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[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='1304167' date='Jul 14 2011, 11:17 PM']How many sheets is it? Can you photocopy and sticky tape to achieve a "wide" version of the music? Failing that can you partially do that so that you can turn the page when you are not playing? Failing that, get someone to turn the page for you.[/quote] This is what I do - I have music up to four sheets long and I tape the sheets together in a ring-binder so that they fold out. EDIT: a tip if you're going to go down this route. Split your sets into separate folders. For my first few gigs I had all the music in one - because it fitted - but at the start and towards the end, my stand had a tendancy to fall over because all the weight was over on one side! lol Took me a few disasters to work out why it was happening.

[quote name='Major-Minor' post='1306171' date='Jul 16 2011, 08:50 PM']And here it is: "Misty" arranged for solo bass guitar. Written in treble clef, but sounding an octave lower. [attachment=84857:Misty.pdf] The Major[/quote] Ach!! I'm having trouble enough with bass clef! lol

[quote name='4 candles' post='1303981' date='Jul 14 2011, 09:01 PM']you have to ask yorself why you need to read as you aproach the 70 yr old mark! The only reason you need to read is to open some more doors as a musician and make yourself available to many more gigs as a working musician. (unless you have apoint or grudge too prove to someone) If you feel the need to reed then best of luck to you. Me personally at your age would enjoy some golf or fishing out in the glorious sunshine. regards Mark[/quote] Reading music is a skill that's well worth developing and has nothing to do with getting more gigs as a working musician. Otherwise there's be no amateur pianists learning to read music. There's a huge amount of satisfaction in being able to pick up a sheet of music - for a piece you've never even heard - and being able to play it. I don't know if this is a little reverse snobbery, but I'd say that the OP would gain a great deal from reading music even if he was never paid for a gig in his life.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1305741' date='Jul 16 2011, 01:25 PM']Billy Cobham/Simon Phillips style. I've always wondered why more left handed drummers don't do this. It makes a lot of sense and makes things way easier if you are sharing gear.[/quote] Ringo Starr is a lefty drummer playing a right-handed setup drum kit, it's one reason why his playing style is so distinctive (and higly under-rated). Probably from all those days of sharing a bill in the late 50s early 60s.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='1305617' date='Jul 16 2011, 11:32 AM']It's a shame so many left handed players play right handed due to lack of choice; if more left handed people played left then there might be more choice lol.[/quote] It's not a shame at all. It would be a shame if they didn't play at all because of a lack of choice, but I'd say that a lefty who plays a right-handed instrument has probably made the wisest choice.

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='1305384' date='Jul 16 2011, 01:02 AM']I'm left handed in general but naturally play bass right handed. The way I see it, the fretting hand has to be the most precise so that should be my left! [b]But I'm semi-ambidextrous since I use my right hand for certain tasks and left for others.[/b][/quote] I'd have thought that most of us left handers do. Otherwise you'd never be able to use a pair of scissors or a corkscrew. I can't imagine playing a guitar left-handed now, it would seem all wrong. Because both hands are doing something entirely new, whichever way round you start you're learning new skills - my (right-handed) brother had a 6-string guitar and I just started playing that so when I took up bass switching would have been unthinkable. Had I been presented with both a lefty and a righty guitar on the first day I'd taken it up, who knows which I'd have chosen - maybe part of its' psychological and left-handed people assume that they won't be able to play anything but, so don't even think about picking up a right-handed instrument. Now, I can't even visualise how I'd play a left-handed guitar.

While I think it's perfectly acceptable for people to do whatever they want to their instrument, the amount of money the seller is asking is ridiculous for what's in effect 2/3s of a guitar.

When practising I'm unfocused. I tend to noodle and play along to the songs I'm learning for the band and that's about it. While it's helping me play the pieces I play, I don't think that it's necessarily making me a better bass player. HOw would you structure an hour's bass practice? Scales? Improvisation? Exercises? How would / do you split the time?

[quote name='Bankai' post='1298478' date='Jul 9 2011, 07:32 PM']I would suggest using Sennheiser e845s. Or if you want to go even cheaper then perhaps look at the e835 I think it is?[/quote] lol - at £95 each, Sennheiser e845s aren't saving me much money (if any) over SM57s.

Someone's maths is wrong.

[quote name='PURPOLARIS' post='1298452' date='Jul 9 2011, 06:53 PM']Where are they then [/quote] Emperor's New Basses?

We could save quite a bit on PA hire if we supplied our own mics. The vocalist can all supply their own SM58s, but that leaves us needing mics for the brass and the percussion. Any suggestions on what we could use that would be better value than eight SM57s?

