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TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE HUUHHH only JB gets away with that one bank holiday fun edit .... [url="http://youtu.be/51-FcNSDGKw"]http://youtu.be/51-FcNSDGKw[/url]

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1333875570' post='1607521'] Good to know that I am not alone in my opposition to grip devices with regards to bass playing. [/quote] thanks - and to comment further on some of the previous posts where a couple of peeps said they used it for stamina rather than strength again i appreciate that they might find their own stamina improved but would suggest that for the OP this is really not an issue as he is just starting out - he's not going to be expected to play a two hour set next week of relentless speed metal hemi-semi-demi-quavers - and steady practice over time will develop the sufficient strength to do whatever he is aiming there is a place for strength training with regards to bass playing but its nothing to do with the fingers and forearms! anyone who reaches a certain age such as myself will know all too well the trials and tribulations of standing on a stage with a lump of wood slung over your shoulder - moderate strength maintenance work of core muscles of the back and stomach is undoubtedly of assistance with posture and stamina for standing for prolonged periods on a stage

[quote name='JakeBrownBass' timestamp='1315948560' post='1372620'] Dodgebass - Transcribed by Tim Comerford - A mixture of soul & motown.[/quote] be careful if clicking on this - im getting my AV program blocking the page with a trojan detected ???

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1333703019' post='1605388'] Not good advice IMO. A minimal amount of strength is required to fret a string. These devices develop grip, where the main idea with good technique is to have the hands relaxed. Grip has no part in bass playing. [/quote] in the words of harry enfield ..... OOOII !!! GRIPMASTER NOOOOOOOO !!! try this.............. rest a fingertip gently to start on a string as if youre about to fret a note start plucking the string with a pick or fingers - you will get a dampened sound to start with but keep plucking away as you pluck with your plucking hand, very slowly start to increase the pressure with the fretting finger intially you should have a dampened note sound - as you slowly press the string towards the fretboard it will eventually make contact with one or more frets and will start to buzz and rattle keep very slowly increasing the pressure with the fretting finger and listen to the buzzing and rattling slowly change as you increase the pressure eventually as you increase the pressure you will reach a point where the string is fretted and is giving a clean sounding note with no buzz or rattle keep trying this and get your brain hand coordination used to the idea of just how little effort you actually need to apply with your fretting fingertips once you got the hang of it then consider how that force compares with what you might have originally thought was needed i know it flies in the opinion of a lot of other basschatters but i am very strongly opposed to gripmasters for guitar playing and i know the topic comes up very frequently on here and draws quite a bit of 'heated discussion' imho if you are able to go about all your normal daily functions doing all the sorts of regular things that four fingers and an opposable thumb grip are routinely expected to do, and you can accomplish these things in your stride and dont have any physical disability or impediment, then you will have ample strength in your fretting hand and do not need to exercise it with the gripmaster to inflict some sort of vice like death grip on your bass neck and strings its more to do with agility dexterity and coordination than brute force

mmm french stick

im going to ask the obvious here - i assume you wrote the whole thing yes? the riff at 1:30 and 2:10 is monster! beats metal of death any day imo and top marks for the yammy too

[quote name='billyapple' timestamp='1333669638' post='1605223'] Oh, sorry, I did. Came across this.. I thought It started ok, the band seem good in their own way. All until the singer opens his gob and draws a c*ck over the whole thing. Bizzare they didnt boot him out after the first rehearsal. Maybe he's from a wealthy family, and bought all the sw***y gear. And those tattoo's aint cheap [/quote] oh dear - alll that posturing and screaming what a waste of a pair of orange/mesa rigs not to mention all the oxygen

imo the most annoying is coincidentally also the most overrated Mick Hucknall

mine is just a fraction below [b]one florin[/b] plus [b]one shillling[/b]

