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Yes - agreed. Does it work as a metal/rock song? I'm not convinced at all. How well does the original bassline fit into this cover?

*Dancing Queen*. Can't type today. My band wants to have a crack at this. I don't like it at all. How to make a sow's ear out of a silk purse, in my opinion. What does everybody else think, please? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCDzpasrwDs&feature=youtu.be"]https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be[/url]

Thank you. If you're saying that the Hotwires and the Picatos are the same strings from the same manufacturer then, according to the Status website, the Picato half rounds won't be available. Ya know.

EeK! I've just logged on to the Status website to order some half wound strings. Looks like that only rounds are available for the foreseeable future: http://www.status-graphite.com/status/frames/stringsinfo.html I've tried just about every other half wound strings out there, but always come back to the Hotwires because they feel so smooth. Any recommendations for similar strings: ultra-smooth, bright-sounding half-wounds? [font="Verdana"][color="#ffffff"][size=1]*** PLEASE NOTE ***[/size][/color][/font] [font="Verdana"][size="-1"][color="#ffffff"]Unfortunately our previous manufacturer stopped making strings completely so we have taken some time to find a new supplier who could continue to make our custom strings to our specifications. We currently have only round-wound strings available but hope to have flats, halves and black nylon sometime soon. I will add a note to our website when they are available. Sorry for any inconvenience.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Verdana"][color="#ffffff"][size=1]*** PLEASE NOTE ***[/size][/color][/font] [font="Verdana"][size="-1"][color="#ffffff"]Unfortunately our previous manufacturer stopped making strings completely so we have taken some time to find a new supplier who could continue to make our custom strings to our specifications. We currently have only round-wound strings available but hope to have flats, halves and black nylon sometime soon. I will add a note to our website when they are available. Sorry for any inconvenience.[/color][/size][/font]

Co Durham. Preloved Bass has maple fingerboard - that's quite unusual for a Warwick, isn't it? A quick search of Google images throws up nothing like it. Hmmm. If anybody buys all this and doesn't want the head and cab, let me know. [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/117233614/warwick-bass-guitar-amp-cabinet.html?link=%2Fsearch%3Fkeyword%3Dbass%2Bamp"]http://www.preloved....rd%3Dbass%2Bamp[/url]

Heard it through the grapevine - Darryl Hall, Rob Thomas and friends, pushing it along nicely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV_nGyjwISk

This works for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPVMBPmrblU

Yep - My friend has confirmed she meant Manchester. Learn something new every day.

A friend's just emailed me saying she's on her way to mannieland. I've never heard of it, and neither has Google. I'm flummoxed. Can anybody help, please? PS. My friend's from Liverpool - is mannieland scouse slang for somewhere, maybe?

I've think I've got the intro and chorus OK, but I'm slightly struggling with the verse, particularly the last section. All help gratefully received. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2fB7yR_7_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IujOnIwnbA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M1Brx-La2M

Check out this guy's feel and groove - best cover of Kiss I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRwBIxtuRU

We need to update and refresh our setlist. Being a bunch of 50 year olds, we're not exactly bang up to date with current music trends, and there is a tendency to default to the 80's and 90's when choosing songs. Song choice proves pretty challenging, with each band member having their own preferred genres and eras.The whole process gets fairly heated and tiring Band details; 5-piece; drums, bass, guitar, keys (+ BV's), lead vocals. Excellent lead singer with good range. We haven't had to change a song key so far - bliss! Guitarist is (prog) rocker and likes to play technically challenging guitar-led songs with "interesting" solos. Think Led Zeppelin..., keys player is very experienced and also welcomes the chance to play fairly technical songs e.g. Dancing on the ceiling, Jump. I'm more towards the groove/soul/funk/pop vibe. Drummer is good and plays along to most things as long as they're crowd-pleasers. Current setlist has the usual Killers, Kings of Leon, Stereophonics, Valerie stuff, alongside things like Mr Blue Sky, Iris, Hold back the river, Never tear us apart, Drops of Jupiter. As I left rehearsal last night, the keys player and guitarist were talking about Meatloaf... New songs; We're looking for songs that: Are from this century Are well-known and popular Will get people - especially 20 and 30 year olds - up and dancing at the Dog and Duck on a Saturday night Are technically and musically interesting enough to engage the guitarist and keys player All suggestions gratefully received! Thanks, Steve

