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Chlo_treacher

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  1. I knew as soon as I played it that my 79 p bass was one day going home with me. Totally agree with the "feels like coming home after a long journey" that people have said. It totally does! It does everything I want it to, I love even the things that others might pick up on as faults; to me those little buzzes and what have you are just part of its personality. The idea of getting rid of it is totally ludicrous, and as much as I am completely over the moon excited about the arrival of my overwater jazz (which Im actually selling basically all of my other basses other than the p in order to fund the small amount i need to put towards it) I know that the p will always feel like home. just wish I felt the same about my hubby LOOOL kidding
  2. Yay i have an endorsement deal with them and cannot agree more, they are the nicest most helpful and honest people I've met. Totally feel like they have my back and didn't push me into needless 'custom' add-ons just for the sake of it when putting my order in for my endorsement instrument. CANNOT WAIT for my bass: 32" vintage white 4 string jazz series. With torte scratch plate, white pearl block inlays, matching head stock and electrical stuff that I cant really remember lol. Getting it in may. Very happy to represent them, chuffed to bits that they came to me too!! x
  3. [quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1330513855' post='1558540'] This thread is actually more embarrasing than when a girl joins and everyone reverts to being 14 year old virgins. [/quote] I dont think everyone reverted to 14 year old virgins when I joined. Im hurt now!! lol. come on guys I expected more from you P.s HEY Mani! great to have you aboard mate, hope you have a nice time here. much love xxx
  4. eee! I grew up opposite kneller gardens, also very close to the green. I'll have to look you up next time I'm there and we can meet up for a drink and bass drool at the blucher! This is so exciting. I love Twickers. x
  5. Lol thanks Ray! Hang on a minute your from twickenham?? I grew up there! My mum still lives there too! Where abouts? x
  6. Hey all, Im getting rid of my schecter bass now and so thought I'd post it here to see if there are any takers? Its a great instrument, looks awesome, not tooo heavy, great b string response etc and plays easily. Perfect for any of you rockers! I used to use it for an old heavy rock band of mine but now im primarily in indie or folk circles so its just collecting dust. Couple of scratches and war wounds but nothing major. Going for £300. Preferably pick up (north london based) all though can send if you are willing to pay postage and packaging etc. Let me know if your interested, pictures below! [IMG]http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss15/Chloe_Treacher_Bass/IMG_0382.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss15/Chloe_Treacher_Bass/IMG_0385.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss15/Chloe_Treacher_Bass/IMG_0387.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss15/Chloe_Treacher_Bass/IMG_0389.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss15/Chloe_Treacher_Bass/IMG_0393.jpg[/IMG] Chlo xx
  7. Probably a bit too young but Im actually really attempted to apply just for the hell of it. I mean imagine if they actually called me up?! x
  8. Hi Jamie, I'd be interested to try out if your still looking? London based pro freelancer, sending you over an email now! Hope all is well. Chlo x
  9. ive got three endorsement deals, string deals with picato and innovation upright strings and a clothing deal with funk rock clothing. Both of those companies I either approached or someone sent a pitch to them for me along with their recommendation. I've also got a recent bass guitar artist deal endorsement with overwater....this time they approached me! Pretty chuffed with that but I think if your gigging enough and nice and approachable then just email them with what your doing and they might get back to you. You'll be surprised at the response you get. Chlo x
