Silvia Bluejay

You guys also have Stu Hamm among your endorsees, IIRC? Awesome bunch of musicians.

And by the way, I guess the only reason why I haven't got a larger collection of basses - apart from money itself, but you know, who needs to eat or heat their home after all? - is that I'm able to carry out a complete setup by myself, which saves me needing the help of music shops and keeps me away from setting my eyes and laying my hands on basses for sale. Now, perhaps the next step would be to install a broadband filter to stop me visiting Thomann.de and this site...* * but I couldn't survive without either!

YAY Shelley! Welcome to the girls-with-more-basses-than-shoes GAS, GAS, GAS!!! club, or at least welcome to the driveway to the club's door I've been part of the furniture there for a while, so I can show you around at your leisure

Loving it all! Please post links to any videos from the Jazz festival, in due course

[quote name='funkypenguin' timestamp='1342307926' post='1733190'] Thanks bluejay!! Seven waves was part of my final year composition portfolio, thats a rough-ish recording and will be re-done at some point. All the tunes on there were recorded using my Warwick Streamer LX6 its a phenomenal studio bass, tracks really well and sounds lovely and warm (even better now its got the East U-retro installed). And yeah, Kim is a phenomenal vocalist, check out her soundcloud too. We're playing 'They Say' at the jazz festival (where i hope to a better job than on that particular performance...) [url="http://soundcloud.com/kim-wellens"]http://soundcloud.com/kim-wellens[/url] The Trio dont have a FB page as of yet, but im advertising their gigs through my music page, and likes are always welcome! [url="https://www.facebook.com/funkypenguinmusic"]https://www.facebook...nkypenguinmusic[/url] [/quote] Wow, so it's not a double bass after all? Kudos to Warwick - their instruments never fail to amaze... I've liked your page and I'm checking out Kim's soundcloud. Get yerselves down south soon!

[quote name='Bass-Thing' timestamp='1342286291' post='1732870'] I do indeed have an iPhone and the PocketGK looks absolutely perfect. The iRiffport is expensive but opens up a load of other really good iPhone apps like Garageband. Might be something that you'd find useful Bluejay? [/quote] Sounds good, but I'm not an iPhone user, nor am I planning to become one for the foreseeable future. I will let you guys know my opinion of the Micro-H in due course, though. Excellent thread - it's always good to be aware of the various options on offer for any given task

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1342345969' post='1733390'] It's up the the band to tailor their set to the constraints of the gig and the organisers to make sure that everything runs according to schedule, and its right that it should be the same whether it's 5 bands on at a local pub, or a massive festival full of big name acts. [/quote] Exactly.

Check out the Double Bass/EUB subforum on this very site too...

Sigh, don't get me started. My Amplug sounds even worse than my Rockit with my Warwicks (but it's the other way round with the uprights) and I'm currently waiting for Max of [sfx] to build me a Micro-H. More expensive than those, but hopefully much better quality. I don't know what your budget may be, though.

Welcome to Basschat, Urban Paranoia! It's not always you join a website with a moniker like yours and receive the first reply from someone rather aptly called Police Squad, dontcha think?

Please give me a shout when you come south to play! I've listened to your soundcloud. That version of Summertime is brilliant, with fantastic vocals, and I love Seven Waves, gorgeous double bass on that (re-listening to it right now!). Have you got a FB page I can like?

Argh, I would [b]love[/b] that. Pity you're too far...

Forgot to add that, besides obviously noticing the song's structure, repetition etc. and finding the correct key, it's important to listen for key changes and hear if they jump by a fourth or a fifth or just a semitone or two. Key changes aren't always the hackneyed repeated chorus at the end - there are lots of key changes in the middle of songs, or during guitar solos, or sometimes between one verse and another. I love it when I spot a key change, it's an added challenge

I make a point of working out the bassline by ear as precisely as possible, even if I only play along to the record and don't play live. In fact, it's more important to get the notes right if you need to be in unison with the record than if you're playing a cover version with your band As mentioned before, I listen to the song in question a number of times, sometimes sing along to it to tune myself to it, then grab my bass and make sure first of all to find what key it's in. That I do by playing a bit of the melody as I hear it, and checking whether it's correct. I often get it right first time, but sometimes it takes me several attempts. Then I begin at the beginning, so to speak, and jot down chord charts if the song is easy to remember or write down the notes one by one as letters if it's tricky (I can read music but I can't write it correctly). I tend to always play with my notes in front of me, which is something I would have to grow out of if I started to play live.

121 likes when I last checked the page! Well done! (What does your pseudo-OCD think of that number? )

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1342165894' post='1730504'] I'm washing my hair that night..... [/quote]

No, Dan, it's nothing to do with you, the name is fine, it's my friends who spend far too much time on FB taking the p*ss instead of working

LOL it shows on my profile as "Silvia likes [url="https://www.facebook.com/EastAnglianBassPlayers"]East Anglian Bass Players[/url]" and I almost immediately received the obligatory jokey quip by PM from one of my friends on FB - "Leaving London and moving to the countryside then?"

Oooo my head is exploding with potential witty replies, but I'll stop right here ...

I know it's a long way off still, but I'm thinking of going to see Europe at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 1st December. You have been warned And if anyone's up for it, give me a shout. All those I've spoken to who have seen the band play live say they are excellent.

Er, no mention of Geezer Butler? I could listen to his bass work on Heaven and Hell (the album) for days on end...

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1342045577' post='1728828'] bass players in hats? [/quote] Not permitted, unless they are also guitarists, right?

[quote name='Johngh' timestamp='1342039117' post='1728685'] The Basschat team have just held their first conference in Grimsby Amoung the topics discussed was. Who buy's the doughnuts. Where is Tim and Mark King versus Flea. [/quote] What? No Fender vs Everything Else Being A Coffee Table debate? I think we should have a conference in London to rectify that omission.

HAHA, congratulations to you too, Deb - keep us posted!

I imagine they are similar to the one Jack is playing in this photo from last week?