Master blaster

I played in a band last year in north devon mainly in the bideford/barnstaple area. There are some awesome players around there. If your into the blues then get down to the palladium jam night in Bideford on tuesday nights. Tis a brilliant place for networking. Theres alot of blues that gets played that night.

i use the line6 toneport. Its brilliant for the price and i recommend it if u have a limited budget.

I try to have it a similar hight to it when sitting. But it varies slightly depending on the bass as the shape of the body and pickup placement and scale length. For example i like to play my corvette higher then my jazz as there are more frets so i find it easier to get around the neck.

I've recently gone from playing rock music to pop/hip hop/soul etc. And i can say that its the best move i've made so far in my bass playing life. I feel rock music isn't as challenging anymore, and other genres like pop etc are much more fun to play (however cheesey). And you tend to get better audiences playing more popular tunes. My favorite tune i play in my band atm is Material Girl by Madonna. Which this time last year ide have been embarrassed to play but now i've realized how fun that song is to play. Its also made me a better player too. I recommend to everyone to make the same move!

I use the webcam on my mac and record straight into imovie. The for the audio i DI my bass into logic and record at the same time ias the video. Then i bounce down what ive done in logic and import it into imovie and sync the audio with the visual.

practice practice practice. just play it slow then build up the speed. Its quite easy when u get the hang of it. I used to play it when i started playing. [edit] and i used to play it off the d string.

+1 for the OC2. i love the ehx stuff. i dont find it kills my signal to bad. Good luck tracking down a russian big muff. they're quite hard to get hold of in this country due to the box being made out of lead. Theres a guy i know that has one in bideford that has one on display. But he refuses to sell it.

i love this band. alot of the flute they use always reminds me of the Jazz flute scene in anchorman. tis awesome

I was browsing youtube yesterday when i came across this video. Some of you may have seen it. I thought its was pretty interesting and its something im going to include in my practicing. Its a video with Victor Wooten and Anthony Wellington. Its filmed at Anthonys bass school (bassology). Its basically as the title says, instead of modes of the scale its modes of rhythm.

i'de like to see the bit after this video. It goes into a nice groove at the end. I love some of the smv stuff, like thunder but I didn't really enjoy this video to much. The start and the end were good but i found the middle a bit hard to listen to. Particularly as BottomEndian said between 2.10 and 2.30.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1040943' date='Nov 29 2010, 11:20 AM']We do a bossa nova version of 'How Deep Is Your Love' which always makes me smile inside.[/quote] That sounds awesome. Ide love to hear that.

Recently i joined a function band which play quite a few current pop songs. I've spend pretty much all my gigging life playing rock music but i must say i'm actually enjoying playing more cheesy repetitive pop music quite a bit more. Tbh im kinda shocked myself but im really enjoying this band and i hope to be a part of it for a while. Heres the set list so far. There are some other styles like soul, motown, hiphop and rock. 1. Superstition – Stevie Wonder 2. You’ve got the love – Florence and the Machine 3. Use Somebody – Kings of Leon 4. F*ck You - Cee Lo Green 5. Toxic – Shitney Beers 6. American Boy – Estelle 7. Beggin’ – Madcon 8. Car Wash – Rose Royce/Christina Aguilera 9. Valerie - Mark Ronson 10. Hey Ya! – OutKast 11. Rock Your Body – Justin Timberlake 12. Mr Brightside – Killers 13. The way you make me feel – Michael Jackson 14. Rihanna – Umbrella live version 15. Plan B – She Said 16. I Kissed a Girl – Katy Perry 17. Heartbeat – Scouting for Girls 18. In for the Kill – La Roux 19. You make me Wanna Die – The Pretty Reckless 20. Chain of Fools – Aretha Franklin 21. Sweet Child of Mine – Sheryl Crow 22. Rehab – Amy Winehouse 23. Rescue Me – Fontella Bass 24. About You Now – Sugababes 25. Never Forget You – Noisettes Has anyone else found themselves playing songs/styles that they wouldn't in a million years think they'd enjoy??

[quote name='blackmn90' post='1038709' date='Nov 27 2010, 12:16 PM']great feel, maybe look at different finger positions in the verse, i can play it all in 4 frets except for going down to the F at the end. Could make it easier and the timing will improve because of it [/quote] Cool i with have a go. its weird when i learnt this song i thought the runs would be the hard parts. but i found the actual main bass part the hardest.

Im loving some of Paul Turners bass lines on the new Jamiroquai album, particularly "she's a fast persuader". Also; Find Me - Nizlopi [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-eOrR1AKAc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-eOrR1AKAc[/url] Master Blaster - Stevie Wonder

cheers guys.

Heres my attempt at playing along to possible one of my favorate tunes and basslines Master Blaster by stevie Wonder. Its not perfect but ide like to see what you fellow BCers think. Cheers

i wish i hadnt moved to bournemouth now. im missing out on newton faulkner playing in barnstaple as well

i found that rockschool were fairly good. I've done up to grade 6. But i found a couple of areas of the rockschool corse a bit weird. One was the way they tabbed the scales and arpeggios. They seemed to do the fingering for a normal one octave then for the second octave of the exercise they just wrote it as just using the g string. Also I thought it was weird that they gave me a good mark for my reading when i didn't even scrape through a single bar.

cheers guys

So i did my audition. I was early and accidently walked in to them with another bassist. Oops. Anyway to cut a long story short, i got in!!! Im dead chuffed. Ive got a few songs to learn now. Like Cee Lo Greens new song f*ck you and car wash by rose royce. Also theres a britney spears one :s. Ive also got to learn 'The way you make me feel' by mj, but listening to the recording i cant seem to single out what the basslines doing. Any ideas??