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    Playing songs in a covers band you dont always like.?

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    3 minutes ago, ubit said:

      You can read it more than once if you want but if you do your name will be mud and you won’t be able to call yourself a real forum poster! 


    I’m comfortable in my self awareness that I’m a talentless, soulless waste of time.

     

    I struggle to play bass lines I’ve written after one listen.

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    Playing songs in a covers band you dont always like.?

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    1 minute ago, lozkerr said:

    Prophetic thread this... just had a WhatsApp from our BL. They're firing me because I needed more than one listen to nail Jerry Was A Race Car Driver.

     

    Gutted 😭😭😭😭😭


    That tune really gets them going down the Dog and Duck on a Friday night. Perhaps a covers band isn’t your thing. Have you thought about period-correct Icelandic Melancholy Originals?

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    Playing songs in a covers band you dont always like.?

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    16 minutes ago, TimR said:

    I don't get it.

     

    Most songs.

     

    Not every song. MOST songs. Seriously, are you guys really bass players?

     

    I could pick out tons of songs that need loads of work, but most don't and unfortunately/fortunately  the songs that don't require loads of work, and are easy and mostly boring to play, are the ones that get the crowd going. 

     

     

    Singer: Right, we need to pick a setlist for Friday night. It's my sister's birthday and there's a few tunes she'd like us to do.

     

    Guitarist: Cool!

     

    Singer: She'd like to do Mr Blue Sky..

     

    Drummer: Love that tune.

     

    Bass: Yeah, er.. No. Too complex. Bass solo, loads of complexity. Can't learn that in just one listen through. Sorry.

     

    Singer: Er.... okaaaay. How about All Right Now?

     

    Guitarist: Need to work on the riffs, but cool

     

    Bass: Er.. nope. Bass is a bit complex there as well, specially rhythmically. Nope. Again, more than one listen through there.

     

    Singer: Hhhhh. Right. Okay, so what exactly do you think we should do?

     

    Bass: Zombie?

     

    Singer: I'm a 44 year old male who's smoked more than Hilda Ogden and you expect me to sing that??

     

    Bass: Creep?

     

    Singer: Oh come on!

     

    Bass: Comfortably Numb. That's dead easy. One listen through and I'm sorted.

     

    Singer: Fine. I'll take one listen through and any lyrics I don't remember I'll just "umm", "aaah" and "ooh"

     

    Guitarist: Yeah, and those two solos will take more than one listen through so I'll just strum chords then

     

    Bass: I'm not sure being in a covers band is really for you guys....

     

     

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    Playing songs in a covers band you dont always like.?

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    59 minutes ago, neepheid said:

     

    What is this nonsense?  I have had to learn songs I've never listened to before, songs I've heard once or twice and ones I'm intimately famiilar with.  All three take more intense study than you suggest to get them to a standard I'd be happy exhibiting in public.  I frankly don't care if you think being in a covers band "isn't really for" me on this basis.

     

    You just sound condescending here.


    Actually, on a serious note, a flippant “one listen through is enough” is disrespectful to the other musicians in the band, and to the audience.

     

    In any band I’ve been in this would be a reason for sacking.

     

    I make a point of not joining bands where a level of mutual respect isn’t shown.

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    Playing songs in a covers band you dont always like.?

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    7 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

     

    This.

     

    His definition of "learned" is what I would call "be able to recognise it on the radio again and play along to it badly" - nowhere near actually being able to duplicate it let alone perform it to an acceptable standard.

     


    The attitude expressed would explain why I’ve heard some utterly shocking performances in pubs and clubs over the years though…..

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    Music Keyboard and Software.

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    2 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:

    @Bridgehouse

    Google has found a Refurb M-Audio KeyRig 49 Key USB for £25 + £2 postage (24 months waranty)...

     

    Twas looking at the Akai but my Son mentioned mord keys and normal size, so was thinking Nektar SE49

     

    Is this an earlier version of the keystattion? Should i go for this as toe-in-the-water?

     

    Cheers


    As long as it acts as a USB controller it will be fine for a start.

     

    The biggest price jumps come from semi-weighted and weighted keys, and then other controller buttons and pads on the device. 
     

    Most importantly you need a decent software package - have a look at Reason or Ableton Live for starters and go from there

    Music Keyboard and Software.

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    Well now. How far do you want to go down the rabbit hole?

     

    I’d get a USB keyboard controller like an m-audio key station 49 or equivalent and then pick a digital audio workstation piece of software to play, record etc.

     

    Most of them come with instruments built in, and you can add to it later with others both free and paid for. 
     

    The other option is a proper synth that still plugs into the PC but has built in patches and can be played live without a PC. More expensive but you get the option of taking it out and about to play. 

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    Some VERY good news at last - live music back by the Spring?

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    1 minute ago, skej21 said:

    Because we can’t treat it like normal flu. With normal flu, we vaccinate the elderly to protect them against it annually. That vaccine is effective, and is also given to those caring for the vulnerable. That means transmission is a lot lower and risk is lower (hence why a small number experience severe of fatal symptoms). 
     

    Until there’s a similar vaccine for Covid, we can’t deal with it in the same way. Accepting deaths because we don’t try to protect the vulnerable in the absence in of a vaccine, IMO isn’t the same.

    There is a similar vaccine. In fact, the ones released so far are more effective.

     

    Flu is an RNA virus just like SARS-Cov-2, but so far flu seems to mutate quicker and more extremely. 
     

    If anything Cov-2 is more like mumps or rubella which are also RNA viruses. 
     

    Most RNA viruses mutate to be more transmissible but less deadly - flu tends to be the same but mutates in odd ways. 
     

    We have vaccines. We have a strategy. At some point Cov-19 will become a background illness which kills a small number of people. The advances in treatment alone have brought the death rate down. However, when that will be is the unknown.

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    Basses you see and wanty.. Thread.

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    32 minutes ago, Quilly said:

    While it really like the sound and look of the 51 p bass. My thumb can’t get used to that pickup position. I tried that Harley Benton p bass. Great bass but I couldn’t get on with it . I just find the traditional p bass a more comfortable bass.

    I play with my thumb resting on the string below, so it doesn’t bother me - if anything I find the lack of contouring more of an issue

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