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[quote name='GreeneKing' post='432990' date='Mar 12 2009, 10:50 PM']Yep that's me, Essex boy got lost.[/quote] Garry

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='432968' date='Mar 12 2009, 10:31 PM']I'm feeling very much the Northern man [/quote] "Northern Man, better stay inside Cold wind blowin' Best run and hide Northern air gonna Freeze your ass Heat your house up Turn up the gas" Do you mean that Northern man? Garry

[quote name='orangepeelneil' post='432203' date='Mar 12 2009, 10:10 AM'][size=3] I now run a Licenced Pro-tools home studio set-up, Cheers Neil [/size][/quote] I bet the pro pirates are filling there pants... +1 for the CM mag... all you need there for free [ well apart from a sick squid for the mag ] Garry

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='432589' date='Mar 12 2009, 04:14 PM']immediately followed by a classic "LA Session"-sounding track.[/quote] LA studio players, LA studio, LA Producers. Strange how it sounded like a Classic LA session sounding track. Well spotted... Garry

[quote name='Dan_Nailed' post='432574' date='Mar 12 2009, 03:53 PM']getting the gig in the first place is a combination of luck and knowing the right people, NOT hard work or application![/quote] If you have not done the [i]hard work and application[/i], And turn up for an audition [ where you meet people ] Or turn up at a Jam [ to meet people, who in turn introduce you to more people ] You might end up sounding like a lemon... I get the feeling it might go hand in hand. Garry

Great stuff...... But hey wait a minute! They are reading charts! They cant possibly have any lugs or play with feel. Garry

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='431058' date='Mar 10 2009, 10:06 PM']Its great, isn't it? Did you get the workbook?[/quote] Yep, the whole lot including 5 CD's... Just got to find the time to work through it. It does look very interesting. Garry

[quote name='endorka' post='430538' date='Mar 10 2009, 02:35 PM']Off the top of my head, things notation offers as standard that tab does not; - rhythm - dynamics - articulation - direct musical pitch information - it can be used by players of other instruments, not just the instrument it was written for. ...I am sure there are many others. With a part written in notation, and some prior knowledge of how the musical genre sounds, it is possible to credibly recreate the musical part without having to hear it beforehand. This is not the case with tab. Jennifer[/quote] Well put and answered. Garry

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='430458' date='Mar 10 2009, 01:29 PM']If you look at books like Samuel Adler's 'Orchestration', they talk about all of the instruments and how to write for them (ranges, styles, techniques etc). So, when someone like John Williams writes for an orchestra, he is expected to cover all bases before any musicians get anywhere near the charts.[/quote] Hey Bilbo, funny you should mention that.. I just got the Samual Adler stuff a few days ago - good stuff [ with audio eg's ] Garry

[quote name='chris_b' post='430414' date='Mar 10 2009, 12:59 PM']In my experience a lot of sheet music is inaccurate and can't be trusted, so my order of preference is a good ear first closely followed by reading the dots. A Donald Fagin story: When Steely Dan decided to go back on the road and tour again after 20 years, they brought the sheet music to their songs to help them get up to speed. They found that the music contained so many mistakes that they threw the books away and had to go back and relearn the numbers from the records.[/quote] There is a big difference between shop sheet music, and a properly arranged score or Bass chart. I cant not imagine why Steely Dan would not have got a pro arranger to write out there material... Other than dosh! Garry

