Bilbo

100% agree re: Pino. A perfectly competent player but nothing particularly exciting that couldn't be done by most of us with a bit of rehearsal. Wooten I never got. A juggler rather than a player and when I hear him in a band context (say Mike Stern), I hear a competent played who, when he solos, well, juggles rather than expresses anything. Stanley Clarke - I want to like him, I really do, but I just think he sounds clunky and un musical.

Just saw this. Great resource.

I keep fancying six string basses and now have a seven string but I only ever play them in the woodshed and rarely take them out.

Nobody notices the bass player unless s/he catches fire. I have to say, I am regularly on the other end of this. My knowledge of bass parts is fairly encyclpeadic and I hear people copping licks all of the time. I remember seeing one kid (definitely a teenager) at the Brecon Jazz Festival ripping off Jaco for the whole gig. I wanted to go and tell him 'don't do that; you need to find yourself' but it is not in my nature to do that to a stranger. I wonder what happened to him.

There is a reason I said 'almost nothing'. The reason is Sound Chaser. Outside of that, it's mostly quite easy to play.

One of the interesting things about Squire is that almost nothing he does is actually hard to play. It's just that he and his bandmates were such great writers and arrangers. His ideas were very personal and creative.

There's your problem. There are only four gaps. That was easy.

Actually, a lot of readers don't have a lot of theory under their belt as they arguably don't need it. E.g. I could read out Einstein's theory of relativity quite effectively without actually understanding it.

It's about how rounded a musician you want to be. The more you understand, the bigger your pallette.

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[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1480533423' post='3185204'] Do you mean pants in the British or in the American sense, pants meaning 'trousers' [/quote] British. American's clearly misunderstood the concept of pants when the Mayflower landed.

Great idea. Shall have a think about a major Moondance revamp......

Joint last, Dad!! We rock!!!

We have a rule in our house. If there is anyone in a music video who is dancing in their pants, we turn it over. The rationale is that, if an artist has to resort to that kind of thing, the music must be a bit cack. As a result, I have completely lost track of all forms of contemporary pop music. No idea who any of these people are and what there songs are. It just occured to me that the 'pants' rule is a deal breaker and that most music video in the current era is all about titilation, not music.

I roadied for a band when I was a kid and we had all sorts of trouble; collapsing stages, fireworks that were supposed to spray sparkes turning into live torpedos in amongst the audience etc. Trouble is, we were all so naive that it was all just a laugh. If anyone had sued......

I first heard DAryl Jones on this track which was featured on one of those plastic discs on the front of Guitar Player magazine. I couldn't get the core line to work then and still can't today, despite it only containing four notes. John Scofield's Techno. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdoFDl1N-eI

I always thought the same about Chester Thompson and Daryl Steurmer in Genesis.

[quote name='DanOwens' timestamp='1479317927' post='3175624'] Steve Berry, who teaches at Cheetham's and RNCM amongst others has a German grip Thomann brand carbon fibre thing and swears by it. I think it was around £70 [/quote] I heard that Steve's bass cost him £50. The man's a legend!!!

Hey, my Jazz Guitarist chums!! Did you know about the Jazz Guitar Workshop being delivered by Nigel Price at West End Music in Ipswich this coming Sunday, 4th December. 4-5.30 pm. £10 to attend. A 1:1 lesson with a player of this calibre would cost you five times that!! What are you waiting for? Nigel will also be appearing at Jazz East at The Alex that evening (see what we did there?). Details on the Jazz East Facebook page or at www.jazzeast.vpweb.co.uk

Listen to a shitload of Paul Chambers, Ray Brown and Milt Hinton. Then practice for the rest of your life Seriously, though. Work with quarter notes as much as you can, especially in the early days. The drops and kicks are great but you need to nail the time first.

http://youtu.be/Ej5YIrN-nUY

I have owned up to three at any one time but have only ever really used one (my Wal). I love the idea of all sorts of kit but the reality of my musical life means that this is absolutely unnecessary.

Voted.

Thank you, young man. I haven't listened to them all yet. Should get to it today.

The $64,000 question is are you up there because the music demands it or are you up there because your ego demands it?