Galilee

Sounds good to me, a bit like McFly.

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='388437' date='Jan 22 2009, 12:44 PM']No thats me! my wife bought me a day at Silverstone for my 50th![/quote]

Ah, you spawny $^%&. It looked like a old-school Marlboro McLaren and a blue and white helmet.

[quote name='Rayman' post='387613' date='Jan 21 2009, 03:25 PM']Oh, I bought a pair of trainers at one of his shops yesterday.[/quote]

I laughed.

Is that Mika Hakkinen on the wall?

I kind of default to doing them all in the style of Ryan Martinie at the moment. I need to roll off the treble and dig in less....

Lovely. How much does that lot add up to?

Lord knows, maybe. Or possibly they just threw an audition list together and filled it out with a few rock 'n' roll 'standards'.

What a surreal thread.

I'd just replace Tom in Slayer I think.

I've pretty much nailed these now I think. Just repetitive practise required now for familiarisation. They're a mix of country rock (I guess) and rock 'n' roll standards.

Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles
Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
If Tomorrow Never Comes - Garth Brooks (hate this one!!)
Walk of Life - Shooter Jennings
Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles (this is much busier than I expected)
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
F.B.I. - The Shadows
Call Me the Breeze - Lynyrd Skynyrd

They also want me to pick a song where I'd take lead vocal for them to learn. I'm thinking Turn The Page by Metallica (or Bob Seger), which is about the countriest thing in my collection.

Give me a break, it's not McDonalds.

I just have 10 songs to learn in a week (plus full time work, family, etc.) in a style of music I've never really even listened to, let alone played. I'm not planning to churn out shed loads of mass-produced country songs using major pentatonics with a few minor thirds thrown in, I just want to prepare for the audition in the easiest way possible.

I've used other people's Peaveys and I think that they're excellent for tone. I'm currently hankering after one of these Max 700 (or Firebass) heads that people are selling on here, but I can't decide between one of them and a new Tour 700 Head, as there only seems to be about £100 difference in price.

I was pretty happy with what I have until I came here and saw what everyone else has....

Thanks for all of that.

I'm not looking to play it 'by numbers' (although, at this stage, getting through the unfamiliar songs is the first priority) it's just that, when I 'feel it', I want to be able to add something simple that's going to fit.

Thanks. I just have 10 songs to learn for an audition and, as they're all pretty similar in construction (3-chord songs, 4-chord songs), I figured I could just chart the chords and make up the walking/filling/passing stuff on the fly using the appropriate scales.

I've done lead vocals and bass for years, and I still sometimes find my fingers following my mouth or vice versa. Just make sure that you have the bass line completely 'in your fingers' before you start trying to sing over the top. If you seek out cover songs where the singer is also playing an instrument, you'll find these easier as they're generally written that way (Rush songs are usually like this, uncomplicated bass when there's singing going on*).


[size=1]* I'm sure someone'll post something off youtube that proves this wrong....[/size]

[quote name='The Funk' post='385077' date='Jan 19 2009, 03:43 PM']Major pentatonic, innit - dropping in minor 3rd as passing tones every now and then.[/quote]

Ace, thanks.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='385063' date='Jan 19 2009, 03:31 PM']S'all music, mate. Use them all and take it to a new level..[/quote]

Just play anything? I'm sure I'd take it all [b]down[/b] to a new level if I tried that.

Does anyone know what scales I should use for fills and passing notes in country rock type stuff like The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc? Is it just blues scales, or are there special country variants?

Oh dear, that is horidable.

Sounds like some enterprising individual needs to set up a consolidation site for these things. Compare the best prices for bass players, from all these different suppliers, in one place, that kind of thing.

Fab.

* be warned, if this turns out to be a Warwick Vampyre style rip off, I'll be posting a harshly-worded thread.

[quote name='M4L666' post='380645' date='Jan 14 2009, 08:10 PM']Slayer anyone?[/quote]

Yes please.

What are you offering exactly?

It's from SKOM. Amazing how nervous some of those guys were, big names most of them.

That's fabulous.