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Judo Chop

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  1. She's just the NME's latest hype, have a look on their website, they have a new story every day about how ordinary and down to earth she is. I'd put money on them giving her album a bad review, the NME's usual trick is to build an artist up for months and then slaughter them when the debut album comes out. Anyone remember Viva Brother? No? Of course you don't, because they're s*** and don't seem to exist outside of the NME's coverage. They were the magazine's last "next big thing" and now they've been abandoned since the bad reviews came rolling in, and it's probably going to happen to Lana Del Rey too.

  2. [quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1327842827' post='1517491']


    Bloody hell you know it's bad when someone Can't/Won't learn Oasis on the basis of the chords used :unsure: :unsure:
    [/quote]

    I know, if the bassist knows more basic guitar chords than you, somethings not right. He refused all of my efforts to show him even the easiest ones.

  3. [quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1327839386' post='1517389']


    Think maybe he's just trying to tell you something.

    What were the songs ?
    [/quote]

    We originally wanted to play

    She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
    Rain - The Beatles
    My Generation - The Who
    Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
    Go Let It Out - Oasis
    I Fought the Law - The Clash's version, and
    House of the Rising Sun

    But because of our chordless wonder we ended up doing

    Paranoid - Black Sabbath
    Dreaming of You - The Coral
    Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
    For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
    Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
    Dream - The Everly Brothers
    Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones

    We were saved by power chords and our rhythm guitarist, and the gig went really well. The thing is, he's technically not a bad player, he just learned by himself in his bedroom copying songs from tabs (mostly shredding and tapping) without taking the time to learn and understand what he was playing when the occasional chord did appear.

  4. Just keep playing the thing, planning out your learning and observing others can take you so far, but you'll only get better by playing your bass. Sign up for Paul Wolfe's news letter on YouTube, he really helped me when I was first learning.

  5. It's not so much the weight that's the problem, it's the handles on either side that make it awkward to carry, doorways are a right pain in the arse when you keep peeling the skin off the back of your hands every time you pass through one.

  6. [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The only thing I don't like about it is the size and weight of it, especially with the MBC115 cabinet.I've put my bass next to it for scale, so you can see what it all looks like because I find that the pictures on music sites don't always give you a good idea of how big some amps are.[/font]

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  7. Apologies if this has been done before, I did a search but didn't see anything similar.

    I had my first ever gig last night performing a few covers at my work's christmas party, and I loved it. We all played well and it the audience were great, everyone was dancing and singing along, and they shouted for more once we'd finished. I can't wait to do it again next week.

    So, did everyone else's first gig go as well, or did you fall flat on your arse and die?

    Let's hear it!

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