Shonks

[quote name='lonestar' timestamp='1449254204' post='2922041'] Like a guitard but more stupider [/quote]i think there's one of those in 'other musically related stuff'

I want to hook up with any outstanding guitar players round my way.....put them in touch if you know any. [email protected]

Maybe they can sight read music fluently which is a Iot more than most bassists here....if we're talking about literacy

just done yet another deal with Paul and realised I've never left the man any feedback,,,(thoroughly ashamed) I now make amends. i sold my Trace Elliot amp to him today. I also sold him a TE amp a year or more ago. I bought a pickup from him in the past and got a pickup from him today, which was part payment on the amp. I think there may have been more deals done but I can't remember details. However, the most important detail I do remember, is that Paul S is a great bloke, trustworthy and honest, and you can feel confident dealing with the man!!!!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1446021212' post='2896153'] One small thing that I found useful (and still do) is reading without a bass. I sit on buses, in my office etc with a chart in front of me, reading the rhythms. The discipline I find hardest to develop is not knowing which dot means which note but reading lines in real time, concentrating on the lines and reading the whole part. The skill can, at least in part, be pracised away from the bass. [/quote]as bassist Lewis suggested 'modern reading text in 4/4 and there's one in odd times too. Funny it's called modern reading text, and I supposed in context of the whole of music history it is, but in my 20's, (now in my 60's) The Lousis Bellson book was on my lap riding the London Tube daily as I was working regularly as a session guy. That book made and saved my career as a bassist.. As someone else quoted here too, do it every day. It's a language and and daily use helps build a vocabulary.

Traded basses today... top geezer...recommended..!