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Cash in hand? If so, never existed

These are mine. Didn't know whether the J 5 would count as a jazz, so I put my Fender in there to balance it out! Just bought the Overwater Aspiration Contemporary J 5 and REALLY love it! The block inlays are beautiful and the colour is a lot more subtle than I thought it would be. The Fender was my first bass and is/has been my only ever 'keeper', although the J 5 may have just joined those ranks. It's incredible!

[quote name='mep' post='1207511' date='Apr 21 2011, 08:46 PM']What do you make of it and what will you be doing?[/quote] Simple, I'll stop using it. I used Spotify because it was free (even with adverts) and due to the large library of music. If they want to change that, I'll look elsewhere. Probably grooveshark, even though it's not as good.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1207423' date='Apr 21 2011, 07:23 PM']-------------2------------------ ----------4----------0H2------- ------2------------------------- -----------------3---------0----[/quote] Fixed This should make it easier for any beginners who follow tab very strictly... EDIT: I will take any punishment Doddy or Bilbo see fit for posting tab

Who did Jools ruin this week?

I think this is an interesting view on what should be the 'norm' with basses; “Why is four [strings] the standard and not six? As the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family, the instrument should have had six strings from the beginning. The only reason it had four was because Leo Fender was thinking in application terms of an upright bass, but he built it along guitar lines because that was his training. The logical conception for the bass guitar encompasses six strings.” Anthony Jackson

[quote name='ead' post='1204250' date='Apr 18 2011, 10:47 PM']+1 I bought my Aspiration from them and I thought they we very patient with me [/quote] My Contemporary J 5 just arrived... Beautiful out of the box and truly stunning instrument! Don't know who to thank really. Bassmerchant, Chris May and Tanglewood should probably all get a shout. CHEERS!

Great news! I'm a self-confessed Aggy whore and now within comfortable driving distance of Harrogate. Sounds dangerous, I might have to move lol.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1204128' date='Apr 18 2011, 08:54 PM']But where are your fours?[/quote] You've got them all! Get some up for sale so we can have our share

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1203816' date='Apr 18 2011, 05:10 PM']Any time I listen to any piece of music not composed or arranged by me, or featuring my playing, I get to hear all this, with my ears. I have done this quite often over the time I've been playing bass - in fact every single time I have heard any piece of music which fulfills the above criteria - and all of it has had an influence, one way or the other, on how I play & what I play. How would the influence be more profound if I had read it from (as a previous poster eloquently put it) fly-sh!t, rather than simply listening? J.[/quote] When did I say that the method I mentioned was the only way? I simply highlighted a benefit. In direct response to your question. It won't be any more profound for you because you've already discovered the best way for you to learn (by ear). However, some players on here may not have found the best way for them to learn and may be visual learners and find reading a better option for them. You can't expect everyone to take the same approach. If I asked you to read instead of using your ear, you'd probably find it hard work and frustrating as it's not the right approach for you. Similarly, some players may find it equally frustrating using their ears instead of reading. I'm simply showing another perspective so that the players trying discover what is best for them, can know all the options. Sight reading is not a one-fix solution for everything, but sometimes it helps and sh!tting all over it because it's not for you is pretty selfish and immature. I thought the point of this forum is to encourage players to develop and improve through other's shared experiences?

[quote name='Doddy' post='1202143' date='Apr 16 2011, 09:05 PM']I hear this excuse a lot (along with 'I don't need to know this stuff to play in my band'),and I don't buy it. Just because you like a particular type of music doesn't mean you should avoid an essential part of it's language. When I started playing I had to use my ear to learn the music that I was into and wanted to play,but I still learned how to associate the bass with the stave....and believe it or not,it actually helped with learning the music that I wanted to play and made it easier.[/quote] + 1 Also, the other benefit of being able to read is that your ideas are not just restricted to what's in your own head. You get to see another person's perspective on what they think a bass player should be playing and you often find stuff that influences your lines as a result, whether it's something good that you magpie away, or something that doesn't work and that you can avoid doing in the future.

Just want to sing the praises of Bassmerchant. Hassled them like an annoying school child about the Aspiration series basses, got the information I wanted and then left it a while to think. Decided to buy one and really wanted to support a specialist bass shop that i have had a number of successful transactions with in the past, but found the item cheaper elsewhere. So I asked them about it and they offered me a price-match. Paid at 4:40pm today, bass was put in the hands of the courier as I was on the phone to them and it will arrive (if all goes smoothly) tomorrow. Contemporary J 5... Excited!!

[quote name='TomKent' post='1202488' date='Apr 17 2011, 11:28 AM']But still, imagine the shame Paul would get if he was fobbed of because she wanted to play all the live gigs on bass herself? [/quote] But imagine the grin on his face when she realises that she's rubbish and has to beg him to come back... Pay-rise Paul?!

