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    Commission sales

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    Sold a few basses via the Gallery. Not for some time now though so it's good to hear commission is still 15%. As a (slight) bonus you do get the benefit of their reputation, which IME allows you to bump the price a little to partially offset the commission.

    I just love listening to people who can sing.

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    Posted · Edited by leftybassman392

    Thought I'd revive this thread after an interregnum of a few months.

    Contributors to this thread may remember that I have (among many other failings!) a weakness for good ensemble singing. A few days ago I found these guys while meandering my way through some Youtube vids. 2 songs from them, but before you listen, you need to bear in mind that, aside from a bit of FX at the start of each song, every sound you hear is made by a human voice (Note: I've posted some of this stuff on another thread, so apologies if you've heard it already) :

     

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    More Emogis???

    in Site Issues and Questions

    Posted · Edited by leftybassman392

    I've started getting issues posting emojis from outside sources (I use allsmileys). I have a PC and a Macbook, and the same thing is happening on both of them, which suggests to me that it's likely to be one of the two websites involved.

    Anybody?

     

    ETA: Update; it seems to be the Allsmileys site, so you can all relax and go back to whatever it was you were doing.

    Jazz cover of Enter Sandman

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    I like it too. Great guitar playing; great singing.

    Must be honest, I don't really get people slagging off music they don't enjoy listening to, often to the point of prejudging it before a note is played. It's a free country (more or less...), but if you don't like it then why not just say so and be on your way?

    When the thread title starts with the words 'Jazz cover' it's not exactly aerospace engineering to work out what it's likely to sound like, surely?

     

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    Southpaw Spotted

    in Lefties!

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    1 hour ago, LeftyJ said:

    I think he quit a few years ago. His site is gone, he never posts to Leftybassist.com anymore. I tried contacting him on LinkedIn recently, but he didn't accept my request to connect. 

    That's a shame. I was over in the States with friends at the time I picked up the Jazz, and had a very pleasant phone conversation with him.

    It would be a real shame if he's not making basses any more. I seem to recall that he branched out into guitar making as well.

    Ho hum. :/

    Southpaw Spotted

    in Lefties!

    Posted · Edited by leftybassman392

    2 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

    Cool '54 Precision style bass by Regenerate Guitar Works in Seattle. The builder, Rod Banach, was on leftybassist.com for a long time:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Regenerate-Bass-Guitar-Left-Handed/324492836805

    Didn't this belong to @leftybassman392 at some point? I think you had one of two Regenerates?

    Indeed it did! Good spot.

    You doubtless remember it from my time on Leftybassist. Beautifully made by Rod and great to play (although it had to have some - admittedly very minor - post sale work done on the electrics to kill an annoying hum) and I'd say it's pretty good value at that price. Very old school woody tone as I recall. I remember it as having a Nordstrand pup (can't remember which model). If that's what you're after, you could do a lot worse and pay more.

    Haven't been to Leftybassist for years. Do you happen to know whether Rod is still trading?

    I sold it as a commission sale through The Bass Gallery in London. No idea who bought it but whoever it was but it was apparently taken pretty much on the spot after a try-out in the shop.

    Good to see it again @LeftyJ. Thanks for posting.

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    Easy way to do drum beats...

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    Posted · Edited by leftybassman392

    If you had a Mac I'd suggest Garageband, which has a very good drummer app...

    I use Audacity for audio editing on a local talking newspaper for the blind. I haven't tried using it for music production though, and would be interested to hear how you get on.

    Thomann and deliveries to the UK

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    I ordered some recording gear from Thomann at the end of November. Shipped within a day or two, another day or two to get to the UPS warehouse in Tamworth, and then sat there for a week with 'DELAYED' written in big letters on the tracking site. No idea why, but prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt given the circumstances. Then when it is released with a forecast arrival day we make arrangements to be in. Only it arrived a day early, when we were out most of the day getting our new glasses fitted at our optician (140-mile roundtrip - don't ask!). Kindly taken in by a neighbour a couple of doors down. It would be easy to get mad about it but it wasn't time-critical and everything was in the box and undamaged so mostly just took it on the chin. The one caveat was that when it did arrive, the box contained an old-fashioned ignition coil for a vintage car. New stock, still in its box, but WTF it was doing there at all is outwith my comprehension.

    I think you have to expect some unusual behaviour from couriers ATM, especially with all that's happening and about to happen come January. Not an encouraging message unfortunately, but we are where we are.

    An exploration of the various reasons why we are where we are is a topic for a different thread (and on a different forum I suspect), but suffice it to say we'd all better get used to it in the coming months for pretty much anything coming from Europe.

    Recording acoustic guitar

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    Update: I've invested in a matched pair of Rode M5s. I was tempted to go for the more expensive NT5s, but couldn't justify the extra cost given the modest nature of the work. If I was properly serious about it of course, I'd have bought C451s and lived on bread & water for a while. But I'm not. So I didn't.

    This gives me quite a lot more versatility for a fairly modest extra outlay (around £150 for the mics and the stereo gantry - the NT5s would have been closer to £300 all in ).

    Right now it's all money going out and nothing to show for it, but in truth I was never going to be starting on this until the new year anyway, so all good at this stage.

    First thing to do is spend time reaquainting myself with guitars that I mostly haven't played in properly for a year or more (and not gigged for a lot longer than that!). I reckon that'll take me a week or two at least. The technique's still in there somewhere; all I have to do is retrieve it... :lol:

     

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    Are we hardwired for 4/4 time signatures?

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    3 minutes ago, chris_b said:

    The guitar solo is in 4/4 because Dave Gilmore couldn't solo in 7/4!

     

    Time signatures are patterns. Like words and grammar, after practice and repetition they become second nature.

    I played with John Mealing, the keyboard player with 70's band If. They were legendary for using impossible time signatures, and he told us he didn't count anything. He just came up with a pattern and followed it.

    I have a vague memory of learning the song (including the solo) at some point in the dim & distant past. Long since gone the way of all things now though. :/

    That said, the song is known for being in 7/4. If you do a search of songs in 7/4, it's always one of the first that comes up.

    While I'm here, a lot of the songs known for being in 7/4 actually alternate between 7/4/ and 4/4 (Solsbury Hill, Paranoid Android, Led Boots - strictly speaking that's 4/4 and 7/8 I think, but you get the idea...).

     

    Are we hardwired for 4/4 time signatures?

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    3 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

    I feel like I'm spoiling things but there's a fair amount of research on this and our sense of rhythm is cultural and largely learned. Other cultures and particularly folk music use wider ranges of time signatures. Even a lot of classical music has shifting time signatures. 4/4 comes from early experience and repeated listening as does a lot of the rest of our listening. To us there is something 'right' about songs with the four chords and returning to the key at the end of the song. 

    One thing I've noticed is that with the demise of rock and blues from popular culture younger drummers struggle at First with the shuffle and 12/8 something no-one thought about in my generation. You can tell with my 40year old drummer he just isn't quite comfortable with triplets, they feel learned rather than natural.

    Good post. Just out of interest, do you have any links you can put up. (Partly me being lazy, partly having something visible on the thread).

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