jakenewmanbass

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='124555' date='Jan 21 2008, 01:13 PM']No probs. Just a chip on my shoulder. Our local scene here is Suffolk is 96% covers bands. I just wish the percentages were a little less weighted against something fresh.[/quote] I feel for you living in an area with a paucity of enjoyable gigs and I applaud the largess of character you display in admitting to a "chip" on your shoulder. I hope you find something to stimulate your obvious hunger for something good. Jake

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='123751' date='Jan 20 2008, 12:21 PM']Just got to listen - great, love it but can't help wondering why people don't do their own thing? As good as it is, its only second hand glory... Would do the gig in a minute, tho'[/quote] I do do my own things too, I do think that some of the great music deserves to be played, kept current in the aural tradition, passed on, the constant striving for the new sometimes leads people up their own arses. We are in touch today in many many guises with the earliest sounds cavorting as music known to the species, and as players we are driven to learn it then pass it on. I understand you enjoy it, and that pleases me, but because I posted it does not mean I am not involved in original music, and I would be no less an artist if I wasn't. I'm glad we've still got Bach, Parker and hope there'll be more of them to come Jake

can't possibly say one so here goes on upright Ed Thigpen, Philly Jo Jones, Paul Motian, Billy Higgins on electric Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie, Lenny White, Ed Green, Keith Carlock there are more but I figured I'd better stop Jake

[quote name='lonestar' post='123150' date='Jan 18 2008, 09:48 PM']Great stuff. I've just rec orded KC with a couple of mates as a little side project. Great bass part but very challenging isn't it, I found the guitar solo section especially tough but got therfe in the end. Any Dan fans should go and see Nearly Dan at the jazz Cafe on sunday.[/quote] The drummer on that recording (Brian Hargreaves) often plays with Nearly Dan

[quote name='Hamster' post='123001' date='Jan 18 2008, 05:33 PM']Great sound there - thought the lead vocal was good on both the SD tracks - as you say, sounds like you had a ball! Hamster[/quote] Funnily enough the singer on that recording as well as being a great singer is also a superb bass player, nice to do a gig with another bassist, very talented guy. His name is Neil Fairclough

[quote name='Darryll-Profane' post='122920' date='Jan 18 2008, 03:48 PM']Hey Jake. Sounds great man. Some familiar faces in that group too. Gotta love Mike Walker!! I remember one evening Richard giving me a lift back from BOTW and playing me some Donald Fagen (which album it was escapes me) and it was another of those eye opening experiences! Take it easy squire. Darryll[/quote] Cheers Darryll Mike is world class, there's no other way to say it! Jake

thanks for the kind comments guys Jake

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='122767' date='Jan 18 2008, 11:53 AM']Should have done it with the Fez on.....[/quote] one of my faves too I had to badger them to do KC

I remember reading here a few times that Kid Charlemagne was a favourite bassline of a few people on here, so I decided to post this: [url="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=157445473"]http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=157445473[/url] Myself and a few North West guys got this band together to headline at the 2006 Manchester Jazz Festival (for a bit of fun really) we had such a good time that we got a couple more gigs and this one was recorded. The mix is not great but once your ears adjust you can hear there is some great talent at work here, and that we are all having a fantastic time. Jake

there is a nose whistle on the intro to Caroline i see you' on James Taylors October Road album don't know if you consider it a mistake, but its extraneous.

Welcome Jon Geddy Lee was one of my first playalong to influences. You're in good company here Jake

I love those guys!

f*** me!

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='119192' date='Jan 12 2008, 05:11 PM']I scared the sh*t out of myself the other day. I put my headphones on and jammed along to some Stevie Wonder, and recorded the bass. Then I listen back to it. I play in a covers band, regular gigs, and I think I'm pretty tight with the drummer. So I was shocked when I listened back to the bass I'd recorded. My timing was all over the place. Again, it is that thing over being overly critical of myself (or then again, not), as it wouldn't sound like that in a live situation. But it's highlighted just one area of my playing that I really need to start tightening up again.[/quote] I encourage all students to make recording and listening to themselves part of a regular practice regimen as for it not sounding like that live, record it to be sure you're not kidding yourself

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='119371' date='Jan 13 2008, 01:14 AM']Have you got a copy? Where did you get it from? Could you scan it?[/quote] I have got a copy, I'll have a look for it (been a while) and look into a way of sharing it. It was originally on a bass website (can't remember the name) that had a series of articles called in the trenches.... can anyone shed any light.... ring any bells? would be good to source the articles again they were all really good Jake PS If I can't find it I will try and re write it so it might take a few days. and Mods might want to look into any potential copyright issues

