Lemuel Beam

[quote name='subaudio' post='401052' date='Feb 5 2009, 02:14 PM']Cheers Chris, good stuff, i will deffinatley give them a go. Anymore for anymore?[/quote] +1 for chrkelly's comments. Furthermore, I'd recommend the John Goldsby "Jazz bass" book - he has a great chapter on the use of rehearsal/practice time, and a comprehensive list of topics to cover.. LB

[quote name='hubrad' post='395690' date='Jan 30 2009, 07:59 PM']Hmm. I'm stuck with IE6 as I use Win2000 Prof - nice and stable but lost support from MS. They're pulling support from WinXP in a while.. anyone think that'll give them time to iron out all the Vista incompatibilities? Plucking up courage to switch OS to Linux or just get my hand deep in my pocket and buy a Mac![/quote] Linux is very friendly these days - and there is massive community support, especially for the popular distros.. jump in!! Lem (currently running Ubuntu 7.10)

[quote name='Bassassin' post='365804' date='Dec 29 2008, 09:59 PM']Just think, if you'd hung on to it you could have punted it for £400, like he just did for that. Despite not getting his original £600, I think that's a record for Korean plywood garbage. Recession? What recession? J.[/quote] If memory serves think I got 50 quid off my next buy, an Aria Pro 2. My conscience is clear..

[quote name='ezbass' post='366046' date='Dec 30 2008, 10:17 AM'][b]Best[/b] British Bassist (singular). No such thing. [b]My Favourite[/b] British Bassist. Pino.[/quote] Mo Foster, Danny Thompson..

Identical to my first bass, bought in '78 for £90.00. An absolute heap of sh*t.

[quote name='N64Lover' post='341925' date='Dec 1 2008, 02:17 PM']Ello, im having troubles with feedback at gigs. I play in a jazz trio but the drummer is quite loud, and I have to stand quite close to my amp. The problem is the higher I get up the neck, the more I get a resonant sounding trail off the end of my notes. Its almost like having a slapback delay on there, and its making it very hard to hear the notes and play perfectly in tune. Coming from a history of playing electric bass ive never really had to deal with this, so im a bit stumped as to what to do. I play a carved bass with a realist pickup through an EA iamp 350 combo, which I put on a chair. Are there any ways of tackling it? EQ? Standing further away from the amp?[/quote] Unless you're looking for a really good "acoustic" sound I would try another pickup - I used an Underwood with a loud band for years and it easily outperforms the Realist for volume, if not tonal quality. Mick

Le freak here: [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tmayyBbBUA8"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tmayyBbBUA8[/url]

A big thumbs up for Imaccer - prompt payment upfront, and then a tortuous ten day wait while Parcelforce managed to mislay his purchase, a Cort GB25 5 string bass. It finally arrived at his address in Spain this morning, in A1 condition. I'd happily deal with Imaccer again, although I won't be in a hurry to ship an *expensive* bass overseas after this little adventure... =;0) Mick

[quote name='Kirky' post='283741' date='Sep 14 2008, 03:21 PM']I contacted Medicine for the Meek but apparently I'm too old. At 45. For an [i]Americana band[/i]! Bastards.[/quote] +1 mate..

[quote name='Moody' post='326854' date='Nov 11 2008, 03:34 PM']I agree. (Are there any girls on this list?)[/quote] There are..

[quote name='ianrunci' post='327628' date='Nov 12 2008, 02:25 PM']Don't know why everyone slags off Mustang Sally, its a classic soul tune by a classic soul singer.[/quote] indeed ..but I've heard sh*t versions by wedding/cover bands who don't know how (or can't be bothered) to reproduce the groove properly.. M

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='327285' date='Nov 12 2008, 08:51 AM']That sucked. Big time.[/quote] Bilbo, are you referring to the Bad Plus version of SLTS? Nooooo!! it's brilliant! Mick

"...but my attempts to be dazzled by A Love Supreme have been stymied ever since someone pointed out to me that the first six notes of Coltrane's saxophone solo on Acknowledgement are exactly the same as the theme tune to The Sweeney:." (Alex Petridis) Hilarious! Makes it worth putting that album on again after years of dismissing it in favour of something like Giant Steps Mick

I added dot markers to my cheapie starter upright by drilling 1mm dia holes in the side of the finger board for "frets" 3, 5 and 7, and filling with white filler - pretty unobtrusive, and easy to reverse. Positioning them is the tricky bit. Tuning must be spot on; I found that bowed strings are easier to check than pizz.. Any markers are only an "aide memoir" however - in the long run you need to develop a left hand technique that doesn't involve peering at the fingerboard Mick

[quote name='Merton' post='323966' date='Nov 7 2008, 08:58 AM']North East Bass Bash [/quote] Sounds like fun..

