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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1476642711' post='3155925'] Although I have to use Sibelius for work, I much prefer Notion since they introduced handwriting recognition. It works an absolute treat. You can use fingers or stylus for input of notes and articulations. I think it might have been you, Ambient, who was enquiring about this type of software last year sometime. If I remember right, it was Staffpad and Surface pro though? I take it you didn't go down that route? Notion is good for integrating between iPad iOS and the desktop version. Mac or PC. [/quote] A friend of mine was saying just the other day how good notion is. I use Sibelius because I got it free, and had to use it for my degree.

Sibelius, and sometimes pencil and paper.

I ditched all of my pedals about 6 months ago, and I'm now using a MacBook, soon to be replaced by an iPad .

I think he's a great bass player. Quite jazzy when he started. I was looking at his line to message in a bottle with a student a few weeks ago. Explaining how he used to double track his bass lines using electric and EUB or double bass. The Police were a great band, but he's done some amazing music solo, though his albums are sometimes a bit patchy. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWl45J8XI-E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWl45J8XI-E[/url]

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1476601542' post='3155454'] The Police, one of the best live bands I have ever seen. Saw them at the old Mayfair in Newcastle, not long after the first album came out, they were pretty much un known. Blew me away. No modern technology, no in ear monitors, no backing tracks. Just three good musicians with great songs playing off one another. Great harmonies, lots of jamming.and light and shade. Rekindled my love of music and inspired me to take up the bass. [/quote] One of my tutors at uni saw them while he was studying at Newcastle uni.

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I'm not too keen on the track off his new album that I keep hearing on Facebook.

This is her best stuff, for me (not really into funk and groove). [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0RnqqwaNvw[/media] Excuse the music stands .

A long reverb will do it.

I've got a transcription. Had to play it at uni. I just found the best thing was, like you say, to start slowly and build up to speed. We had some quiet detailed notes about the preparation, I'll try and find them. I remember it being incredibly hard, made worse by the drummers and guitarists playing it too fast. The tutors examining us had to stop the performances a few times and tell them to slow down.

I like her 'jazz' album with Matt Garrison.

I think I've maybe bought three copies in all the time that it's been out. One had John Patitucci in it, the other Steve Lawson. My friend writes for them, I bought one copy recently because she'd reviewed a Wal 6 string in it, so I bought it for that. I just don't find it particularly interesting. Chances are I've either never heard of the featured players, or am just not interested in them. The tuition pages, for me at least, are ridiculously basic. So there's really very little point in buying it.

I use a pair of Yamaha HS7s which are nice. I think the thing to do, is just get to know whatever you buy. When you mix something, listen back to it on a few other set-ups. That way you'll start to know how your monitors are biased.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1476471980' post='3154703'] I stopped off in Cleethorpes last February , en route to Scarborough. It was so bloody freezing I had to buy some extra clothing. It was also pretty deserted. I loved it. I sat in a really nice fish restaurant and had fish n chips completely on my own. All the funfairs etc were closed. It had a wonderful ghostly atmosphere. I love English seaside towns in winter. [/quote] I love that coast. My grandparents lived in Lincolnshire, my parents had a caravan in a place called Market Deeping, ideal for exploring all around. A cool place was somewhere called Gedney Drove End, absolutely nothing there !

[quote name='borntohang' timestamp='1476455834' post='3154509'] Could be worse, could be Cleethorpes. A seaside town which only has the sea for two hours a day and whose motto translates as "Sometimes Better Than Dying". And lies. Had some grim times in Northern seaside towns, bless em all. Back in the eighties my dad spent one January in Blackpool on a training course with no car; by the second weekend he was reduced to trying to buy a lad's bike off him so he could cycle down to Liverpool for a night. [/quote] I went to Cleethorpe once as a child. The sea was there when we arrived, we went and had something to eat, maybe taking 30 minutes or so, came out and the sea had vanished !

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1476446511' post='3154384'] Plenty would say that's a good thing! [/quote] I meant getting out 😊.

Playing a 5 or in my case a 6 string does make reading a whole lot easier. I tend to do most of my playing from the 5th fret upwards. So low F I'd play at the 6th fret on the B etc. It's easy then to play Ds and Es on the G string, they right below you.

I played at the Butlins at minehead at few years ago. That was quite enjoyable. My nan used to live in Lincolnshire. It was cold even in the summer, winter it was like Siberia. Mainly because that's where the wind blew from 😊. The main problem with Skegness is the lack of motorway there.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1476397640' post='3154053'] OMG, funny stuff. Finally British humour that doesn't go over my head. Blue [/quote] Glad you like it .

[quote name='paul_c2' timestamp='1476396879' post='3154047'] Look at the example provided, it goes into G harmonic minor, then later Bb minor. Yes there is no key signature change so its not a notated "key change", instead its written with no key signature (when its clearly not in C major/A minor) and uses accidentals to show the modulation. This is normal, if that modulation/chord/whatever only lasts a few bars - as chords do in this kind of music. It deliberately uses non-diatonic and sometimes distantly-related changes for dramatic effect. [/quote] Harmonic minor doesn't have a key sig, so you'd only get accidentals. Yes, you're right about short, maybe 1 or 2 bar sections. What I'm saying is if there's a key change, then you'd get, or expect to get a double bar line followed by the new key sig. If I was given that to read, then I'd put exclamation marks around bits like that, to show them. Do whatever to not miss them when they came up. I remember my tutor at uni saying "don't be afraid to pencil in".

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1476395045' post='3154028'] Ok guys, most know I'm a Yankee. What is a holiday camp? Blue [/quote] This is a holiday camp. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOag3Fcig_Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOag3Fcig_Y[/url]

[quote name='paul_c2' timestamp='1476359632' post='3153602'] Great, thanks for the tips. I guess its down to 1) Recognising the accidentals quickly enough to see if its just a passing note, or a modulation into another key which could help out with reading it 2) a SOLID knowledge of scales, ie knowing all the positions and all the patterns so you know without thinking too hard, where to place your hand and what notes fall under what fingers, quickly. For example here: [attachment=229816:star wars music extract.jpg] bar 76 is G harmonic minor and bars 126-128 is Bb natural minor, but best done at the 8th fret and shift for the final Bb onto 6th fret E string (or a bit earlier if you want to). The rest is pretty easy. [/quote] If there's a key change you'll have a double bar line, then the new key sig.