AdamWoodBass

You're welcome guys, I was on-call babysitting a customer system during some maintenance so had about 4 hours to kill in the early hours of the morning! Hopefully it makes sense, there will be some glaringly obvious errors in it I'm sure but hopefully you get the idea.

Vulfpeck - Welcome to Vulf Records https://open.spotify.com/track/6tL1I2F1BWhhQpwFUQztEz

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1476341401' post='3153395'] I have severe P-bass GAS at the moment after hearing someone playing an MIM Precision on Tuesday and thinking to myself, "That's it, that's the tone I'm after". The thing is, I've owned countless P-basses in the past, US, MIM, CIJ, Squiers, Vintage, Westfield, the list goes on and every one has been sold or traded, so I'm clearly not happy with something about P-basses. I'm trying to ride it out until the GAS passes but I'm weakening. Does anyone else convince themselves that they need something after having heard someone else using one or am I unique? [/quote] I'm in the same boat on the P-Bass thing. I've played Jazz's in various forms for years but recently I really really really want a P-Bass with some stinky old flatwounds on it. I once read an article from a high level pro session guy (can't remember the name) who's "main" bass was some ridiculous Fodera but he said that the bass he uses most by far in studio sessions or working with a pop artist etc is a 50's P-Bass. I know of a lot of players who say you should have at least one P-Bass in your arsenal because studio engineers love them, they don't need to do anything to them to get them to sound good. I'm starting to come round to that advice!

[quote name='landwomble' timestamp='1476395801' post='3154038'] Ruby Lounge, The Castle, Star and Garter for venues. Northern Quarter for drinks. [/quote] +1 on Northern Quarter for drinks. Especially Port Street Beer House, Marble Beers, Terrace, Hold Fast and Montpellier's. Venues I'd check out "Matt and Phred's", "Band on the Wall" and "Night and Day" usually some good stuff going on.

Interesting question. I started playing when I was 13 and became completely obsessed with it. I was gigging with my dad and his blues band pretty soon after. The feeling was awesome and all I wanted to be when I grew up was to be a "pro musician" and to have that feeling all the time. I grew up in a village in Yorkshire where there wasn't much for a teenager to do so I practiced for 4-5 hours a day, as a result I got pretty good pretty quickly. I was blessed with the opportunity to play in some really good bands from a really young age. Fast-forward a few years and I'd become lazy and complacent so I barely scraped through my music degree, more interested in partying than playing bass. The problem was the self perception of being a "good" bass player had started to chip away at my dedication to learn new things and push myself, I'd developed an attitude where I was like "I don't need to practice" otherwise known as a diva ego which I'm not proud of at all. After uni I went on to do the "pro musician" thing for a couple of years but because of my attitude it lost its charm for me. I wasn't getting that thrill anymore because I'd made it my job and I wasn't getting enough gigs to make a living. I stopped playing pretty much all together for a good 4 years and got a "proper job" as my mum always used to say lol! After a while I realised how much I missed that feeling I had when I was a kid and started picking up my bass again after a crappy day at the office as a way of winding down. Now I'm totally addicted to it again. I'm practicing every night, pushing myself to learn things that I can't play and making sure I heed the hard learned lessons of complacency that had killed it for me in the first place. So to sum up (sorry this post was a bit more long winded than I expected!) playing bass is like coming home for me now. It calms me, inspires me, frustrates me, excites me and drives me crazy all at the same time but I wouldn't be without it and I can't wait to get out and gig again.

Here's the dots. Disclaimer, I'm super rusty at transcription as I haven't done it since uni so please excuse my spider sh*t! Also, before anyone goes all theory police on me: Yes I know I could have written repeat bars etc and have probably messed up the rests and articulations, it was 2am, I was on-call with work and I'm a Luddite when it comes to Sibelius so deal with it (in the nicest possible way of course!) https://www.dropbox.com/s/7iaic1lu14k936r/Vulfpeck%20-%20Dean%20Town%20-%20Bass%20Guitar.pdf?dl=0

Just finished a transcription of the bass part if anyone wants a copy? Bit ropey as I have't transcribed for about 10 years but it'll do!

I'm currently working on some random noodlings and trying to work on my phrasing rather than just going "Oh no! Bass solo time! What the hell do I play?!" and just flailing my fingers around vaguely in the right key in the modest hope that at least something will sound passable as a solo! I think I'll be taking your advice on learning some solos from other musos, I've got a book of Charlie Parker stuff that I occassionally dip in and out of which has plenty of material to steal... I mean... ahem... plagiarise and tastefully reference! When I've had a chance to do some recordings I'll get them posted up on here, would love to hear your thoughts.

Just checked out you're vids! Great phrasing and a lovely feel about your playing, I loved the solo on Blue Bosa. I will now sit in my study and practice all night! What ever you are practicing it is certainly working and I need to find me some of that! Keep it up dude, hope to see some more vids soon! Adam