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I just had a quick crack at trying to work out the main riff and I think what you've got are little ghost notes, just whispers, of the open strings between the main riff notes as he changes string. They are sort of random and peculiar to his playing style I think. They are not diatonic really so they are hard to pick up just by listening, and because you rest the finger pad on the string as you pass to the next string, the note barely sounds but it seems intrinsic to the riff sounding more interesting than it actually is. I think he may do a damped pull-off to the open A (on the A string) before the final F sharp - G sharp hammer on before the low open E. But not every time. No normal tab or notation will give you these expression elements. It's a lovely riff to play actually, very natural and expressive once it's under your fingers. Of course I may be completely wrong

I got the CD yesterday. I am also disappointed. Very poor quality. And WTF happens to Geddy's voice in Camera Eye?! It doesn't sound like him at all in places.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1320625445' post='1429209'] Ella and I earlier this evening, just after her bath.[attachment=92740:babyface.jpg] [/quote] I think Ella's bath is too hot mate, she's starting to melt. Just kiddng, lovely pic.

[quote name='12stringbassist' timestamp='1320583022' post='1428500'] This is the one I'd have to save from a burning building, as it's totally irreplaceable. My #1 go-to bass is either (active) Warwick Steamer Chrome Tone, or (passive) Midnight blue Ric 4003. [/quote] That really is amazing! Ooh, and a fellow Streamer CT owner! Pics please!

This http://basschat.co.uk/topic/119273-sold-warwick-streamer-ct/page__hl So I bought it last month It's the best bass ever.

13 years ago on stage.

I missed this year's but will be there in March on Saturday. It's two weeks before my birthday so I might have some spending monay! Be good to meet up with some other BCers on the day. So, who is secretly going to learn a slap party piece for the day

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1320264430' post='1424638'] Fantastic! Thank you so much Silddx - hadn't got that far in my exploration of this site [/quote] There is so much to explore! I sometimes wish I was a n00b again, it felt like a massive treasure chest and very exciting!

Hello bluejay from a another west Londoner. There are some serious bargains to be had on the second hand Warwick Market. I've had a few German Warwicks, including a superb Corvette $$. I sold them all like a damn fool and went on a bass journey, but after a year without them I just had to go back. I now have a fabulous chrome Streamer with an ebony fingerboard which I adore! There is a Lefty Marketplace on here which you may find useful http://basschat.co.uk/topic/36318-big-lefty-market-thread/page__st__1000 All the best

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[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1320078038' post='1422007'] so nme readers voted a 9-year old song in at no. 1 ? that displays a surprisingly in-depth knowledge of music for your average nme reader. [/quote] As opposed to us lot probably voting for someone who died 24 years ago

Superb lyrics, and I love el Alien's voice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlQX8i3Abc

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1319853742' post='1419453'] Dear God, I remember reading about that at the time. I'm sure there was a photograph to record the culture clash. [/quote] Mr Hillside got on well with Jimmy Pursey. Jimmy ASKED Steve to play with Sham 69 at Reading when they met a few months earlier. There's some hippie-punk on the 4th side of Live Herald, and some on Open.

Attempting to pleasure oneself with one's own face more than once a week could result in a herniated intervertebral disc and resultant pressure on the related nerves leading to numbness and pain in the pelvic area thus rendering the activity self defeating.

I believe Jakesbass (the best teacher of anything I've ever come across, he's is incredible) does lessons by skype. PM him. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/6270-jakesbass-jakesbass-and-thrice-jakesbass/

