So, how skint would you be? Bass player infractions

[oldslapper]

Ssshhhh! , it may be a spoof 👀

Edited July 13, 2020 by oldslapper

[BassBunny]

Looks like a James Brown checklist.

[Newfoundfreedom]

Weird! Does anyone actually do any of that?

OK I might technically be in for 15 bucks for bringing an electric tuner, but it's part of a multi effects board.

Other than that I'm home free, and I've never even played with a horn player. I don't think I've ever even seen one. 

 

Edited July 13, 2020 by Newfoundfreedom

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I can't understand what is so wrong with using an electric tuner. Are we supposed to use a tuning fork?

[paul_5]

$500 for bringing a fretless, then dismissed for playing above the first octave. 
 

On second thoughts I’d just stay in bed.

[musicbassman]

I particularly like the perfectly reasonable $25 fine for the DB player who actually plays audibly !

 

[knirirr]

$1520, plus dismissal, I think (includes fretless BG plus various upright offences).
 

[Lozz196]

I think I’d be alright.

[Nail Soup]

Writing note names above the ledger line notes. No fine for writing TAB above the ledger line then?

[oldslapper]

4 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

Writing note names above the ledger line notes. No fine for writing TAB above the ledger line then?

No.

 

Straight to Disenbowelment. 

[itu]

Now! So this is the reason I have earned so little while playing bass.

[bass_dinger]

"Reading a self-contradictory comedy list of Bass Player Infractions, instead of practicing.       $15"

 

 

[Nail Soup]

Using Electronic tuner - $15.

How about playing the whole set with a tuner clamped to the headstock?

[uk_lefty]

Playing high and fast after a mistake... May as well give over my car keys, house keys, kidneys... 

[T-Bay]

What’s a ‘ bone player’? A keyboard player? I sure as hell am not typing ‘what’s a bone player’ into google to find out.

[oldslapper]

7 minutes ago, T-Bay said:

What’s a ‘ bone player’? A keyboard player? I sure as hell am not typing ‘what’s a bone player’ into google to find out.

I believe it refers to a trombone player.

However......your decision to refrain from the google search is probably a wise choice. 

[T-Bay]

21 minutes ago, oldslapper said:

I believe it refers to a trombone player.

However......your decision to refrain from the google search is probably a wise choice. 

Ah yes, that makes sense!

[Painy]

How skint would I be? 

The answer is obviously that I couldn't be any more skint than Basschat has already made me. 🙄

[Huge Hands]

I think for "missing root at end of blistering fill" - I would probably be bankrupt alone.

I know plenty of 'bone players and those ones are true too!  I know what they all do for a day job!

[Passinwind]

On 13/07/2020 at 13:04, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I can't understand what is so wrong with using an electric tuner. Are we supposed to use a tuning fork?

In the context of jazz with acoustic piano you are generally expected to tune to the piano by ear. I made this faux pas myself as a rookie in a big band, but most of time the keyboard player brought an electric one and it didn't matter, and sometimes the acoustic ones have been so out of tune that it also didn't matter. The real fun started when there was no keyboard player and the whole band tuned to my fretless bass, and not to a pitch with a marker either. 😉

Edited July 15, 2020 by Passinwind

[Nail Soup]

4 hours ago, T-Bay said:

Ah yes, that makes sense!

So there are a lot of references to the bone player. Can we infer that in jazz circles the trombone player is the butt of jokes, a bit like drummer in rock music?

[Newfoundfreedom]

10 hours ago, Passinwind said:

In the context of jazz with acoustic piano you are generally expected to tune to the piano by ear. I made this faux pas myself as a rookie in a big band, but most of time the keyboard player brought an electric one and it didn't matter, and sometimes the acoustic ones have been so out of tune that it also didn't matter. The real fun started when there was no keyboard player and the whole band tuned to my fretless bass, and not to a pitch with a marker either. 😉

In the case of jazz you don't need to bother tuning at all.