Downunderwonder

Not all loud bands are very loud at all.

It's not uncommon for a modern class D amp to be capable of running down to 2 ohm but deliver the same rated power to 4 ohm worth of cabinets. Over to OP to check the manual.

It's a long long time since I did that so ny memory could be off.  There could be a chance the pain has settled by next Friday enough that the bandaged finger doesn't complain too much. What did the nurse say?

I very much doubt a cheap 2x8 is going to keep up with the drums in a pub band. At 4 ohms it won't know what to do with all the power but you can't build a tower power of 2ohm. 

You could tell your Momma it's a 250w practice amp.

9 hours ago, Huge Hands said:

whether you feel the MD and band would be patient enough to have you make mistakes and "learn on the job".

There’s a clue that MD is desperate enough for bass action, any bass action, that he provides Tab to go with his notation to rope in non readers.

I say go for it. The wrong note at the right time generally goes completely unnoticed. Everyone is too busy getting their own stuff under control.

46 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I almost get an anxiety attack when I see the bass clef, because I think of all the effort I've wasted on the treble clef to no benefit.

Pretty much me when I went to read bass after learning it by ear as one does. The benefit was entirely in being able to follow along the tune structure and general direction of the line as I bumbled along.

You don't have to read every note individually! You would have to be a way better reader than me to even try. I think most read the gist like me because it's simply not possible. Doesn't mean you can't 'read' it and play it.

To this day I am relying on hearing the chord to inform my fingers as much as catching up with the accidentals with my eyes. 

7 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Dots are neither always the same note nor the same degree of a scale

True enough. Yet you understand the concept of keys, and key signatures that accompany the staff and dots? The dot height is only the raw note name but it is consistent until some Ahole starts with the C flats and A double flats.

Look on the bright side.There are only 12 notes and most bass is scored between the low E and the lower F# on the G string. The key of the tune determines how those notes are scored. No C flats or A double flats!

You are aware that a major scale has its relative minor pairing using identical  written scale with a different starting note.

Children initially learn playing very simple tunes and practicing to books of written out scales. My teacher was apt to remind me that pieces are only mixed up scales.

On a dark stage the glare of the knob lights will make the away facing white dot indicators invisible. Dopey design. If the knobs had pointers they would be silhouetted.

On 22/01/2025 at 04:36, StickyDBRmf said:

fretboard

No frets = fingerboard, as on a DB.

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Err... yes. Of course, I know the fretboard. I know lots of scales and modes, and I know lots of intervals, chords and their inversions. All makes me a better player. Not sure what the dots would do other than make it easier to play from notation.

 

Doesn't help with the dots.

 

Thank you for your helpful guidance.

With that much theory you are streets ahead of me. But I can read dots.

I don't actually read the dots though. I think this may be where you are at a disconnect.

I read the accidentals and the rhythm pattern. The accidentals tell me I have work to do to escape the scale finger pattern and follow the funky chord.

A good teacher should be able to take all your known theory and use that to help you see the patterns in the dots. I reckon you would become a reading machine once the penny drops 

4 hours ago, Grooverjr said:

Thanks. Lined is fine (probably better) but I was thinking the same about a defret. I know I like the feel of this neck as well, and I know my way around it so transferring should be easier as well. 

Knowing your way around the fretted neck is going to do squat for your fretless playing. It could very well frustrate you.

Lines are but a guide. Where you finger notes between frets with great precision you finger 'on' the lines.

Good advice taken.

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

Right, I'll brace myself for the accusations that I'm an idiot. 

Will a 1x10, 2x10 and 4x10 cab output the same volume levels for the same volume setting on the same amp?

Ordinarily, hell no.

25 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

The reason I ask is I've gone from an Orange OBC410 to an Eden Nemesis 210 and the Eden doesn't sound as big but it's definitely louder. This surprised me.

You have hit on an exception.

I guess Eden have gamed the system a little to give you a cab that is loud but has given away trying to make lows. If you go further down that path you have a guitar cab that can tear your head off with 100w.

1 hour ago, Ramirez said:

unbalanced connections really don’t mean a lower quality sound, generally or otherwise

It only takes one noisy light to make a hash of your pristine unbalanced signal.

4 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

Just spotted a Markbass Little Mark Blackline 250 in the Cash Converters sale for 100, Southend shop as well so close to you.

 

https://www.cashconverters.co.uk/shop/music-tv--video/home-theatre-tvs--hifi-stereos/amplifiers/audio-equipment/047400178437

Cash Converters have a history of putting dud returns back on the shelf so be careful.

8 hours ago, fretmeister said:

Trust me - 10 mins a day and you'll be reading Grade 1 in 6 months and those images you have shared are no more difficult than that.

I don’t know about grades but those bass parts are ideal teeth cutting material.

20 minutes a day and in a week he should be OK to bumble through a new one actually reading it. That's when confidence grows.

Reading the music isn't the hard part. The plopping of the fingers in time in the right place is. You already know how to do that!

On 16/01/2025 at 21:50, TimR said:

 

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. 

Chicken, prepare to meet egg, on your face.

8 hours ago, Martin E said:

sunlight

Add some little bit of wind and the cure is actually free!

2 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

So what he has sent you is correct for what you will perform

Yep. The tab lines up with the notation.

If you would rather play it with more usual fingerings you have to transpose your bass.

My advice. Grab the opportunity to learn to read notation and play it on the regular 4 string as written.

4 hours ago, fretmeister said:

It would be very odd for a bassist in this situation to be expected to swap instruments or retune.

The whole thing is odd. TAB is not what you usually get issued.

There may be regular notation printed parts for bass in someone's drawer.

If so there is a golden opportunity to knuckle down and figure out notation with pop tunes you already know.

I wouldn't mind one on my board just so people would point and ask and I would say something like "Beware the Attack Goat!" before changing the topic.

Nice work if you can get it.

1 hour ago, grumpy-grapefruit said:

14 and a half inch deep though according to Google. Otherwise yes.

Put up a curtain cloth. Tastefully of course.

Jump on the Big Baby in the classifieds.

A SuperTwin is probably an easier shift than BB3. Roll tilt and shove vs pick up?