macmellus

HI. I play bass guitar very well indeed, and can play any genre, anywhere in the world, and I'm available. Gimme a gig. Ta. Mel.

So how long is a good bridge expected to last? Mine looks about the same.

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?

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]

Had a lesson today. My teacher said I shouldn't be using a plectrum on DB. Onwards and upwards!

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.

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?

[quote name='macmellus' post='606313' date='Sep 23 2009, 12:49 AM']I never listen to those solos anymore cause it just makes me sad.[/quote]

[quote name='Jase' post='606305' date='Sep 23 2009, 12:27 AM']This is just delicious! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5mVXKiYlmc"]Yum![/url][/quote] Erm..yeah...apart from that one.

Has this been posted yet? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b64QuU1DYs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b64QuU1DYs[/url] Of course, when we're talking about Jaco's playing later on, we're talking about someone who was quite mentally unstable. When he was younger, focused and had it all to prove, he did some of the best bass guitaring ever. I bought his solo album when I was about fifteen and presumed that was a normal standard for jazz stuff(it was my first jazz album). I can't say I've heard anything much like it since. I never listen to those solos anymore cause it just makes me sad.

As the title suggests. Jazz.