SICbass

1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

AmpliTube free for iOS.

 

Dead easy and you can buy extra bass amp models if you want. But you don’t have to. There’s an Ampeg on there free.

 

It has a Note at the bottom, you just click and it will import from your iTunes to play along with.

Its great.

That sounds perfect, thanks 👍

2 hours ago, ambient said:

IReal Pro is good. There’s a very good collection of jazz and Latin tunes, you can also download rock, pop and blues tunes too.
 

You get a lead sheet - just the chord changes. There’s also accompaniment if you want to practice a tune - I’ve only ever used it for jazz - there’s piano, drums and bass. There’s a mixer so you can remove any of the accompanying instruments.

 

Amplitube is pretty good.

 

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitube5/?utm_source=iksite&utm_medium=promofilter&utm_campaign=amplitube5

Thanks, I’ll give that a look. Can I play along to mp3s with that? e.g. I have a show I need to work on while we’re away for Xmas and I want to play along with the recordings of that.

Thanks for the suggestion. It's a crackin' piece of kit, but my main criteria is size. I love the fact that the apogee fits in my pocket. When I'm off on holiday with the kids, keeping my own kit to an absolute minimum is my main concern. I have enough of their stuff to carry 🥴

Hi All,

I have an Apogee Jam which I sometimes use for practice. I can jam along with stuff using Garageband on my iphone, but I find it a bit messy. Can the BC hive brain recommend any other particular apps (the simpler the better), I just want to be able to play along with songs which I have saved in Apple Music on my iPhone.

Cheers,

Paul

57 minutes ago, ubit said:

… a nice safe dry fart.

Aaaah, happy days…

On 18/11/2021 at 14:59, Trueno said:

I love the wet/dry switch. Mine would be set-and-forget on dry, I think.

22 hours ago, SICbass said:

Clearly you are under 50

22 hours ago, Trueno said:

Nope.

???

In which case I have unwittingly revealed facts about my own physical state which I had hitherto put down to ageing. Bit of a worry really…

5 hours ago, Trueno said:

I love the wet/dry switch. Mine would be set-and-forget on dry, I think.

Clearly you are under 50

Judging by the number of YT videos, it seems that this really is a thing - why, I don't know.

I found this interesting. I like both the song and his singing. Love him or hate him, he is certainly an interesting artist.

21 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

 

There are some songs that, when I call them to mind, the rubbish being spouted by the DJ over the intro on my Taped From The Radio recording is part of the memory 

Yep, I know exactly what you mean. Or waiting for as long as possible to catch the end of a tune but without recording the DJ blabbing at the end (over a cool guitar solo or bass fill(.

42 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

 

 

ngl, def still v pleased with it

The image it conjures immediately transported me back to teen years, waiting to hear something I liked on radio 1 and leaping for the play and record buttons on the cassette deck of our music centre.

On 12/10/2021 at 22:33, EdLib-3 said:

I've surprised no one has mentioned this: Wired by Jeff Beck. Amazing album featuring the mighty Wilbur Bascomb on bass; fusion on the rockier side:

 

 

Beat me to it. Definitely doable as a trio and, imho, a bit more accessible for audiences.

28 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

Taped From The Radio

I like that one 👍

11 hours ago, Maude said:

I thought this was his famed Funk Fingers, or whatever he called them. 

They featured on the track Big Time (also from the So album). On the album version, Tony Levin played the left hand and Jerry Marotta drummed the right. Needing a viable way to simulate this live, the funk fingers were invented.

I seem to recall him even having a three string bass built for this purpose, when playing the song live, allowing more space between the strings.

With a rocky, guitar based line-up, Thin  Lizzy often works well. The Boys are Back in Town or even Sarah

7 minutes ago, ubit said:

I want to know, you buy a new bass and ask someone to take a picture of you holding it. Why is your choice to stand in a bath? 🤣

Obvs, innit? NBD - you either share it with that shower at BC or the shower at home.

I ran across this story a couple of days ago. It seems the state of Bavaria are charging several firms (including Thomann) over price-fixing.

In the interests of transparency, I am a frequent Thomann customer and enjoy their service, so I have no bias one way or another. I just found this interesting.

"Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has fined three music brands and two dealers a total of €21m for price-fixing. They are Yamaha, Roland, Fender, Thomann and Music Store.

• READ MORE: Korg, Roland and GAK fined £5.75m for breaking retail competition law

The companies were accused of “systematically” restricting price competition, colluding to set minimum prices on goods in 13 instances between April 2014 and December 2018, said the Cartel Office. This is in accordance with the EU’s competition rules which protects consumers against practices such as price fixing.

A statement explained that when the retailers undercut minimum sales prices, staff at Yamaha, Roland and Fender would “on several occasions contact Thomann and Music Store and ask these retailers to adjust their sales prices, which they also did in many cases.”

The whole article can be found here...

https://www.musictech.net/news/industry/yamaha-roland-fender-thomann-music-store-fined-total-of-e21m-for-price-fixing/

Stop! In the name of love - The Supremes 

I had a funny sort of in between experience when seeing Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. I’ve seen fabulous musicians whose virtuosity stood out of reach and left me feeling a little inadequate. B F and the Flecktones where just so extraterrestrial in their abilities that I simply enjoyed it unshackled from any sense of inadequacy. It was other worldly.

Good luck and thanks for what you do in your day job.
It’s been alluded to here already, but to reiterate.. Don’t sweat it over mistakes. My overwhelming memory of my first gig, some 35 years ago was the shock and relief at how much the audience (and even fellow band members) didn’t even notice my gaffs. Clearly that’s not your goal, but it might go some way to taking the pressure off, at least until you have your first few gigs under your belt. 
Have fun and be sure to tell us all how it went 👍

8 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

As low as possible

I use the extra long version of the comfort strapp adjusted to the maximum length available for my thunderbirds - 

You are an orangutan and I claim my 5 pounds 

On 06/05/2021 at 10:28, Silvia Bluejay said:

High enough to reach all the frets, low enough for the top horn not to hit or squish my right breast (I play lefty). Yup, gender-specific setup. Heh. 🙄😎

Given the average age of our membership, I am not sure that that is so 😎

On 06/05/2021 at 09:23, Steve Browning said:

Pbass - volume control at willy height (not the end obviously ;-))

Photos or it never happened 

On 08/04/2021 at 00:31, chris_b said:

I had a bunch of air-bassists at a wedding once. About 4 of them made a line in front of me and . . . . played air-bass for a whole song!

On 08/04/2021 at 11:04, Ricky Rioli said:

Made me wonder, do you see more short scale air basses these days?

On 08/04/2021 at 11:12, chris_b said:

One looked like he was playing a bass ukulele, but the rest were definitely playing Precisions, with burst and tort.

On 08/04/2021 at 16:44, MacDaddy said:

Are they any good for metal?

And the weight?

On 28/03/2021 at 11:05, ped said:

My advice - if it doesn’t sound great with everything flat, it won’t sound greater with a pre. Sweeping statement I know but you have to start off with a great core tone. 

I saw what you did there Ped...