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    Ground Wounds and Half Rounds.

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    [quote name='Ancient Mariner' post='765901' date='Mar 6 2010, 10:50 AM']D'Addario halfwounds are ground.
    [url="http://www.stringbusters.com/frameset.asp?MAIN=http://www.stringbusters.com/ko-kat/BASS%20STRINGS/DADDARIO/"]http://www.stringbusters.com/frameset.asp?...RINGS/DADDARIO/[/url]

    Rotosound Solo Bass Stainless Pressurewound are wound round and then rolled flat.
    [url="http://www.stringbusters.com/frameset.asp?MAIN=http://www.stringbusters.com/ko-kat/BASS%20STRINGS/ROTOSOUND/"]http://www.stringbusters.com/frameset.asp?...INGS/ROTOSOUND/[/url]

    HTH[/quote]
    Thanks. Not too keen on the D'Addario halfwounds. Not ground quite enough for me. May try the pressure wounds. Have you tried them?

    Ground Wounds and Half Rounds.

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    So I used to buy Ground Wound strings and was very happy with them. Now I can only get Half Rounds. I'm not happy with them. Many places (on the interweb) say they're the same thing, but one place says that, while Ground wounds are ground Round Wounds, Half Rounds have an oval shaped winding.
    Is this so?
    Does anyone work for a string company?
    Where might I purchase proper Ground Round Wound strings?
    Thanks , M.

    Bass guitarists taking up DB

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    I've had mine since September and thought it'd had been a great mistake for the first three months. I used to get pains in my back and elsewhere, because it was so much effort getting the fingering right I'd start to tense up and lose my posture without realising. Got cramp in my hand easily also. I think I didn't bother with it for a whole month.
    I've relaxed into now, and have got to the point where I'm not really worrying about the technique. I flit between lazy technique to good technique, as I now know when it's important and when it isn't. I really feel like I'm playing it as a musical instrument now, rather than it being this gym workout machine that i'm obliged to go on, because it cost me so much money.
    Don't be dis-heartened if you don't seem to be making any progress. Once you can relax, you'll love it, and everyone will love you, because you play double bass, and they'll want to give you lots of money too.

    Fart

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    Probably a simple question to answer. My speaker was farting because the middle dome paper bit had become slightly disattached. It wouldn't glue. I took it off. It sounds fine now. Did I do anything wrong?

    Left hand practice

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    [quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='744951' date='Feb 14 2010, 04:37 PM']Macmellus, generally I just teach fingering using scales. Students get a lashing if they use the wrong fingers. wink.gif I'll have a play with your suggestion next time I'm on my bass though and see how it feels. Another one I use (for both hands) is (as intervals, I start off higher up the fret) 1, 2, minor 3, 4 and back down (so for example C, D, D#, F, D#, D, C.) Then play about with speed, get them doing it fast enough (once they've got it slowly of course) and there's no real option than use all four fingers because of the jump up from D to F. Same thing with the major scale, 1st to 4th and they have to use 4th finger to 1st for the movement from 2nd to 3rd.[/quote]
    Don't really want to get bogged down here, but my example was for right hand technique, not left. Also your exercise isn't very clear. What do you mean by 'as intervals' and 'higher up the fret'? Are you only using one string? Either way, whether on one or two strings I'm not using all my fingers. What is the actual sequence of notes?
    Also, what do you mean by 'wrong fingers'?

    Right hand techiques

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    [quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='744671' date='Feb 14 2010, 12:02 PM']Sorry, I'll stop aiding with the thread hijack now. :)[/quote]
    Too late mate.
    I've been playing one finger per fret for 25 years. I don't have a particularly long stretch. I'm now using the same technique on double bass.

    For the right hand. Try a walking bass line exercise. Play G G B B C C C* C* D D C C B B A A (no open strings). Alternate between first and second finger except for the change from B to A where you'd use the same finger. You should start on a different finger each time. This'll help stop you getting stuck with the same finger having to lead all the time. Obviously, try and make it sound smooth and eventually do it to a metronome. See how fast you can do it. Devise your own similar lines.
    Give us some feed back if you try it.

    80'S TOKAI JAZZ SOUND, **SOLD**

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted · Edited by macmellus

    [quote name='Clarky' post='743205' date='Feb 12 2010, 03:35 PM']He says its an upgraded bridge, ie non-original[/quote]
    Oh yeah. Oops! :blush:
    And to be fair, he does mention later on that it's mid to late eighties, rather than early eighties.

    80'S TOKAI JAZZ SOUND, **SOLD**

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted · Edited by macmellus

    [quote name='fluffo' post='743030' date='Feb 12 2010, 01:13 PM']that headstaock don't look right for an early 80's, I thought they were identical to a fender around that time. not so pointed at the end, I could be wrong but the early 80's one I had was the exact same shape as a fender.[/quote]
    + 1
    and the bridge
    could be wrong

    No Pain, No Gain?

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    I've been playing since October and can't seem to stop using my ring finger, partly because i can't see a problem and I don't seem to be getting any problems. I'm not playing particularly fast at the moment. Do people think I'll develop problems later on if I carry on this way?

    Fingerboard Stain

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    I followed this chap after i sanded down my old Tokai fingerboard. Finished it with 8000 Micro-mesh and it's come up nice and shiny.
    [url="http://www.bassplayer.com/article/superglue-savior/jun-06/20674"]http://www.bassplayer.com/article/superglu...or/jun-06/20674[/url]

    Expensive DB vs Cheap Chinese DB

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    I bought a double bass advertised on here last September, one year old then, cost me £1100 ( £1600 New), professionally set set up at Bridgewood and Something. Low action, apparently. Having difficulty moving from bass guitar, as expected. thought I'd be gigging with it already but not there yet.
    Anyway...played on my bass guitar teachers' DB, which was from Gear4music, £350 + set-up fee, and it was MUCH easier to play. Now all those clips on YouTube don't seem so impossible. Same action, thereabouts, just a lot less tension on the strings, I think. Thought at the time that the strings were thinner on his, but I'm not sure now that I'm home.
    So, what are people's thoughts? Maybe it's just a case of buying different strings, or a set-up with a local luthier.
    Thanks, M.

    -

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted · Edited by macmellus

    Surely , if you're playing a walking bass line, then it's probably full of chromatic runs which could require a 4th note. Or have i got the wrong end? :)

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