grimbeaver

I have played bass in various bands for the last 20 odd years and have been completely self taught, I have my own style and play mainly by ear and have coasted along using a small array of runs, tricks, and twangs of my own and copying other peoples bass lines. I would hardly ever play my bass at home unless I had to pick out a new song and if I ever did have a practice at home would just play the same old lines and songs that I always played. I have had many compliments on my playing over the years and have always got by as a "bass player" in a whole host of cover bands and a couple of originals but I always knew I was not a good or talented player when comparing myself to other players, I just coasted. I had tried a couple of teachers prior to Nick but never for more than 1 lesson and to be honest I went to Nick initially to get a few extra "tricks" to sound good and perhaps improve my playing a little. After lesson 1 I was hooked. It's 6 months now and I have untangled my playing style and am in the process of changing how I play altogether. I have had some hard lessons and struggled to grasp certain issues but Nick has slowly and patiently worked with me and now the penny is dropping on theory. I have had some inspirational lessons that for me have opened up whole new areas of bass playing. I am enjoying my bass playing more at the moment than at any other time in the last 20 years, my style and playing has improved so much its unbelievable to the point that people and band members comment on it regularly and I am playing in live situations well out of my old comfort zone and introducing new runs and licks of my own making. At the moment I could not go a night without picking up my bass and after 20 odd years thats something. If you are considering bass lessons be it a complete beginner or someone with years of experience I could not recommend Nick more highly. Rob Brooks.

I only use eden cabs, if you go on the eden web site there is a great forum and you will get some good advice, just my recommendations are as follows I have a 210xst, very hifi, very deep, like a sub woofer allmost, I take that to a small gig on its own, medium gigs IE 150 people in a decent sized pub I add a 210xst, very middy and clear high end, those 2 together are a killer rig for medium venues. I also have a 410xst for big gigs and I put the 210sxt under it, never have I lacked volume or power. I use the WT550 head that runs at 750w and all my cabs are 4ohm as the head will go down to 2ohms load, in hindsight I should have gone for 8ohms cabs. good cabs, the only problem I have found is that if you play a small venue the cabs need more power!! in larger venues they tend to throw the sound out foreward and you need less power?! sounds strange but thats my experience. try the forum its very good. If you were in uk I would invite you round for a cup of tea and a twang so you could hear them

why through the effects loop? I run mine in line I have a wireless, tuner, distortion then the sansamp, would you put the lot through the loop? the x5 wireless is a stomp box and sits in my effects box

ohhh a westone thunderbird 4 string plank painted camoflage and a peavy TNT 130 combo, that was 1985. Now have a sh*t load of Eden cabs and heads and some nice guitars

I am selling a mint eden metro combo, its simply the best thing your going to get, I went to the shop to get an swr redhead and looked at the eden next to it, when I played them both together the eden blew the swr away at all levels. £1400 new mine is mint and only £750.00

oh yes indeed, I have a solo to do at the same time as the lead solo (we do the same thing) and I can play it upside down, in the bath, one hand behind my back. but I made a right cock of it once and now every time it comes up I start thinking about it and bingo I cock it up again..... flub phobia indeed

I thought I had a bargain at £3.99 for 10 of them, turned out I typed grandma pad and I got some of those knicker liners, dohh

There are a ton of free download drum machines with good rock loops etc, anyone know a decent one to download that you can read and adjust tempo on? Am going to finally learn rythm stick so I need it to wind down from 120 to about 2 to start with

my little girl keeps the jaydee just in case she decides to play when she grows up, my wife knows to go to the local college, find the best youg bass player who's skint and give him the lot with my blessing, if he flogs it all and goes on the piss I haunt him forever

As I now have a kiddy (ahhhhh) I cant rock out practicing and through my crappy old headphones the sound is crap, can anyone tell me a decent headphone to get for playing your bass through please. Or do I look for a certain spec (not my thing headphones) Thanks

I have a great trick where I go for a walk around, stand on my lead that rips out and walk a few paces wondering what has gone wrong then sheepishly go and plug back in again, cant count the number of times I have done this

brilliant, dont know what to say really other than brilliant