  10. [quote name='benebass' timestamp='1324228736' post='1472063'] Small world - my brother & Rob the drummer's brother were in the same class at school! Came to see the band at the Head of Steam up here in Newcastle a while back - great gig! Hope you'll be back up north on your farewell tour - Newcastle's not far from Overwater HQ... Cheers, B. [/quote] Ahhh I know Andrew well, thats so cool! Rob's family are some of the nicest people I've ever met, total sweethearts. I remember doing that show! I think it was on the first tour I did with them, supporting a god awful girl band if I remember correctly no? Dont worry if this farewell tour does actually happen there will definitely be a date up t'north. Most likely to be Barnard Castle for obvious reasons but its going to take a while to organize and get everything running smoothly. So keep you updated. x
  11. ooooh smeg thats awful mate sorry to hear it! will keep a look-out. x
  12. [quote name='benebass' timestamp='1324072171' post='1470689'] Hi - sounds good! I had a 32" scale Jaguar-styled bass made the Bass Doc recently (info [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/150814-bass-doc-electric-iv/"]here[/url]). I love it, but found the shorter scale took a bit of getting used to at first. A cheap way to try an almost 32" scale is to put a capo on a 34" bass at the first fret - might be worth trying that before pushing the button on the build to check it's for you... By the way, [b]did you used to play in Unkle Bob?[/b] Great band! Cheers, B. [/quote] Yes, that was me!! Where did you know us from? It was a really great band for sure, I will miss them dearly. BUT having said that we might be doing a farewell mini tour sometime early next year so there might yet be a chance to say goodbye... [quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1324080563' post='1470790'] should be similar to this then.... [attachment=95447:overwater 1.jpg] [/quote] yep cant wait soooooooo pretty
  13. [quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1324205578' post='1471689'] Do the non musians have a similar clause 'Fishing will not get in the way of work' or 'My mid week drinking session down the bucking duck will not get in the way of work' Alot of people have 'normal' hobbies they can take to the extreme. I've known guys throw sickies over pigeons or tropical fish. One of mates Dads would go around the UK showing chickens. He bred them to sell too and when he gave up showing he went to the same shows as a judge. Also if he pulled that clause here to some of the guys I worked with who were in pipe bands he would have a discrimination suit on his desk before close of business that day. [/quote] +20 thinking back I once got fired for talking about music too much at work...ffs....they asked what I had been up too, so I told them. But the other employers were perfectly happy and allowed to talk shoes or their forensic science degree they were doing to their hearts content! I figured in the end if they were going to be that petty or b**chy then screw em, they weren't worth my time.
  14. [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1324146726' post='1471310'] I would look at how the original songs were played. If they're played with a pick then use one, if not then don't. Playing bass lines that were originally played with a pick using fingers (or vice versa) never sounds quite right to me - the articulation is always different. [/quote] this x1000000 if its covers your doing, the band leader will generally want the song to sound like the original recording. I never used to pay much attention to this until I got to uni where they would take marks off the performance if the tone wasn't matching the original....make sure I now pay attention to detail and it seems to be working, more and more band leaders are calling me up for work so cant be a bad thing!
  15. [quote name='Valhalalf' timestamp='1324054555' post='1470414'] I'm surprised by Pete's situation working in a music shop, I would have thought they would be a bit more understanding. [/quote] Sadly Im not surprised at this, I once had a job teaching in the back of a music shop. I had loads of students who absolutely loved me and their parents loved the progress the kids always made. Ended up getting fired from that job for taking too much time off for touring etc....apparently according to the manager the kids didn't need someone who was out their doing it who they could look up to and gain real life knowlege from in the times I was around. What they really (apparently) wanted was some non gigging teacher who was there day in day out to teach scales but felt like gigging life failed them and disuaded the kids from trying it themselves. When the students found out half of them came to me asking for private lessons outside of the shop as they really wanted to keep me as their teacher. But the shop manager put a stop to that too accusing me of stealing all his clients.