The Nightfly is a cracking album.. and I have good memories associated with summer '82, when it came out. I read somewhere that Abe Laboriel uses Yamaha basses - it's certainly a killer bass sound on that disc! Mick

[quote name='Mike' post='320753' date='Nov 3 2008, 10:42 AM']Hi all, I'm finally playing more jazz! Every other week I'm playing with a jazz fusion band, which is a real challenge but I'm very happy with how it's going. Because the venue demands some standards being played, I've been doing a lot of walking over Rhythm Changes and various tunes like Autumn Leaves - the "Mustang Sally" and "Johnny B Goode" of the Jazz World! I thought it would be good to get down a version of Giant Steps under my fingers just in case that comes up - I was wondering if anyone knew of a copy of a walking Giant Steps bassline available online? I am going to transcribe a few versions when I get the chance and can muddle through on my own reading the changes, but I thought it would be useful to have an ace up my sleeve in case it ever gets called on a gig I don't fancy reading bizarre changes at about 300bpm! Input gratefully received! Regards Mike[/quote] [url="http://www.bassplayer.com/article/take-some-giant/jul-06/22034"]http://www.bassplayer.com/article/take-som...nt/jul-06/22034[/url] has an example line (split into 3 or 4 links) for you to follow. On the Atlantic CD re-release there are two takes of GS; one is a slower version that may be easier to grab Cheers Mick

The 'real' purpose of sight reading is to acquaint you with music you have to play in order to get paid.. Sight reading as a skill in itself is useful if you do a lot of last minute dep jobs with charts..and like any skill, practice will improve your ability to nail a chart first time; good readers are looking ahead so they know what's coming 3, 4 or more bars down the line. However, in my experience, reading jobs nearly always have a rehearsal element built in, so the ability to sight read perfectly is not essential (hell, if it was I wouldn't get half the jobs I play on). If you want to improve your sight reading, read as much music as you can and make the mistakes. Don't get bogged down perfecting a chart - that's "rehearsing" - not reading.. Cheers Mick [quote name='Faithless' post='320291' date='Nov 2 2008, 05:03 PM']Despite not talking about the same problem, that I actually have, I wanted to ask, what the [i]real[/i] purpose of sight-reading[if you know, what I mean], so... Should I take quite fair amount of material, and play it as i'm reading it over and over, ooooooor, should I take a small 'picture', do it till perfectly [in memory, timing, positioning cases..] and only then go on to another...? Sorry, if this sounded stupid, but I just want to make sure.. The variant I'm currently doing is second one, btw, buuut, then again, why I'm doubting, is because it's called [i]Sight[/i]-reading..[/quote]

..and as for improving your walking bass lines, transcribe the greats - Paul Chambers, Ray Brown spring to mind. As others have said, Jam sessions, especially with musicians you've never met before, are great for inspiration. Mick [quote name='steve-norris' post='320007' date='Nov 2 2008, 10:36 AM']I recently spent some time without an electric bass, although an upright will be unpractical for you it did change my playing, it forces you to REALLY listen to what you play and gets you away form playing tired old pattens based around frets so perhaps a fretless or even one of those Ashboury rubber band basses might give you a new perspective?[/quote]

[quote name='TheRev' post='317646' date='Oct 29 2008, 03:10 PM']Stentor have a good reputation as decent quality cheap basses so I'd say go for it, especially with a mic and preamp thrown in.[/quote] Hi there I have a Stentor Elysia - quite small, almost viol di gamba size, but it has a solid top and an ebony fingerboard. The original hardware is pretty cheap and the bridge was poor, but after upgrading to an Aubert bridge, new soundpost, new tailwire and endpin, and velvet anima strings, I've got an instrument that sounds great! Mick