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Afterlife - Dream Theater

I've no issue with full disclosure ai labelling whether it be "fully ai generated", "ai assisted" etc - I think folk should be allowed to choose to support/listen to what they want in the same way that "free range" eggs is a useful label? But I agree that there is plenty of human slop out there! Would it be fair to say that 99.99% of original material uploaded could be regarded as derivative and uninteresting? Most successful solo artists / songwriters are using session musicians to lay down the backing tracks. It seems to me that the latter could well be a first music casualty of war with the new tech (just as software engineers, audit juniors etc are finding in their fields of work). Where ai is going to struggle to compete is full band live performances with no backing tracks - and that is where I'm going to be focussing my live bass playing. If we end up including songs that have an ai imprint rather than purely covering other folk's back catalogue, I'm cool with that - the human interaction with an audience will remain intact.

Heaven - The Chimes

I just googled that, thanks! I’ll have a look.

Cool thanks - how do you find the Pro version "Editor" for editing / changing parts of tracks you have already got that you're not 100% happy with? I guess that's where the Studio version seems to be a decent step up i.e. feels like a DAW with ai assistance for laying down the tracks?

Thanks for the tip on TRS to XLR. I just need to find a source for suitably low profile right angle XLR & TRS plugs to squeeze in! I'm currently using a TRS to TRS lead to go between Stomp & Colour box - and running the stomp output at instrument level.

I'm gonna disagree with the consensus here and say that Bass isn't an instrument you particularly need formal lessons and grades for (how many people here have done Bass grades vs people on a Piano forum? I'd say much more for Piano as it is more of a solo technical instrument that needs music reading) but Bass is a very 'sociable' instrument - you need to pay along with others to get the feel of what works with a band. So as soon as you can head along to a rehearsal with others, even to just listen in then try and do it. Things like the 'Bass method' books are decent. And there are so many free online resources. I'd say paying for lessons is a 'nice to have' rather than essential. Caveat being that I'm talking from my perspective as a gigging pub covers band sort of Bass player where I feel just listening to recordings to learn what to play, playing live for timing and knowing when to shut up are more important than reading music or knowing what Mode is playing. If you want to read music etc and play at west end musicals then formal training I'm sure it's very important.

From my perspective I miss the days when you could tell they'd written songs, and brought them to the studio, rather than assembled a load of riffs and figured out what to do with them. I also miss the classic bass / drums / guitar instrumental breaks... A Farewell to Kings, Digital Man, Freewill, Distant Early Warning, Marathon, Camera Eye etc. the bits of interplay you'd really look forward to. They're noticeable by their absence on most of the later albums.

I’d love to hear a less dense mix of it, I’m not a fan of Nick Raskulinecz‘s production. Paging Steven Wilson!

Interesting how people see things differently. Clockwork Angels is my 2nd most listened to Rush album after (of course) Moving Pictures; I get the imagery of the journey the protagonist is on and The Garden is a fitting finale. (That said, I like lots of other Rush albums too, so there may be a cigarette paper's width between them all.)

I'm so sorry to disappoint you there @Grooverjr 😞

Can you get a new nut and widen that, then you get to play the strings of your choice? I had Rotosound tapes on a Jack Casady, probably after watching that Scot Devine video, and thought they sounded good. The feel of them took a while to get used to, but they're worth a shot.

They are all Burns instruments. Artist Bass and Vibra-Artist Guitars from 1960-62.

With the exception of a couple of tracks, I think it was a miserable album to go out on. Generic, overproduced rock, drained of life. Again, IMO.

Each to their own - I think it's one of their best albums (bar the one track which they didn't play anyway).

Glastonbury 1995, Oasis Vs The Prodigy at about midnight. I was 15 and my friends wanted to see Oasis, I went alone to The Prodigy. No regrets, I don't think it'd be an exaggeration to say it was life changing stuff (along with Orbital and the Dance tent that year) I was already into that sort of music but that was a year or so before I could get into decent clubs so was a real eye opener.

Hi Al, I'm using the Pro version.( I think it cost me £72 for the year). I've just finished a 12 track album that I'm overjoyed with. Still got more to do cleaning up the tracks and mixing but imho it's as good as most stuff I've heard in the genre. I will upload it to Spotify in the end. I'm not expecting loads of listens, but just the satisfaction of creating something I'm happy with is enough. Rick Beato dissing AI music is really getting on my nerves. In one interview he mentioned Spotify marking the tracks as AI so people could avoid listening to them which I find ludicrous. I subscribe to it to listen to good music, some of the none AI tracks he recommends are woeful.

They're also playing Amsterdam. I'm afraid of the ticket prices but I think I'll probably go. I've never seen them live and I'd love to see Geddy at least once...

That’s not a fault of the classical system. That’s a fault of the student ignoring the art element of music and not going out and playing with others outside of the educational structure. I absolutely agree that many classical only students don’t improvise because it’s not a genre that ever requires it. That’s why I said I would also take jazz studies - jazz is the biggest use of improvisation and it is taught and encouraged. Studying both is important but saying playing the line is only 10% just isn’t true. Bass generally requires far less improvisation outside of jazz as it’s used as a foundation for the rest. Playing the part right is always at least 90% of the job.