TimR

Don't underestimate the number of people who think professional is better than what they can do, so must be better than what you can do. My guitarist has recommended his tech to me several times for me to get a 'proper' set up as 'it's a complicated thing to get right'. These are the kind of people who call out the AA to change a wheel on their car.

Learn the song structure before you pick up the bass. Work out what key it's in. Learn your major and minor scales, the rest will then be very easy. Be prepared to make changes to what you've 'learned' at home playing to the recording, because your band arrangement will be different for a variety of reasons, from talent through to instrumentation. Watch the rest of your band members and listen to what they're playing and adjust your playing to fit. Just playing what you 'learned at home' will not work. Once you have an arrangement sorted, record it on your phone and take it home and learn it all properly by playing it repeatedly. One gig is worth 1000 rehearsals, don't rehearse 1000 times before you gig. You will make mistakes and from them you will learn, no one else will remember them.

Just to clarify. The E machinehead broke. Twice. The original and then the stock replacement both broke. I thought it wise to change/upgrade the whole set.

I agree. Modify - drill or cut or otherwise somehow permanently change the original item. Swap - change something that may make something look or sound better or different. Upgrade - change something for something that's better quality and more reliable. I've upgraded the machineheads on my bass from cheap Chinese aluminum machineheads to Gotoh machineheads. I've fitted straplocks. Which are not permanent, so neither a modification or upgrade.

There's a bit more to it than just this, but this guy explains how the algorithm presents people with 'reasearch' which can drag the susceptible down a rabbit hole. And ultimately ruin lives. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLPwooRQ/

Haggis eat a special food known as Lego. It makes one leg go longer than the other.

I'm fairly sure there was a study somewhere that found women listen to the lyrics and men listen to the music. I'll see if I can find it.

Why are you wasting your time and energy? Ignore it and they'll either come back with a decent offer or go away. You're getting emotionally involved, annoyed and frustrated for no reason whatsoever, and you're giving them an indication that you'll engage with them. Why spend any energy and time on people who aren't serious?

Don't get emotional, it's a business transaction. Keep it friendly and answer the questions. Avoid sarcasm or whit as that will go missing in written communication. If the buyer can't string a sentence together then they're hardly likely to have been able to read the original advert. Sometimes English is not their first language, again, a lot of nuance can be missing or missed in written communication. Answer questions politely and don't get drawn into conversation that's not directly related to the object being bought/sold. Don't reply to anything that's not a direct question. It may be frustrating but if you want to sell something that's just what you have to cut through.

When I was playing the Tuba the arranger gave all the music in treble cliff. This was historical because players would often move 'down' the band from trumpet, through baritone and euphoniums as they got older. I used to spend a lot of time writing fingerings on the parts for a couple of the other players in my section. They could do it but it was quicker for me to do it.

I do both. It's useful. So put me in the middle group who don't imply anything. Previously on this subject I've said that most pop songs should be fairly quickly learned with one listen through by anyone who calls themselves a bass player. It should be any musician's aim to learn to use their ears. If you're not listening in a group situation you'll just sound like a bunch of instrument owners playing off rote. Music is like any other language.

So I guess maybe the Tab isn't 'wrong' unless the notes actually don't fit the key or chord quality, they're simply just someone's interpretation. Ultimately, and we've done this a hundred times, no one will be playing the original recorded arrangement live for a variety of reasons.

Orchestral scores are rearranged all the time.

Probably written by guitarists.

The Keeley bassist is very good. I bought Lozz's 1st one and it's always on now.

Was going to post but thought I'd do a search. Anyone bought one. Horrifically expensive... The 105Q looks pretty good as well but love the sounds on this thing. Just not sure I can justify that price.

All those singers, guitarists, harps and drummers. Just the one bass...

I have an SR400. It has PJ, and is active.

You already have a compressor. Just adjust it when you swap basses.

Unfortunately in practice, it works the opposite way round. The less available your music is and the more people have to pay for it, the less people listen.

TBH I assume it's a move to simplify his estate and make inheritance tax more efficient and guarantee a sum.

This should be pretty simple if you're playing in covers band. Copy the original line fairly closely. If your arrangement is not working becasue you're missing instrumentation in your band, listen to what those instruments would be playing. Work out if they're really essential parts of the arrangement or just nice to have. Decide which other instrument will cover that part. If it's the original bass line that's tough to copy, you have to make a decision on what to play instead.

It all depends how much the guitarist is playing with a sound that works in a band setting, and how much they're playing with 'their tone'. If its the latter, the bass will have to be EQd so that the mids cut through as the guitarist will probably be far too bass heavy. If you manage to get a guitarist to understand that the bass has the bass covered and he needs to EQ to suit the band, then you shouldn't need to do anything else. Good luck with that.

I'd suggest if someone feels the music is empty and they're not confident or experienced, then they will play more notes, play louder, more quickly and add effects in an effort to cover what may or may not need filling. But the reverse isn't true, someone playing like that doesn't mean its because they're less confident or inexperienced, quite often it'll be because they're overconfident.

It's usually quite easy to spot a guitarist playing a bass. The traditional roll of the bass is to underpin the chords, whether that be by playing roots, or harmonies and counterpoint. Overplaying to my mind is playing notes that don't actually add to the arrangement but detract from it. Unless the idea is for the bass to be more melodic, in which case it needs to be melodic, rather than playing random runs and fills. I went to see It Bites a couple of times a few years ago. To me Lee Pomeroy nailed the bass role, but I found Nathan King to be too busy. I later found out that bass isn't King's first instrument.