julietgreen

YES! This! Exactly.

Yeah. The list could be long. A specific bassline to rhythm changes? And Misty?

I was reminding myself of Night in Tunisia yesterday, and also, the Real Book suggested intro to Blue Bossa. I was thinking about pretty mainstream jazz that has special basslines with a mind to learning them properly. Herbie Hancock stuff, obviously. What else comes to mind?

Hi Doddy Yes, I know the notes in those chords, so I was wondering whether other bassists would voice them. I realise the feel of the piece would contribute to the decision.

Hmm... OK, cool. I'll have a listen to that one. It would certainly make remembering it easy. By 'one chord' do you mean one note? That's the thing...

Someone I know has written a pop song with chords along these lines: E Aadd9/E Emaj7sus2 Esus4 (x2) E Esus4 , E Esus4 Aadd9/E E Emaj7sus2 So, essentially, it could be open E string throughout! I'm not sure what I would do with it. Put in those voicings? Create an ostinato bass riff? Is there a trick here that I'm not seeing? What would you do, given it's a basic pop style, guitar led song?

Someone has asked me to play a (very simple) bass part to a bit of Bach. I have a basic double bass such as is used for jazz etc. The Bach part goes down to C. Is it feasible to drop the E string down? I know I can try it and see, but I wondered if it was something that was ever done.

Many thanks for all the replies. At a basic level, are people saying it's plausible to put the mic into the Trace, as long as I deal with fb? J

Hello all I've been playing a bit of double bass on Jamulus over the past couple of years - acoustic hot club style trio with 2 guitarists - and now there's a chance of doing an actual live gig (open air, summer). My system for going online has been a simple clip on mic positioned over the F hole, through mixer desk into interface and into PC. I have for my EB, a Trace amp and MarkBass traveler cab. Various PA speakers are available, too. What is the recommended set up for an open air gig - acoustic trio - though guitarists with own amps, presumably? Or what do you do? Many thanks Juliet

I just cut the fingers off! 😄

Yeah but... it is sadly unusual. I should know.

You definitely should go to Ethernet. I normally play with somewhere between 40 and 50ms delay without too much trouble. However, we are all working towards being able to play with greater delay, as an exercise, and also to play internationally. The US folk are mastering it well and playing with us in Europe quite regularly.

We could have done with you on this. And yes, I did tell them I couldn't play it and would never be able to play it properly but they insisted!

I think so. I have weekly jazz session that has improved my walking bass a lot, and a weekly funk session that has improved my bassline creation and confidence. Then I've had the opportunity to play the double bass with real musicians without having to take it out of the house. This is all remotely through Jamulus. I suppose I should feel guilty that there is no technical practice in there, just playing - but that does have a learning curve.

Agreed.

I know a drummer who plays in his garage. I always presumed this is what he did.

Do you think it would work with a long ethernet?

It's well worth persisting with. There are a lot of us playing in the WorldJam now and we are by no means a bunch of technical experts.

No but it could be an old £50 harmonium.

Jamulus is better in many ways and it's free and open source. You can pay to run your own 'server' but that's very cheap and not necessary. Recording is very easy using Reaper, which is also free as a full demo but inexpensive too. I wouldn't go back to JamKazam now.

The official stats may well be understating the number of deaths due to Covid. Many people die outside the 28 day cut off time. This is why it is important to look at a range of data before drawing conclusions.

This is not true.

You believe incorrectly. Covid deaths are already more than four times the average Flu deaths in UK.

Thank you for sharing this. It would be better if people would stop trivialising this disease based on their own lack of experience. Another musician friend of mine caught it at the same time as you and was in ICU for three months. He has suffered long-term damage. Before I read your article, I read another account of someone who lost their mother. A lot of people have died and are dying (>3000 a week in the UK, currently), but his account was particularly sobering because he described how his mother suffered in her last week and it was utterly horrific. Hard to imagine a worse torture. My view is that we should, as much as we possibly can, be observing first principles of transmission of respiratory viruses. The first one of these is 'stay away from other people'. When that's impossible, limit the time and make sure that there is a fresh air supply. It doesn't matter if you're ten metres away, if you're in a room for three hours together and there is no new air. Everyone should be wearing face coverings at all times when they are anywhere near other people. Singers and horn players? Rehearsal conditions break all the basic 'rules'. It may seem like a low risk, but when assessing risk, it's not just the likelihood that should be taken into account, but also the severity. For Covid, that's potentially death or possibly worse. So my bands have not rehearsed since March, apart from those of us who are on Jamulus online. I have told my fellow band members that I will not rehearse in person nor play a gig until new infections are below 100 a day.

So for those of you who are not sure about latencies, check out WorldJam on youtube. We are playing live. They delay the stream slightly to sync it better with the zoom visuals, but everything is done through Jamulus. It's free and superior. Opened up a whole new world of performance for me. Like I said, here are a group of us performing together across the world, at the same time, last Saturday. The violinist and the singer are the masters of delay, but it comes after a while. ochi.mp4