julietgreen

20 hours ago, jrixn1 said:

Most of the suggestions so far you can busk from a chord chart, right?  But the original example of Night in Tunisia is in a different category, as iReal is not going to bail you out here - the only option is to know it already.  I'd say more along the lines of All Blues, Footprints, Four on Six, the intro to Seven Steps from Heaven... if you DON'T play something approximating the original line, you're gonna get funny looks from everyone!

YES! This! Exactly.

1 hour ago, Dad3353 said:

 

So What..?

 

Rhythm Changes..?

 

Mr PC..?

 

Misty..? (my favourite...)

 

Take Five..?

 

Enough for now; the list could get to be very long indeed..! 

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?

On 05/09/2022 at 22:44, Doddy said:

It's hard to say what to play without knowing things like the time signature, the feel, or the melody. All of those things should guide you in what to play.

Note wise, yes you could play an open E through all of it if you wanted, but you could also play E's in different octaves too (if you wanted to stay on just the root). Alternatively, do you know the notes that are in all of those chords? If you do, that gives you a lot of options of where you can take your bassline.

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.

2 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

Tomorrow Never Knows is very similar to this; nothing wrong with playing (mostly) one chord for 4 minutes at all.

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! 😄

30 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

Wow! They are women!

They are in a band but they are women!

They are playing their own instruments but they are women!

They are playing metal but they are women!

They are doing what men do but they are women!

Whatever next? Maybe we'll have women driving buses, and possibly even women being politicians!

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

On 27/02/2021 at 22:25, PatrickJ said:

I can't get my buffers anywhere near those levels, with current setup 9 / 8 is the lowest I can get to.  Maybe moving from the Powerlines to Ethernet will let me drop them a bit more. 

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.

On 15/02/2021 at 12:48, EBS_freak said:

Playing spoons. That's where its at. Every time I go into the kitchen... quick practice.

 

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.

On 06/02/2021 at 23:51, Frank Blank said:

Superb documentary, over every minute of it.

Agreed.

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

On 13/01/2021 at 11:26, Jakester said:

No-go, i'm afraid, though not so much down to limitations with the software as with the user! 

I was hoping that I could use powerline adapters to connect to the router out in my mancave/studio, but I couldn't get any connection - I think because a new distribution board was put into the mancave when it was rewired, it's preventing the powerline jobbies from working - so no network out there (which is a real pain). Since I was playing drums rather than bass, it was a problem as I can't have the kit in the house! Managed to connect in the house but only through WiFi, which as they suggest, was useless. Ah well. 

Do you think it would work with a long ethernet?

On 08/01/2021 at 23:05, PatrickJ said:

Right lockdown #3 is here and I'm not going to go another year without music so I'm going to try and get my psuedo band using Jamulus.

It could be an uphill battle ..

- drummer: highly skilled IT engineer but doesn't know what an audio interface is or what to do with it.
- guitarist: got his first PC this Christmas, although in fairness he has already got an audio interface and we did just test JamKazam.  Latency was an issue but he was on WiFi so we need to solve that problem.

I've got a Jamulus Server configured to run on my Laptop so we don't need to worry about the central servers (hopefully that will help with latency).  Once we've got their IT issues solved I'm hoping we can have some successful jams.

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.

On 30/12/2020 at 10:26, Woodinblack said:

I am certainly not going to take my £1M violin with me to europe, thats for sure.

No but it could be an old £50 harmonium.

7 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

I had a reply from JamKazam regarding subscriptions and it’s pretty much what we thought it would be....

”Each musician on JamKazam must have a JamKazam account, and each musician’s account will be set to one of the plan levels: free, silver, gold, or platinum. Musicians on any plan level can play with each other in sessions. Musicians with lower plan levels will be subject to the constraints of those levels. So, for example, if a free plan user runs out of their 4-hour play credit for the month during a session, they will have to drop from the session. As another example, a platinum player will be streaming 512kbps audio streams to everyone in the session, while a free player will be streaming 128kbps audio streams to others. As another example, a free player can’t make a recording while in a session, but a gold player can – and the gold player’s recording will cover everyone in the session – including the free player’s part. If the members can't afford $10/month, you could probably get by OK with one Gold plan for yourself (to get higher level features like recording and broadcasting), and Silver plans for the others (or even Free plans if others will play 4 hours or less per month).”

This appears to be a gamble for them. Whilst I don’t expect anything for free, I think the tiering structure has been brought in at the wrong time. Whilst I can easily afford it, I’m not sure I would be inclined to at this moment due to the lack of gigs in my diary. I would imagine that a decision has been made, possibly a necessary one, that they need to start recouping their outlay now. I just wonder how many people are going to start paying them in three weeks time.

I’m happy to say that the glitches I suffered from last week seem to have been ironed out. Ironically, I stepped in at the last minute for a rehearsal last night for @Paul S who couldn’t make JamKazam work. Have you got it sorted yet mate?

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.

5 hours ago, BreadBin said:

Deaths within 28 days of a positive PCR test are not the same thing as Covid deaths. The official stats are quite misleading in this particular sense.

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.

2 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Yes, sadly if you test positive for COVID then fall out of a tree and die 23 days later the death is added in to the stats. 

This is not true.

10 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

I believe many more people die of flu each year, and that is transmitted in the same way.

Why do we feel its safe to rehearse or gig during the flu months?

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

On 27/11/2020 at 15:30, gafbass02 said:

Some of you may remember how close I came to dying from it back in March. Close enough to have to make the calls to my parents, wife and kids. It wasn’t nice. 
Now we’re in November and I’m still suffering badly with long COVID. Only working 3 hours a day four mornings, and that’s when I can manage it. 
I wrote this blog a few months back and haven’t progressed since. In fact I have more symptoms now than I did and am in more pain. 
Please have a read and factor getting long COVID into your decisions.  I took the picture from my critical bed. 
https://gafranksauthor.home.blog/2020/09/21/living-with-long-covid-19/

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.