This is pretty accomplished, I reckon; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YnYgbb0U1g

So, would we regard this as good or naff cajon playing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwUTIjyXWHE

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1497781542' post='3320497'] Aaaargh. Cajons. [/quote] [b][size=6]?[/size][/b]

Yep - cajons are best suited to gorillas, or people with short backs and long arms. I don't sit on mine - I've knocked up a stand that means I can sit on a chair and put the cajon on the floor tilted towards me. Even better is to place the stand on the chair so I can play standing up - that's much easier on my back. The other thing to be wary of is hitting the thing too hard, because you'll quickly get sore hands. Whenever possible, I mic mine using a bass drum mic through my practice combo. Couldn't do that in the park yesterday, so ended up with sore fingers.

It’s our town Carnival today and my garden overlooks the main arena. There’s an open-mic/karaoke “performance space” and there has been a steady stream of people absolutely murdering all sorts of songs. I sat wincing in my garden and then thought – if you can’t beat them, join them. So I took my cajon across to the park and busked along to whatever song was being played for a couple of hours. Good fun, but I now have slightly sore hands. Probably better off sticking to bass.

I used to play this. I've just looked up my old notes and this is what I found. My bass playing has come along significantly since, so this tab may well be incomplete and/or wrong., but it might just help you. Intro |------7-----------| |------------------| |--5---------------| X 4 |-----------7--5--| Verse |------7-----------|------7----------|------7----------|------------------| |------------------|------------------|------------------|---------5-6-7--| |--5---------------| --5-------------|---5-------------|-5-5-------------| X 2 |-----------7--5--|------------7-5--|-----------7-5--|------------------| Chorus |------7-----------| |------------------| |--5------5-------| X ? |-------------5-7-|

I play in a 5-piece pop/soft-rock pub covers band. The keys player has just bought a Bose line array PA, claiming that we could put the speakers at the back of the stage and do without monitors and bass bins. We've done a few gigs with poor results. No problem with overall volume out front in the audience, but lots of feedback from the singer's mic, no matter which way the speakers were facing. Using the low-pass filter on the desk seemed to solve that problem, but drastically affected my bass tone and volume. On stage, I couldn't hear my playing at all. Moving the speakers to the stage front solved the feedback issue but, without monitors, all I could hear on stage was the drummer. So, next time, the plan is to use the PA for vocals (and possibly keys), with guitar and myself using our own backline. Sort of negates the promised advantages of the line array system, really.

Latest email from guitarist: "The Killers record is played In D but they tune half a step down - so the D sounds like a C#." My response: "A song (or indeed a single note) that’s played in D, but tuned down a semi-tone is no longer in D – it’s in C#. It sounds like it’s in C# because it is." Initially, I thought this was another example of the naming and communication confusion caused by guitarists' use of capos and detuning, as summarised by Steve Woodcock above. I'm sure many of us have experienced this. However, the more I talk to the guitarist, the more uncomfortable I get because he insists that the [i]shape[/i] of the chord he's playing dictates what the chord actually is. That instantly causes problems when he, keys player and myself are trying to sort out problems in songs. We've decided to drop Mr Brightside from the setlist for now.

Myself and the guitarist are having some problems playing this song. I'm well aware that guitarists often tune down a semi-tone to make the fingering easier. This is what our guitarist does. This confuses the hell out of me because he says the song is written in the key of D. I play it in C# and it sounds just fine against the original and what the band has played in the past, up until last night's rehearsal, when the guitarist insisted that I played the song in D. This comment from his emails to me today left me very confused: "The Killers use a well known trick of tuning down half a step. Literally all instruments are tuned down one half step so D sounds like C#. This not what key the song is played in, that doesn't change...only the pitch." So, if guitarist plays it in D on a guitar that's tuned down one semi-tone, what key is he actually playing the song in?