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Janek Gwizdala - Mystery to Me

Snarky Puppy - we like it here

John Mayer - Continuum

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Do you know what they were selling for before Black Friday. 

I mean know personally from checking last week rather than what they said they had reduced it from for Black Friday sale.

Dave

Generally the Aguilar goes for between £170 / £180, and the shure in-ears sell for £100. So I’m pretty happy with the deal. Basically got the in-ears for free.

I got an Aguilar octave pedal for £100, and a set of entry level shure in ear monitors for £70 both from Guitar guitar. I’m happy!

I totally agree! He annoys the hell out of me, and I dislike his tone! And also agree about Adam Neely, I think Adams channel is my favourite on you tube.

Mxr mini volume pedal

boss oc2

boss ps5

Darkglass Duality

Iron Ether Frantabit

boss Bass chorus

 source audio envelope filter

tc Electronic sky surfer reverb

tc Electronic nova repeater

Aguilar Tone Hammer

TC Electronic Ditto

MXR iso brick

On 10/11/2017 at 19:32, Jimothey said:

Sorry if you thought I meant that because I try to play along with backing track I think I’m ready to join a band I know my abilities and they are at the beginner level but my goal when I feel I’m ready is to try and join a band so I’m not really over estimating my abilities

I’m quite a optimistic person so I prefer looking at it as “don’t under estimate your potential”

I would suggest trying to find an informal band and start playing with other people as soon as possible.  If you wait until you think you are ready you can end up waiting far too long. Plus playing with other musicians will help you progress so much quicker than practice alone.

If anyone is looking for a new place to buy their strings I can highly recommend strings direct. I had a dud E string that snapped before it was at tension. I emailed to ask if they sold single strings in that brand. They didn’t sell them but they went one better. They sent me out a new string for free including next day delivery!

Great service! I will be using them as my sole string provider now!

Janek does have a sight reading course in his bass studio website.  Janek’s bass studio is really good, quite expensive when you compare it to Scott’s Bass Lessons, but if you like Janek’s teaching style it’s definitely worth it!

I agree with most comments I use my pinky more than my ring finger especially when string skipping. Almost always use it for playing octaves. When playing guitar I definetly use the finger per fret technique, but definetly not on bass. Keep practicing and the calluses will come!

To me it looks mainly like right hand muting. He rests his thumb on the E string to mute that. Then he is resting his ring / middle finger on the string lower (in pitch) than the string he is playing. I have never enjoyed his videos as I really don’t like his tone, but fair play to him he is making a decent living for himself on you tube doing what he loves!

I have been trying to find a way to get one of these in the UK. It’s not been the easiest task!

I would agree, push to bin it. Also I would suggest to your band that without keys pulling off any snarky puppy song would be a huge task, and the song would probably sound very thin, as the bass is doubled by atleast one synth for the most part. Don’t worry about the talent ceiling, keep doing what your doing and you will be able to play anything you want.

We use a Facebook group chat. We all suggest 3 songs, and majority rules (4 out of 6), however any member can veto a song if they really dont want to play it...it’s an unwritten rule that they can’t do this too often.

Thanks Ambient for sharing Michael’s notes. I also think a good point was made that if you can play Sir Duke you definetly have the chops to play what about me. The real question comes down to the fact you don’t want to play it, in which case I would discuss this more in depth with your band. My other suggestion would be to play a simplified version and let the keys player beef out the sound.

Aretha Franklin’s version of Jumpin’ Jack Flash is one of my favourite covers...

I think Larry La Londe of Primus is really under rated. When I saw Primus a couple of years ago he really stole the show! His textural playing is outstanding!

Just traded basses with Kev. Great guy, great bass, great communication! Kev went out of his way to help me out even though he was crazy busy! Deal with confidence! Thanks Kev!

Check out Newton Faulkner, and Jon gomm.

I don't understand the direction this thread has taken. The original poster is talking about how much he is enjoying learning scales, and everyone has jumped in suggesting he should do this, and that. I'm glad you are enjoying playing again, and hope you continue to be inspired!

A lot of good advice so far. Other things I would try is listen to some of your favourite music. Also if you are being creative when noodling try recording your practice sessions then you can listen back to what you played and find the gems.

Similar set up to my band. We do Muse - Starlight, Swedish House Mafia - Save the world tonight, Frankie goes to Hollywood- 2 tribes, Coldplay - adventure of a lifetime.

Thanks for all your help guys! It's a great bass. To be honest I was hoping to get another one.

Hi folks. About 10 years ago I bought a hand crafted bass off eBay, it was called a Schick zebra. It states that it was hand crafted in the Czech Republic. Recently I have been trying to find out more information about this bass and it's luthier, but I am coming up empty. Does anyone know anything about these basses? I will load some pics when I have figured out how to do it on basschat. Thanks

I agree, Michael League is a truely talented guy! I hope that when people look at his body of work he gets the credit he deserves!

I definitely noticed a huge difference when I changed to my MXR ISO brick. My signal chain of: Dunlop mini volume pedal, boss OC2, boss PS5, dark glass duality, iron ether frantabit, soundblox envelope filter, tc electronic sky surfer reverb, tc electronic nova repeater, Aguilar tone hammer, and ditto. Given the fact that the tone hammer needs 18V, and all the other pedals take different current draws, the mxr not only eliminated some ground hum I was getting, I also got better results from each of my pedals because they were actually getting exactly the current they needed. I can't recommend a good psu highly enough