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Rexel Matador

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    Fender MIM PJ?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I played one of those "surf pearl" ones in a shop and it was great. Looks amazing too. I ended up going for a standard P as I didn't really want the bells and whistles (J pick up, active electronics). That said, you can (I think) switch between active and passive, so you have the best of both worlds. In short, a great sounding and feeling bass (the one I played, anyway), with a very striking finish.

    Battery - Metallica

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    [quote name='interpol52' timestamp='1481126816' post='3189895']
    If this is the actual bass track then it is quite different to a lot of the transcriptions I have seen. Those tricky triplets in the verse/main riff are not played.

    [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJF06bNLVlo[/media]
    [/quote]

    [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWah1etM3g0[/media]

    Here's another one with (what sounds like) that same bass track as well as the drums. You could always start with that to get the song down and then add the triplets if you feel the need.

    What can possibly go wrong/Worst gig

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    When I was younger I would almost always have a dream the night before a gig about the gig going wrong. Eventually I noticed that the gigs always went fine [i]except[/i] on the occasions that I didn't have the dream.

    Worst actual awake gigging experience has to be when the singer got frustrated with the drummer for messing up and kicked him out of the band onstage, mid-set (speaking into the microphone the whole time too, now that I think about it). I'm hoping that that remains my worst gig for many years to come.

    Why are Drummers so Unreliable?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    When I was younger, I used to sit around in the living room getting stoned with my friends most evenings. My tolerance for the stuff was relatively low though, so I often ended up staggering up to the bathroom to sip water and lie on the floor until the room stopped spinning. On one such occasion, I looked up and saw a tiny, perfect likeness of my own face looking back at me from a patch of black mould in the corner of the bathroom ceiling. The shock of it jolted me into a more alert state and I managed to clamber up onto the bathtub for a closer look. Naturally, my first thought was "wow, this weed must be strong, I'm hallucinating". But it turned out my drummer had actually scraped my portrait in the ceiling mould with a pin a couple of days earlier and just left it there for me to eventually notice.

    What are you listening to right now?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='timmo' timestamp='1478530033' post='3169621']
    I was having a bit of a 60`s psychedelic moment and came across The Sacred Mushroom, with the album being the same name. So I am listening to them at the moment
    [/quote]
    Just checking this out on YouTube now - awesome! Thanks for the tip :)

    I've been pleasantly surprised to discover that the new Metallica album actually doesn't completely suck. The drum sound is absurd, mind.

    Solo gig this coming Friday lunchtime.

    in Gigs

    Posted

    Damn, and I lived in Birmingham up until a few months ago! Not much use to you now, I suppose, but consider it moral support from afar.

    Love the track, it's just so... gentle is the word that comes to mind, which I don't think I've ever used in relation to music before.

    Basschatters' Soundcloud accounts

    in Share Your Music

    Posted · Edited by Rexel Matador

    [url="https://soundcloud.com/joeshier"]https://soundcloud.com/joeshier[/url]

    Mostly blues. The older stuff is solo acoustic so no bass there, but the more recent uploads are "full band" arrangements.

    Edit: perhaps I should have commented on some other posts before posting my own. I've listened to a whole bunch of them though - I don't know what I was expecting but the sheer variety is wonderful!

    Hello from Northumberland

    in Introductions

    Posted

    [quote name='josie' timestamp='1479600992' post='3177823']
    Understood. I stick to the cheaper ones, and I do lose one now and then, but it's worth it for the pleasure I get from experimenting and playing with them. I'm resisting getting into the fine details of amps and pups - but £5 each to compare the feel and sound of a stubby resin pick to a sharp wood to a heavy stone star (and they do sound different!) is vfm for me.
    [/quote]
    You certainly make a good case! It's food for thought, to be sure.

    Fuzzy Blues

    in Share Your Music

    Posted · Edited by Rexel Matador

    Here are some blues tunes I recorded recently. I'm toying with the idea of putting a trio together to do this live. I'd probably play guitar so the bass player slot is open! Anyway...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMl6ml6lnTM

    [url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zw9kePyejd0"]https://www.youtube....bed/zw9kePyejd0[/url]

    [url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qgx3fUtdC8A"]https://www.youtube....bed/Qgx3fUtdC8A[/url]

    Hello from Northumberland

    in Introductions

    Posted

    Thanks!🙂

    Probably could have googled it myself, couldn't I? But it's always nicer to engage with an actual human if possible.

    While they look lovely, the idea of a plectrum being something I wouldn't be ok with losing doesn't really sit well with me, because I *will* lose them!

    Chord change before the beat

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    I was wondering, is there a commonly understood term for when a chord change or riff starts just before the first beat of the bar - like when the main riff to Enter Sandman kicks in, for example?

    I'm playing in a rock band with a drummer who is a bit too, shall we say, "relaxed" about such things, and as it happens a lot in the songs that we're playing, I want to be able to communicate effectively with the other members of the band and make sure we're all locked in.

    At the moment it sometimes sounds like we're not even playing the same song!

    Anyway, as it happens a lot in rock music, I thought maybe it has a name. Thoughts?

    Hello from Northumberland

    in Introductions

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

    I took up bass about 6 months ago after many years of playing guitar. Just did it on a whim to spice things up and now I'm obsessed - should have done it years ago! I've thrown myself in the deep end and joined a hard rock band. I must be doing something right because they're a very talented bunch and they took me on. But I have an awful lot to learn and hope to evolve beyond the point of "guitarist who switched to bass because the band needed a bass player". You can take my plectrum when you pry it from my cold dead hands though ;) - I like the sound and the speed of it. Ironically, I mostly played guitar without one.

    I play a white Ibanez SR300E but now spend 24 hours a day coveting various more expensive instruments. My first upgrade will probably be a Fender precision, though I'm a little daunted by the great big necks they seem to have. I assume I'll get used to it - millions before me did.

    I have a Hartke LH1000 head and Hydrive 810 cab. Yes, it's a bit much for a beginner but it was an absolute steal and let's not forget that I have two Marshall stacks to contend with... I mean... complement.

    Players I dig: Matt Freeman, Geddy Lee, John Entwistle, Fat Mike, Cliff Burton, Eric Wilson.

    That ended up being quite long - how terrible self-indulgent of me. Thanks for having me, anyway. Looking forward to picking some brains.

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