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Blackbird ～ Jaco Pastorius (sorry Carl)

https://www.todobajos.com/en/ A bass and bass equipment only shop in Madrid. Bought a bass from them a couple of years ago, a Sandberg that was sold out everywhere that I got for a reduced price. They are very nice and helpful people and I'd like to visit the shop sometime. Looks like a community shop and they put on concerts in their shop as well. edit: I've just seen they sell used basses as well.

sing while you play - that way you internalise what each note sounds like even before you play it. Chord theory helps massively too, so work on dominant 7, major 7 and minor 7th chord arpeggios - they'll give you the root, third, fifth and seventh (if you choose to use it) of ANY chord in 95% of western popular music.

The band nailed Fire by Jimi Hendrix by the second run through, it’s really enjoyable when tunes really gel almost immediately, it’s going to be added to our set for the gig this coming weekend. 👍

A X-over is the way to really tweak the high end (*) while keeping low end clear and functional. After trying many OD/fuzz/dist pedals, X-over made many of them functional if the full band sound was miserable (like they so often tended to be). Flanger/chorus is the same, you can adjust all parametres freely, and the low end stays intact. (*) To me high end here means frequencies over 400 Hz. Your cross over f may vary.

Just read that section. I'm going to let it percolate, then read it again. When I get home, and can set up my FI, I can run through the example they describe, which ought to help.

Or a new** rat skin loincloth ** freshly clubbed to death

@stewblack also realised that the right-hand slider values for the coarse tuning aren’t shown in the screenshot. Set them to 12 higher than the value of their left ones.

Sorry, @SamIAm, I am late just like @cdog. Have posted this elsewhere, too. These chords are played with three strings only (it's easy to move or expand these across the fretboard). Play and listen to the chord voices. May help you to find some interesting sounds and possibilities. Sorry for funny coding of the four first triads: v = diminished, m = minor, d = major, y = augmented; I did this with a matrix printer maybe +30 years ago. Cross on a dot means the root note. To compare these, start the pattern from the same root note, like E (played from the seventh fret of the string A). You need to move your hand every now and then to keep the one-finger-per-fret idea through the chords. Concentrate first to the minor and major triads, then study 6, m7, 7, mMaj7, and Maj7. The rest is jazz. Where's my coat? One easy approach in playing is not to go to the next note from the direction you are coming from: say from A string third fret C to D string third fret F via D string first fret Eb. Then play that same C and approach the F from D string's 5th fret G. In other words starting from the beginning of the Smoke on the water: C - Eb - F or C - Eb - E - F (or C - Eb - Gb - F, or the now funny sounding major version C - E - F, and C - E - G - F, and so on) How about this, then: C - G - F or C - G - Gb - F (and C - Gb - Eb - F, or C - Gb - E - F etc.) You end up to the same place but they all sound very different. If you use four notes instead of three, you need to rethink the phrasing, the rhythm.

Nomad Bassman, for when you absolutely gotta compress the f*** outta everything 😀 Loved mine 👍

I had one of the percussive fretless ones many, many years ago. I think it was one of the instruments I part-exchanged to get my Warwick Thumb in 1988.

Wouldn’t be beyond comprehension the old TSBS bass had SD pick ups from the factory

We've spent several hours of prototyping to design the right angle to not damage the string. There is no problem even with a .130.