Myke

ooooh!

Looking nice! I'm gonna have to do this sometime! Nice idea!

I never had a J bass but I have a blend on my TRB which has two humbuckers. Would the principle still be the same there? It is active though, not sure if that makes a difference?

[quote name='Dave_the_bass' timestamp='1385491337' post='2288940'] Seems your sorted, but if not, pm me and I'll sketch the details from my passive yamaha PJ which is wired exactly as you're wanting. [/quote] Yeah all sorted now but thank you for the offer

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Good!

Ah! I was like lower would be crazy! Oooh.. Interesting I shall have a read thank you

Which way would you go? Higher or lower? Also what looper software are you using? I've tried a few of the free ones and couldn't get them to work!

[quote name='Bill' timestamp='1385739791' post='2291741'] Cool man! thanks :-) that was with Chet, he is great! good to see another W-S-M guy on here aswell! [/quote] Yeah, I'll have to introduce myself when I see you next!

Nice Getting asked back is always the best compliment

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1385661478' post='2290873'] Can I add the question (which I think might be pertinent to the OP, but please ignore this if it isn't), but how do people improve their phrasing when improvising. I find that knowing which notes to use only gets me so far. Trying to avoid stepwise motion gets me a bit further, but improved phrasing is an important nut that I need to make progress in cracking. The reason I think this might be relevant to the OP is that I feel that working on phrasing is how I'm going to make progress in avoiding improvisations that are ".. too dull, boring or repetitive". Perhaps that might also apply to Robot_Pelican_Chin. [/quote] Now I'm not a pro at improvising at all but a tip is to play in 'sentences'. You only say so many words before you take a breath. Do the same thing with playing. You could try the play what you're singing thing. I'm not at this stage yet though. I'm sure there will be better people along like Urb or Hector etc. who I know are much better at the whole improv thing than I am.

Before you play come up with different lines you know off by heart, then you can just go to each one of these and just play between them. But about the nervous thing, just don't panic and relax, if you make mistakes, you make mistakes. It's how you react to these mistakes that makes the difference.

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I know! I missed it!

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1385492650' post='2288961'] I watched the Billy Sheehan vid over the weekend. Found it really inspiring, a well spent hour and 20 mins. [/quote] I haven't watched that one yet but it's definitely on the list!

Hello, I've spend something along the last week watching the Bass Player Live 2013 masterclass videos. Really useful stuff from them all and I just wanted to share incase anybody had missed these. I've really enjoyed the Nathan East one, the Janek Gwisdala one and right now I'm watching another with Nathan East, Freddie Washington and Rickey Minor in. Some nice grooves going on Anyway here's the link to the youtube page. http://www.youtube.com/user/BassPlayerMag?feature=watch (No affiliation at all just wanted to share the goodness) Mike [size=3](not sure if someone has posted already or not) [/size]

Ooh, may chuck this onto my xmas list for about an hour

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1385294588' post='2286441'] The one that is most likely to make me stop reading is finding "of" used when it should be " 've".... [/quote] I have a tendency to write thing down how I same them. So I use the 'of' instead of ''ve' the word 'ain't' instead of isn't. I know it's wrong but I just do it anyway And always why I sometimes have the word 'like' on the end of a sentence

Haha! I love it!

Nice! I've heard of you a lot in Weston. The only time I've seen you play was when you recorded the video for the rapper (can't remember his name) in the performance space at Weston College. Sounded awesome! Mike

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1385480027' post='2288735'] Is it our own fault in some way? For all the jokes we share on here about being the one who gets ignored, or the being the geek of the band, have we developed a collective sense of apathy? Have too many of us "learnt our place" and resigned to playing conservatively? How many of us would aspire to appear on such a list? [/quote] I definitely don't. I enjoy the fact that I'm not the centre of focus

That is a monster!

Well I personally see more shreddy bassists on youtube and this obviously wasn't around then. Also I've never seen a solo bassist live before so in that aspect I think it's more widely known through the internet. But band wise I have no idea. I'm not even gonna be much help as I'm only 19 so have no idea about what happen in the other years. Except through music I've heard obviously.