musicbassman

Here's another idea - learn to play your bass lines with loads of well placed ghost notes. This can really fill out the rhythm, and once you've mastered the technique it becomes almost second nature.

This has all the bad smell of a brand/company that has completely lost it's way. If they were smashing up a shipload of knockoff Chinese copies and they were claiming they were 'dangerous' I could just about understand this, but to proudly and publically declare your own guitars are nothing more than useless firewood is mind numbing lunacy. If you're deliberately going to destroy stock then you'd surely do that as privately as possible. Will the last person to buy a Gibson please put the lights out as you leave.

For uploads, you don't have to use Soundcloud - you can upload an MP3 file straight into your post (as I did earlier) And as for your TinFoilHat browser, I understand it's a very popular choice amongst Welsh conspiracy theorists, look you.

I find all these posters who are taliking about similar attitudes from other members of their bands quite unbelievable. Are you the bass player? - yes. Is this the band you play in ? - yes. Give or take the odd weirdly shaped stage or playing area, do you always put your amp in roughly the same place? - yes So, the rest of the band know where you go and roughly how much space you need for your amp - so what's with this crazy attitude? It must get the night off to a really bad start if this is happening. Some people need to b****y well grow up. You're supposed to be making music together, not having ego wars.

Absolutely ambient, I can't disagree with you there. Just to clarify, when I said 'intervals' I also included in that the ability to hear chord changes - i.e. if a guitarist plays a chord sequence and says "that was in G" you could name the chords being played, and could also hear additional notes within those chords - e.g. the difference in sound between and straight major and a Maj 7th. And let's not get started on the 'perfect pitch' debate. 🙄 (and no, I certainly haven't been blessed/cursed with this! )

- and then we can enjoy setting up Committees to establish the exact rules of play, sub committees to make sure the game is inclusive (might involve diversity awareness training), written risk assessments for those playing 'challenging' bass lines etc, etc - hours of fun ! 😳

Well, Tina Weymouth is/was a very creative bass player, and I'd respectfully hazard a guess that she knew diddly squat about music theory, she just 'heard' a possible line in her head and then figured it out on the bass. And this is how wonderful stuff like 'Once in a Lifetime' comes about - it's pure artistry. I think the most useful skill to learn for bass players is being able to hear intervals accurately. Once you can do this, you can understand how some dep bass players can just arrive at a gig to play with some covers band they've never set eyes on before, and play a whole list of covers almost note perfect straight off, with no music or chord charts to help. Now that's a real skill..

Well, I was only trying to keep things going... I'll wait for the ref's whistle next time. Poor ref, that means he's now got to monitor this thread 24/7 from now on, or risk receiving complaints 😥

Yay ! Well done.

Oh dear - I thought this might be rather easy! If no one gets it in the next hour or so I'll post a big clue.

OK, found the time to work out how to record something at last. Big hit from the '80's - this is the verse bass line (shortened). bass line 1.mp3

I'd do one, but did a trial recording straight off my phone and the sound quality was awful. I'm no tech whizz - can you load an Mp3 direct from Audacity onto here?

Hi bubinga5, I feel sorry for you, and you're taking this rejection like a champ. But there's a few things that don't quite stack up - you joined a band doing soul/funk covers - presumably because (a) you enjoy playing these and (b) you know you're going to get regular paid work because the band are playing this material - bums on seats etc - and then along comes your new singer, and all this goes out the window because the guitarist and singer want to do the singer's own material ??? WTF ??? Surely the singers own material should be a side project - you don't sacrifice a perfectly good gigging set up just to appease some guy with his own material, and just because he wants to get off on this. And then you say the new bass player is a 'pro' - what, in terms of ability? Because if the band's suddenly going to start doing original material then they'll be joining the other 10,000 original bands in the UK scraping for any work at all, so your new bassist won't be able to give up the day job any day soon. So, tough as it may seem, you might be well out of this, and you can then find a band that has much clearer goals and objectives from day one. Best of luck !

Control, discipline, exact note lengths, restraint....it's all there. Straight 10's from all the judges.

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https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/wedding-band-decides-time-is-right-for-one-of-their-own-songs-20190706187214

Likewise, never heard of Chip Boaz. And he appears to have a bad case of lockjaw. Medical help is available.

Try this - simple to use, shows bands in similar genre areas. https://www.music-map.com/

Wow! - how great to find some musicians who inspire you, restore your faith in playing, and make you look forward to every rehearsal!. Best wishes for your project, and keep the updates coming.

Composed by bots, surely? Next week, how to build a space rocket in an afternoon, and also, how to end global poverty with this one handy tip.

Ouch! - well I stuck in there for 3 minutes in case I had a sudden realisation that this was actually 'avant-garde art noise' and I just wasn't getting it. But then I reluctantly concluded it was actually just pure tosh done by some kid in his bedroom.

Well, this was my rig in 1973 - A Wallace bass amp (new, bought directly from Wallace in Praed St mews at Paddington) Pair of 1x12 exponential horn cabinets Pair of Carlsbro 2x15 cabs It was vast, and needed a small truck to move it about, but was err...a bit loud.

Skankdelvar, is this your doing?

Ah - found him! - here he is....

Why not combine your interests? Here's the link to the site which talks about bass dolls, but the link to the original Japanese site is 404, unfortunately. http://www.bunnybass.com/e-zine/amusing/amusingbass58.shtml