
YouMa
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Good phrasing is very important
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I've seen some odd listings, but this takes prize Bull.
YouMa replied to sgt-pluck's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
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Well played Lo.
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[quote name='AM1' post='468600' date='Apr 21 2009, 02:49 PM']You and your 'tache. [/quote] Bloody cheek!
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[quote name='AM1' post='468578' date='Apr 21 2009, 01:37 PM']What do you guys do in terms of working out the best fingering/fretboard position, for a piece of music? The score doesn't show anything? The immediate theme after the octave intro...there's a certain type of phrasing that you hear in the original, but recreating that means working out the notes in a certain position on the fretboard. When you see a series of notes written down, those notes can be played in several different positions on the bass, I'd be interested in what method is used to decide where to play.[/quote] You and your phrasing
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Try wizard,or bartolini they are both excellent pickups just google em.
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[quote name='NottherealDuff' post='468518' date='Apr 21 2009, 01:12 PM']Hello firends with far more technical know how than I, I'd just like to sound you out really and get some opinions on the following. I still own the first bass I ever bought (who doesn't, right!?) as it's been very good to me these past 17 (holy "£%£ am I that old! ) year. Anyhow - she doesn't pump out a MEGA sound and so I wondered if changing the pick ups would have any major difference to the sound. I HONESTLY don't know abou this kind of stuff, want to learn though. Anybody know much about this kind of thing or done similar? Thanks, Duff[/quote] If you get hotter (pups with more out put it will),or you can fit a preamp that acts a bit like a super charger. However you would have to get used to playing with one as they make the guitar a lot more sensitive to technique.
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[quote name='grumble' post='467980' date='Apr 20 2009, 10:52 PM']Cant see what the fuss is about, music always had a 'not like the choons when I were a lad' aspect. I'm 53 years old and yet I keep finding stuff coming into the charts every once in a while that is quality. I also delve into the Internet radio stations which has led to me enjoying a lot of Arabic music as well as some grunge etc. that I missed the first time around. Don't complain about the stuff around today when you can listen to [url="http://www.mrscruff.com"]Mr Scruff[/url] !! There is so much out there its scary. Oh and I loathe Radio 2 [/quote] +10 for Mr scruff ,trouser jazz is a brilliant album.
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Things that musicians do that are a waste of time!
YouMa replied to Bilbo's topic in Theory and Technique
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Its not my fingers! Honest.
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[quote name='Stingray5' post='466520' date='Apr 19 2009, 03:05 AM']+1 for Kate Bush But, for me, the female singer (and songwriter) who still leaves everyone standing: JONI MITCHELL (bass players: mainly Jaco Pastorius, Larry Klein) Cheers, Steve[/quote] Good call steve i forget about her, and the yellow taxi in the refuge of the roads,you sir are a scholar!
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[quote name='LWTAIT' post='466247' date='Apr 18 2009, 05:15 PM']sorry, but if we don't have cars and are taking gear to a gig, and have willing parent's, doesn't it make sense for our parent's to take us to the gig? and if our parents know what they're doing, why shouldn't they help out? what's the point in getting the bus then walking 6 miles or whatever else you claim you used to do, when my dad's perfectly willing to take me? and how often do you honestly see the kid doing nothing at all, just standing around looking vaguely interested? i've never seen it, the teenagers tend to do something, even if its just learning how to do it for the future. another thing i'd like to add is how do you lot who are saying "kids only want to be as good as they need to be to get a record deal", know that thats what the kids want? if you came to see me at a gig, you'd probably think i only want to be as good as i have to be to get a record deal, but thats part of being in a band - playing as a band, giving each other room to do what they want, it's not a competition to see who can look most skilled on stage, its about playing songs. songs, not bass solos. if you saw me practising, i can play a lot more and a lot flashier than i do when im on stage, but that doesn't sound right. also, how many of you oldies play in bands where you write music that is both enjoyable to listen to, and is complicated or different? i thought not, the public don't want to listen to a bunch of oldies playing wierd scales that don't quite sound right. they want to listen to catchy rythms o songs that make them feel something. and my last point is that i could easily name a few bands that were terrible when you old people were young, the sex pistols are the first that srping to mind (i just wanna say that i mean terrible as instrumentalists, i actually quite like the sex pistols' music). are you really telling me that music today is even more basic and has lower standards than those of the sex pistols?[/quote] f*** off! Steve jones was tight as a catholic girls chuff!
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I prefer steve howe but chris squire is fantastic and the yes album always makes me feel like im sitting with a bunch of free cool people in 1971 about to get laid,so kudos to squire.
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Is there really a contest here,KATE BUSH! John giblin,youth,ebherd webber,and a lot more who bow down at her feet and never get a mention.
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if anyone wants them i have thosands of guitar pro tabs,and yes you need guitar pro software to view them.
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The smiths were a fantastic band and i still have trouble with johnny marr i still cant play cemetary gates like him,rourke was also amazing and the draize train is very ahead of its time,the live album rank is a killer.
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[quote name='MacDaddy' post='463594' date='Apr 16 2009, 02:36 AM']Another reason bands today don't sound as good is because we are used to listening to them on MP3's. As I'm sure you all know over 90% of the auditory information of a music recording is lost when compressed to MP3.[/quote] Yes Vinyl rocks,as well as the full size art FLAC stuff is ok though.
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Ive just met some weirdo down the road,hopefully it will lead to something although i dont think my love of bernard edwards will go with his love of dylan,still i might get a free drink out of it.
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I still think music is no way as good as it was,even the kids on here are like remember such and such,and there must best be loads of threads about so and so was so great who is now dead,or in rehab.
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My strat sounds fine through my trace.
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[quote name='AM1' post='463445' date='Apr 15 2009, 10:05 PM']That's exactly what I mean by commercialised. It's not about talent, it's about marketability. The quality is dire...unless you really, really dig around. All the bands I liked as a teenager are what I'm still listening to! Purely because there's so little around that can match up it in terms of musicality. Music isn't about talent now, it's about sex/marketing as others said, f***ing depressing. I can't remember the last time I listened to a signed band and got excited by what I heard. Probably 1995. This is a truly crap time for good music, compared to the late 80s/early 90s..[/quote] I think you are right on that one,i think that period where you had bands like janes addiction,Ride,Stone roses was the last really decent period for chart music.
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It depends where they are wobbly it could be the washers,have you tried tighening all the screws? If the screws are loose in the wood,just take them out,fill with plastic wood and redrill. this will mean they now dont move around in there holes.
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Id say the quality has lowered a lot,i hate to say it but i think this is due to people not being able to play as well,plus teenagers favorite bands seem to be bands i liked when i was a teenager RHCP, misfits, nirvana etc,surely this is wrong? and there favourite bands should be someone fresh. One thing that has suprised me is that goth exploded and didnt die a death all these kids going round in black,its really funny. Maybe the fact that so much technology is about and easy to get hold of.If guitar pro had been around when i learned guitar i doubt i would have spent as much time training my ears and just listening,also i spent a lot of time trying to scout out previous influcences so spent time listening to my dads stuff like the velvets,stones,beatles etc. I doubt if my fathers favourite band had been something 80s i would have ever become as interested in guitars.
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You could wire it up with an S1,its not to hard there is a link a saw on talkbass with the diagrams.
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Keep your right hand relaxed.