ambient

He's given his phone number, so anyone interested could phone him.

Would anyone actually buy something this expensive without trying it anyway ?

You can't upload photos onto here, and maybe he doesn't like the way people have been a bit less than friendly.

It's not like he's saying he's in the Orkney's and it's postage only .

Sold .

Books are ok as long as you understand what's being said in them, and like you say some can be a bit on the tedious side.

Best is to find someone and have private lessons, as and when you can, and when you can afford them.

Just my opinion, no doubt many will disagree,

[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1358426395' post='1938866']
Now's your chance!!
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I'd have to sell a bass (I'm a music student), and I don't want to do that. I love the ones I've got and have uses for each of them. A 5 string P bass makes so much sense though, and this is a great price.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1358427092' post='1938889']
In what way ?
Just curious.....

Garry
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Probably just me, but it's more logical and user friendly. I did a course a few years ago to get to understand Cubase, and still couldn't after 3 months.

Logic and Garageband I picked up with no tuition, though I do use at Logic Pro at music college now.

Garagband is basically a much stripped down version of Logic, but it does share some of the same instruments and plugins. Also if you decided that you wanted to get into recording and production more, then you're able to easily transfer ideas from Garageband on your Ipad into Logic on a laptop or iMac.

Just me I guess, but it just makes more sense.

Garageband is waaaaaay better than Cubase and I think you get that on an iPad anyway, and get an Apogee Jam, they're 50 quid or something and are designed to work with Macs.

Anyone tried these ?

[url="http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/p/916931/jim-dunlop-lok-straplok-ergo-lok-strap-pair/"]http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/p/916931/jim-dunlop-lok-straplok-ergo-lok-strap-pair/[/url]

I don't personally like either the Schaller or normal Dunlop strap locks, so these [i]look[/i] like a good alternative.

I've got Schallers fitted to my basses at the moment, would these work with the Schaller strap pin ?

I'd love a 5 string P bass, I was only saying to someone at college the other day that they don't come up for sale too often.

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1358369316' post='1938099']
Damn, I've wanted one of these for ages. But I need the short one!
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Even the short one is quite long !

I ordered this from Thomann, and got a long one instead of a short one. It's a grey coloured Betty, in long size which measures 47 inches to 59 inches in length, at least according to the website (don't actually do inches myself )

I just bought a rather nice leather Richter strap from Gareth on here as a replacement.

[url="http://www.monocase.com/mono-gs1-betty.asp"]http://www.monocase.com/mono-gs1-betty.asp[/url]

It is brand new and unused and cost £35 plus postage.

I'd like £25 including postage for it please.

Strings, my SR5 has plenty of zing !

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1358113681' post='1933452']
I'm guessing you've modified your Marcus bass,because as standard it has a 3 Bolt neck (not 6),Badass II bridge
(no through body stringing) and Fender '70's reverse machine heads (not Hipshot).

I've got a bunch of Fenders and there are some inconsistencies,but nothing that I'd kick off about. I've seen
some late '70's Fenders that have had really large gaps in the neck pocket,which kind of put me off a little,
otherwise I don't think a small gap is too much of a problem.
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It's the 5 string USA version.

There's no gap on the pockets of either of my Fenders.

Both necks are perfect and don't move, I believe they have graphite rods in them for stability.

The Marcus Miller bass is a dream to play, and has 6 bolts attaching it to the body via a plate making for a really sturdy fit.

The frets are all perfectly seated, and the bridge is perfectly positioned, and allows for either through the body stringing or through the bridge on both basses.

I like the hipshot machines on the Marcus Miller bass too.

You can't actually see the neck pocket on the bass in the photo, it's not that close so making comments on it seem a bit odd.

I own two USA Fender's, a Marcus Miller and a USA jazz bass.

Both are great basses, and like I've said before, people know (MD's, producers, artists etc) what they're getting. They've both been set up to play how I want them to, and they respond and sound how I want them to.

There's also the fact that you drop some cash on a used USA Fender bass, you'll almost certainly get it back should you sell it, you can't say the same with a custom bass by someone no one's ever heard of.

Is this still for sale ?

I sent a message but there's been no reply, shall I just look elsewhere ?

I own 2 Fender basses, both USA basses and I think they're excellent instruments.

What bass would have great playability after being shipped halfway across the world, spending probably weeks inside a container onboard a ship, without a decent setup and maybe new strings ?

I know what producers, engineers, MD's and bandleaders like to see, and it's not some strange shaped, pointy thing looking like a conservationists nightmare.

Any bass can be setup to play and sound good, I've played Squire basses that sound and play amazing, with stock hardware and electronics, (that's another thing, people spending a fortune on replacement pickups....why, can they hear the difference when playing live ?)

I only joined here a couple of days ago, but I can't believe how obsessed with gear everyone is. It's the player, not the bass. One of my tutors at ICMP told us a story a while back, something about Jaco and a fan who was raving about the sound of Jaco's beat up fretless '62 jazz bass. Jaco took off his bass, leant it against his amp and said something like "does it still sound amazing now ?".

Message sent.

Just play what you'd usually play over a Dominant 7 chord.

Dominant 7 chord with some or all of the following upper extensions - flat 9 (G), sharp 9 (A), sharp 11 (C) and flat 13 (D).

Altered scale is the 7th mode from melodic minor scale and contains all the above alterations.

I'd say you were a bass player, that's not necessarily the same thing as being a musician though.

I can 'play' keyboards, but I don't class myself as being a keyboard player, I simply don't have the necessary technical ability for that, same with guitar.

I don't think that learning a bass part from whatever source, be it TAB or a how to play video on youtube makes you a musician. It's not just the knowing how to, it's also the knowing 'why'.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1357370490' post='1921658']
I've played with a fair few classily trained musicians who know all the theory and can site read at speed etc, but they are completely unable to solo or improvise.

Some of us may be limited by lack of theory but some that know it are limited in other ways by it.
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I've also played with a fair few classically trained musicians, they have fantastic reading skills, a thorough, deep knowledge of the harmonic aspect of music and they can improvise like **ck.