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If you are getting into Orchestral writing you might wanna check out this Free on line tutorial site. Apart from Harmony within sections..it gets into how various instruments work together. Very useful site. [url="http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77...."]http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumd...ay.php?f=77....[/url]. Sounds good Garry

My Only Bass for the last couple of years has been a single cut [Fretless aside] Has no weight issues, really snug to play.. Fantastic access to the dusty end. Balance spot on. No neck dive. No dead spots and sustains for ever. I did have it custom built, so it is exactly how i wanted a bass to be. Not every ones cup of tea as a visual. But i like a Bass to play good and get the job done with ease,and mine does that. Not bothered with what it looks like. After donkeys years of messing with Fenders, [and a Green 5 stg Sadawsky Jazz..the worst 2 grand i have ever spent..a real pig to play and a neck that could not stay still for 5 minutes] I am now one happy bunny. My Fretless is a 68 Jazz, it was my First real Bass..so it has to stay. Not really a Fender any more. Frets were taken out about 20 years ago. Badass bridge. And Emg's...And that was because the stock pups were so noisey and sounded crap. The usual neck dive and weighs a ton. Gotta say though...There is something about a beaten up looking Fender Jazz that makes me smile. Garry

It should be in Gb [6 flats] But all around Eb Minor7.. Ab.. Fm7..Bb minor 7.. Then the middle bit is Bb minor 7 etc... Couple of examples below. [attachment=13999:Bass_1.JPG] [attachment=14000:Bass_2.JPG] Garry

[quote name='bnt' post='293037' date='Sep 26 2008, 07:44 PM']edit: oh well... if this some elaborate RickRolling scheme, well done, Sir![/quote] Sorry mate , we must have been posting at the same time... Garry

Zipped midi file on the way over mate. It might be a tone up, i can not remember.. Should be Eb i think. But the midi file can be transposed easily. Garry

If you PM me your email address i can send the Bass as a midi part. [I could not upload to this site as a attachment for some reason] You can load in to your sequencer then read off the Notator. If you dont have a seq. you could use this [its free] [url="http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/"]http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/[/url] Load the midi file into it [very easy] And hey presto ... Notes right in front of you. Garry

[quote name='bnt' post='293003' date='Sep 26 2008, 07:07 PM']Cool! I hope you do Devil Woman...[/quote] For some reason, i dont think it will be [u]'Devil Woman'[/u] Its a one hour 'songs of Praise' special... Garry

You may well all laugh.. But its a tricky little line and nice and tight... F..k that one up and all will know. I have the Bass part in Notation, if it is any help. As for me... I have a nice little mime gig tomorrow.. Two tracks for Cliff Richard..[BBC] If i F**k that up, i need turning into a born again Christian.. Garry

Sad to hear this. RIP Steve. Garry

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='291443' date='Sep 25 2008, 08:11 AM']Maybe basschat should be rebadged as "Rockbass-chat" Soooooooooo---most of the stuff that Motown did was tat,Sade was tat,utter soul dross,oh and whilst we're at it TOP are sh*t too!!!......... [/quote] Good call...Just been thinking that myself.... Might be worth breaking it down in to sections. You know. Rock Bass Jazz Bass etc..... But then again i would miss the hours of s**t that i read,that seems to keep me amused. I am as guilty as all when it comes to that... Garry

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='291477' date='Sep 25 2008, 09:13 AM']Never liked Abe, I'm afraid, but I think its because I never really liked anything that he played on (its mostly fuzak).[/quote] You liked JJ but did not like any thing he played on. [MOTOWN] Not sure i understand that any Bass player can not like Abe. But hey, thats what the worlds about..opinions.. Garry

Abraham Laboriel -- He's Exalted Just a bit of fun, but i like it. Still fat and still knows his grooves, And his dance routines... Goes a bit wonky at the end.. BWGAF...its Abe... Garry

