bass_dinger

Very useful indeed. 

I will try this technique. 

Here's a link to a review from Team Recorder  - a YouTube channel so good that I watch it, even though I don't play the recorder. 

You may want to get it set up - the bridge especially needs to be shaped (lower on the treble side).

Friction fit pegs may need the holes in the headstock to be reamed out to match the pegs.

The strings are fiddly to install and there is very little movement between flat and broken.... ask me how I know. 

3 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

Vocal ability can sometimes take second place to the ability to front the band and engage the audience etc. but it depends on the band.

 

Are you thinking of The Rolling Stones... ?

Well done to all who made it - and to those of us who made better use of our existing kit to improve our skills.

For 2024, I am about to spend a little bit on lessons - that's allowable, I hope?

On 30/12/2023 at 10:59, Beedster said:

 

What would Stephen Stills say......   

Teach your children well....?

Or, Love the One you're with?

My former ukulele group did "Me and Julio..." complete with the two different overlayed strumming patterns at the intro, and a whistled solo.

The bassline is a masterclass in minimalism - the note before the chord changes, the note of the new chord, and.... rest. Breathe.  Wait.

I am also learning Gone at Last. It is in C, three chords, and the minor 6th in the outro - should be easy..... 

4 minutes ago, leschirons said:

The point is, is she good looking enough to be a bass player?

Irrespective of gender, it's a given that the bass player is, 99% of the time, the best looking in the band. If she wants to be in the club, then she needs the qualifications.

Agreed!

If she looks like Tony Levin (shaved head, big grey moustache), then she is stage-ready. 

22 hours ago, solo4652 said:

She's a good trombone player, but a poor keys player.

It seems a shame that she wants to try bass, when:

1. She is already a poor keys player (and is likely to become a poor bass player, at least to start with 

2. She is a good trombone player (surely a  better fit in a band that wants another instrumentalist, and wants to showcase the lady musician).

3. You have already done the heavy lifting, by learning the songs creating arrangements that work for the band, and turning up to rehearsals.

Be direct, and ask if the intention is that she will replace you. Tell them that you would feel a bit "spare" if she was playing bass, even for a few songs.

21 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

 

I love this.

Tom Jones appearing with another act? It's not unusual....

Eric Clapton and Neil Innes.

At 1'23" "Eric Clapton ukulele " really is Eric Clapton. 

Chas and Dave. And Eric Clapton, and Albert Lee.

I wondered that too.

I discovered that a number of members are on different threads, which I never visit. 

So, I never see them because they are in different "rooms".

But 50,000? A lot of missing people.

3 hours ago, ezbass said:

You’d think that Seven Nation Army could be used in something.

I have looked, and found nothing from the modern hymnal that fits.

However, I was once in a ukulele band that did a swing version of Tainted Love, and realised that the chord sequence of Tainted Love was the same as that from Seven Nation Army, Stray Cat Strut, and Sweet Dreams Are Made of This. 

Thus it is my ambition to find a Worship song that uses the same chords.

However, I am stuck with playing the bassline to a U2 song, to every worship song written in the past 10 years.

So in both cases, I still haven't found what I am looking for.....

In a church band with a pianist and three guitarists on a rota.  I decided to move to bass, because I fancied it. 

No particular reason  - it just felt like a gap that needed filling.   I was offered a 5 string bass, which I preferred as I wanted to learn a new instrument from scratch, rather than think of it as a guitar with the highest two strings missing. 

For me, the tipping point was realising that slash chords (C/E) and bass runs were easier to play on the bass than the guitar.

Add to that the fact that I could download midi files for songs, and print and follow the written music for songs,  and bass began to feel like home...

Oh, and the revelation that basslines were not just the root note- thanks to Come up and See me, make me smile. 

Bass - more rewarding than guitar, and easier to play.....sometimes 

On 24/11/2023 at 16:39, SuperSeagull said:

annual charity gig

The organisers don't seem to understand the division of labour here.

1. They are doing it for charity.

2. The band are doing a gig.

Putting the words "charity" and "gig" in the same sentence does not automatically mean that all participants will want to give their services for free.

1 hour ago, Risk101 said:

…….and in other news a couple of weekends back I nearly severed my left thumb with a mitre/chop saw!

Username @Risk101 confirms actions....

How are you  - and how long before you are fully functional again?

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Rich said:

I can see through their fake, veiled words.

Or you could just put it down to their bumbling incompetence, and acknowledge that they only saw how serious the issue was, once you left. 

You now have the option of talking to them - whether you do so will say more about you, than them.

2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Rich said:

 

 

I thought things through on Friday and in the evening I decided to step down from the role of Worship Leader.

 

....

  I’ll just be a hired hand and care as much as everyone else does.

For your own sanity, you have made the right decision. Well done. It will also show the leaders what happens when you are not pulling it together. 

As for people not changing, they certainly won't if the leaders enable this sort of bad behaviour.

We had the same issue in our church  - the assumption that the quality of the music was down to luck. Sometimes good, other times bland and a struggle. Lockdown saw the need to form a smaller core band, and after a few months of that better playing, the leaders did not want to go back to the old team. They got used to excellence.

It can happen, but you may find that you need to join a band or another church, to satisfy your expectation of more commitment. 

Thank you, one and all, for tempting me to spend less money!

But I still quite like my solution - even though it is profligate and pointless, with no chance that it would make me a better player...

Reports like this - of excellent quality and exceptional support - make me want to buy an Ashdown. 

Actually, I have bought a weeny acoustic radiator). And I have used their repair facility twice, for the church's Electric Blue, and mine and the church's pair of Acoustic Radiators.

I mean "it makes me want to buy another Ashdown bass rig of my own".

9 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

How about a bit of white gaffa tape with what's inside scrawled on it with a permanent marker? Leaves you more money to spend on beer 😁

But my solution is prettier, neater, and more obsessive! It allows me to sort my basses alphabetically, by place of purchase! 

10 hours ago, Tandro said:

You know you gonna do it

 

One day.... 

But with money and space an issue, I am more likely to sell basses, than buy cases for them all!

I have 5 basses, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin. All are in different or no cases (including two Hiscox cases - the ones that 5 fat men can stand on).

I would like to buy matching Hiscox cases, and some sew-on patches. 

Let me explain.  I bought one of my bass guitars from Cambridgeshire.  I will buy two sew on patches showing Cambridgeshire, place one on the bass strap, and the other tied to the handle of the case.

Thus I will know what is inside the case, from the outside signs. 

What an utter waste of money.  I shan't do it. 

But I just wanted to write it down, to see how silly it looked in print!!

Expensive, but necessary. Warm rooms and hot water are always a good choice. 

I also needed a new boiler, multiple car repairs, new tumble dryer, new washing machine. 

I would have preferred to buy a new neck from a custom shop, and a better mandolin, and some Hiscox cases. 

However, on this occasion, family members come first. 

We both made the right choice.  Boiler, not bass.

Dadness.  

Shawaddy Daddy.