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Ahaha yes I did! It is amazing you remembered This is a new study though.

Hi Everyone, I'm running an online study and would like to invite you to participate. This study takes the form of an online listening test. In which you will be presented with a series of alternating listening tasks. The first listening task requires you to rate a bass guitar performance based on a small number of different aspects that relate to the performance. You are also invited to add your own adjectives that describe the performance in an additional comment box. To ensure consistency between performances they have each been rendered using a physical model of a bass guitar. The second listening task will require you to listen to a short (~3 second) excerpt of different ambient field recordings, after which you will be asked to indicate what word the recording suggests to you. Overall the study will take around 60 minutes to complete. Full information for participants and participation link can be found at: https://bassguitarstudy.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Many, many thanks in advance and thank you for your time. Best wishes, Callum

Hi, I'm looking for some bass players/musicians to help me out and participate in a short (5-10min) study on musical similarity its part of my Phd research (which maybe familiar to those who saw threads on my previous studies here and here ) . The official study description is: This is a study into the perceived musical similarity between different extracts from different bass lines. You will be presented with a series of questions asking you to compare a selection of audio files. All audio files contain baseline extracts. You will be required to state which two audio files from the selection are most similar. The responses from this study will be compared to, used to evaluate, and help refine a method of calculating musical similarity based upon melodic and syncopation features that can be extracted from the notated musical content of the extracts. If you are interested/willing to help out can you let me know? (PM/reply here) as i'll need to send you the audio files and a link to a google form to fill in your answers (its a little awkward I know, I can't share a single set of files/link as I need to generate the audio/questions for each new participant). Many thanks in advance! Callum

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Phew - yeah thats left in there as its easier to disable displaying it than deleting the multiple lines that it appears in. If you are a little more curious this: https://github.com/BrechtDeMan/WebAudioEvaluationTool is what i'm using to run the listening test. [quote name='samhay' timestamp='1494577629' post='3297045'] Not to fear - I didn't get asked the familiarity question. I looked at the save.xml file out of curiosity and found it buried in there. [/quote]

Thanks again everyone! To specifically address the questions below... server issues beyond my control sometimes prevent saving - the form is designed to save automatically. Anonymity is retained in the xml file and once detected from the email anyone else viewing the data will only have anonymised results. If you are seeing a familiarity question - thats odd. But I removed it to try and reduce the repetition in an already reasonable repetitive test! I'll also post a full list of tracks when I can announce the results of the test. [quote name='samhay' timestamp='1494512578' post='3296642'] Done. I was a bit surprised I had to save and email the results. Could you not design the form to save results - this would help with future work where anonymization may be important and/or worry about biasing your results by excluding people willing to share an email address. I too would be interested to hear what your results are. Once the survey is finished, it would also be cool to know what the pieces of music are...(seeing as the survey is a good way to create an ear worm out of them). p.s. what happen to the 'On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is not familar at all and 5 is extremely familiar, please state how familiar you are with the bass playing presented in track' question? [/quote]

Thank you so much to everyone who's both attempted and completed! I'm honestly in agreement with the repetition. I've tried to keep it as painless as possible whilst still getting the results I'm needing. The big thing is that I needed to ensure everyone has listened to each track all the way through at least once, and the web tool I'm using is either make it so you listen to every track at least once all the way through, every time its presented, or doesn't enforce a check at all. So in this case I had to settle on the less than ideal option! Honestly it just means I'm even more appreciative of those who stuck with it to complete!

Thank you so much for completing the test and for your feedback! [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1494348923' post='3295247'] I'm not certain, but it seemed to me to be much like the football league, where each extract has to be pitted against each of the others. As, then, there are eight samples, each has to be played seven times (once against each of the others...), so twenty-eight plays in all. A 'league table' can then be drawn up, which would give some idea of 'difficulty'. May be wrong, though. [/quote] You might just be right... And is something I can share once after i've finished running the study.

Thanks you for mention it. That'll be a last minute revert to defaults.... it should now have been fixed!

Hi Everyone, I'm running a study into how difficult people judge bass playing to be from audio excerpts and am looking for participants. The study takes the form of a listening test found here: [url="http://goo.gl/Jq9sAQ"]http://goo.gl/Jq9sAQ[/url] It should only take ~15-20mins to complete and can be done by anyone over the age of 16. Thanks!! Callum Edit: There maybe a server issue crop up which stops the test automatically being saved. If this happens you should get the option to download an xml file - if this happens there should be message - i'd very much appreciate if you could email the file to [email protected]!

