bass_dinger

On 06/01/2024 at 18:40, greghagger said:

Recording yourself is one of the best ways to get an honest review of how you are progressing with your playing.

I recorded myself once. It was pretty dire - elastic timing, uneven volume, poor tone.

Sadly, that was all down to me, and not the software.   So, I guess that I got the honest review that @greghagger predicted!

I will record myself again, therefore, and seek to improve. 

14 hours ago, Mediocre Polymath said:

This is the design I've been toying with. Not sure if I'll actually bother to build it though.

I like it! Elements of a Rick, and a more usable scale length. 

My own mandolin is a laminate top, and has poor tone. With so little wood to vibrate, the quality of the material is more important than for larger instruments, perhaps?

Once I retire, I will invest more time in music  - mandolin included

On 29/03/2024 at 10:19, FelixGubbins said:

bass pedals using the Doepfer MBP25 module

I have been looking for something like this for a long while - thanks for sharing!

Organ bass pedals in kit form - rather than breaking down a home organ just the parts...

I have the top half of a conductor's stand, with a 20mm female fitting. 

I need the bottom half - the legs and the stem.

Does any company sell the bottom half separately?

1 hour ago, Jonesy said:

Yamaha P45's

I am surprised at how inexpensive these are, on Facebook marketplace.   And they sound and feel good to me, too. 

I would have gone for one myself, eventually, were it not for the 50 quid Kurzweil in Cash Converters.     

Keyboards will teach one harmony - and, apparently, once one develops a good left hand technique, you can do everything a bassist does . . .., 

What keyboard did you end up with?

On 31/03/2024 at 13:58, AndyTravis said:

Sweet Caroline is killing me off too, not so much the song but the inane bullshite sports version - good times never felt so good “SOGOOD SOGOOD SOGOOD” - Why?

 

I watch a lot of boxing. I mute it every time it’s on.

Sweet Caroline and boxing - a song to punch people to...

Have you ever heard it played by a ukulele band? 

9 hours ago, nilebodgers said:

 

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a worship song that has a “signature” bass line that would be needed for the song to sound “right”. Not for congregational singing anyway.

You are right - even the songs with a distinct bass riff don't _need_ it for the congregation to be able to sing it.

However, there is this song...

And this 

Each have distinct riffs that are beyond me!

How Deep ( and my finger, too...) in 

6 4

4 4

Is there a name for alternating bars that flip between two time signatures?  I am told that Bernstein's America does the same, between 3/4 and 6/8.

@Rosie CThis YouTube video is a very typical version of this song - no strong rhythm, and the bass line playing on the chord changes. 

And here is me playing over it, using the written music. 

2 hours ago, Rosie C said:

 

I'm playing at Easter Sunday morning service and looking forward to it. Looking through the hymns, we're doing "How Deep the Father's Love For Us". A little bit scary with its alternating 6/4 and 4/4 bars. Does anyone have experience of playing it?  

 

Yes.

When I first learned it, I was not aware of the alternating time signatures (although I realised that the timing was peculiar, about the same time that I spotted that the words didn't rhyme!).

I play on the chord changes rather than try to create a rhythm, and let the vocalists and congregation carry the song.

I can try to create a recording of what I do, if you are desperate.... 

2 hours ago, lowdown said:

Dancing in the Street - 

The Jagger & Bowie version. 

 

They should be made to eat it, and when nature calls, open up their bowls and deposit it down the nearest available toilet. 

I give you Dancing in the Street - the Silent Music video. No music at all - "It's like two drunk mates making their way home from the pub. "
Watch it and laugh.
 . . .

Dancing in the Street -- Silent Music Video - YouTube.url

Saddle Up and Ride Your Pony by David Christie 

It's cheesy, and he may even be miming to the bass line . . . 

However, I have managed to avoid it for 30 years, simply because the people who schedule radio playlists like it as much as I do . . .