[quote name='queenofthedepths' post='430242' date='Mar 10 2009, 11:09 AM']Still, I don't see why everyone is so down on tabs?! Okay, so the Internet is full of rubbish tabs, but if I spent the next few hours uploading dodgy sheet music, would you all decide that's a bad means of writing down music? Standard notation is ideal for keyboards or wind instruments or whatever, but tabs were designed for stringed instruments, and they seem to do the job fine.[/quote] Tabs are fine for learning stuff at home... But in the real world out on a gig are limited in the amount of style info they give out. Also not easy on the eye for quick digestion, and not to mention the amount of pages and paper needed for one song. As someone else mentioned, when note reading you still need to know the various styles and whatever to make the dots sound musical. [ do i play swing or straight 8's?] Your ears also come into play when sight reading because you need to phrase with the other musos in the band or orchestra, otherwise it will sound very loose. I still think the old argument about sight readers having no lugs or feel is rubbish, Well at least in the circles i move in. Much easier on a gig rehearsal session show or whatever, getting things done, rather than everyone huddled around a CD or Mp3 player trying to learn material. Another system that has not been mentioned here is the Nashville number system. Something to be considered. [url="http://coba.belmont.edu/fac/tappant/3370nashvillenumber.htm"]http://coba.belmont.edu/fac/tappant/3370nashvillenumber.htm[/url] Garry

[quote name='YouMa' post='430230' date='Mar 10 2009, 11:04 AM']Love exciting and new,come aboard we,re expecting you.[/quote] If thats you in your Avitar.... You seem to fit the bill well. Garry

[quote name='crez5150' post='430222' date='Mar 10 2009, 11:00 AM'] [/quote] I think it would be right up tBBC's Strasse... A big bow tie would cover up that blackeye he has. Garry

[quote name='crez5150' post='430215' date='Mar 10 2009, 10:55 AM']See you in a year..... That's if it hasn't dropped off by then... [/quote] I done all that years ago Crez.... Not sure i have the stamina any more.! Plus my Wife might take a dim view on it. Garry

Just a heads up if any one is interested. The Royal Caribbean Cruise lines is looking for Musos inc Bassists. So if your sight reading is up to pro standards... This is the email address to apply...enclosing your CV or experience. [email protected] The Company site. [url="http://royalcaribbeanproductions.com/"]http://royalcaribbeanproductions.com/[/url] Have fun and plentiful shag**ng! Garry

my fretless is a Stingray 5, [a pau ferro board] I have a really high action and use DR highbeams... And i get a nice growl... But when i first got it [ 5 years ago ] It had a silly no action and buzzing, but had plenty of mwah... if you like that. So i dont think its the board. Try getting the action right down with a flat neck. Also as someone above said 800hz gets some where near that sound. But i must admit i find that type of set up sh*t sounding and sloppy and loose to play. But hey... we all play different. Garry

[quote name='Oscar South' post='421339' date='Feb 27 2009, 09:19 PM']I'd have no prob doing it in Bb but the band knows it in B already. My personal favourate recorded version is The Stanley Clarke one that I've attached.[/quote] Just curious here. Are we allowed to post original tracks up here on Basschat.? [ copyright/broadcast rights etc ] There have been a couple of things i wanted to put up by various artists in the past, but was not sure....Mods? Back OT.... I love that Live version. [ SC ] Garry

Sailors horn pipe... Makes people smile... Garry

[quote name='cheddatom' post='423411' date='Mar 2 2009, 04:55 PM']Lowdown has a VST system link system running with two delta cards. Mine are the LT versions, but I don't think they have an optical connection for lightpipe? Is it the case that I could use VStack or something to synchronise the two cards without using vst system link? This would be good, but i'd still like the transport (i.e stop and start) of both computers to be linked because then I can use automation on my FX PC. EDIT: Ta for the link though, I just don't think it's true seeing as Lowdown has his sytem working. Perhaps I should have done more research before buying my 2nd Delta card.[/quote] Like i said earlier, does work...Might be something to do with the Latest drivers from M-audio. That M-audio link has been there for years. [ the Steinberg site only lists two cards not working] Although [again as i said earlier i am using VStack] Tom you have a PM. Garry

Have you got the Focusright input selected in the Cubase mixer channel? [ L/R or stereo ] Sometimes that goes tits up. Under options, is it showing up there? Driver issue? Or even a new rogue plug in. If has been working ok of late, i am sure it is something simple. Garry