[url="http://youtu.be/XoUkC5dEO0Y"]http://youtu.be/XoUkC5dEO0Y[/url] [url="http://youtu.be/q-ipH9Ws-zs"]http://youtu.be/q-ipH9Ws-zs[/url]

how could we forget Britains most underestimated and underrated guitarist Mick Ronson [media]http://youtu.be/CGQo6zpVzt8[/media]

[quote name='christhammer666' timestamp='1333137273' post='1598064'] john petrucci cant talk enough about a allan holdsworth he loves the guy and you can see why [/quote] Frank Zappa also apparently rated him very highly - imo this even surpasses Zappa's best solos - if carlsberg did guitar solos then this is it! it is probably the most 'complete' guitar solo ever laid down - you need to listen to it right through to appreciate the sheer briliance of the whole structure [media]http://youtu.be/mrXPVAHFjdc[/media]

there is only [i]one[/i] guitarist whom all the above, and all those to follow, can stand aside for .... [url="http://youtu.be/w0w3V_-A1XI"]http://youtu.be/w0w3V_-A1XI[/url]

mmmm broccoli greetings from the norf kent london overspill

great news and dont forget to keep us updated when the fuzz catch up with the scum that sold it to crack converters

heres my trb1004 resplendent with stone cladding

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1332958805' post='1595585'] Because I sometimes struggle to even find the intervals of the next chord reliably if they're going by too fast, so I think the chances of me remembering all these bonus ideas are pretty slim. [/quote] a lot of it does become mechanical and ear training plays a big part - once your ears can recognise pitch accurately AND place your figures at that pitch on the fretboard the process becomes much more automatic and gives your brain more space to actively think about exotic matters such as chord substition and modal scales to illustrate an analogy, think of a typist - when they get very experienced you will see a typist listening to a dictation/recording whilst typing away without looking at the keyboard because the brain has learnt through constant repetition exactly where each letter is positioned on the keyboard - the whole process becomes automatic once that typist has mastered touch typing then (assuming they were multi-lingual) if you asked them to type up your dictation in another language they would be able to concentrate on the translation much better as the touch typing aspect is totally automatic ear training is the key imo - not just names of notes on the fretboard but more importantly knowing their pitch too, and you find the concious thinking part of your brain will be much clearer to remember all the other stuff about modes and susbtition hope that make sense or am i waffling as usual?

i scanned through preloved.co.uk yesterday and even looking in south-east area alone there were several that would surely qualify edit - apart from 1st march 2012 obviously

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1333010342' post='1596026'] That's not depressing - that's quite witty. [/quote] indeed is worth remembering - could even be applied to bass usage

[quote name='joeystrange' timestamp='1332948251' post='1595336'] We use our guitarist (and have done for years before I was in a band with him) who is an incredible designer. Check out his site: [url="http://www.bingercreative.co.uk/"]http://www.bingercreative.co.uk/[/url] [/quote] nice logo and site

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1332669061' post='1591268'] Harmonies always seem to be the limiting factor in Beatles covers. You don`t realise until you start messing about with them, just how much of that sound came from vocal harmonies. We`re doing Day tripper and Saw her standing there, and I had to hammer out a 1x Morrissey tune for every extra Beatles tune type deal to prevent another 4 in the set. First of the Gang is coming along nicely [/quote] i would add to that even the chord voicings too missing out even the occasional passing note is often enough to make a noticeable difference - a good beatles cover does imo require a strict musical discipline because their strength and beauty is pretty much totally encompassed in the melody and harmonic structure - unless you go the whole hog and are brave enough to do a crazy rearrangement such as esperanto's eleanor rigby!

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name and shame! and then go back and buy a single pick and when they ask if you decided which bass you want to buy tell them yes thanks and i already bought it from a shop with helpful assistants

affinity P found on gumtree if youre anywhere in southeast this would be a good price plus another 50 for a wizard pup [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fender-squier-p-bass-red/96028350"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fender-squier-p-bass-red/96028350[/url]