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    Band in a Box

    in Recording

    Posted

    I've been considering getting band in a box - to speed up the songwriting process; you know, get some chords together, input them into biab to hear approximately how it sounds in various different styles, then polish it up with further, posher, software.

    Amazon are selling the 2007 version for £70, but they're also selling the 2010 'megapak' version with 'real tracks' and 'real drums' or something for £199.

    If there's anyone out there who has biab or is aquainted with it, could you advise me? -

    Would it be worth getting the 'megapak' one or are all the add-ones not worth it? (would the megapak one be so 'all singing and dancing' as to make all my other music software redundant?)

    How much of an improvement on the 2007 one is the 2010 one (or even the 2009 one)?

    Cheers!

    Learning a different instrument.....

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Can I caution against Brass with Yamaha Silent Brass - okay for a few minutes a day but total reliance on the mute will wreck your chops (lips in the Brass world not flashy runs of scales etc!), the pressure and resistance is all wrong, no matter what it says in the ads. Plus, as has been mentioned before on this thread, the intonation is poor.

    New Direction transcriptions

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    And another from the same album - 'Glory, Glory'


    By [url="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/bazhorn"]bazhorn[/url] at 2010-01-13


    By [url="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/bazhorn"]bazhorn[/url] at 2010-01-13


    By [url="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/bazhorn"]bazhorn[/url] at 2010-01-13

    New Direction transcriptions

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted · Edited by JonnyB

    Here's a transcription I've done for the 1st track of New Direction's CD, 'Get Your Praise On' - 'I came to Jesus'.
    This is an awesome Contemporary Urban Gospel CD with some fantastic ornamental r'n'b bass playing all the way through. More on the way.


    By [url="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/bazhorn"]bazhorn[/url] at 2010-01-11


    By [url="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/bazhorn"]bazhorn[/url] at 2010-01-11


    By [url="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/bazhorn"]bazhorn[/url] at 2010-01-11

    Swap anyone?

    in Effects For Sale

    Posted

    Hi there

    Anyone want to swap a bass multieffects pedal for -

    1 Digitech RP-80, 2 yrs old, excellent condition, boxed (haven't found the manual yet tho)

    1 Zoom GFX-707 - age unknown, works fine but a bit scratched (no box or manual)

    I've tried my best with the guitar digitech trying to make bass patches of my own but it's just not the same as a dedicated bass one methinks.

    I'm in Cheshire CW6.

    Urban Bass DVD

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    Just expressing my frustration here...
    This DVD [url="http://gospelbass.com/"]Urban Bass Techniques[/url] - seems a good DVD for learning Contemporary Urban/Gospel bass, I'd quite like to buy it but they say it'll take 2-3 months to get to England (with a postal charge of $16 - there is a fast option but that costs $33 and still takes a week - the dvd already costs $50!)!! There is a download option but you only get a short window to download what is a huge file, there's no way my internet will be able to do that in time. Plus qucktime pro is needed. Why can't they release it via music shops or something? I don't see why a company would make it so hard to get hold of their product.. :)
    Anyway, rant over - anyone tried this dvd? Any good? Doesn't seem to be anything else similar out there.

    Amazing Chaka Khan with Gouche...

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    It's a bass concerto whenever he's on - I love it :rolleyes: ! Every note is 'right' though (like Bernard Edwards from Chic)

    Chaka Khan was touring the UK recently with Lulu and someone else, can't remember, I wanted to go to the Liverpool showing but it was sold out. I wonder if Mr Gooch was on for that? If he was then, damn and blast - missed it! :)

    I hope us Basschatters can keep an eye on his touring schedule and give a 'heads up' if he sets foot on this isle! I'd love to see him live.

    What's your greatest moment in music?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Greatest moment in my music career, probably playing first Horn for Leonard Bernstein in the 'Pacific Music Festival' in 1990 (a couple of months before his death), playing Tchaikovsky's 'Francesca da Rimini' on live Japanese TV & radio. Bernstein really was as great as they said he was, I can assure you.

    With the Bass I'm still too cr*p to have an 'ok' moment let alone a great one :) but I'm working on it - may even have a good moment in a year or 2!

    Abraham Laboriel

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    I was just watching some Abraham Laboriel vids on youtube - he was demonstrating a right hand technique where he seems to anchor his fingers on his thumb and 'flick' all 4 fingers on a string one after the other to achieve incredible speed and a 'slappy' sort of sound - unfortunately it seemed to be filmed with a mobile or something and it was in spanish, so I couldn't really work out what was going on. Anyone know about this technique? Cheers!

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