David Christie - Saddle Up (Official Music Video) - YouTube.url

14 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I think we’ve had similar threads before and nothing has changed for me, no 1 is mustang sally😬,

and I find it hard to listen to ed sheeran and George Ezra for more than a few minutes 

 

Two minutes?  That's not even one song! Or is that the point that you are making - even one song would be too long! 

4 hours ago, Crusoe said:

8 hours ago, Staggering on said:

Steady now, there are some banjo players on here, I'm one of them.....😊

Burn the heretic 😄

I thought it better to burn the banjo, and have stern words with the heretic.

41 minutes ago, Minininjarob said:

It’s not the people or instruments you may or may not have, it’s the spirit in which you do it in. 

Sadly, people take that to extremes, and turn up with no preparation at all, or without having sung through the songs, or even looked at the song list. Usually that's the singers, but I once had a bassist turn up without their bass....

45 minutes ago, Minininjarob said:

I think people don’t understand or forget what a privilege it is to lead people into worship. 

Agreed! It's not a gig, it's an opportunity to serve others.  Why do people treat it like they're doing the congregation a favour by tuning up on the day? Get excited people  - it's important. 

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Rich said:

 

It's going to be hard to play MY REDEEMER LIVES and VICTOR'S CROWN and do them justice with 3 people.

If it's the right three people, you will do it justice!

For those who don't know the first song, here:

https://youtu.be/3glYEDzSyok?si=g50qLV_v34kOBKE0

4 hours ago, TrevorR said:

Agreed, no problems propagating and bass sound with that rig!!!

Anyone who has spent time in a church will realise that things which are big, bulky, musical and unwanted will end up there...

Organ. Pianos. 4×12 bass cabs. Soprano singers.

Mark King.  Yakka takka takka tak.

I have a CD in my car - The Best Dad Album in the world. One track is Dance the Night Away, by the Mavericks. Two chords, root-5th. 

The next track is Running in the Family by Level 42. Lots of notes.

I prefer the first track, probably because I can understand the language of that song.

I think that, when I listen to Mark King, Mohini Dey, Flea, I don't have the skill set to understand what they are doing. So to me, it's alien. 

1 hour ago, nilebodgers said:

We had donkey disappointment today. There was supposed to be one, but it was a no-show. Humph!

 

 

Did he get a better offer from another church?

We had such inconsistency with the sound team, that the Worship Leader came up with a solution that did not involve the sound guys.

Channels that are sound activated, a second mixing desk on the stage (and later, personal mixing desks so we could each set our own monitor mix.

Still waiting for the whole band to buy in-ears  - I don't want to be the only one.  However the leader is yet to send out advice to the whole band on what to look for, so if he isn't bothered, nor am I. 

I even shared a link with him, following a recommendation from basschat: "look at these. Highly recommended.  Do you want to share it with the rest of the group?".  

I was that leaver. 

They took me back, I was grateful and happy to play.

But I have managed my expectations of the band....

And they have understood the problems that caused me to walk.  They've done nothing about the problems, but they have understood them....

9 hours ago, Rodders said:

The one I don't get the most is Mohini Dey, great you can play lots and lots of notes very very fast, very technical and all that.

But to me there is no feel and not much musicality..

Agreed.

She is hugely talented, technically brilliant - and my sister keeps sending me links to her stuff. But I just don't get what she does.

And if she was the keynote speaker at next year's South East Bass Bash, I would be very embarrassed!

I am big fan of "back covers" - take a song, and cover it in a style that predates the original song.

Here, Gloria Jones Tainted Love in the style of Django Reinhardt.

Is that what you are looking for? 

2 hours ago, Richard R said:

It was more than 6 months ago, so the YT service recording will  have been taken down and just the sermon kept up for reference. 

It was just little trills and fills rather than the main motif. Imagine " King of Kings, (plinkety-plonk) Majesty (plonkety-plink) ". But with slightly more finess!

Isn't this the one that can has a descending bassline during the chorus, akin to that in Bach's Air on a G string?

A, E/g#, F#m, A/e, D, A/c#, Bm, D/a, repeat...