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[quote name='MatthewKeys' post='1119348' date='Feb 7 2011, 03:00 PM']After 6 months of using Elixir nanoweb bass strings, I decided to make a change because I wanted something brighter. Today I put on some rotosound swing bass 45-105 strings. When I first put them on my hand was getting stuck and not moving up the frets at all, I had to actually lift my hand up to move a fret. Then, after an hour or attempting to play like this, my strings sound as if they have been on for about 3 months. I don't know why.. help!? I have had previous experiences with rotosound like this.... Maybe it's something to do with me having really sweaty hands? Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks[/quote] I put on a set of D'addario half-rounds today and felt something sticky as honey on the strings. From factory prep or low QC? I ran a rag with a very small amount of rubbing alcohol over them, and they're now fine. The strings sound great, by the way.

Beautiful! Is the bridge standard Fender or a Gotoh? Looks too heavy to be BBOT.

Right--I remember now seeing it and wondering what was going on with the bass ... Thanks.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1116962' date='Feb 5 2011, 03:07 PM']Sorry Dave, Michael, and I may well be wrong, but from what little I can see of his bass playing on that video it's another of his post-production overdubs. I don't think we're hearing what he actually played on stage that night. I've never really forgiven The Band for what they did on The Last Waltz.[/quote] What did they do on Last Waltz that needs forgiveness? (A straight question.) tg

The Beatles' 'Get Back' has three or four notes. Pretty simple for McCartney.

[quote name='Evil Undead' post='1112045' date='Feb 2 2011, 04:35 AM']Hello I've just ordered one of these but curious - does it have a headphone jack or can I just use an adaptor to plug my headphones in to the speaker jack (instead of the cab) for playing at night?[/quote] Sorry, no headphone jack. The inputs are for active and passive instruments (both can be used at the same time). Don't know about the speaker jack, and I don't have phones to try that out. tg

[quote name='LethalLion' post='1106078' date='Jan 28 2011, 07:15 AM']Teaching my brother how to play, and I want him to learn songs that actually get his fingers moving, as opposed to just playing root notes. Can anyone think of anything fun to play, that would fit in with this? Cheers.[/quote] From the album 'Riding With the King' by Eric Clapton and B.B. King, 'Three O'Clock Blues' and 'Help the Poor.' Both are simple but have plenty of room inside. The blues is quite slow. Nice stuff, too.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1097406' date='Jan 21 2011, 07:54 AM']Keep it [i]musical[/i] Sometimes that means simple. Sometimes it doesn't. 'Being a bass player means getting off on making other people sound good' - Robert Hurst III (Branford and Wynton Marsalis). It takes what it takes. If the part screams sixteenth note unison lines, then nail it. It its minims, nail it. If its triplet 5's against 4, nail it. Play the music, not the instrument. The more I study music, the more the notes matter and the less important the instruments and players are. Serve the music not the id.[/quote] [size=3]This really is it for me, esp. the Hurst quote.[/size]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1094287' date='Jan 18 2011, 02:42 PM']If I had one - which I would like - I'd be trying TI Flats on it. However, Jack Casady himself is advertised as using roundwound Dean Markley Blue Steels.[/quote] I used GHS flatwounds on two basses and thought they were great, and much less expensive than TI Flats. I would imagine TIs are good -- given their price, they should be -- but I'd simply be reluctant to spend that much on strings. Just thought the OP might want a second opinion on strings for the Casady.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1038656' date='Nov 27 2010, 06:13 AM']+1.[/quote] +10 Removed my Squier 77 stock jazz bridge and put on one of these today. Incredible improvement in tone, overall note quality, and sustain, plus the bottom end is bigger. Some have said they don't hear improvement with these, but I definitely hear it. I do. I really do. I really, really do.

[quote name='paul_5' post='1087262' date='Jan 12 2011, 04:20 PM']This (ladies and gentlemen) is, in my humble opinion, the best pop record ever made; ever. It's quite simply perfect. Cheers for this. [/quote] +1

[quote name='PaulE' post='1080362' date='Jan 6 2011, 03:09 PM']Someone please answer me something Ive always heard mixed answers of? The quality of squier? Ive got a few mexican fender jazz basses, Ive seen so many squiers I like however Im constantly put off by people telling me of cheap materials, and poor sound, any views?[/quote] I bought the '77 jazz back in September (came out when the Jaguar did) and reviewed it on BC. I like it a lot. I'm pretty new to bass so I don't have that much to compare it with, but other than the pickups being a little weak (but nice when used in tandem) I think the workmanship is fine. It plays great and sounds good. Great for $285 postpaid!

