ras52

I'm in a pub watching the champions' league final, and there's a band setting up in the corner. Judging by the amps they're putting up, there are going to be three guitars and no bass! I'm finding this very disturbing!!!

Great find, thanks! And thanks for the tech tips too... to load the legato instrument, I had to point Konkakt (5, full version) to the correct 1.6 folder for some files it was expecting in a 1.5 folder, and the batch re-save fixed that. When loading the spiccato instrument a "UI Files" folder is reported missing, though if I skip that warning the instrument loads up OK with the basic UI. Is there some online doc that describes the functions of the five special keys a the top of the keyboard? I worked out that C5 legato/polyphonic and E5 toggles round robin on/off, but I can't work out the others do.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1433503385' post='2791616'] I think you have killed apt of interest with Ravi Shankar . So f@@ing tedious . (Really sorry , but my ex boss used to play a few cassettes by him.bing bing bing..) I'm still traumatised. Now if you said Michael Schenker..better;? [/quote] I used think Ravi Shankar was rhyming slang...

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1433502952' post='2791603'] Thanks for trying, Ras. As indicated in other words in my question, I'm aware of them giving the same frequency in equal temperament, and that is not what I'm asking about. I remember a BassChat post where a Brit stated that people use the word TONE when in reality they mean TIMBRE. So my guess was that the word TONE does exist is the meaning I tried to describe, and that that is what should have been used in the quiz. Not sure though - - hence the question. [/quote] People on here talk about TONE a lot, probably because their basses have "tone" controls Tone meaning something frequency-related isn't common in the UK, although it appears in terms like "tritone". More usually we'll talk about NOTEs (e.g. C, implicitly any C) and PITCHes (e.g. Middle C, a specific instance of a note). Re-reading your question, I think the answer is, "eh?" D-E is a major second, D#-E is a minor second (matching your terminology), but D##-E as a "diminished second" is a purely theoretical concept (with equal temperament): it would be a "zero interval" between identical frequencies. I'm not sure any of that helps....

[quote name='The Badderer' timestamp='1433501434' post='2791574'] i'm going to have a rectal exam from a doctor later on today... do i qualify [/quote] At least, he [i]said [/i]he was a doctor....

And now for the science bit: http://mic.com/articles/120137/science-suggests-bassists-are-far-more-important-than-most-people-realize

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1433451871' post='2791261'] 14/15 because of the up bow/down bow thing - - something I've consistently erred on for decades. But I've got a nerdy/geeky question, and I don't know whether the answer lies in the language department or in the realm of musical styles or even in changes within theory. See, when I got my education, a D double sharp and and E are (in Dutch) not the same NOTE even if they give the same TONE on many instruments ("tone" here not meaning timbre but more like say frequency). IMS, in Dutch classical music in the seventies/eighties, we'd call the interval a diminished second (D - E would be a large second, D sharp - E would be a little second). In the quiz, I opted for "they're the same notes", not even looking at the other options, guessing this is what they wanted, and also guessing that in English this is a usual (and possibly even theoretically correct) way of looking at it. How say you? Is the quiz correct in its answer? Does it differ per musical style? [/quote] In [i]equal temperament[/i], D double-sharp and E are alternative "spellings" of the same note.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1433355197' post='2790445'] Thing is Moon and Entwhistle were what they were.... [/quote] Two blokes with [i]almost [/i]the same names as former members of The Who?

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1433406463' post='2790741'] But both bands cannot agree between themselves whether to use Reaper 3 or Reaper 4. [/quote] [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1433406970' post='2790750'] Grim. [/quote] They should run them scythe by scythe... I also heard that Jethro Tull were involved in the pre-production.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1433348972' post='2790365'] 14/15. In my defence, I don't bow... [/quote] Not even when facing a standing ovation?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1433346530' post='2790325'] I don't know Shell, I think that makes you eminently marriable. If that's a word. [/quote] The word you're looking for is 'nubile'.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1433340159' post='2790244'] But... It would almost be insulting to leave the contents of that box at home. [/quote] Yep, I take my ironing board to rehearsals too....

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1433338322' post='2790213'] 11/15, incl some guessing. Most mistakes from not knowing what the funky clef is that's neither bas nor treble. Any clues? [/quote] Alto and tenor clefs were both in there.

I don't like to boast, but [color=#00ff00][size=2][b]I GOT THEM ALL RIGHT[/b][/size][/color]

[quote name='dand666' timestamp='1433271374' post='2789685'] The main thing for me is to try and not learn by muscle memory. ... Was really hard for me as I've learnt all my songs as muscle memory and moving them became a pain. So now all the songs I learn I'm trying a different technique. [/quote] How do you do this? I find that those pesky muscles will memorise things whether you want them to or not!

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1433329445' post='2790101'] Not if Barclay and James harvest them first. [/quote] I hear they're using Reaper to record their next album.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1433319718' post='2789960'] I put something together last night that I think is a credible starting point, Just need to see where it goes. It laternated between bars of 3:4 and 7:8. Yummy!! [/quote] Just call it 13/8, you jazz-progger you!

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1433247436' post='2789308'] Put your wife in the shed, speakers in the bedroom? [/quote] [b][size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"A[color=#404040] maid in the parlour, a cook in the kitchen[/color][color=#404040] and ... a [/color][color=#404040]cab in the bedroom"?[/color][/font][/size][/b]

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1433238504' post='2789137'] Wow. Looks like somebody got that for £100. Nice bass, good luck to it's new owner! [/quote] Wow indeed! I expected it to go for at least twice that: weren't they around £600 new?!

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1433155432' post='2788252'] ...somewhere near the river Cherwell. [/quote] Cherwell.... where gypsies, tramps and thieves go for their water. [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1433174539' post='2788561'] Yes, they play on the beet. [/quote] Do they have a tuber player?

If this was a five....

Rather tasty, even though I don't normally like gold finishes. Is it a BB614? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-Bass-Guitar/161715767861

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1433028409' post='2787262'] Twix's come from Korea? [/quote] [quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1433155922' post='2788261'] Yes, the left one. Or is it the right one? I forget... [/quote] I thought it was more of a north/south thing...

[quote name='matski' timestamp='1433153835' post='2788224'] Why, thank you very much. My wife is Polish and we live in Warsaw so I am slowing becoming a master at pronouncing words with a distinct lack of vowels! Before here, we lived in Holland so I'm also pretty good at coughing up large wads of phlegm whilst talking... ;D [/quote] My sis lived out there for a while, so I took a few lessons to help on my visits. If you can say "pushchair", you can say "....szcz..."!