Bass Playing with a Click Track

[6stringbassist]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='451150' date='Apr 1 2009, 08:13 AM']I reckon an out of time "live" feel is ideal to practice with. Gives you a more realist training exercise for when you are thrown into the real world battlefield.[/quote]

Just hope you don't end up playing with a good drummer.

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='451777' date='Apr 1 2009, 05:47 PM']Just hope you don't end up playing with a good drummer.[/quote]

A good drummer? What's one of those?

[peted]

I use the metronome in my Tascam Bass Trainer (BT1). It's pretty simple, but you can choose to accent the first beat, the number of beats in a bar, and the tempo.

[Thunderthumbs]

I've used Audacity to create click tracks as varying BPMs, exported them as MP3s and then put them in a "click tracks" playlist on my iPod.

That way, I can create the MP3s with as few or as many bars as I want, and all with existing software and accessories....so no cash for specific gizmos and gadgets.

[queenofthedepths]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='451150' date='Apr 1 2009, 08:13 AM']I reckon an out of time "live" feel is ideal to practice with. Gives you a more realist training exercise for when you are thrown into the real world battlefield.[/quote]
Surely that's not a good thing on a loop, though?

[BigBeefChief]

[quote name='yorick' post='451129' date='Apr 1 2009, 07:35 AM']What's a g-spot..... In the bass playing sense????? [/quote]


In any sense??????

[Rich]

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='452467' date='Apr 2 2009, 02:28 PM']I've used Audacity to create click tracks as varying BPMs, exported them as MP3s and then put them in a "click tracks" playlist on my iPod.

That way, I can create the MP3s with as few or as many bars as I want, and all with existing software and accessories....so no cash for specific gizmos and gadgets.[/quote]
Good old Audacity, it's a thing of beauty. I'd be a bit lost without it.

[Mottlefeeder]

If you are not a fan of bleep type clicks, this Sabine model does a pretty good woodblock clonk sound.
[url="http://www.sabine.com/sabine-music-accessories/mt-9000.htm"]http://www.sabine.com/sabine-music-accessories/mt-9000.htm[/url]

[bassbloke]

The Pandora is indeed a fantastic little device. I own a PX3B for bass practice and PX4D for mainly guitar and some bass. I've owed the PX3B for around 10 years now and use it every day. Well worth checking the classifieds and ebay for one.

[Bass-ic]

Eh?

how hard can it be to count 1-2-3-4 in a consistent and rhythmic way? (Drummers excluded..and I know this 'cos my brother is one).

I learnt how to do it at music school.

[AM1]

[quote name='Absolute-beginner' post='452900' date='Apr 3 2009, 12:37 AM']Eh?

how hard can it be to count 1-2-3-4 in a consistent and rhythmic way? (Drummers excluded..and I know this 'cos my brother is one).

I learnt how to do it at music school.

[/quote]

If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.

[lowdown]

[quote name='Absolute-beginner' post='452900' date='Apr 3 2009, 12:37 AM']Eh?

how hard can it be to count 1-2-3-4 in a consistent and rhythmic way?[/quote]

Depends where you count 1-2-3-4...?
Before the beat, [b]on[/b] the beat, or after the beat.
Counting beats aint the problem, its where you place then.

Garry

[51m0n]

My two penneth.

I have the Korg metronome mentioned earlier and on mine at least the output to the headphones is unaffected by the volume control and stupidly loud. Dont get it for in ear stuff it dont work right!

I find a nice hand clap sound far better/less painful than a woodblock or (urrrgh) a blip.