Steve Woodcock

9 hours ago, MJJS said:

Just in case you’ve never been shown: when you fit a bass buggy, lie the bass (in its case) on its side and attach the buggy to the side in the air. Then just roll up and over onto the wheels.

Hi all,

Sorry for the late reply, only just seen all these messages.

20 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

How does this fare on slightly rougher terrain - car parks, grassed areas in parks, etc?

 

I haven't used it at any festivals but I imagine it would fare well—the mudguard will keep the bottom of the gig bag clean for a start! It has the same size wheels as the Bass Buggie, but because they are mounted proud you get more ground clearance; the only downside is the wheelbase is narrower—7" versus the Buggie's 13.5", in reality though I've found that the far greater surface area cradling the bass means that it feels much sturdier in this so none of the oscillation that we've both experienced with the Buggie, it's also more responsive to cornering. Having a bit of 'armour' around the lower bout of my bass has been useful in London tube travel...

@Happy Jack, you are welcome to come and give it a test drive if you like as I can't find a box to post it to Lawrie.

The only reason I'm keeping the Buggie over this is purely down to size—I've played a bunch of smaller jazz clubs where space was at a premium and trying to find a space to stash a gig bag and this was a challenge (same goes with my flat!), otherwise I'd be keeping it.

Here is an innovative alternative to a bass wheel, designed and hand made by double bassist Steve Berry (of Loose Tubes fame). More info here at http://www.wheelbass.co.uk/

The substantial 'mudguard' cradle of this has protected my bass well from doorways and other such dangers, but I have recently opted for the lighter and more compact solution of a Bass Buggie.

Collection only from London W4.

22 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Yes please if you still have them 

Great, yes. You want to collect or are you happy to cover postage?

Stick Night ‘99 VHS tape. Live performances from a bunch of Chapman Stick artists. Show it to the kids and see their bewilderment at both the Chapman Stick and a VHS tape.

Cassette tapes for the Dr. Licks Standing in the Shadows of Motown book, still sealed. Tapes are back in again, right? 😅

Hi Jack, I'll take it please if @calduggan doesn't.

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Power Bass - Soloing Secrets and Xtreme! Bass books by Bunny Brunel, both in excellent condition and complete with CDs. 

£20 for both, posted. 

I'll be playing with De Profundis at the Scala in London on December 14th, supporting Anaal Nathrakh and Sigh:

Album links:

Spotify

YouTube

BandCamp

Offers welcome, including trades; keen to move this on.

Full album out now, all played on fretless except for a short two-handed tapping section in song 5:

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Bump. Rubber padding still usable if you rotate it around, I just wanted to show the worst of it for transparency.

I've just bought a ramp from Vin - I paid in the early hours of Monday morning and it was delivered Tuesday morning! Super fast turnaround, would buy from again.

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Positive feedback as a seller for Smanth from me, having just bought her HX Stomp. Very pleasant and relaxed transaction, would have no qualms buying from again.

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Another new one from me, again from the upcoming De Profundis album:

11 hours ago, Caz said:

Hi Steve - yes good point, thanks. I had that at first, then wondered because it's E minor is flatting an already flat note in the scale just double flatting so decided on VImaj7 and VII9, then saw in the Berklee course they go for bVImaj7 and bVII9. By the time I did the Luther chart a few days later, which is basically the exact same chords in a different order, I had corrected the terminology - well spotted!

Think of the major scale as being the 'default' position of the scale degrees on which we build chords and name them in relation to that.

On 11/06/2022 at 16:05, Caz said:

Finally got around to making a chart for American Boy. Still think it's interesting the E maj / E minor thing, have written it in E minor with a bit of harmonic analysis underneath the stave.

 

Hi Caz, you're nearly there:

• Yes, it's in E minor - the Imaj7 chord is from the parallel key of E major.
• Cmaj7 is a bVImaj7
• D9 is a bVII9 - it functions as a substitute for the V chord (sometimes referred to as a backdoor dominant)
• Fmaj7 is a bIImaj7 and is from the parallel E Phrygian mode

On 18/06/2022 at 12:03, Caz said:

Here's another example of modal interchange, borrowing from the parallel major. This one's more clearly in the minor key than American Boy or Luther, it just tonicizes the parallel major key in the post-chorus and borrows from it (the G chords) at the end of each section.

Don't view G as borrowed from the parallel major, it's diatonic to C (harmonic) minor

14 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Suffice to say, one of the songs dropped on him was Maxwell's Silver Hammer...

 

The sort of song where if you don't know it  you won't be able to anticipate most of the chord changes

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is not difficult, it just contains a few secondary dominants (indicated by V7/_ on the chart below): 

Price drop to £20.

Very sturdy Stagg double bass stand for sale. Folds flat. 

Rubber on lower support arms is worn, plus some marking on the side of the extending neck support, both of which I've tried to show in the photos. 

On 26/02/2022 at 10:55, sykilz said:

Oooh, really like that.

I'm more of a traditional metal guy, but that's great, the reason I found this thread is I saw a mate's sons band yesterday they were ??death core???, anyway, they had a fretless bass player and it just didn't work for me, all very boomy and ill defined, but this is what it should be like, your playing in this track is very well defined and punchy. 
Do you think that the fretless makes a huge difference in the final mixed track as opposed to a fretted? Or have you always played a fretless in such bands so don't know/care??😆

Thanks @sykilz, I'm glad you liked it.

That's a good question: honestly no, I don't think it did make a huge difference - in fact when I submitted the session file the guys in the band didn't even realise it was fretless! 🙄 I'll take that as a compliment about my intonation I guess, haha 😅 I've been playing fretless for about 26 years now I think and have used it in similar settings throughout that time but ultimately my decision to use it on this particular session was because their previous bassist had established fretless as part of the band's sound on their previous four albums.

Another one from me, here I am playing on the new single from UK death metallers De Profundis, again with my fretless Ibanez Gary Willis signature bass: