Nail Soup

I watched it, expecting it to be about some people forming a two tone band. It was more about the IRA etc... was a good watch, but mis-sold. They really have no idea about how a band works.. they painted the main guy as the lyrics person and the blond girl as the musical leader of the group, but they passed ideas between them or collaborated on anything. At the drummer's audition they decided whether to give her the job by recording two versions of the song ... one with her on drums and one with no drums at all. If the one with drums sounded better the job was hers! Especially ridiculous she was obviously a really good drummer. The girl in the record shop who had no had no musical experience at the last minute decided to take up bass. Next scene.. the band are playing a song with a cracking bassline. But I suppose non-musicians won't have noticed and just enjoyed it on face value. And maybe people who know any thing about IRA situation at that time would have found lots of faults with that side of the story.

Most of my favourite lines would be too simple or not well-known enough to serve as a party piece. So I'll go for "Good Times" by Chic.

Yes, one of the Johnny Ramones 'rules' was no guitar solos. On the occasional Ramones song which had a guest solo, Johnny did not play it, or any other solo, live.

My (bad) experience was late 70's/early 80's at high school.

Can definitely agree with "Anyone Can Play Guitar"... really good tutorials and aligns well with my music taste.

How are they making these mixes? Some kind of AI, or do they have access to the original stems? Or something else?

Each to their own, but IMO a high G has the classic Uke sound and gives rise to the 'closely bunched' voicings.

A lot of really cheap ukes have tuning, intonation and playability issues and hold the player back. For a small upgrade you can get a pretty decent one. You don't need to go high level, just something around 100 quid, similar to a starter level bass.

Of course for some other instruments and styles, it is desirable to have long nails on the plucking/picking/strumming hand. There must be those who also play bass... so I guess they work round it by means other than cutting.

I'm in for this... This is a song I've been meaning to cover for a couple of years now, but never found an approach I've been happy with - until now! Techy stuff: DAW: Studio one Drums: Snare/Tom/Ride played live into one mic (95% is a single take - the 3rd) , then added suitcase bass drum on a different track. Plus percussion. Bass: Vantage Avenger Guitars: Squier affinity Telecaster, homemade 3 string cigar box guitar with slide Vox: SM38 mic

When I read the title I first of all thought it meant what to buy as his 18th bass...

I've seen the ad and would not have recognised Buble (even with the singing at the end) were he not referenced by name right near the beginning.

Inside of a violin?

Thanks. If that's the case, and I was directing that video, when he hit each drum 3 or 4 times they would have been at different volumes with a comment about the sensitivity.

As far as I can make out, none of these type of 'air drum' products are velocity sensitive, so you cannot vary the volume of the hit. If so, that limits the usefulness for me. Anyone know any different?

That's vewry funny, and good advice too. Especially funny what he calls bass players and pretending to think they are the most useless liability in the band... he is joking right?

People may refer to you as a good player with the added bonus of not being able to slap.

Sure - as Pete says, it is triple C tuning gCGCC . The term modal gets applied to banjo tunings which are neither major nor minor. Can also apply to other instruments of course.

How did the bill ever get to be that way round?

Considering they didn't play the instruments, they made an OK job of miming the bass and guitar.

If that’s the case why does the paradiddle etc even exist? If L and R are identical then isn’t paradiddle same as, say, mama papa?

In other shock news: Drummer quite good at percussion too Piano player not bad on organ either

Don't know, but I'm going to have guess: passing chord.

Good to see Reef “Put Your Hands” getting a few mentions here… I’d forgotten that awful song. But it did somehow remind me of the dreadful “Two Princes” by Spin Doctors.

Yes MITB is the one that surprised me..