bubinga5 Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 Does anyone remember the M channnel on sky about 4 years ago...It used to have range of people and presenters teaching you different instruments including Bass..Twas very good... Whatever happened to it? Quote
Stingray5 Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 Indeed I do. It was one of the reasons I signed up (...that and the Sci-Fi channel ). I often wondered what happened to it though suspected it was probably too specialised and lacked funding (advertising). Cheers Steve Quote
BarnacleBob Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 I think I remember one where some Bird was being taught the drums (quite informative) and the info trailing across the bottom of the screen saying that Bass lessons were coming up next (need them!) but waited and waited..............then got infomercials for crap but no bass BB Quote
paul h Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 A couple of the bass lessons were okay. Not up to Rockschool standards though! Quote
BarnacleBob Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 God, I had forgotten that. Henry 'King Thumb' Thomas wasn't it? BB Quote
s_u_y_* Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 Yeah, I used to watch it regularly for a while. First saw Newton Faulkner perform on it and thought he was amazing then... although I saw some other utter s**** bands play also. The bass lessons were of course basic, but I lapped it up at the time because they were free! (Well... free with my Sky subscription of course. lol) Quote
Rodders Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 The channel changed to RockWorld TV but they still showed the lessons and had lots of unsigned bands on the channel aswell Quote
KevB Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 What amazes me is that with so many utterly wasted TV channels and with the fairly large UK population of amateur and semi-pro musos that there isn't a market for a freeview available music channel that properly caters for people wanting to learn instruments. You'd think the overheads would be quite small compared with, for eg funding a drama series or whatever. A half decent teacher with half decent gear sitting there and telling you how to play should be pretty cheap to make surely? All these kids are spending thousands going to music colleges, there must be a market there to be tapped into? Quote
BarnacleBob Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 Does Bass Player magazine not have an online 'TV channel'? Has anyone seen it? BB Quote
Bassmurf Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I have, some vids are good with interviews and lessons with well known players and others can be a tad talky! Quote
BarnacleBob Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 [quote name='Bassmurf' post='517241' date='Jun 18 2009, 10:57 AM']........................others can be a tad talky![/quote] Not Mr J. Berlin, I hope. BB Quote
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