothing but whatever I try the cable snags on my strap and pulls on the earpiece. Drives me nuts.