  16. Ive still got a part time day job doing care work around my local area. Its flexible enough but I still seem to be calling the office non stop asking for yet more time off. They never say no, but you can tell they really dont like it either. I try to make up the hours lost where I can, but its pretty hard to do a lot of the time. Juggling two jobs is tough no matter what especially if gigging is one of them. For my personal situation though Im hoping that by about march next year I can quit and just do music to survive. x
  17. its a great feeling isn't it?? P-basses are lovely my main bass at the moment is a 79 wine red P. Its totally to die for. Seems we have similar tastes too cause that colour scheme is the same as what my overwater endorsement j4 bass will be. Anyway congrats and pics or it didn't happen xx
  18. So Chris will be giving me a ring hopefully this evening to go over the final details of the bass....I've decided to go for a white j series 4 string, 32" scale with rosewood fretboard and torteshell scratch plate. Possibly smaller machine heads and might have them slanting towards me too, so I can reach everything ok . It wont look custom to the eye but it'll be easier/better to play and probably (from what I've gathered) sound better (well cleaner) than a fender too! Keep y'all updated with how the conversation goes. excited much?!?! x
  19. Well if it helps, I went to icmp in north london to study on the bass degree course. It was a 3 year course, I stayed for a year and the reason I left were because I ended up getting so many professional job offers, it was impossible to attend the classes. I was studying to be a working musician so as soon as the work started to come in thick enough, I left uni for the work. [b]BUT[/b] had I not gone to uni for that year, I wouldn't have met the people or had the courage to go out and just do it. It [b]is[/b] all about networking in this business but sometimes a degree course can the first push in the right direction to start that process. Arni the bassist from the Vaccines was in my class, and well everyone knows how well he's doing! Phil Simmonds, Jessie J's/Alexandra Burke's bassist has just graduated from Bass Tech. Its safe to say he's doing pretty good now and I have a funny feeling he wasn't doing as good before he started to study! Remember there are also other benifits from degrees in music such as the ability to go on to do a pgce for teaching music. My course actually had a section in the third year where you did lesson plans and class teaching and if you passed you got a certificate at the end of it to make you a partly qualified music teacher in schools and such. Good courses will open your eyes to different areas of music that you never previously thought you could do and will help you gain skills to be able to go into them. If you go to uni for the right reasons and dont let uni become your 'gig' I personally feel its a fantastic path to follow. Good luck! x
  20. NEVER send an instrument overseas with dpd, sent my urb to portugal with them and not only were they late, phoned up 4 days AFTER they'd picked up the package to confirm my address when it arrived in portugal they'd managed to rip the fretboard off the neck! thank god the person who bought it from me and arranged the delivery company had the forethought to pay for the insurance. So upset. x
  21. [quote name='merello' timestamp='1323622639' post='1465119'] Well done! Just visited your YouTube Channel! Some good stuff there...Stevie Wonder but I think it's just showing off to play right AND left handed! Anyway.....can I have your old unwanted basses? Remember...a bass isn't just for Christmas.... [/quote] lol I'm actually right handed it was just the stupid program on my computer that made it look as if I was a lefty! But thanks for the compliments. I might be selling a few basses to raise some cash for this overwater bass so when the time comes will put an add up on here for people to have a look. x
  22. [quote name='daz' timestamp='1323611165' post='1464973'] I cant [i]'really [/i]play' if by[i] really[/i], you mean play to a high standard. I do however, now know that I have defintely improved over the last 6 months. I have been playing bass for 2 years now. For the first year I slowly improved, then i sort of got into a rut, or at least think I did? Its sort of hard to tell. I know i still dont know the frets like I should do thats for sure! But there has been an improvement since the summer. This came about because I tried to play some of my favorite pieces by JJ burnell and Jah Wobble, These were pieces that I had tried before. I first started to attempt them maybe after 6 months of playing, and had been unsucsessful. I could pick the notes out with a little less hesitation, but the best you could say about it was that i played the correct notes in the wrong rythym, or in stacatto fashion with no rythmic flow. I thought to myself that as I still had got nowhere with those pieces that the conclusion was that I had not moved forward at all. The reason that months later I knew that I[i] have[/i] improved at all, is that I can now play these same favourite tracks and they sound almost as good as the originals. My fingers are moving smoother and my hessitation has gone (at least from songs that I know well) I do sometimes have a problem with playing in front of stangers, if its someone who i know can play. I still have a long way to go i know that. But i was watching some of the teaching videos on Scott Devin's new website, and he made me realise that once you get to a certain standard, you then have a choice. You can carry on like you are and maybe get very