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[quote name='paulconnolly' timestamp='1344963067' post='1771721'] [b]silddx[/b] I just think there's loads of space and cool rhythmn work between Lee Pomeroy and Bob Dalton much like Dick Nolan used to do. Reminds me a lot of Once Around the World. Love Frank Dunnery and John Mitchell copes with his parts really well. But back on topic: [b]spongebob[/b] It'll be a great gig you won't be disappointed. [/quote] Facking great album! Thanks man

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1345640720' post='1779834'] Waaiiiiiiiiit! Which one of you mods has been editing my posts lol!! vi is a minor chord vii SHOULD read 'dim chord' for diminished not 'dom' for dominant. [/quote] Thank goodness! I thought I was going doolally

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1345585733' post='1779246'] For example: i - Major Chord ii - Minor Chord iii - Minor Chord iv - Major Chord v - Major Chord vi - Minor Chord vii - Dom Chord [/quote] This is a point of confusion for me. I thought the dominant chord was built on the 5th note of the scale. Likewise the subdominant on the 4th. I understood the 7th to be the leading note. Am I wrong here?

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' timestamp='1345560824' post='1778853'] Listen to the band Agnostic Front. Roger Miret seems to get away with singing out of tune most of the time - if he can do it, I'm sure anyone can do it. [/quote] I don't imagine LC's pop/rock covers band will go down too well will a Roger Miret cover singer

Animals as Leaders Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1345500988' post='1778353'] I was more just wanting to share it incase anybody else liked it but okay. [/quote] I know man, that's cool I really wanted to like this guy, I've read a lot about him, he was a bad lad in his youth and I thought he might have something interesting to say on the bass, but for me he's just another soloist lacking anything deep and warm in his execution and pales next to others in his class. Sorry mate.

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1345499349' post='1778318'] No problem, I'm always eager to learn :-) (still a nice song) [/quote] You'll learn f*** all about theory from me mate

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1345499548' post='1778323'] Sounds great to me. [b]That's all that matters. [/b]To each their own and all that, eh? [/quote] I might suggest you needed some affirmation, hence your posting it

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1345498670' post='1778309'] Why 8 and not 4 ? [/quote] Given the implied tempo, I would have said that the beats are 8th notes, but I would agree it's probably either. Apologies.

[quote name='Josh' timestamp='1344190247' post='1760972'] Some of you may have seen these on my recent sale thread, but here's out latest video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw5pCuFr2W8&feature=plcp[/media] And the others can be found here: [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/cautionersuk/videos?view=1"]http://www.youtube.c...k/videos?view=1[/url] Thanks, Josh. [/quote] Josh, lovely mate. It's all very good indeed, and I really enjoyed it. Reminds me of a Canadian band called Our Lady Peace.

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1344260740' post='1761828'] Nice and challenging in 5/4... [/quote] 5/8

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1345495931' post='1778260'] Silddx that is sage advice. The next time I ba**s up on stage and get one of THOSE looks form singer boy, I will tell him, take it easy, I`m following my own path to musical enlightment! [/quote] Please take note, don't go on stage until you are ready On a serious note, you really do have to have a good perception of your own abilities, you should always know when you can't cut it

What a load of old arse. No music in there old son. That's what happens when you spray Lynx on a bluebottle trapped in a sash window.

I've had 1.5 bass lessons with Jake Newman. He is a FANTASTIC teacher. What he gave me on half a sheet of staff paper could last me a lifetime. He said one thing that kind of crystallised everything music related to me, play what you sing. I also took that to mean that what you sing should be as advanced as you need or want it to be, to educate your ears and musical mind. The other thing he unintentionally taught me is that I don't need lessons, that I should follow my own path to musical enlightenment, and it's all based on desire. I am comfortable with my playing and my ears, I improve them in my own way, desire alone leads me. I listen, I play, I adapt, I get excited, I learn, I apply. Repeat ad nauseam.

Wow, that IS cool!

[quote name='Rasta' timestamp='1345131745' post='1774055'] I'm a recent convert to a battered Warwick 90's Fortress, best 4 string neck i've ever played - currently my main gigging bass with my soul band. Although I had to whip out the actives and went passive with some trad Wizards...sounds lovely but still retains that Warwick mids sound...[b]must be something in the woods theory[/b] [/quote] Nope, it'll likely be because it's a bolt on, mate.

Slides are quite personal. I have a Dunlop and I don't like it. I prefer the idea of making one's own. I like the look of Gilmour's on the Pompeii vid. It depends on what you want to do with it too. I used to use a piece of thin brass pipe from a wind chime as a gliss, a la El Alien.

