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"i realize some of these are hard but i thought i better push myself instead of sticking to the easy stuff plus i have a lined fretless so its easy really... Any more suggestions?" > Looks like you're doing pretty well with the stuff you're learning - particularly if you can play Havona! > A final suggestion is to play along to the Cannonball Adderley version of Autumn Leaves on Somethin' Else - I learned it on the fretless (not particularly note for note - just improvising around the chord changes) - although I liked the bassline so much flogged my fretless and switched to upright!
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A few suggestions: Ideal World - The Christians: not that keen on the song but this has a really nice fretless solo towards the end, which isn't too difficult to work out by ear. A Remark You Made - Weather Report: I realise this is a Jaco bassline, but he uses chords in an interesting way and there is also a nice melody line in there. On the Turning Away - Pink Floyd: I'm really only familiar with the Guy Pratt/live version on Delicate Sound of Thunder - the bassline on the verse when the bass comes in is really lovely. I agree that anything by Pino is worth working on and that Graceland by Paul Simon has some of my favourite fretless playing on it. Particularly in the sense that the playing fits the music so well. The bassline from Ramble On by Led Zep also works well on a fretless. River People by Weather Report (sorry, Jaco again) is also a good exercise in octaves and the closing groove is brilliant. Hope this helps. Going by the age of some of this stuff, it seems that the fretless has really gone out of fashion - I can't think of much recent material where a fretless is used. Oh, and if you can endure it, I seem to remember that The Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh also has a good fretless line on it - on second thoughts, I think that may be taking suffering for your art a little far.
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Just to add that I think they're only open from 10-2 on Saturdays. They have a good, relatively unusual range of instruments/gear (unusual to me at least anyway). I played on the Sandberg JM4 they have in there at the moment whilst trying out a Phil Jones amp, and wanted to take it home with me there and then - an absolutely lovely bass.
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Hello, I'm new to this forum, which looks really useful and is light years away from the alt.bass newsgroups I used to read 12 years ago. My first post is to advertise a bass and Peavey amp for sale - I realise these should probably be split across two posts - but the main sale here is the bass. The bass is a Jaydee Roadie Supernatural fretless with one pickup and one eq, built for myself in 1992. The bass has a couple of superficial scratches on the back, but other than that is in really good condition - I had it professionally tarted/set up a couple of years ago. It has a slap bar on the neck and is currently fitted with flatwounds. The fretboard is in very good condition. I'm loathe to sell the bass but now have an upright bass and really don't have much use for an electric fretless. Furthermore, I'd like to use the proceeds to help fund some Mark or Phil Jones gear. I'm looking for somewhere in the order of £700 for it. I may be able to deliver it personally, if sold to someone in London, the soutwest or northwest of England. Happy to provide more pictures/information as necessary. [attachment=29572:P4270087.JPG][attachment=29573:P4270088.JPG] I also have a US made Peavey 160W combo for sale of the same vintage - this has been well used but still produces a lovely sound - looking for £150. [attachment=29574:P4270089.JPG][attachment=29575:P4270090.JPG] Thanks, Jude.