Judo Chop

Well I start by figuring out what the guitarist is playing, and then just play root notes and listen to what the drummer is doing until I can hear what I want to play in my head. It's quite hard to explain to someone how to do it because everyone probably has their own method.

He looks so pleased with himself

Anyone else see the tit filming with his phone over Prince Charles' head?

I've forgotten to plug my amp in and then spent five minutes wondering why it wouldn't turn on, but never had anything break down. The closest thing to a breakdown was my overdrive pedal running out of battery during the last song and cutting the volume off

Do Back Alley in Mold have a proper bass tutor or just a guitar tutor who thinks he can do both?

I'm always doing that, but I don't ever realise it until hours after I stop playing.

I was crouched down messing with the settings on my amp the other week, when my brother ran up on stage and informed me that my arse was hanging out of my jeans. I did wonder why people were sniggering.

Rain by The Beatles

I don't have a set routine like some of the ones already posted, but I do play for a couple of hours every day to different styles of music. I play with a few different guitarists and drummers regularly too, and I've learned quite a lot from them.

I've got a little 30 watt Tanglewood bass amp that I practice on, mainly because I can't be arsed plugging my big amp in between gigs and rehearsals.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1337719855' post='1664596'] I remember auditioning a guitarist for the band I was in. He came in, the band played a few songs, he played blindingly fast lead guitar over the top of them ..............so far so fantastic!. I then decided I'd teach him some of the chords so he could play rhythm. I said, 'This song starts in E' He said, 'what?' I said, 'Just play an open E chord' He said, 'How do you play that?' He'd spent the last, however many years, learning every Steve Vai solo know to man but couldn't play an open E? He didn't get the job. [/quote] I know a guitarist like that, I bumped into him at Telford's Warehouse in Chester after we'd finished our slot at the open mic night. Him: "That looks like so much fun, I'm trying to pluck up the courage to go on myself." Me: "Have you learned chords yet?" Him: "No not yet." Me: "So what are you going to play?" Him: "I dunno" Sweep picking and pinched harmonics would break up the acoustic duo clones quite nicely I think.

[quote name='Turk' timestamp='1337715510' post='1664507'] ..er...yeah, since last June I think. [/quote] Haha, zing!

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1337497743' post='1660757'] Not needed friend. The OP hopefully knows what to do know to address the issue and hopefully they follow through and then give us an update. [/quote] What's not needed? I wasn't directing that at the OP?

[quote name='Starless' timestamp='1337468553' post='1660635'] Wow, fame at any price eh? I just hope I never meet the OP, the urge to punch him in the face for his part in the abuse of innocent kids would be just too strong. Unbelievable. [/quote] Don't be a keyboard warrior, you'll just make yourself look like a tit. You wouldn't do a thing if you met the OP, and you're not convincing anyone otherwise with your anonymous internet hard man act. Unbelievable.

Yes, I'm the best bass player on this site. In the world even, nobody comes close to my outstanding playing. Nah, I'm alright I suppose.

They turned the pub across from me into a Sainsbury's, because what this country needs is another supermarket.

Those hats are ace.

I don't mind sharing, but I watch them like a hawk until they're finished using my stuff to make sure nothing gets damaged.

It wasn't a bad experience, but at an audition last week the singer kept offering to make me beans on toast.

I remember the melody mostly, but I hear songs in my head as if I'm listening to them on the radio too. I don't like to pick a song apart and analyse it, it takes the fun out of the song for me then.

Audacity is free and stupidly simple to use, and you can convert your recordings into nearly any format you'd like. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac

Used to have one and an acoustic guitar in the back of the van

[quote name='amnesia' timestamp='1336292204' post='1643496'] Dunlop 1.6mm picks. Strings will stay on my basses for a couple of months in rehearsal, because I don't generally care too much about the tone. In the studio or live is different though, and 1.5 / 2 hours playing is enough to take the shne out of them. [/quote] Are they the purple ones?

[quote name='amnesia' timestamp='1336230426' post='1642870'] Looks like I'm on my own here... ...1.5 hours and I can kill a set of strings stone dead - but then I like a bright new-string sound and I don't tickle them. Boiling them does work to breathe almost-new short term life back into them, but I don't really trust them live at that point. [/quote] An hour and a half? Do you have files for fingers?

About six months for me, mine are GHS half rounds and they lose that zingy sound after a week or two, and then sound like flats until they just lose all definition and clarity over night when they die a few months later.