slowly better. Or you can knuckle down and get some hard practice in every day. Hard practice means regularly at least an hour a day of practising things like chord tones, scales and Modes every day. It does not mean noodling way for 3 hours. Noodling is not practice, and whilst it may be enjoyable in the long run it is not helpful, unless done in conjunction with a regular practice regime, when it can be done as a sort of little reward to oneself after putting in a few hours of proper practising. Where it might come in usefull. Such as after practising the blues scale over the frets for an hour the other week. My noodling self reward later, was trying to come up with things based around the blues scale. I need to keep up a proper daily practice regime now one has been started. What I really need I suppose is now to find people to jam with. Easier said than done though. [/quote] I get what your saying however I think it differs from player to player, If I were to try and force myself to daily practise the stuff like scales and modes that I dont really like it would drive me up the wall and probably just make me want to stop playing all together. Its useful to know scales and modes, yeah this is undeniable. but PLAYING is the most important, to remember why you do it and why you love it. No aspect of music should be a chore, music is basically a way of celebration and expression which people do because they love it. So why make yourself do things that stop you feeling or thinking that way? To be more educational? In my own personal experience the brain just shuts off, stops taking any information in and then you get frustrated and give up trying to do what you set out to do. Its like saying to an painter the only way you can get better at painting is by daily writing down explanations of what brush strokes you need to learn and how to make various colors and stretching canvas' and the theory behind painting but never touching paint brush to paper when actually all you want to do is paint a picture! From teaching I also have to say getting my students to just find music that gets them excited to learn has been far more effective. Of course all of my students are taught the basics of reading notation, playing with proper technique so they dont injure themselves, a technique for ear training the notes on the fret board, how to lock in with a drummer etc etc but all of it is done from playing songs. The information they learn that is 'theory' based is allowed to seep into their brain at their own pace (all the information and 'answers' are there on the page, they just get used to seeing it more often) but all they have to do is play a song that they like. Everything else comes after. You'll be amazed at how little problems I have getting my students to practise too, compared with a lot of teachers I know merely because I dont force a regime on them.
  23. Here's a stupidly funky tune my gran (bizarre I know) used to play a lot when me and my brother were younger. Usually we'd end up dancing around the living room in our pyjamas too it. Happy memories, killer track! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sl5VurCaIQ
  24. [quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1323539019' post='1464416'] Try "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten - deals with such concepts as [i]"it's what you don't play as much as what you do[/i]" and "[i]the 10 things you play including notes[/i]"..only 275 pages so you can re-read it to get the most from it..currently £7.50 on Amazon.. [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Lesson-Victor-L-Wooten/dp/0425220931/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323538941&sr=1-1"]http://www.amazon.co...23538941&sr=1-1[/url] [/quote] +100000 absolutely fantastic book, really opened up my eyes and confirmed a few things that I had questioned too. definitely worth getting. x
  25. Ive had some unbelievable experiences the last few years of my life that make me feel incredibly blessed; recorded an album with coldplays old producer Ken Nelson, toured with James around the uk that included the royal albert hall, toured with the goo goo dolls that included brixton academy, done performances and recording sessions in portugal, been featured in two bass magazines, theatre productions with west end md's, endorsement deals with overwater....And I'm still waiting on someone to turn around, point and say "hang on a minute, you dont know what your doing! why are you here?" Point being, that feeling never goes away, its just apart of being human. The wonderful thing about music and actually life in general is that you never stop learning and there is always someone better than you to aspire too. The only thing that you need to get you there is time, practise and the want to get there. No matter what this need is the most important. People pick up on that vibe and will love you for it, an eventually give you a gig because of it. Anything is possible if you put your mind to it, you just have to know what your goal is and once you've reached that find another one! A manager of mine once told me "if you just want to be good, you have to battle with all the millions of others who also just want to be good. Its easier to achieve the goal of being the absolute best, because there are a lot less people in the world with this goal in their mind. Therefore you dont have to battle as many people to get there." Good luck, its an awesome journey to be on I really hope you have a lovely time getting to where you want to be and have achieved everything you set out to be when you look back on it. x
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