TimR

With bass it's often even easier. Just hit the first note of each bar.

This is one of my favourite tracks. Theme tune to the Radio 1 Friday Night Rock Show with Tommy Vance. I don't know how many tapes I had of the show. I would go to bed at 10pm and listen to it every Friday. There's a Facebook group where people share recording and playlists. What an era.

The stave is designed for piano. The lines and spaces represent the 7 degrees of the C major scale. That's why treble clef starts on middle C, the ledger line below the staff and the ledger line above the bass clef. The first note to recognise on the bass clef is E, which can only be played in one place. Open E string.

Not really. Bidders from 140 countries. It could have been bought by anyone.

All the money will go into Jeff Becks estate and be charged inheritance tax assuming it is UK based. So the people buying these instruments are technically indirectly paying your tax, in a voluntary way. They'll also be paying a %age to Christies. Who will also be paying tax.

I think you may not be understanding the key signature element. I don't worry too much about which individual notes are sharp of flat. Just if there are no sharps of flats then it's C. If there's one sharp then it's in G major. Two sharps D... I don't worry too much about relative minors when reading. If there's one sharp then all the notes on the stave will be just notes in the G major scale and the intervals amd accidentals (sharps/flats) will take care of themselves as long as you stay in G. First line G(root), second line B (3rd), third line D (5th). That's your G major triad. The others are very similar. Then its just a case of learning the notes on the stave. E is the ledger line below the staff, then A is first space, D is 3rd line and G is 4th space. Start with them until those 4 notes are cemented. There are other ways. But one note at a time is the best way to learn them.

Do you know the fretboard (or at least all strings up to 7th fret) inside out. If someone was to say play C# could you immediately put your finger on it (or them) without thinking? If not, then that's the first thing you need to do before even looking at the dots. Using tabs won't ever get you there. I think music teachers will try and teach you "this dot is this fret on this string", which I think might not help you.

I think people are scared of the 'reading' aspect. I've found playing bass in concert bands is actually fairly simple and you can feel your way through pieces initially not playing every single note. Work out what the key signature is. Then follow the lines approximately while staying in that key. Concentrate on the rhythms, which tend to be very similar for each piece, or stick to one note per bar. Record the rehearsals yourself for your your home practice. The band leader will cut you some slack if you're upfront from the start.

Usually there is "swing" written at the top by the arranger. Then it's up to the MD to get the band to swing by instructing during rehearsals. If the MD/conducter doesn't know how to groove then the band won't.

The other instruments will all be sight reading. Unfortunately if you're not confident in being able to trip along making the odd mistake and getting the feel for a piece, it's going to be very hard. It's a new environment for you. It's not like playing in a 3-5 piece band.

Did a gig once where during soundcheck the keboard was randomly turning itself on and off. I watched him playing for a while and spotted it was when he was tapping his foot. He was knocking the mains cable, which, on closer inspection, was about to fall out of the plug. So I said I'd open it up and rewire it quickly. To which he said he'd just keep his foot on it for the gig. 🤯 I rewired it.

Looks like he's sidelined that and made it a 200W guitar amp/amp for the 10" PA. I'm a bit confused. Is this bass combo available yet, or is it what's coming, or is it the 200W PA being used as a bass amp?

@devinebass does pop in every now and again. Hopefully he's seen or will see this thread at some point.

"The making of..." documentary.

I seem to remember they were given the scores and some recordings so that they could 'compose' their own solos pre recording.

There was (or is) a bass head in production being funded by pre-orders.

Hopefully it's just the internal fuse. I played an outside gig once where all the gear went completely beserk. Traced the issue to the band being supplied from several daisy-chained extension leads. About 400m in total. A lot of voltage sag when we turned on the lights.

Brilliant IA. 🤣

I think rather than delving into heavy formulas and technical explanations a more simple approach might work. Maybe the mods would make it a sticky, as this thread will eventually just disappear. I thought this was already somewhere else, but have searched. Maybe a Myth/Fact list of all the things that are commonly stated. 8"/10"/15" speakers. Valve/Solid State amps. Speakers in parallel/series. Lowest impedance for an amp. Open circuit issues for valve/solid state. Types of distortion speaker/premap/poweramp and the problems and what to avoid. Power amp manufacturer's figures including THD% at Hz. I don't think any of them really require an in depth understanding of why in electronics terms, they're important. I think that's the part that throws the bass player in the street when they say "I don't understand watts and ohms", it's the application and pitfalls rather than what a watt or an ohm is. More pictures/photos.

People will always ask. There's YouTube, Google and thousands of resources. It's a difficult thing to understand if you can't do maths and physics. And if you can do maths and physics, then you don't need to ask. 🤣 There's many different ways of combining amps and cabs, and the electrical side of that is only of interest to people who are interested in it.

The SI unit for voltage is the volt (V), which is defined as one kilogram meter squared per second cubed per ampere kgm^{2}s^{-3}A^{-1}

Weird. I thought that moving magnets exerted a force on the electrons, causing them to move. That's the EMF. There's no voltage moving the electrons. The voltage is caused by the electrons moving from one place to another. That's why voltage is defined in terms of current, not the other way round. A higher voltage is just where you have a higher density electro magnetic, electro chemical, theromionic field, or capacitive storage.

There are many ways of inducing current without voltage. Current comes before voltage as the first current was measured in a moving wire in a magnetic field. Your bass pickups induce a current with no voltage.

Strictly speaking this is wrong. The volt is defined as the difference between 2 points when a current of one amp flows through a resistance of 1 ohm (although it's expressed as power dissipation 1Watt). ie the current flow causes the volt difference. Which is a very difficult thing to get your head around and why the water flow/pressure analogy is more correct. Think of it as lots of blue men on the left piling up trying to get through the tube at the same time, with fewer blue men running off to the right as they pop out of the restriction. While the blue man stuck in the tube gets more hot and flustered and red in the face. Anyway. As you were...