[quote name='Wil' post='1297185' date='Jul 8 2011, 01:33 PM']Try rolling one of your pickup volumes down a touch - due to a quirk in the wiring, when both pickups are up full the mids are scooped a bit. When you roll back the volume slightly on one of the pups you get a little low mid bump that can add a lot of definition.[/quote] Of course you also tend to get a bit of hum too when both pickups aren't at max.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='1297028' date='Jul 8 2011, 12:11 PM']I received an urgent phone call from a band I know on Wednesday asking me if could help them out on a gig that they have next Saturday since their original bass player was on holiday. We agreed that I would only learn half the set and they would get another bassplayer to play the other half of the set ,I agreed since I knew most of the songs anyway . Had the first practice last night and it was a total disaster sine they insist on detuning to E flat. I didn’t think this would be a problem so I just detuned and played the songs in the “correct “ position but I was still half a step out on half of the songs. I then realised that in these songs the guitarist had detuned but had then shifted his fingers up one fret so effectively he was playing in standard tuning – does this make sense ? Anyway I’m absolutely gutted since I put a lot of work into learning the songs , even took a day off work in order learn the 4 songs I wasn’t that familiar with - but the detuning/.shifting fret thing completely confused me and at the end of 2 hours I felt so useless that I couldn’t get out the door quick enough. I doubt it I’ll get to play the gig now which is a bit annoying but not the end of the world BUT what I’d like to know is how would you guys handle it if say you learnt Sweet Child O’ Mine by ear along with the studio recording and then had to shift it up one fret playing live , Am I too inflexible as a bass player and relying too much on learning by muscle memory and what do I do about it ? Cheers[/quote] I don't understand detuning. Why not just change where your fingers are playing?

[quote name='redstriper' post='1296274' date='Jul 7 2011, 06:48 PM']I would expect your laptop to be up to the job and if you already use cubase, you're half way there - all you need is a sound card interface like the Alesis. Midi files can be a problem when using the internal computer synth (forget what it's called) - mine has a latency problem when using that, but not with plug in synths like the ones supplied with cubase.[/quote] Interesting. I always thought that I'd need something more than just a mixer.

Well, I ended up buying my cables from obbm, but I still intend to one day learn to solder. I have a long cheap cable that starts crackling when I move while using it, so I might start by cutting that down and resoldering the existing connectors to a 1m length to use with my Bass Trainer.

[quote name='Tuco' post='1296138' date='Jul 7 2011, 04:49 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250850726611&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...=STRK:MESELX:IT[/url] noticed this on evilbay earlier........[/quote] I'm keeping an eye on that one.

[quote name='redstriper' post='1296112' date='Jul 7 2011, 04:14 PM']It doesn't have to be very powerful, I use a basic 5 year old Toshiba Satellite with an Alesis Multimix 16. It's a Centrino Duo with 1 gig Ram and it records 18 tracks at once with broadcast quality results. The nice thing about using a computer is the large display compared to budget hardware systems and you can easily add plug ins and integrate different software to suit.[/quote] That's interesting. the laptop I'm writing this on was only bought last year (admittedly, pretty budget though) and its specs are ....... fiddles with programs to find all this bvumf out .... Processor: Celeron dual core 1.9ghz T3100 Ram: 4 gigs And yours can record 18 tracks at once? I'm always struggling with lag when putting together a midi file in cubase. I must clear the whole thing out one day.

[quote name='Ian Savage' post='1296110' date='Jul 7 2011, 04:13 PM']Then that's got to be the decision you make first, whether to go for an 'all-in-one' setup like the one Hobbayne linked above (generally pretty intuitive and easy-to-use, but can be limiting after a while) or put together a computer-based setup (more daunting, particularly if you're not too tech-savvy or haven't done much recording before, but SO much more versatile and pretty much limitless in potential once you know what you're doing). Be you an Apple or a Windows person?[/quote] $pple or windoze? Well, if I had to buy a new machine anyway it could be either. I know everyone suggests macs, but windows laptops always seem better value

[quote name='Ian Savage' post='1296075' date='Jul 7 2011, 03:32 PM']Have you got a decent computer setup already, or are you properly starting from scratch?[/quote] I have a laptop, but I wouldn't want to rely on it for recording - I'd doubt that it was powerful enough.

Just to get my hand in, spending as little money as possible, but gaining familiarity with how recording works. What would I need to record, say, a few acoustic instruments, a few electric instruments a vocal and a percussion tracks - all put down at different times. It would be nice to have: minimum to start, spending as little as possible and also the best value set up that would allow me to recrd all that with a close-to professional output. Just wondering, because I haven't the first clue where to begin and can't differentiate between what equipment is vital and the machines that go ping.

[quote name='Basszilla' post='1294805' date='Jul 6 2011, 03:08 PM']Ok guys, my new set up has arrived. 1 Rain Livebook (windows 7 pro64, i7 dual, 8GBram, 750GB HDD) 1 express card Firewire connect 1 Tascam us-1800 interface (USB2.0 connect) 1 24" LCD monitor Pair of MAudio AV40 speakers. It's got reaper installed, will get the license when it expires in due course. I have a paper copy of the reaper manual and also saved as PDF on my lappy. Pretty excited about getting stuck into this although i'm fully aware it's going to be one hell of a learning curve. Expect some questions soon (if you don't mind helping here and there)[/quote] When you've got this set up, I'd love it if you could give us a review of it all. It's something that I've often wondered about it putting together a recording kit and it would be interesting to see others' experiences.