Peter Cetera -- Absolutely amazing on [i]Chicago[/i]'s first album (way before they went to soft pop ballads) Paul McCartney Bruce Thomas of the [i]Attractions[/i] Dan Broad -- my bass teacher The late Rick Danko of [i]The Band[/i]

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1071201' date='Dec 28 2010, 02:39 PM']I'm working on getting this line fluent and up to speed. Tricky bugger. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jng_yZUc4F0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jng_yZUc4F0[/url][/quote] Two-five-one movements and Three-six-two-five-one movements in different keys and in different fingering combinations of 1-3-5, 1-5-3, adding the seventh, then 1-7, etc. I am dyslexic, which makes this either harder or easier. Also working with some Abersold CDs and books. tg

More gigs, and a Squier fretless. The reviews are good, the price is right ...

[quote name='leschirons' post='1059960' date='Dec 15 2010, 03:02 PM']Was this just a question out of general interest or is there something deeper going on? You appear to be only 37, there's a good few years left in you yet (if it's you you're talking about) Depends if it just doesn't work for you at the moment. Take a break if it's that. I will probably pack up in a year or so. Fed up gigging, fed up rehearsing for gigs, fed up lugging gear about. And, would like to do more fishing. However, still buying stuff. Maybe that's my passion and not playing so much these days.[/quote] I feel this way too, particularly regards rehearsing and lugging the equipment. But the payoff always makes up for it. I won't stop unless they make me.

I've only ever had one bass at a time, but I'm seeing someone about it.

I look forward to them all, but there's also the aural wallpaper factor: if we're just background -- for an opening or some kind of fundraiser -- it's like a rehearsal, and that's okay, but if they're listening, in a concert setting, the feeling is completely different. We don't get that many gigs because LIFE mostly gets in everyone's way. It's a shame. Playing is more fun than LIFE.

[quote name='tom1946' post='1048316' date='Dec 5 2010, 10:25 AM']Has anyone got one of these? [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/squier-vintage-modified-jazz-bass-77/37943"]http://www.gak.co.uk/en/squier-vintage-mod...z-bass-77/37943[/url] Any good? I love the look of it tbh and it's cheap enough but is the CV better? /discuss[/quote] Hi, I reviewed this bass a while back, currently on page 3 of bass reviews under title Squier VM 77 Jazz Bass, some first impressions. I like mine a lot, as I wrote, and didn't have any of the issues mentioned in this thread. Ted

[quote name='Marvin' post='1043173' date='Nov 30 2010, 06:48 PM']The recording I have, if you try and play say the bass part behind the main riff (which ok is basically just playing a root note) then it sounds out of tune whether you play B or Bb or any note whatsoever. It just sounds out. Perhaps I should get my ears tested Can you get your ears tuned?[/quote] This isn't too uncommon. Sometimes the group would want the tempo picked up a bit and would have the whole thing speeded up a bit in the final recording process, which results in 'inaccurate' notes. The Beatles did this occasionally. tg

"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" has a series of the finest McCartney lines I can think of. Listen to the ends of verses when he takes it up and over the top and then brings it back. Amazing.

The Real Me -- the Who I'm a Man -- Chicago Eight Miles High -- the Byrds Riding with the King -- Eric Clapton & B.B. King

[url="http://www.mun.ca/botgarden/"]http://www.mun.ca/botgarden/[/url] Newfoundland Botanical Gardens. Well, why not?

[quote name='Sub_Drop' post='1021565' date='Nov 12 2010, 10:22 AM']Hey guys and girls, It has only just occurred that when improvisation over chord progressions and so on, my improvisation is limited and not really creative in the musical sense. It usually ends up sounding like i'm playing the basic groove with fast, 16th note fills. Does anyone have any methods or tips to help me think more creatively and musically with improvisation. Knowing scales and chord tones is all fine and I can use these techniques quite well but its more the rhythmic element which just goes off on one. thanks alot in advance anyway[/quote] I have found that with the jazz tunes I play (Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis), if I go to the third of the chord that is being played and play over the third modally, I get interesting results. (There's a better way to say this, I'm sure, but this is what I've got so far.) tg