Mike

MX, many moons ago. Jaco!!

Wintermute - there's a name I haven't seen in a few years! Regards Mike

I don't see how non-music readers could be upset - it's kind enough of the B-man to share his transcriptions with us let alone cater for non-readers. If he were being paid, perhaps...! Cheers Bilbo. Don't know the track but I'll check it out.

Thanks Bilbo. Don't listen to much AC but perhaps this will get me into it. It will be good sightreading practice, anyway! Thanks!

Thanks for these Bilbo. Really appreciating your efforts - please keep them coming. I am transcribing some Janek Gwizdala and tony Grey right now - will share when complete.

Thanks Bilbo - great. Just to clarify, this is the "Reverence" , album, right?

You can get Jamiriquai books from the Library - with accurate bass notation.

Hey. 16th notes mean, that in a bar of four, there are sixteen notes. These are known as semi-quavers. If you play each of them twice as long, you'll get eighth notes. These are quavers. If you just play four notes in a bar, these are crotchets. Two notes - minims. One long note - semibreve. Remember, if you're playing in 3/4 (three beats in a bar) there are 3 crotchets in a bar, 6 eighth notes (quavers) and 12 sixteenth notes (semiquavers). Hope that makes sense. If you want to hear 16th notes in action listen to some fast repetative grooves from Jaco Pastorius or Francis Rocco Prestia from Tower of Power. Regards Mike

Great work, Andy. I must admit, I'm really not partial to solo bass -but these were really good. Great tone, very clean recording. Excellent work! Look forward to more!

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='471606' date='Apr 24 2009, 03:21 PM']Mike, you're not to far from me. Fancy popping round and I'll give you a crash-course on "Another one bites the dust"?[/quote] One step at a time, my friend. I'm still learning the string names.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='471744' date='Apr 24 2009, 05:48 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6pgM-NVfWg&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6pgM-NVfWg...feature=related[/url] This well good. I totally agree about getting the hours/lessons when teaching. I find that most of my pupils are either under 18, or over 30. Mabye it's not cool to have lessons when you're 18-30. [/quote] I'm 25

NYC pros charge $100 an hour....so £50 seems a pretty decent deal for me. For a world class player!

Tony is giving lessons while he's over. I'm booked in for the wednesday. £50 an hour. Email him from his website...and please mention Mike sent you

I really enjoy Scott Walker music. Do you ever listen to the Divine Comedy? You can really hear the influence SW was on Neil.

Tsk. Let's keep this on topic. Who cares what he looks like - I'm sure not all of us are fashion victims or style icons! I'm interested in learning about his approach to the bass, music, soloing etc - couldn't care less about his trainers!

Thanks Steve, now a constant feature on my music stand for warmup and sightreading - cheers!

PM me your email, and I'll drop you a line!

Hi guys - not sure if this has been posted yet - I couldn't find it, if it has. Jeff Berlin went on Talkbass to field some questions. I think a lot of interesting ideas and useful stuff came out of this. [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=505003"]Link is here.[/url] Sorry if it's a double-post! Regards Mike

Thanks Simon, will enjoy your transcriptions and add some when I can.

A functions group I play with called Soul'd Out might be after a bassist soon - we do soul, funk, motown, disco etc. Some pubs but generally functions like birthdays, corporate events. They rehearse in Clacton (St Osyth). Would this be too far for you?