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oakforest5961

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  1. They do seem to be liked by surf music groups; here's another example, sounding good to me:
  2. Alarm bells are ringing loud and clear. There is a ton of stuff on the internet, but if you look for properly structured good teaching material, that pares down to very little indeed. However, that very little is excellent and probably all you need. talkingbass.net has already been mentioned. I would add https://www.studybass.com/ which is free and superb.
  3. Going off on a slight tangent from the start of this thread... I bought a set of LaBella LTF-4A about a month ago. The E, A and D strings sound great, but the G is very lively, and doesn't seem to quite fit with the other three. Is this normal or have I been a bit unlucky?
  4. Legend, "A tribute to the music of Bob Marley" (http://legendlive.co.uk) are coming to town next month. Without wanting to get into any sort of tribute band debate, anybody seen them - are they worth going to see?
  5. Stumbled across 'Rocket to Kingston' by 'Bobby Ramone' the other day. What do reggae aficionados think of this? If you don't know about this album, the clue is in Bob Marley's face pasted over that of Dee Dee Ramone...
  6. Found it: https://www.dodgebass.co.uk/transcriptions-2/transcriptions (Thanks for making these transcriptions available Dodge.)
  7. A resource that I have benefitted from greatly is StudyBass, the creation of Andrew Pouska. It is structured and free. Andrew doesn't just know the theory, he knows how to teach. https://www.studybass.com/study-guide/
  8. Hi @dodge_bass, can you post a link to your website? Thanks.
  9. If you don't specifically need a book and want something excellent at no cost, then this site should do you very nicely: https://www.studybass.com.
  10. Now sold, but you can get a good look at it from the photos: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/FGN_JMJ_2_Azuki.html
  11. Another vote for BassBuzz / Josh Fossgreen. He explains things well and seems to have a lot of bass wisdom. He has a certain style, which will not be for everyone, but the content is excellent regardless. He has just released this video about GAS and how to beat it.
  12. I don't gig so this is probably a stupid question, but here goes... Since the sound of a band is vital - it virtually defines some bands (think JJ Burnel's bass tone in The Stranglers), and could lead to a bad word-of-mouth when it's terrible - why don't bands have their own sound engineer, someone that they can rely on to ensure the band's sound no matter where they are playing?
  13. The Hal Leonard “Bass Recorded Versions” series: https://www.halleonard.com/series/BASSRV?dt=item#products I imagine that they can be got from Amazon.
  14. Good advert for Vanderkley bass cabs - looks like Fodera use them in-house. (Or perhaps in the house of one of the team.)
  15. It's been a while since I last checked in here; listening to this today brought me back. (I did a search to see if it had already been posted, but found nothing.) This used to be available on Spotify, but it's greyed out now; darn! According to Wikipedia, "Three members of the group were murdered throughout the group's tenure"! Knowledge - "Dreadlocks Time"
  16. Does it really matter what they sound like acoustically? If it looks ok, and it feels ok, then "sounds phenomenal plugged in" says everything, that's what a solid body electric bass is for after all.
  17. I think this video by Andrew Pouska (the person behind StudyBass) is a gold nugget in all of the bass tutorials on YouTube. It teaches two fundamental ways of how to study. This should help beginners, or anyone who wants to learn but has never been taught how to learn.
  18. Bangin' folk rock from the British Isles (not in English); the video shows the lyrics so you can sing along...
  19. First time I've ever heard that track. The bass line fits brilliantly, and your performance of it Basscabman is truly superb.
  20. If you're into chilled out instrumental reggae/jazz fusion, I've just stumbled across the fact that Ireland's Avatar released a new album last September: https://avatar3.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-echoes
  21. If you're interested in playing along to The Beatles' "Please Please Me" album, this web page is really useful: https://andrewmessner.net/2019/04/17/please-please-me-album-pitch-analysis Only one of the songs on the album has the recording at concert pitch (A = 440Hz). All of the others are flat in comparison, and by differing amounts. That web page lists what the writer reckons are the A reference values for each song. If you have a tuner that can be recalibrated for a different reference value for A, then you just set the tuner to the value given on the web page for the song, tune your bass as normal using the tuner, then play along - it'll sound in tune. I've had a Korg CA-30 tuner for I forget how many years. I remember thinking when I got it that the ability to recalibrate it to A not being 440Hz was something that I would never need to use, but I have been proved wrong - it was really useful to quickly retune my bass and get playing.
  22. This Bass Backing Tracks playlist by Quist has some good material. Look in the description of each video to get the chord progression (if it isn't already part of the video itself). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVVk2nQ5iO8-S3OCCKcDJ9aokW_Ec3i2f
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