[quote name='noelk27' post='291166' date='Sep 24 2008, 07:12 PM']Lady In Red was Pino Palladino - he talks about the track in an interview in Bass Player in March 1992 (Vol 3, No 2). Of course, he could've been mistaken, and it might really have been Carol Kaye. (Looks over his shoulder and thinks to myself he's been here before.)[/quote] Yep...and there is a quote in my link above...same mag. Garry

[quote name='Rich' post='291118' date='Sep 24 2008, 06:30 PM']It would appear so. Yawn-a-feckin-rama It was John Giblin... another brilliant, tasteful player.[/quote] Might be wrong, but i thought it was PP. I know John Giblin did a couple of tracks on the album though. [Great player] This might help... 3/4 of the way down... [url="http://www.bassplayer.com/article/4-fantastic/Mar-04/622"]http://www.bassplayer.com/article/4-fantastic/Mar-04/622[/url] Garry

[quote name='Earbrass' post='291079' date='Sep 24 2008, 05:44 PM']Let's face it, even the 'hit singles' were just churned out by the Motown machine to a preset formula. They are to music what MacDonalds is to food, ie v. popular mass-produced crap.[/quote] You cant stop talking about it though... Must have worked... Must be the first time i have heard the likes of Stevie wonder and Marvin Gaye cited as Mass-Produced crap.... Or even Beefburgers come to think of it. Are you a drummer from birth? Garry

[quote name='OldGit' post='291068' date='Sep 24 2008, 05:33 PM']Carole Gaye? Nah, that's Marvin[/quote] What..Hamlisch? Garry

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='290924' date='Sep 24 2008, 03:24 PM']Years ago the (now late) bloke in the Bass Cellar told me when I enquired about availablity of the MIJ Fender Duck Bass, that Duck wasn't a very good player and Lewis Steinberg played on all the hits Mr Baldy was a cloth-eared miserable little cnut in a shtty bass shop.[/quote] Fancy going 6 feet under [or sitting on top of a fireplace] and thinking that! Garry

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='290735' date='Sep 24 2008, 11:59 AM']I like loads of things that would clear a dance floor in seconds. Maybe I should have just said that![/quote] What like your bunch of carrots. Me...it might be my big nose! Garry

[quote name='dlloyd' post='290662' date='Sep 24 2008, 10:53 AM']I don't know... is it possible for a great song to have a poor bass line?[/quote] Like i said.. It is all individual taste.. A great song to you might not mean a great song to me. I do happen to like a lot of the Motown stuff. Over the years i have noticed how good [to me ] the arrangements are. Other than just listening to the great Jamerson. Garry

Individual musical taste will come into play here... So i look forward the forth comming list ... I have started to look from another side of this. Like some good songs i have heard... And what a f**ing piss poor Bass line. For someone to say 'yer but she/he played only what what was needed' Seems like creativity is starting to wain these days. And i am not talking about overplaying. I like TOP.. Great arrangements, more than tunes. Garry

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='290216' date='Sep 23 2008, 06:31 PM']Its not the bass playing you should be worried about. Best get practicing on the rollerskates should he feel a "Wired for Sound" moment coming on.[/quote]

I am a Freelancer...so millions of Bands. In fact on Saturday i am depping in Sir Cliff Richards band. St Lukes hall. One hour 'songs of praise special'. BBC live and recorded in front of an Audiance. S**ting myself Garry

[quote name='noelk27' post='289290' date='Sep 22 2008, 04:47 PM']Not sure being single - technically or otherwise - has ever stopped a Stone from, err, knobbing.[/quote] Yer i know. Just did not want some do-gooder fish on the back of his car Bass chatter flaming me down.. Garry

You could always download reaper... All the tools you would need to do a good job. Its free... You are supposed to get a licence at some stage... "REAPER is available for download without technological limitations for evaluation purposes. Once you have evaluated REAPER, you should purchase a license." [url="http://www.reaper.fm/"]http://www.reaper.fm/[/url] A few guys swear by it here at Bass chat. I have tried it, and it is great. Garry

[quote name='ped' post='287240' date='Sep 19 2008, 12:46 PM']Probably some kind of software now?[/quote] Garry