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[color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,] Hi guys,[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,] Hope you enjoy this - a fresh take on Robbin Thicke's blurred lines. Mainly from the now no longer "Stephen Ward" musical band. To quote "Amadeus" - 'too many notes' in the best possible taste. [color=#222222] [/color][/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX7mPiqQSdY[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,] Atb,[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,] Johnny[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,] Hi guys, Here's our Youtube rock remix of "Take Back The Night" from the 20/20 album: Enjoy! [url="http://www.johnnycopland.com/take-back-the-night-justin-timberlake-remix/"][/url] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jimZ7gm9uuo Johnny [/font][/color]

Hi guys, Check out our full-band rock remix of the Avicii dance tune "wake me up". All in the best possible taste! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6bLQtVpTLQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player Easy, Johnny

Hi guys, What started out as a bunch of friends jamming at a London studio turned into this. Enjoy! :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmDQCPR8V_4 Merry Xmas! Easy, Johnny

Hi Buscini, I did a blog post on some of my favourite timing exercises here: http://www.johnnycopland.com/time-my-top-5-timing-rituals/ Hope this helps, Johnny

(biographies.... sp!) Hi guys, I've done a top 5 of my favourite musician biographies on my blog, mainly in the hope of spreading the word to some new readers that might love to discover some of these. But i'm also interested to hear of any that I might have missed... [url="http://www.johnnycopland.com/my-top-5-musician-biographies/"]http://www.johnnycop...an-biographies/[/url] Some that didn't make the top 5, but are great Miles Davis Keith Jarrett (Ian Carr) John Coltrane - Chasing The Trane Let me know what you think Johnny

Hi Gareth and Bilbo, cheers for listening to it. Of course, Gazz have the audio, though I'm probably going to re-mix it in the next week as a couple of my students wanted an mp3. If i do, i'll post it as a free download on my blog. Johnny

Cheers, mate - hope you've created some harsh sounding voicings with harmonics!

Hi tandro/zmech, Yeah - I do a lot of them on the Northern Line, long journeys north/south. It's hard at first, started with just bass parts before jazz lines, but really good for your ears to try and imagine what intervals you're hearing without a bass or without singing out loud in front of stoney faced commuters! Sometimes you make mistakes and I check it at the end and there are always a few that creep in. I think from a playing point of view you're always going to get most out of transcribing straight onto the bass, without paper or anything as it's a direct link, and you memorise it better/assimilate, but if you're on the Tube without a bass the mini score book is one way of still learning a few sweet things! J

[color=#000000][font=Verdana][size=4][left]Hi there, A long time ago (when I played the 6 str bass more) I did a chart of all the natural harmonics (the easily playable ones) to try and help with creating pieces and new songs. I've put it up as a free PDF download on my blog if you are interested.... [url="http://www.johnnycopland.com/bass-harmonics-taking-it-further/"]http://www.johnnycopland.com/bass-harmonics-taking-it-further/[/url] cheers, Johnny[/left][/size][/font][/color]

Excellent Post! While we can rush around worrying about scales, soloing, harmony and techniques, this is all 99% redundant in terms of bass playing if we're not truly listening. That is, in terms of the true goal (you'd hope) of trying to serve the music & make the music sound better with the bass. Try learning a piece of music so you can play the original bass part (fills and everything) perfectly from memory. Then write on paper all the different instruments you can hear in there. Then, If there are 10 different instruments, now play along 10 x but listen completely to each of those instruments one at a time (at the end of each time you should be able to say for example " - the Hi Hat becomes more open at the end of each chorus after you did this with the Hi-hat part....." or "the piano goes to arpeggios in the bridge" Some of the clearest and most lucid advice I've ever seen on good 'bass playing' (as bass in it's traditional role as an instrument which supportsthe music and makes everything else sound as good as it can be) was Lionel Richie on recording with different bassists. "At the end of the recording take, the B league player always asks one very important question. How did that sound? .... - If you have to ask.... you missed it" And conversely one of the most confused things another bassist ever said to me was.... Jazz star (so and so's) gig was okay, but the bassist (a famous guy) didn't really play anything a bass player would be interested in. He went to the gig to listen to the bassist, not the music.

Hi guys, Here's a Blog Post and video lesson on the bass on the song "Fire" by The Ohio Players http://www.johnnycopland.com/how-to-play-fire-the-ohio-players/ Cheers, Johnny

Hi guys, Here's a play along & transcription (just hand written fly sh@# dots!) of Bill Evans solo on Peri's Scope The original is a bit flat than concert.. http://www.johnnycopland.com/bill-evans-peris-scope/ Cheers, Johnny

Hi guys, Here's a fretless track I recorded this weekend - its a cover of Nick Drake's track 'From the Morning' http://www.johnnycopland.com/from-the-morning-nick-drake Cheers, Johnny