I walked into the bass centre in manchester looked across the shop and said to myself 'Oh, there's my bass' a maple '78 jazz. I walked out with it. I love it. Early last year I bought a 5 string Alembic sig deluxe. My bass purchase mission is nearly over maybe just an Alembic fretless. Jake

for those of you who are speaking of problems with time get your hands (if you can) on an article called the metronome as guru. It (imo) solves all time issues and turns you into smug time git Jake

vintage models somehow seem more flexible in what they will perform..... eager to be kept maybe....

playing around with the beat is great fun and produces some fabulous feel results, easy to speed up or slow down though so the consistency of the time is paramount Jake

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='117755' date='Jan 10 2008, 12:34 PM']That's complete bollocks. I've looked loads of times, and it's definitely not there. [/quote] you need to wash your fingers less

where bass is concerned in quality or mere presence its only absence that is noticed. few punters have the analytical ear that even the most rudimentarily equipped musician has. Jake

[quote name='Bass_Junkie' post='113705' date='Jan 4 2008, 07:08 PM']The one thing (or the worst thing) i am having trouble with and have always had trouble with is making up my own basslines. I hear other people just making stuff up on the spot who have been playing for the same time as me and i ask them how they did it and they just say 'i just played what i heard in my head' If i pick up my bass and try to just play something i without thinking just play something i already know just somewhere else on the fretboard, or something that i have heard before. How can i start writing proper basslines if i dont hear it in my head? When i try to hear a bassline in my head i just hear something i've heard before or already know. Please help me, i love playing bass but at the moment i can only play along to things and if i get into another band i'll need to be able to come up with good and i dont want to have to give up. I practise loads in a day (in fact i have my bass on my lap now) but when i play i can only seem to play things i know. [/quote] regard yourself as a computer, an empty one to start with, if you want use of it it requires input of a software kind, you are just the same, so before you can get stuff out you need to put it in so...... learn as much music as you can, any kind, any instrument, melody, harmony, bass part, accompaniment, rhythm part literally anything and everything. till you're full then stick your fingers down your musical throat and watch it all come back up BTW this process can take years. Best of luck Ps just checked your profile and saw your age. You will be fine you are at the input stage right now so get on with it and enjoy it.

Hi Chris, I think it depends on what you are trying acheive and given that most of us hear our favourite players from a studio (microscopic analysis and usually careful) environment we can be hard on ourselves to try to live up to that standard, however there are some notable examples of guys who are monstrously accurate live or studio, in my view the heads and shoulders winner in this category in recent years is Jimmy Johnson but there are many studio guys, Anthony Jackson, Will Lee, Neil Stubenhaus, Marcus Miller the list goes on, all great playing that we would all like to acheive! but then consider some of the great funk players.... Jamerson was not clean but very jazzy and groovy (to say the least) Bootsy Collins Jerry Jemmott, Larry Graham all very thumpy and physical players. Personally I have been on a upward curve of accuracy in recent times I bought an Alembic five string early last year and being an instrument of extraordinary finesse it requires the same from the operator. I place enormous importance on the ability to play minims, my goal being neutron density when it comes to the arrival of the one. From this I have a starting point of control but then am prepared to let rip if the occasion warrants, at that point some extraneous noise is in my view acceptable and you will hear it coming from the worlds best at times. A good example of this is Freddy Washington on Morph the Cat (Donald Fagens latest solo album) where there are the 'sounds' that playing the bass produces but they in no way detract from the stellar performances he puts in on every track. In summary I think its horses for courses and in a band situation you will mostly be the guy who notices your own degree of accuracy so if you have high standards you will produce music of that calibre. ps thanks for an interesting postulation pps I also play a 70s Jazz which is much more forgiving in the clean department

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='118207' date='Jan 10 2008, 10:12 PM']learning rhythm stick properley after all these years. Re-aquanting myself with some Geddy Lee Wal lines. Territories and turn the page being favourites at the moment. Playing along to the new tunes on the sky menu also.[/quote] both good things to do the former cos its great, the latter cos you've got little time to get it down so good for the ears. Try and play along to adverts in real time great ear training

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='118185' date='Jan 10 2008, 09:42 PM']What is trad-jazz?[/quote] trad jazz is a 1950s onwards British version of new orleans music (dixieland, Louis Armstrong probably the most well known) sadly the british version in my experience is played by people whos major skill is alchohol consumption. I'm sure there are some good ones but I haven't found many New Orleans music on the other hand has been played by some of the worlds greatest players Jake