velvetkevorkian

Any chance of a link?

I find it lets you dig in more, although that doesn't qualify as much of a benefit IMO.

[quote name='Doc B' post='218203' date='Jun 13 2008, 11:47 AM']Good to see the return of CC Music![/quote] Indeed!

As far as I'm concerned, if you're paying me I'll play precisely whatever you want me to, with a smile on my face and all the passion I can muster. If you're not paying, I'll play precisely what I want. I think this may be an attitude I picked up doing orchestral playing up to national youth level- sometimes you just have to smile and get on with it, no matter how much you hate the piece in question, and you have to do it well.

I'm a shameless metal head, and play in an extreme powercheese band with a touch of prog- link in sig. I want to play in a band that's Cynic crossbred with Wintersun with the drummer from Meshuggah.

Can't wait to see how this one develops. Should be frankly awesome.

Just to show it can be used... [url="http://www.myspace.com/onceburningearth"]http://www.myspace.com/onceburningearth[/url] In "Season Of Thunder" I double the lead guitar's sweep at 38 secs.

Unwound as in flatwound? If so that could well be your problem. If you wanna sound like Billy get some nice zingy roundwounds on there. And practice 8 hours a day for the rest of your life.

[quote name='bremen' post='151553' date='Mar 5 2008, 10:05 AM']Who said that? I Googled it but it only came back to your sig. "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best." -FVZ, RIP[/quote] Its from Alasdair Gray's epic (and very very strange) [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lanark-Life-Books-Canongate-Classics/dp/1841959073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205067213&sr=8-1"]"Lanark".[/url]

I ripped my sweeping technique pretty much wholesale from this Scott Hubbell lesson... [url="http://www.scotthubbell.com/lessons/L13.htm"]http://www.scotthubbell.com/lessons/L13.htm[/url] Its a technique that does take a looooooot of slow painful practice and is of limited usefulness in most musical contexts, although I must say I do love being to double my guitarists' sweeps. (yeah, I copied this from the previous thread. This is far and away the best lesson I've found on the toppic and I have looked quite a bit.)

TBH you're entirely right, the time I've invested in stuff like sweeping would almost certainly have been better spent learning more practical stuff and keeping up my upright chops. It was just something I got a bit carried away with; that said, I do play in a band where there is actually opportunities to deploy stuff like this and I'm given free reign to do so, and the look on my guitarist's face the first time I doubled one of his sweeps was well worth the effort. If I was playing in a less technical outfit it would most probably have stayed a neat bedroom trick.

[quote name='Alun' post='107297' date='Dec 20 2007, 07:47 PM']Adam Nitti and Scott Hubbell both use sweeping a fair amount. This technique is discussed quite often on Talkbass so you might want to pop over and have a rummage. Cheers, Alun[/quote] I ripped my sweeping technique pretty much wholesale from this Scott Hubbell lesson... [url="http://www.scotthubbell.com/lessons/L13.htm"]http://www.scotthubbell.com/lessons/L13.htm[/url] Its a technique that does take a looooooot of slow painful practice and is of limited usefulness in most musical contexts, although I must say I do love being to double my guitarists' sweeps.

Peavey TVX 4x10. Certainly wouldn't go with a single 15 for volume as it will almost certainly be 8 ohms and you'll get about 1/4 of the amp's power through it.