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I am working in various schools at the moment and have been toying with the idea of extending my service to teach bass guitar lessons at some of them. Most schools I have approached have expressed and interest and so I have spent a while making a sort of 'scheme of work' comprising of sets of lessons to cover various abilities and styles, also different things for those who just want to learn songs and grooves rather than theory. Basically I was wondering if any bass teachers out here could help me build a scheme of work, or point me in the right direction. I am not amazing at theory myself and could use a full pack of lesson plans as it were, or some guidance on how things are generally (does everyone work towards grades? how do I examine them? do people generally just want to play for fun and learn their own thing?? This is what I would hope and would be most natural for me) I was thinking about picking up some decent books and stealing lessons from them but really don't know how the lessons work in general. I am a geography teacher by trade so have the actual teaching methods down, but I find geography easy to teach because I know the 'curriculum' as it were. Thanks for reading... ped

I thought Ken Smith was one of the first to make ERBs?

Which is your favourite?

I had an identical rig and it was fabulous. Cab fits just right into a Volvo 440 boot and you can kind of roll it over the boot sill for easy unloading. Not much good for the paintwork though. £900 is indeed a very good price when you consider the amp would probably fetch 750-800 by itself. Cheers ped

I agree with everyone so far, good examples. Of course for every great inspiration there are a certain percentage of people who use it wisely, and unfortunately with things like Youtube the good, the bad and the ugly are there for all to see. Billy Sheehan(sp?) for me - not a fan personally, although I haven't listened to a lot of his work, but I think 'shredding' on a bass is tantamount to murder! ...There are two sides to every story however and all of these players do as much good as they do bad!

Quite a shock at first, but fair enough I guess, whatever works and so on. Probably not going to sell for much, but there we are.

Go for it. the only rule is that it has to be amusing

Here is Marvin - I bought her used as a standard Carvin BB75 (Bunny Brunel signature) and the truss rod adjuster broke clean off. I sent it back to Eubassix so he could then send it on to Marleaux Bass Guitars of Germany. They spruced it up with a brand new finish and a completely one off replacement neck, using their unique neck joint system (which had to be heavily modified to accommodate the J pickup) and they left the electronics as is because they sound great. I have a couple of pics, one before and one after the transformation: Before: After: I am sure Bassbunny will chip in soon, as he now owns the 'Marvin' and loves it!

Sounds great - I tried the single ear approach but found it a bit disorientating, so prefer non-cancelling 'fones for a fuller sound. With the PJB I guess you could use that with other rigs by having a splitter box going from the bass to the rig and from the bass to the PJB for personal monitoring? ped

I think I would go with a biscuit/cheese/ham/biscuit laminate of Dairylea Lunchables.

Hehe my philosophy increasingly tends to be that if the venue doesn't have decent PA support with monitors etc then it isn't worth playing, too much hassle etc. I just monitor myself - I use some E2c's which have the foam tips so that they are not noise cancelling INTENTIONALLY - the band are made a bit quieter as though I am wearing weak-ish ear buds so then I turn my bass signal to match the volume of the band in my ears, so the result is a really nice volume where my bass sounds like it does in the studio. I don't have a fancy wireless system any more (used to have a top range Senneiser unit I nicked from my father) but have been using the headphone out of my pod into a long lead with an in line volume control. Very simple and sounds fantastic, though might not be very good if you move about a lot, which I don't!! Cheers ped

I know what you mean, but most decent venues will have monitors which the band will be able to hear you from anyway. Most of the time my band mates couldn't hear my amplifier for the monitor levels anyway, or I am too far away etc. Even so, IEMs make great sense even if you have an amplifier too.. you can hear everything so much more clearly. ped

Until you try it you won't know how amazing it is! It is even better with a wedge next to you for a bit of 'feeling' so the omni10 would probably be useful in an IEM setup. Cheers ped

[quote name='Bigwan' post='232444' date='Jul 4 2008, 08:43 AM']Hi Ped, I believe UB40's bass player (name escapes me right now) had something similar to the pleasure board built. Details are in a (fairly) recent BGM interview. Maybe cheaper than a pleasure board?[/quote] Yes I remember that too now you mention it. I will see if I can find out something, I seem to recall a picture of him with a headless cricket bat style bass with one... cheers ped

[quote name='steve-soar' post='231563' date='Jul 2 2008, 08:19 PM']Just listened to Ped, very nice sounding French loveliness. What were the basses going through?[/quote] Hi Steve - did you mean on the youtube clip in my sig? The basses are all going through my pod and straight from there to desk. Tried and trusted! I do the same everywhere, and since getting the Vbass I still do the same thing for my clean normal sound (bypass patch on vbass) and just kick in the Vbass for my jazz bass and Musicman sounds (and lots besides which I have yet to play with, the double bass is great) Beerdragon - I think it is the single most underrated/undiscovered pieces of equipment ever!! I love it to bits and it has opened up a whole new perspective. Everything on one bass! Brill. As you can (almost) see, it is on a stool to allow me to play with it more easily (would prefer it to be rack mounted, there are companies that can convert it to a 2u rack unit apparently) but I would definitely have bought it on the strength of the archetypal and essential classic bass models in the unit, let alone the millions of other possibilities! Cheers for the comments! ped

Give it to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

AREA - my my you are tall!! Oh... wait!!! Here is one of my bands, 'Part III: The Onslaught'

Funnily enough I did something very similar - a Mesa 400+/1516BE cab rig for a pod xt pro! Much happier now! The mixer idea should work fine with a bit of experimentation. I really want a TecAmp Pleasure Board to stand on like BC member 'Area' but I have happily gigged my current setup for a long time now and I really am very happy. ped

I would like to see the Tune if you can make it! Free flights eh? I bet that is like Ryanair - flight = 5p and taxes and fees etc make it actually cost about £50 (still v cheap admittedly) ped

I did mine in iMovie but I am sure you could do it on the Windows Movie Maker programme. You will have to drag the waveform around until it matches, but should be fairly easy as long as the video isn't too long which might slow things down a bit... Cheers ped