Sté

Nice !! Don't know the context too, but already seen this kind of idea: Edit: This is Stig Pedersen from band "Disneyland after dark" ..

I've got a 96' MIK: really good bass. Perfect neck, one of the best i ever played, and a nice jazz sound with stock pickups.

10 ? I'm 11 !

One per instrument. 4 basses, 2 guitars.

Exactly the same feeling. Except the bass sound that i don't really like, even if it suits perfectly the song.

To me, a musician is someone who makes music, whatever instrument (or anything that can be used as an instrument) he uses to do it. The difference would be more between a musician and an artist. The artist is a different animal, with an active creation side which is not always there for the musician.

Keeley bassist. Perfect if you like transparent compressor. The only thing i add permanently between bass and amp.

My first bass line was... on guitar. That was the first time i ever took an instrument: the old beaten guitar from my father. And the first thing i've ever tried to play by ear was the bassline of "Scatterling of Africa" from Johnny Clegg. As i wanted to learn guitar, I became guitar player for 7 years, before falling definitely into bass. I've understood way after this first try that it was "a bass line". At this time, i was sure to play a guitar part

Thank you Marc.

That was 2 weeks ago. Our jazz trio with a reader. We did it as a single event project: mix music and text reading. The guy is a professional; his main gig is to read in public as "the man who reads everything". You give him a text (from book, songs, ads, Tv program, newspaper, ... anything you want) and he reads it live with his artistic interpretation. It was an awesome experience for both 4 of us and we have decided to continue together; as a side project of the jazz quartet we already have with a sax player. Pics of our better gig to date:

Thank you ! I'll try . My English understanding is way better now; it should be easier.

Thanks ! Awesome Dog-in-the-suitcase

Hello All, Sté from France. I used to lurk around here several years ago. Time flies ... and i'm happy to say hello again today.

GK Neo 115-III. Perfect with my 700RB-II

one more page here. Add a Gilmour, a Mc laughlin and i'm done.

[quote name='SoVeryTired' timestamp='1350571641' post='1840702'] Option 1 for the experience, contacts and money, all of which lead to a more succesful option 2 in time. [/quote] what he said.

I went to five, after several years on a warwick corvette 4, with a nice warwick thumb. Then i sold the four and tought the 5 was MY bass. I played it exclusively for 2 years. I enjoyed it but then came a strange feeling that my playing slowly becoming sterile, stucked in a "vertical" way as if i had to play only in a four frets area, and couldn't expand it on the rest of the neck. Then one day, i took a 4 from a friend too noodle with and then came the light: suddenly i felt free and my left hand started to move on the horizontal highway. That sounds strange but it is. I sold the thumb, had a nice Cort artisan B4 and never looked behind. That was more than 10 years ago.

Best of... pleasure !

and don't forget the: mmmm, mma, maann gi gimme your ba, bass. i'm a gre great bassplayyyer !

Oh yes. The music lesson is the good title for the book.It's a real music and life lesson.

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1349821453' post='1831119'] I love how the 'slap is boring' is always backed up by a 2 minute clip of a concert that lasted for,what?.....2 hours? That section was just a bit of fun/entertainment that the players enjoyed...and so did the audience on the night,judging by the reaction. Yeah,slap bass is boring and unmusical....but no more so than fingerstyle playing or pick playing.The technique in itself is not unmusical-that would be down to the player. As for boring-that is down to the listeners own taste. [/quote] agree To the op: you can ckeck "palmystery" album from Wooten, if you didn't; of which this tune is from. Great album with a very musical use of slapping, especially on this tune. Then it's also a matter of taste. I saw Marcus on his last tour. That was a blast, but i found Marcus repeat himself in slap thing, the same impression than others in this thread. Perhaps it's me and start to be boring by Marcus...

[quote name='jonnybass' timestamp='1349784298' post='1830412'] I would secnd the Effortless Mastery book, personally didnt go in for the meditation etc, but I now look at my gigging by pre/post reading the book. Same goes for my practicing. By going for 'Just five minutes practice' has got me back to a level of playing before the arrival of the Missus, the full time job and the two kids.... [/quote] Same as you. I didn't really get the meditation point. But his description about "problems" really talked to me. And i'm now less in fear, and more in "doing the most beautifull sound you can " kind of way.