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In some ways, music shops are lucky because musical instruments are one thing that people are genuinely prepared to pay a bit more for in return for trying them out first. Where lots of bricks and mortar music shops have fallen down is in failing to realise that if they don't actually make an effort to offer that extra value - looking after their stock, good customer service, etc, then they just aren't offering enough incentive to spend more with them. No one owes them a living and just being local isn't enough anymore. I'd much rather buy in a shop than online, but if the guitars in the shops are dirty, have manky crap strings on, are so badly setup as to be unplayable, have the accessories "missing" and the staff are utterly useless then I'll take my chances online and save myself some money thanks.

[quote name='Green Alsatian' timestamp='1382553349' post='2253630'] How about a B-Stock Yamaha TRBX-305 in Pewter for £259? I've dealt with these folks in the past and had no issues. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190939741074?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D190939741074%26_rdc%3D1"]http://www.ebay.co.u...1074%26_rdc%3D1[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUP4zJ6l3I[/media] [/quote] If thats in good nick thats a hell of a bargain.

[quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1382687684' post='2255356'] If you work in this industry, you realise that it's rife with people willing to take advantage of peoples input when you're all slumming it in some shithole rehearsal studio, but as soon as popularity arrives and your creative input is involved in a multi million selling album, when they slap a million quid on the table to be divvied up, you will suddenly become less important than the guy who supplied the record exec with coke... So forgive me for expecting this naive little number to turn bad if things go well for this album, but I'm afraid I've heard tell of the worst excesses of greed too many times to expect fairness to reign, The deal must be sorted before anything happens. I would never pay to play on an album unless I was given a guaranteed return, via royalties or some such mechanism, at which point I'd consider myself an investor not an artistic contributor. As a bass player, I would expect pay for my days work. [/quote] I think you're misinterpreting what is being asked for. It reads to me like she's offering fans---not musicians---the chance to contribute little things. Handclaps, rimshots, etc. Daft things so that fans can say "I'm on that". I don't read it as "I want musicians to play all the tracks and pay me for the privilege".

[quote name='nottswarwick' timestamp='1382644177' post='2255038'] However, today I have been teaching the solo at the end of Dire Straits, Tunnel Of Love. Knopfler uses such feel and taste, and it is not that hard technically. But it MOVES me. And that is MUSIC. [/quote] Dirty Loops aren't really my thing either. Some of their stuff is great but its not something I'd choose to put on. However, I'd pick them all day every day over the absolute codswallop crap that is Dire Straits

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1382517062' post='2252998'] Yes. I get the same on tuba. Have to really push on ahead if I want the notes to be on top of the beat. [/quote] It takes something like 1/20th of a second for a note to fully form on the tuba so thats maybe not too surprising!

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1382520019' post='2253030'] if you have your wits about you, you'd want it to sound like a Stingray, obviously... Fortunately, there's a solution for that. [/quote] haha, well if you're giving a stingray away... I actually think my BB is going to get retired to purely backup purposes and I'm going to almost exclusively play my TRB. Need my new strings to make it home from the US though. I got them sent to a relative who is working over there because it saved me a fortune but he doesn't come back for another month

I've fallen slightly out of love with my BB414 recently. The truss rod is stuck so I can't adjust the neck relief. Thankfully it is still playable, but I can't get it to sound how I want. Problem is I'm not quite sure what I actually do want it to sound like...

I never fail to be completely baffled by what some people think theory "is". Knowing theory isn't about looking at the chord charts, stopping, and thinking "right, thats a Dm7 chord, so my magic theory book says I can only play these notes...". Its about being able to communicate what you're doing in a universal musical language. When I write a sentence in English I don't have to "think" about the theory---I just *know* the correct places to put punctuation and I don't have to think about it. I don't need to think how to spell individual words, I just write them down. Forming sentences is natural. When I want to form a paragraph to communicate an idea I don't need to just randomly throw sentences together until it makes sense---I already know what order they should be in in order to achieve the desired meaning and effect. Knowing musical theory is like being able to read and write. Once you know the rules you don't have to obey them and you don't need to spend a lot of time thinking about it. Knowing theory is to writing music as knowing grammar is to writing a book. It helps, but it doesn't need to get in the way.

Hey folks Tried to adjust the relief on my BB414 and couldn't. The rod seems stuck...any tips? Is there something you need to do other than "insert allen key" and turn?

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1382247998' post='2249632'] Try spraying WD40 down the TR opening. That worked for me. [/quote] Interesting. I guess something like methanol may work too but I'll give the WD40 a shot.

Have it a go tonight. Unfortunately I think my truss rod is buggered, I couldn't get the damn thing to move. Any tips for loosening them off or am I just going to have to raise the saddles and deal with high action? :-(

Hey folks Just changed to a new type of strings on my BB414 and I clearly need to adjust the setup a bit. I'm getting a bit of unwanted fret buzz and some odd clanking here and there. How do I work out whether it's the truss rod or saddles or both that I should tweak?