Anything that starts in 'We need a bassist and XXXXX recommended you...' or a call-back of any kind. Also, anything that ends in 'and we'll pay you £XXX' Best compliments you can get IMO

[quote name='gareth' post='1202645' date='Apr 17 2011, 02:48 PM']MiM 50's classic is the way to go - used from £250 - great buy, value and sound[/quote] MASSIVE + 1 Even new, totally worth the cash! These are a LOT of Precision for the money, second hand or new!

[quote name='Doddy' post='1202480' date='Apr 17 2011, 11:25 AM']The Bass Bible is a great book,but I wouldn't recommend it for the early stages of reading because of the inclusion of tablature. I'd try to find books that are purely notation instead,so it removes any temptation to look at the tab. You should still buy it though because it's full of cool stuff. [/quote] I agree with you Doddy, that the tab is annoying and not how I would choose to do it, but the OP might want tab alongside notation to get started. It's just a good resource either way and the OP can make his mind up as to when he feels it would be best to start working on it P.s. I've found that my students find it pretty useful as practice stuff outside of lessons as I give them the tab bits mixed up on one sheet and the dots mixed up on another. That way they can play through the notes on their own without looking at the second sheet of tab, and then try and figure out which 'tab' one matches it, so they can see it in a format that makes a bit more sense to them

+ 1 to Doddy's books with the addition of; John Patitucci's 60 Melodic Etudes (Here - [url="http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/60-Melodic-Etudes/5841170"]http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/60-Mel...-Etudes/5841170[/url] and you get a sneak at the first page) and Paul Westwood's 'Bass Bible' as that has A LOT of good small snippets of lines to read and means you can mix it up and change what you're playing before you get the chance to remember any of it!

Just shows you that the little things make a huge difference when you have a sensitive and responsive amp

[quote name='Skol303' post='1200736' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:27 PM']You've got to be a complete mug to spend money on something that somebody else has messed up on your behalf.[/quote] I'd imagine many people on here have had an ex (or 10!) who can testify to this!

[quote name='Doddy' post='1200852' date='Apr 15 2011, 03:39 PM']The thing with this is that players like Miles had spent so long playing and studying that when they are on the bandstand they aren't thinking "Cminor7..2..3..4../F7..2..3..4.." or "A minor=A,C,E"-It's ingrained. They know about scales and arpeggios and chords and all that stuff and it allows them to just play. When you are on stage you don't want to be thinking about every note,that is why you spend time in the 'shed,practising.[/quote] Oh, I know that. My point is simply that this argument is not as black and white as everyone is making out. I totally agree with yourself and Bilbo that if you want to be taken seriously in ANY musical setting, you should have a basic knowledge of it and do a bit of work. Turning up to a gig of any kind without that knowledge (IMO) is like turning up to a job interview and knowing nothing about the company you intend to work for and hoping to blag the job.

I hate to throw the spanner in the works, but even the great GREAT musicians of Jazz and music we would associate with music theory in practice, play without knowing what they are doing at the time. Miles Davis - “I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.” The guy has the knowledge and he can tell you what he played by analyising it after, but it's obvious that (in the musical moment) he plays probably from a combination of his ear and patterns he's played before. The quote also implies that he has not purposefully affected the harmony/melody of the piece, but simply played something that fits at the time and can explain/justify it through further analysis at a later point in time. Again, apologies for the spanner in the works!

[quote name='TomKent' post='1200179' date='Apr 15 2011, 01:34 AM']They get given them probably. [/quote] And that is why I am finding it difficult to find validity and sincerity in your opinions/view, valid though they may be. You have a clear bias and combining this with your slightly negative comments, the realist in me is saying 'he's just channeling the voice of Krampera like some corporate ventriloquist dummy... don't listen!' By the way, I'm TOTALLY biased towards my LMIII, so I didn't really need an excuse to give you the proverbial *fingers in ears 'ner ner nee ner ner, I love my Mark Bass and I don't want to know about anything better for fear of GAS, so I can't hear you, ner ner nee ner ner'*

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1200666' date='Apr 15 2011, 01:44 PM']Not saying the Tanglewood website is pure gospel, but [url="http://www.tanglewoodguitars.co.uk/products/electricbass/overwater.html"]there's no Elite 5 listed on it yet[/url], even though Overwater's site says the Elite is 4- or 5-string. Also no Contemporary J 5 in black. [/quote] I had a feeling that they wouldn't offer the Contemporary J 5 in black... damn. Blue is just a tad 'in-your-face' for me. As for the Elite 5, one of the seller's in Overwaters 'suppliers' list has it listed for sale on their website... Hopefully the response will be good news and not a 'we have it listed but there's a wait of X number of weeks'

Just sent an email to one of the companies on the seller's list regarding the Elite 5. Exciting times Also, does anyone know if the Contemporary J 5 comes in Trans Black, or is just Trans Blue, because I've only seen the 5er in Trans Blue?

[quote name='Gust0o' post='1200623' date='Apr 15 2011, 01:14 PM']Can someone please make the obvious 'oral tradition' joke so we can have a good, old-fashion schoolboy snigger and get this thread back on track? Thanks.[/quote] I wish all my fridays could be spent arguing over which oral is best... *ba-dum CHHHHHH*