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='422280' date='Mar 1 2009, 11:28 AM']after all the best bassline of all time was played with a pick [/quote] Would this be a Carol Kaye track..? Garry

I am all fingers and thumbs when it comes to Bass playing. Garry

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='421172' date='Feb 27 2009, 05:49 PM']I used to play it a major 10 interval sliding up and down, that sounded pretty cool to everyone.[/quote] This is the most used way, and very effective. Garry

This piece is doing the rounds at the moment - I've no idea if it's by the real Tony Levin or not, but it's a perceptive and funny piece of writing whoever wrote it. Enjoy! Beyond the Bass Clef: The Life and Art of Bass Playing by Tony Levin In the beginning there was a bass. It was a Fender, probably a Precision, but it could have been a Jazz - nobody knows. Anyway, it was very old ... definitely pre-C.B.S. And God looked down upon it and saw that it was good. He saw that it was very good in fact, and couldn't be improved on at all (though men would later try.) And so He let it be and He created a man to play the bass. And lo the man looked upon the bass, which was a beautiful 'sunburst' red, and he loved it. He played upon the open E string and the note rang through the earth and reverberated throughout the firmaments (thus reverb came to be.) And it was good. And God heard that it was good and He smiled at his handiwork. Then in the course of time, the man came to slap upon the bass. And lo it was funky. And God heard this funkiness and He said, "Go man, go." And it was good. And more time passed, and, having little else to do, the man came to practice upon the bass. And lo, the man came to have upon him a great set of chops. And he did play faster and faster until the notes rippled like a breeze through the heavens. And God heard this sound which sounded something like the wind, which He had created earlier. It also sounded something like the movement of furniture, which He hadn't even created yet, and He was not so pleased. And He spoke to the man, saying "Don't do that!" Now the man heard the voice of God, but he was so excited about his new ability that he slapped upon the bass a blizzard of funky notes. And the heavens shook with the sound, and the Angels ran about in confusion. (Some of the Angels started to dance, but that's another story.) And God heard this - how could He miss it - and lo He became Bugged. And He spoke to the man, and He said, "Listen man, if I wanted Jimi Hendrix I would have created the guitar. Stick to the bass parts." And the man heard the voice of God, and he knew not to mess with it. But now he had upon him a passion for playing fast and high. The man took the frets off of the bass which God had created. And the man did slide his fingers upon the fretless fingerboard and play melodies high upon the neck. And, in his excitement, the man did forget the commandment of the Lord, and he played a frenzy of high melodies and blindingly fast licks. And the heavens rocked with the assault and the earth shook, rattled and rolled. Now God's wrath was great. And His voice was thunder as He spoke to the man. And He said, "O.K. for you, pal. You have not heeded My word. Lo, I shall create a soprano saxophone and it shall play higher than you can even think of." "And from out of the chaos I shall bring forth the drums. And they shall play so many notes thine head shall ache, and I shall make you to always stand next to the drummer." "You think you're loud? I shall create a stack of Marshall guitar amps to make thine ears bleed. And I shall send down upon the earth other instruments, and lo, they shall all be able to play higher and faster than the bass." "And for all the days of man, your curse shall be this; that all the other musicians shall look to you, the bass player, for the low notes. And if you play too high or fast all the other musicians shall say "Wow" but really they shall hate it. And they shall tell you you're ready for your solo career, and find other bass players for their bands. And for all your days if you want to play your fancy licks you shall have to sneak them in like a thief in the night." "And if you finally do get to play a solo, everyone shall leave the bandstand and go to the bar for a drink." And it was so. Garry

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='417634' date='Feb 23 2009, 05:46 PM']IIRC, he actually disliked it, and specifically asked GP to stick to a P in future...![/quote] Well there seems to be different stories floating around about that. Here is GP's version.. [thats what i was refering to] Its the 3rd video on the right down. [url="http://guypratt.ricardopadua.com/"]http://guypratt.ricardopadua.com/[/url] Garry