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[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1468762641' post='3093144'] You use a 110 for low B? Be interested to hear it! Basically, my opinion of these is that if you need to drop mid song, then they are invaluable. Any other use, its just as easy to quickly tune down, you'll learn to do it by ear and muscle memory quickly, I can easily just give my tuning key a quick turn without thinking about it and hit D on the nose. I do have one fitted to one of my basses, I hardly ever use it. But they are very good at doing what they do, no complaints! [/quote] Chromes are surprisingly good at drop tuning. I had a set of 95-40s on my G&L which I fitted a d-tuner with the extender lever to, could go from E down to D, then down to B without a sweat. Really surprising if I'm honest! I'm now switched back to using TI Flats on the bass otherwise i'd record some sounds. But back to the notion of getting a D tuner, whilst I've not used it excessively on my 4 string, its had its uses, enough so that i'm in no hurry to take it off!

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1468751273' post='3093039'] I have to be careful how I answer this one as I don't want to get in to trouble for advertising. However, depending on your budget, I would definitely recommend Dingwall basses. Especially the AB1. Mine weighs in at just 8lbs and has a very slim nut. Furthermore, one of the most important bits is that it balances perfectly on the leg. There is no headstock dive at all. Which means that when on the strap, there's no pulling on the shoulder either - which of course makes the bass feel much lighter too. Nice slim nut! [/quote] Dingwall was my first thought about this too. I'd throw in the ABZ models as with the swamp ash bodies they can be very light, my ABZ 5 is 7.9lbs iirc. The nut is 45.5mm (if the 0.5mm will make a difference). 18mm string spacing, which I like as a nice compromise between narrower 16.5mm and 19mm on a 5 string, and has the most comfortable neck profile of basically every other bass i've played. I've recently had to go through a re-assessment of playing posture, weight distribution of instruments, fretting hand tensions etc. As I found myself suffering from repeated neck strains. So far, during the ~4 months of owning a Dingwall with correct strap setup, playing poster etc., I've had no re-occurring strains or injuries! Before the Dingwall my goto 5 string was a Yamaha BB 425x which was really heavy (as were all the other new yamaha BB's i've played), but I really liked the 18mm spacing and narrow nut. The Dingwall was basically the perfect upgrade, similar spacings and I actually prefer the slightly wider nut. One thing I found that helped with the Yamaha BB was getting a gruv gear Duo strap, so the weight of the bass is distributed over both shoulders. Using it with my Dingwall now, well, I barely feel the weight of the bass when standing up!

Hi Charic - I think I need to add an edit to my first post now to clarify. This [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]survey is not about sight reading at all. It is about your playing ability.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I am wanting to analyse how challenging a piece of music is given the sum of the things involved in the physical playing of it. The assumptions that other people have made in this thread relating it to sight reading is likely a miss understanding introduced when I mentioned i'd be using notated music in response to ivansc's question related to the purpose of this survey.[/font][/color] As a note: complexity/difficulty in reading a piece of music is a different issue to what this survey is investigating - i'm only interest here in the playing and specifically how competent you think you are in performing/executing/doing a variety of bass specific techniques and general musical things. This work isn't the totality of my PhD its the first steps in the data gather part. The results will be used as a way to judge how challenging a piece of music is but it feeding into a much larger question/problem that is the main focus on my PhD!

Thanks again to all the new people for both giving it a go and also to those who've completed it I really appreciated it! [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1463065664' post='3048261'] Got half way through, got bored and started wondering what the object of all this worthy stuff is. I have zero musical education beyond music GCE "O" level but have taught a bunch of people to play, including the application of theory. Utterly mystified as to why you think being able to sproing about over a 12 fret interval is relevant to bass playing, to cite one oddness. If I found myself doing this whilst playing, I would assume I was either showing off in a rather tasteless way or someone had nudged my left elbow. Please tell us what this is all about - I might go back and do it all if I know there is an actual end to all this. [/quote] Thats a fair point. The end goal is to be able to take a piece of music that has been notated, a detailed transcription or some other detailed annotation of the music and have a computer automatically determine how difficult the piece is to play. Some pieces of music might require you to play beyond the 12th fret or any other the other things i'm asking - i'm just trying my best to be thorough! As for purpose of the study... being able to compare pieces of music based on their difficulty is something I need to be able to do in my PhD, and will likely be useful to other research in music information retrieval and musicological fields It could also help or aid in bass player education contexts, and help in recommending musical pieces that are of a similar difficulty, or are slightly more/less difficult to a given piece/pieces or suitable for someone playing expertise/ability. If you would like more specific (read: technical) information i'm happy to PM you and to answer any other questions

That is strange, tbh i'm not sure why that is happening. All t[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1463055495' post='3048134'] Tried again - still can't click inside the boxes.. [/quote] Hmmm i'm not sure whats going on in that case. Thank you for trying though! And thanks spyder!

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1463054971' post='3048122'] I tried but I wasn't able to get past the first question - nothing to do with my competence - I was able to click into my age or how long have you been playing boxes.. [/quote] Ah yes I can see that being troublesome. You actually need to type in your year of birth and number of years you have been playing. I've added some clarification now - hopefully that allows you to progress!