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I have a new 7 track album out at the end of the month. It's going to be available as a download from iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp etc. For the fist time it will also be available on a CD too. It will come with some really nice artwork, including a hand printed CD wallet, and a bonus digital download. There will also be a special deluxe package. This will include the CD, a load of extra artwork, and also pages and pages of notes detailing the recording and background to what I do, and also my philosophy towards music and art. The deluxe version also includes full transcriptions of each of the seven pieces of music on the album, and also notes on the recording and playing process for each one. The transcriptions each average about 20 pages, so this is quite a package. The deluxe comes in a bespoke display binder. This is the culmination of many hundreds of hours of work, and is something that I am extremely proud of. All will be available from either my website, or from Bandcamp.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1435072407' post='2805128'] So what was the 'p' symbol for? [/quote] Well the p stands for pence, the 0 before the decimal point would be pounds, pretty obvious to me, but I'm obviously a bit dim. I wouldn't go around quoting other members posts, and leaving pedantic and condescending replies that may cause offence though. I've opted to ignore your posts by the way

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1435053149' post='2804896'] Marillion pioneered the crowd funding idea. [url="https://www.virgin.com/music/how-marillion-pioneered-crowdfunding-in-music"]https://www.virgin.c...unding-in-music[/url] One of the bass players here has done it too but I'd have to do a long search. [/quote] I was about to say this, you beat me to it.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1435061473' post='2804991'] [i][b]Exercise 1.[/b][/i] Q. Multiply 0.0004p by 1000. A. 0.4p [i][b]Exercise 2.[/b][/i] Q. Multiply £0.0004 by 1000. A. £0.4 which is also known as 40p. [i][b]Exercise 3.[/b][/i] Learn to distinguish between pounds and pennies, especially if you hope to earn a living from music. [/quote] Your reply comes across as rather condescending. But thanks for thinking my rubbish would get 100, 000 plays though

Just try your regular string for a day or two ? I don't use concert tuning, I'm not quite as low as you though, but have never found the strings too floppy, depends on how hard you play though I guess.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1435048063' post='2804848'] You've had 100,000 plays on Spotify? [/quote] 1000, that's since last year though. Coming up to 4000 on soundcloud.

Not a bass line per se, but bass never the less, and very, very beautiful. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7IofD4lSq0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7IofD4lSq0[/url]

Kind of odd the way the greatest players generally use simple set ups, passive fenders etc, and still manage to sound, well amazing, yet always different to the next guy. 😁

From what I read in the guardian today, there's more to this, it's just one part of the story. It's true they're not going to pay for the first quarter, but they pay more afterwards, so you're maybe better off in the long run ? Spotify pay me 0.0004p per play. They currently owe me 40p that I can't withdraw because the amount is below the minimum withdrawal limit. That's an awful lot of plays to get 40p, how many other 40p's are they sitting on around the world ?

It's all the problem of the word 'tone'. Tone as in sound, as in what makes you sound like you. It's a mix of gear, obviously, a Jazz bass sounds like a jazz bass, and a P bass sounds like one of them, a fretless sounds like a fretless and Stingray sounds like it does. Then comes the hard to define part of what really makes you sound like you, the articulation in your playing. That's how you play, the force that you strike the string with, the angle that you engage it with, the part of the finger that makes contact with the string, whereabouts on the bass you pluck etc. All of these little things add up into a whole lot. Which is why you sound like you, albeit playing a Stingray, a jazz, a P or whatever. How many guys back in the 80s went running out and bought a JD bass, a Trace Elliot amp and whatever strings. Hoping in vain to sound like Mark King ? Of course most didn't, they sounded nothing like him, because there's a whole lot more to 'your sound', or 'his sound', than just the gear, and without really examining a players real style, and also examining your own, you're not going to get there.

When you think she's about to start and shout, you turn to the band and do it ?

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1434725968' post='2802259'] Apparently you can have it clipped on the back of the headstock and all you see is one end of the clamp. Not really a big fashion fau pas, is it? [/quote] I think most of them can be, I've got an intellitouch PT10 at the moment, I have that clipped to the back of the headstock, facing towards me.

Gather a few bassists together and take it in turns to play the same bass. Leave all the controls the same, don't touch anything. Then come back to this thread 😁 I've done this with my bass at uni, and played other guys basses.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1434722050' post='2802200'] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msORx8g0Hdg [/quote] I started a thread about this a few days ago. It's out in July. Who's bothered about aesthetics ? It's a tuner.

It's carbon fibre all the way as far as I'm concerned, much betterer than that nasty old fashioned wood stuff

I shared this on Facebook a couple of months ago, really interesting - [url="http://www.radio-astronomy.net"]http://www.radio-astronomy.net[/url]

This is interesting [url="http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art29542.asp"]http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art29542.asp[/url]

Black holes are the bassists of the universe, 57 octaves lower than a middle C - [url="http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/09sep_blackholesounds/"]http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/09sep_blackholesounds/[/url]

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1428832288' post='2744888'] And there was me thinking it was the new mobile phone handset from RIM..... [/quote] That's what I thought 😁

[quote name='DiceSociety' timestamp='1434504502' post='2800295'] Here you go... [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/tc-electronic-polytune-clip-clip-on-guitar-tuner/117777"]http://www.gak.co.uk...ar-tuner/117777[/url] [/quote] Yeah, I don't think it's actually in stock though, just available to pre-order.

In fact I don't think they are out yet, it says "available to order", doesn't say they're in stock.

[quote name='DiceSociety' timestamp='1434503398' post='2800292'] Looks really good. Just ordered one from Gak for £35, couldn't resist! [/quote] Didn't realise they were out yet ! Cool

I like the look of this - [url="http://www.tcelectronic.com/polytune-clip/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TCE+MI+NEWS+PolyTune+Clip&utm_content=TCE+MI+NEWS+PolyTune+Clip+CID_aa83de10646edde5fbd05acb27cb58ea&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=PolyTune%20Clip"]http://www.tcelectronic.com/polytune-clip/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TCE+MI+NEWS+PolyTune+Clip&utm_content=TCE+MI+NEWS+PolyTune+Clip+CID_aa83de10646edde5fbd05acb27cb58ea&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=PolyTune%20Clip[/url] Apparently it'll be about £39.

There's a Facebook page for theatre deps, have you tried on there too ?