musicbassman

I'm well into my sixties, and Mr Brightside is................. a beautifully crafted piece of pop rock dealing with one of the oldest of love emotions, jealousy.

I think some of the complainers on here may be suffering a bit from jealousy themselves, and secretly wishing they'd written it themselves.

And  if I'd written it, I'd certainly be very proud to tell everyone  🙂

I hope you're not being serious.

That's a song called 'The lady in my Life' from Michael Jackson's Thriller album, which was recorded in 1982. The bass player was Steve Lukather. 🙂

However, it would be interesting to find the earliest genuine footage of the genesis of slap playing. 👍

Not wishing to rain on your parade,  best wishes to you - but I can't imagine this has gone down too well with the neighbours. Did you get planning permission for this ?

Nicely played.

Sounds like a mashup between some standard MOR 70's soul and Vulfpecks 'Back Pocket'

Well....... it's certainly.......errr...........original.

And if it was on display in the Tate Modern, people would be queuing up to say just how very clever it was.

Blimey - 'tis a small world. I lived just up the road from Halligan Heap Studios (Benwell Road) from around 1975 - 1981.

Halligan Heap was a smelly dive as I recall, with appalling (nonexistent) ventilation. Only recall using it a couple of times. There was also another rehearsal/recording studio just the other side of the Tube station run by a guy called Curly Clayton. He appeared to be a bit of a recluse, but I understood he'd been a well known jazz guitarist back in the day. He lived in a tiny windowless room wedged in behind the studio.

I made a triping error once - I tried eating the stuff.......

Never again.  😝

Here's Freddie Washington playing 'Forget Me Nots' with Patrice Rushen at some open air event. He was the original bass player on the recording.

He doesn't let up his concentration for the entire performance, and his playing is so clipped and precise - absolutely brilliant.

Patrice Rushen is no slouch on the keyboard either, as this clip demonstrates later on.

And I love how at around 4.30 she gets the audience to clap along ON the beat - I wonder why ? 😏 😄🙄

If you're starting from scratch it may work out way cheaper to buy a standard anti-vandal site cabin, even if you have to have it craned into position (Allow about £1k for this)

There are loads of these about.in all sizes. A decent one will be £3k - £5k  Check for roof corrosion - that's what kills these.

Bottom pic is a cabin being craned into my back garden when we moved into a newly refurbished place about 7 years ago.

Captain Rumble's just collected a set of DR Sunbeams from me,

Nice guy, if it wasn't for Covid I'd have invited him in for a cup of tea and a chat !

DR Sunbeams, nickel plated roundcore, 4 string set, 45 - 105, ordered 4 days ago, delivered two days ago from Strings Direct, only used for a few hours.

These are great sounding strings but I can tell they're going to be slightly too heavy for me, so I'm going to reorder the same strings but 40 - 100.

These haven't been cut to length, they are just as supplied.

Save yourself a few quid, these are £22 inc postage.

You can pay by Paypal or by BACS prior to sending. Look at my profile on here, I'm a regular contributor to the forum !  🙂

31 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

Whenever I try to take a peek at what they're doing, they tell me to sod off and mind my own business.

So true, that's exactly how it is !

A bit like some odd fingerings for certain bass parts - if you think about it too much, it stops happening......

7 hours ago, EMG456 said:

I really enjoyed all three of those - should I be worried?

However... anybody care to explain to me what microtonalities are being used in either the Planet Microjam or the BabaZula clips?

 

With Planet Microjam, Freyja Garbett's upper keyboard is tuned about a sixth of a tone (I'm guessing) sharp compared to the lower one. That's all, but I agree with Woodwinds comments about intonation of the Suona.

The keyboard's differences most clearly demonstrated at around 4.55 - 5.15.

Here's microtonality done properly - it's Planet Microjam at Berklee

Guitarist is Dave Fiuczynski (used to be with Hiromi Uehara ) and I guess his playing style is pure Marmite.

Have a listen........... bassist Arti Sadtler is doing a good job holding it all together.

The bass line on this is originally from a 1981 number by Pino D'Angio called Ma quale Idea, but here it is slightly speeded up and used to make this banger from 1999. Bass line heaven, in my opinion, but an absolute pig to play fluently !

Wow ! - the way he pushes and pulls the rhythm..........

Would love to hear that alongside the drum track.

And, not wishing to start an argument here, but I would say that's definitely played with a pick

Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson.

The harmony guitar part in the middle (starts 2.25 here) sounds completely unconnected from the rest of the song.

But it's still pretty amazing, and I think it was played by Lee Ritenour.

The Shuggie Otis original of this sounds more coherent as a song.

Jojo Mayer's already been mentioned, but absolutely agree.

And a big shout for Khruangbin's human metronome, Donald "DJ" Johnson   👍

The lengthy build up to the main bass single note groove is just over 2 minutes long. Worth the wait !

What a great band !

Starts at 0.21.

Sleep well, everybody  😥

How about these for starters?

Can't Stop the Feeling

Call me maybe

I can't feel my face

Moves like Jagger

I made this up a few months ago to fit my standard P.  No mods required, it simply attaches to existing scratchplate screws. The base plate is thin metal with a small block of UPVC plastic glued on top to try and mimic the same feel as your thumb resting on the side of the P pup as far as possible, and it works pretty well.

I tried it as an experiment to get a slightly more bridge pup sound from a P,  and it really does this.

My son is a design engineer and I asked him if it could be 3D printed, but he thought that the base plate would still have to be metal to get the structural rigidity required. So I'm not planning on going into production quite yet.   However, it only took me about 30 mins to make !  🙂

Back to basics - you should have a bass guitar that sounds like ....errrr..........a bass guitar anytime you plug it straight into a desk or an amp. It's that simple.

Any effects pedals should be just to fine tune your sound or to get a particular effect, not to get a basic sound.

I'm no expert, but this problem simply sounds like the input on your desk is set far too sensitively for the chunky bass signal you're providing. What if you plug straight into a small amp? Do you have the same problem?