[quote name='newbass1000' timestamp='1345054919' post='1773005'] Not had the best experience with squiers, I know they really vary quality-wise, are the P bass specials decent? [/quote] May I ask why you think a P is a good backup for a J? It sounds to me like either you like the sound of a P, or prefer the body shape. The current higher end Squiers like the VMs and CVs are excellent quality, I have played a bunch of them, guitars and basses, they were all excellent quality and great value for money. Another option is to look on a US ebay shop called the Stratosphere (AKA Reliable Fender). They sell loaded and unloaded Fender bodies, and necks, the have auctions and BINs. Put one together. You should find a PJ body on there, and a nice Fender neck, they should fit. I've done it. It's a great place, totally trustworthy, quick shipping, good prices (Fender tried to shut the guy down a couple of years ago for undercutting them ), and the exchange rate is decent at the moment. Some bodies below (search 'Precision Deluxe'), too many Jazz necks to list http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOADED-2010-Fender-Special-Active-Precision-P-BASS-BODY-Blizzard-Pearl-/190693300860?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2c6634da7c#ht_950wt_956 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2012-Fender-Deluxe-Active-Precision-BASS-Special-BODY-HARDWARE-Candy-Apple-Red-/360475664130?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item53ee061f02#ht_826wt_956 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2011-USA-Deluxe-Fender-Precision-P-BASS-BODY-BRIDGE-50-OFF-/360409133911?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item53ea0ef357#ht_862wt_956 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2011-USA-Deluxe-Fender-Precision-P-BASS-BODY-BRIDGE-50-OFF-/360405350780?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item53e9d5397c#ht_862wt_956

[quote name='devnulljp' timestamp='1345005750' post='1772197'] I bought a dozen of these things from a local ubrew place seeing as Grolsch doesn't seem to use them any more. Cost about $2 and they work great. [/quote] Yes, they seem to have worked wonderfully!

Playing and singing is like playing drums, like limb independence. Also like your right and left hands on the bass. You CAN do it, but like playing or singing on their own, it takes practice. Like Jake says, be completely comfortable with both on their own, then put them together. The way to do this, I think, is to almost approach them as separate instruments, like a drum set. Both parts have their rhythmical independence, and when put together they syncopate. Think of each as part of the beat. This is why it's difficult, you want the vocal to follow the accents of the bass, or vice versa and when you sing a note in a space your hands want to follow your voice. Start with something easy and play and sing it together VERY slowly. Get a feel for how the rhythm of the vocal sounds against the bass, and run a click in your mind, note where your singing and playing coincide, and where they don't. This is how drummers often visualise patterns in order to gain limb independence. With practice, you'll start to find it that your voice and hands are like a single rhythmic instrument, instead of you thinking of the voice and bass as separate entities. Practice practice practice. Once you nail one song, you'll have less difficulty with the next three, and so on. Don't be worried about it, Geddy Lee has said recently that he writes with the song foremost in his mind and often has to spend a good while learning how to sing the vocal and play the bass part at the same time after the song is tracked. I can sing and play guitar, but that's not too difficult compared to bass. Bass is harder, and I have done only a little bas and voice, but I have complete confidence that if I had to, I could sing and play bass in any of my bands by putting the work in and approaching it as I outlined above. Good luck

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1344864302' post='1770248'] Who gives a toss who was on bass. If it's not Entwistle, I don't want or care to see The Who. I see that they're off touring Quadrophenia, how is that going to work without the bass playing? Errr... it's not. It's quite simple. As capable as Pino or whomever is, unless you get someone who has a similar stylistic bent to Entwistle and there aren't that many people who do play anything like that, the Who will continue to be crap and I won't be interested. [/quote] Did you like The Who after 1978? Why would you feel that the continued creativity of a band should be curtailed after the death of one of its members?

[quote name='Romberg Bevel' timestamp='1344967049' post='1771796'] What instrument is this for? Where did you get the chart? [/quote] I think it's a harmonium chart from India.

[quote name='paulconnolly' timestamp='1344961862' post='1771694'] I hadn't seen the updates from the last couple of days but I was listening CA on the way home from work. Yes it's brilliant compared to their last few offerings but it's not grabbing me in the way Map of the Past does. MOTP is my favourite album of this year so far. [/quote] I just previewed MOTP, thanks, I will buy, sounds excellent. It's taken a very long time for me to accept an It BItes without Dunnery, he was the soul of that band and I'm a huge fan, but I agree, MOTP sounds transcendent, cheers for that.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1344892382' post='1770848'] Oooh, do yourself a favour. It's brilliant. [/quote] I really is, but it took a LOT of persistence for it to really grab me by the brain and balls.

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1344356233' post='1763287'] Album of the year so far for me (alongside the new R.Kelly one) - rewards repeated listens, there's a lot going on. [/quote] There really is. I adore it! I feel completely at home listening to it now, it brings me the thrills and comfort I used to get from Rush, and I'm listening to loads of their back catalogue again. This is one of my very favourite Rush albums now. Weird. I hated VT and S&A and thought I'd lost them. They are back with a massive vengeance! I couldn't be much happier