They're pretty good but I find it hard to take them seriously when they're dressed like that. I think it makes them look like a novelty act, when they're actually a pretty decent band. Of course, the image they project has probably helped them this far, so they should probably just keep doing what they're doing...

If it were somewhere nice that I was happy to entertain myself in for a bit then I would just ask for expenses on the days that you weren't working---accomodation, food, incidentals. It would be like a working holiday. If its somewhere that you'd really rather not be or you can't afford to have days where you aren't being paid then you'll want to be charging that plus a bit more.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1381841494' post='2244382'] The problem with insurance [s]for courier services [/s] of all kinds, is that you can never tell how good it's going to be until you have to use it, and if it turns out to be crap, it's then too late... [/quote]

[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1381926427' post='2245536'] I meant on the bass, I'm awesome at song writing [/quote] The single best thing you can do for your bass playing is join a band. You don't even have to gig. Just get some like minded individuals in a practice room together and make a nice racket

As well as playing bass I play the flute and have done ever since I was in high school. Yamaha, Buffet, and Boosey and Hawkes are by far the most popular clarinets that I've encountered. I'd personally go with Yamaha---it will be a decent instrument and will hold its resale value fairly well should she/you decide to upgrade her to something else. My experience as a learner was that woodwind shops would be quite flexible about things. You may find that the shop will let you rent one for a few months, but then deduct the rental price from the cost of buying an instrument from them. If you ask really nicely they could probably rent you a yamaha for a few weeks, then a Buffet, then a B&H, just pay one rental fee and then buy a new version of the one you like. Once you get onto really expensive wind instruments they are all sold on approval anyway! Also, bear in mind that with woodwind instruments you can quite often turn an OK instrument into a great one by upgrading the mouthpiece. I suppose its the wind equivalent of putting a good preamp in a cheap bass.

As a completely different alternative... Do you actually need an amp? If you have a decent PA and monitors then you can DI the bass and get very pleasant results using some kind of DI preamp. I do this and can fit my entire gig rig in my bass gig bag!

I've seen the Gator one in a few places, also EHX make a pedal bag: [url="http://www.ehx.com/products/eh-pedal-bag"]http://www.ehx.com/products/eh-pedal-bag[/url]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ6Xo1mYSJg[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4fiMIxO2E[/media]

A "jazzy" cover: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNpidAAMQSo[/media] Some "jazz" covers: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9hOSZGMXlI[/media]

Don't have time to post links just now but you should check out The Bad Plus. Off-the-wall jazz trio covers of Nirvana, Aphex Twin, ABBA, film themes, all sorts. They're fantastic. Brad Mehldau also does an incredible version of Exit Music From A Film.

[quote name='Ghost Rider' timestamp='1381675958' post='2242121'] I went to interparcel to get some quotes. My roscoe beck will be going to Sardinia Italy once payment has cleared, it's being sent with parcelforce euro priority with £1000 worth of cover for £66. It should take around 5 days to get there but that will depend on how long their customs decide to hang onto it. I find that it's best to discuss with the buyer how they would like it sent so that if it does get lost or damaged, the buyer has had the chance to pay for a more expensive courier & the seller is not responsible once it has left their hands. [/quote] Check and triple check the terms and conditions in that. My dad lives in Italy and although it is an astoundingly beautiful country full of lovely people their postal service and courier services are utterly dreadful.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1381492306' post='2239782'] I vaguely recall the download being available free with the option to pay what you thought it was worth. Or something like that. [/quote] [quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1381492641' post='2239794'] It was, for about a month, and then the CD came out and it was pay what it costs. [/quote] Wikipedia reckons it was available on "pay what you want" for two months between October and December 2007. When they released the physical edition of it on cd in 2008 it went to number 1 in the UK and the US and they [i]sold [/i]more than 3,000,000 copies of it in addition to all the free copies. Really impressive. Sayeth [url="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-publishers-reveal-in-rainbows-numbers-20081015"]Rolling Stone Magazine[/url]: [left][color=#000000][i]In all, there have been three million purchases of In Rainbows (including CDs, vinyls, box sets and digital sales) since the band began selling the album officially on New Year's Day 2008. Warner Chappell didn't reveal how much the band actually made total in the "pay-what-you-want" facet, but admitted more people downloaded the album for free than paid for it. Still, the three million in total sales — 100,000 of which came from the $80 box sets — is a hugely-successful number considering the album was both given away for free and that it was actually downloaded [url="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/10/18/in-rainbows-quandary-downloaders-stealing-free-music/"]more times via Bit Torrent[/url] than free and legally through Radiohead's own site.[/i][/color][/left]

[quote name='Spaced' timestamp='1381455454' post='2239465'] Have you got any sources for that or have you just made it up? [/quote] http://bit.ly/183m7u4