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thanks for the suggestions guys!! Keep 'em coming!!!

I've always loved ska but I don't play any really at all. So any recommendations on good songs and bass lines would be great, and maybe a few of your own favourites!

I think you you use a variety of different gauges you could achieve the cello tuning, maybe a bit of research on THomann or the internet could help, but i doubt its impossible.

[quote name='muzzer' post='213168' date='Jun 5 2008, 01:08 PM']+1 for the D'Addario Pro Steel strings, have a set on my Jazzenstein and they DO sound like a piano
Depending on what pickups you use of course. I'm sure the Wizards on mine help.[/quote]

Agreed, I have pretty standard EMG's in mine and I'm seriously thinking about swapping them for bart's - how sweet would it sound!!!

I know Sadowsky do a good range of trad jazz so they'll be able to do a 5er.

I've had callouses from pretty early on, from about the 2nd week of playing bass. It is helpful in some cases, especially in Stalin's Russia, were if you didn't have allouses you were sent to a camp or killed. I'm ready for time travel

cheap option for the sweet piano type sound - D'addaro ProSteels strings. Got 'em on my Shuker and are great.

As said before I think a 'traditional' style 5er is a hard think to find although with your budget probably not...custom job?

with the money I would recommend looking for a secong hand streamer stage 1 - I don't think you can go wrong with those but the $$ are great.

But like said before TRY BEFORE YOU BUY

[quote name='The Funk' post='211525' date='Jun 3 2008, 01:40 AM']Double thumbing?

Someone needs a history lesson.[/quote]

Well I knew Larry Graham didn't do the line for it so I wasn't sure....

yeah like that, is it fingers or double thumbing?

Anyone gonna mention SX basses? Pretty much as good as a MIM for much less, why pay for a name? I think my order for an SX guitar may be on its way if I keep on listening to Chris Rea!!!

I grew up on Metal. Fav metal band is Mastodon. I'm not in a metal band because no one will play metal with me and good metal guitarists are few and far between that are open minded.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='207079' date='May 27 2008, 09:44 AM']Have you heard 'No Quarter'?

Seriously, tho'. I have written elsewhere of why I think people get into more sophisticated genres. You just get bored with the predictability of simpler music forms. I still have a soft spot for HM but it is based on nostalgia and the genre holds few surprises for me, especially bass-wise. So I have, over a long time, looked for other things to get excited about and jazz forms a substantial part of that - although even I am bored of the head-solos-head formats that are a central theme of several of its sub-genres (hard-bop etc).

Jazz is best when someone is taking chances! Same with most music, I guess.[/quote]


I totally agree, music needs to be pushed and listening to the same ol' stuff can get on my nerves. Blues Rock 'n' Roll gets right up my nostrils, especially the likes of Mick Jagger and co.

However, I have to disagree on some point. Overused chord prgressions still sound sweet to me, nothings better than that resolution chord that you've been waiting for and I think that humans do generally like the lyrical melodies and chord progressions that are overused, thats why they are overused i spose!!!

Sometimes less means more I think is what I'm trying to say sometimes

My Second bass, a Schecter Stiletto Elite 4. Thru-neck, active electronics, an absolute beauty and what I would consider my forst 'real' bass

The Shuker has the same electronics except 3 band and its a thru-neck, so I'm pretty happy but I know I'll never find a schecter again as good as that one probably.

whats the point? seriously, do you really NEED to change from fretted from fretless mid song?

my god I do want, but I can't justify giving up the shuker.

up for trades?

I have the tab somewhere that an old tutor transcribed, I'll pm it to you if I find it.

Stevie Wonder - Anything

I seriously find it hard to belive that anybody can say that any of stevie's songs has a bass bass part for whatever reason, solid, groovy and fun to play. Cannot ask more.

Alien Ant Farm - ANThology & truANT

Doing what bass does with great songs

[quote name='WalMan' post='168736' date='Apr 2 2008, 08:43 PM']...and I mean this as nicely as possible, but I'm glad its not just me Boy I've had some black moods recently (though Sunday was a small shining light even if I did get nothing in the raffle!!) Never thought I'd say it but I find myself wondering quite why I bother sometimes, and I [i]NEVER [/i]thought I would ever be saying that. Perhaps I too need to find something new???[/quote]

Get your hands of a copy of 'How to be Idle' by Tom Hodgkingson. As a person who suffers from moods this book is a shining light of excellent liturature. It has taught me to live life totally differently, and I have never had a proper 'mood' since me first reading it and I've read it 6, 7 times now. At the tender age of 19, I'm glad I found this book so early in my life. Cannot rate it highly enough.

OK children, its totally subjective, so your all right and wrong. Now shut up and make me sandwich

I think thats probably one of the best jools programs I've ever seen. Great show, didn't even know the Only Ones wwere still alive!!!

I have to admit if this gril is causing so much trouble i would kick, even if drummers are hard to find...

I'va taped it, looking forward to viewing now!!!