Michael Currie

Bought a JBass from Pat, arrived promptly from across Europe and was very helpful in answering any queries that I had. I'd buy again if I could!

I find this virtually unlistenable until about 3:30 when Queen Latifa comes in because of some prick playing bells out of time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxMfR7n1mw

Recently I've developed a liking for some great musical hip-hop (not rap over a droning sub). I've found some examples of electric or synth bass done well in front of a crowd which seem quite difficult to find. Great song, a bit poppy but fantastic fat bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5bbPOL1QnI In the same concert he uses a Lakland I think at 2:20 if you look for 'Rock Your Body'. Jay-Z, John Mayer and Tony Royster Jr... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4KlT2UDi8 Enjoy! Tell me what you think or add to this list if you like.

A nice wee bit of compression

Ashdown Compressor bought on Monday came today! Top marks.

Good drummers are a special breed. If they can read music, they are worth their weight in gold. Here here!

Cee Lo Green? SOUL

It was grand She was astounded when she heard that I could read! Those Rockschool grades irritate me, but the Chromatic Fantasy was fine, so s'all good

I've got my Lower Sixth practical tomorrow for my A Level grade, and bricking it! I'm playing Chromatic Fantasy, a Bach violin Sonata, and a piece from the Rockschool grade 8 syllabus (boke). I don't know, I just weird kinda inadequate doing auditions etc alongside pianists etc, anyone else feel the same? *runs away to practice*

[font="Franklin Gothic Medium"]Apart from Blood Sugar Sex Magik (it seems like a staple on here!), only really for shows/drama productions etc like Little Shop, or Hairspray, but I got my hands on some sheet music for both. Does anyone know where I can get all of Little Shop? Doing it next year [/font]

I'm tempted to experiment with the unused church Squier...

Yeah, I thought that there'd deffo be a complication somewhere haha. I'm pushing it as is, putting 120's on where my MM used to suit 100's, oh well

I had an argument with a guy yesterday, who said that there'd be no problem with getting rid of the G, and stringing a 4-string BEAD. I thought that this would completely wreck the neck with the tension, maybe if you had a graphite neck? Is it possible?

Haha, we took that transcription and scribbled chords down on it yesterday with jazz trio, slowed it down and swung it, certainly makes for very interesting lounge-style music!

[quote name='phil625sxc' post='1230909' date='May 14 2011, 01:15 PM']here's the chart I'm working from - enjoy ! [attachment=79870:Not_Yet___016_Bass.pdf][/quote] Yeah, thanks for all of the advice guys! I think that I forgot to mention that this was my first real transcription of a bass part, and I actually learned it by ear before writing it down, so the ease of reading it never really occurred to me, so I just wrote in in whatever way seemed 'neatest'. I definitely will make a stab at learning the whole thing off this chart ^, and maybe just pretend in my head to play all of those runs Thanks.

Yeah, I don't actually own a 5 string, so it was a little depressing playing those Eb, E, F's

I really like this track, and it's got some great playing on it by the big man himself. This took me an hour or two, and had to resort to slowing it down to catch those crazy runs! I wasn't sure what he was playing a one or two parts, mainly the triplet, where I just stuck in the root Please tell me any suggestions/improvements! I'll have a midi file up soon.

Is there any advantage in having a bridge like this?

I gave a friend of mine my iPod a couple of months ago to 'revamp' with some nice music. Along with some great classical stuff (he's a trumpeter bloke), I got so much great jazz! First go on shuffle, you've all heard it, Cannonball Adderly quintet with Joe Zawinul [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrFWp4DUho&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrFWp4DUho...feature=related[/url] And then the Birdland Big Band (featuring Tommy Kennedy!) playing 'Common Ground'. Favourite Big Band, favourite bassist!