Don't pressure yourself to read music and learn theory at the beginning. Just get a little technique under your belt and enjoy what you're doing for a few months. Get to understand the instrument a little bit. Then get a teacher and make an effort to learn some theory, technique, and reading music notation. This will stand you in good stead later on. Being a lefty is no problem except maybe when trying to buy a new bass. Don't know any teachers in your area but have a look in the Tutors section of the Basschat Marketplace on here, and put the word out. You haven't told us what music genres you want to play though. Pop and rock is generally quite easy to learn without reading and theory, and often have fairly simple arrangements, but the techniques can be advanced and difficult in funk, rock and prog rock, metal, mathcore, etc. you can expect some tricky time signatures and arrangements in the latter too. Jazz almost certainly requires you to understand theory and be able to read notation as the compositions and arrangements can be beyond most people's ability to pick up and remember quickly, however the playing techniques used can often be fairly simple. If you love music, and you are 43, it's possible you have quite well developed ears, have musical taste and may be able to apply this to the bass naturally. Of course you may not and have to work at it and listen hard to your favourite music to make sense of it. For instance, I am 47, I know little theory and can barely read music, but most pop and rock, and some more complex music like Zappa, I have few problems picking up and learning and playing quickly. I can usually 'hear' the harmonies, melodies and their interactions and play the notes on the bass. I can compose bass lines to recorded music, I can improvise, I know a few scales and I my ears are good. I can do that with taste and musicality from 30 years of playing guitar and bass. However, present me with a complex Jazz piece, and I seriously struggle. Had I learned theory and reading and was fluent in both, I would probably be a pretty decent and expressive jazzer. But I don't play jazz and was only really ever interested in being a pop and rock musician, and did not want to be a session player or teacher for which reading and theory is almost a prerequisite. So keep your options open and go with your heart, music is primarily about pleasure, but learning some theory and reading can greatly increase the potential for further pleasure. Don't rush it and try to do everything at once.

They are fabulous machines, I love them!

It's cool, but agree with BRX a bit too. Whatever, I MUCH prefer mine [IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa242/silddx/IMG_1825.jpg[/IMG]

May I suggest the OP uses a little compression? It takes a bit of the effort of keeping solid dynamics while playing and gives a smoother more produced sound. This can allow him to concentrate more of the actual lines rather than how hard or soft he's playing. As to bass line composition, we don't know what the music genre is but Kelso is bang on. Space allows the music to breathe. Choosing when and how to use that space is as artful as anything else. I'm also a guitarist who became a bassist. As a guitarist I learned some techniques that most bassists don't have. I find them very expressive to use at times.

I think learning scales is important. All that repetition teaches your ears what to expect when your finger moves towards a note. You should also practice the intervals and get your ears to recognise at least the commonly used ones. This way, your fingers become eyes and you know what you are going to hear before you play it. That is essential if you are to improvise with any degree of personality. It's really about being able to execute what you hear in your head, obviously if what you hear in your head is sh*t by most people's standards, then your ears probably need educating. But if you hear sublime music in your head, and are not able to execute it on the bass quickly and easily, you need to practice what you need to overcome that obstacle. There are, of course, people who don't read music and know little theory but who can hear great music in their heads and play it without much effort. There are those who sightread and know loads of theory so they know theoretically what will work and can play it, but have little in the way of character in their execution. And there are those with both. Try to be one of those with both.

[quote name='BassJase' timestamp='1274611128' post='845612'] I toured and played with Hawkwind in 2007 and their all great guys, Mr Dibs is an absolute gent and a really good bloke to have a beer with. If you go to the Hawkwind website and watch the Hawkfest 2007 video you'll see my fugly mug bouncing around on stage with them whilst trying to play bass after a very heavy weekend.... ('nuff said really.) [/quote] Cool! You'll know Jez Richards then, I was at school with him and he was a source of my inspiration to play guitar. We were in sixth form art A Level together. I met him (for the first time since school three years ago) when he played in London, on bass with Nik.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1319311771' post='1412678'] I get no pain at all from that. Once you get a solid technique and consistent practice regime, the pain thing is history. Now the only pian I get is earache [/quote]

Bilbo, I thought it was lovely, it had pace, very nice phrasing that actually reminds me of what I know of your personality, Of course that might be an illusion since I knew it was you all along, but nevertheless, it has a lot of personality! I thought for the most part your intonation was as good as it's possible to be on a string bass, only the double stops were noticeably 'out' to my ears, but only by a little. Really nice to listen to mate, thank you.

I think it's easy to forget that Pete is a also seriously good bassist! Not just a Basschat member who likes the Daily Mail and starts contentious threads I love Nearly Dan, seen them twice at the Jazz Cafe. They are superb live! And the singer is a very funny geezer. Great performance by all Pete, I really enjoyed it, thank you!