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couple more to add to the Dingwall porn thread - ABII 5 string... :-)

thanks for posting, that looks like a good show - I saw Richard Bona at the Barbican a few years ago which was a great gig, really nice playing & singing, and he's got a really good stage presence as well, he just seemed to be having so much fun throughout the whole gig ! The drummer on that one blew me away as well, forgotton who he was now...Cuban guy, Ernesto something...anyway, cheers for the heads up ! :-)

Hi All Anyone fancies a bit of big band mayhem I'll be playing with the 17 piece Mojo Jazz Orchestra this evening about 8pm in Camden - details here: [url="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184394994954872"]http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184394994954872[/url] [url="http://www.myspace.com/events/View/11111376/Mojo-Jazz-Orchestra/Mojo-at-The-Jazz-Market"]http://www.myspace.com/events/View/1111137...The-Jazz-Market[/url] [url="http://www.undersolo.co.uk/whats-on/wednesdays.html"]http://www.undersolo.co.uk/whats-on/wednesdays.html[/url] Pop along and say hello if you can make it ! :-) thanks, Phil

thanks for posting that, there's some interesting looking duets that should be fun to have a crack at !

extra wide music stand like this - [url="http://www.djmmusic.com/Itemdesc.asp?ic=KM-10041"]http://www.djmmusic.com/Itemdesc.asp?ic=KM-10041[/url] and taping the pages together works for me for scores of 5 pages or so...always thought it was hardest for bass players to turn pages compared to any other instrument...! :-)

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1274693' date='Jun 19 2011, 01:35 PM']So sit back and get an earful of Loose Tubes' performance of Dave Defries' 'Hermeto's Giant Breakfast'. You'll thank me for it.[/quote] fantasic ! thanks for posting this. :-)

Thanks Kev, I'll give those a go - they look like they'll be good for building strength & stamina. Cheers, Phil

[quote name='Doddy' post='1230968' date='May 14 2011, 02:09 PM']All you can really do is concentrate on alternating fingers and string crossing. Try playing scales and arpeggios in various intervals like 3rds,6ths 10ths etc. in various rhythmic combinations and both ascending and descending. Don't push it too much though-play them slowly and accurately and speed will develop naturally.[/quote] Thanks Doddy - it's been a while since I've done excersises like these and it's really showing at the moment ! Just have to knuckle down and build up slowly again - and break though the finger pain barrier ! :-) (It's descending across strings at speed where my right hand fingers seem to trip over themselves...)

[quote name='Michael Currie' date='May 14 2011, 02:08 PM' post='1230967'] I definitely will make a stab at learning the whole thing off this chart ^, and maybe just pretend in my head to play all of those runs It's a great chart, and the runs aren't too bad if you do them at a slower tempo - I'm just finding it tricky to play them at speed - will hopefully have it nailed in a few days !

[quote name='Captain Bass' post='1230927' date='May 14 2011, 01:36 PM']Cheers for the chart! Was gonna start learning this by ear until this thread pooped up :-)[/quote] no problem, hope it's saved you some time - although there are some killer bits in it - I've got my fingers round it all but getting it up to speed is a different matter !! :-)

here's the chart I'm working from - enjoy ! [attachment=79870:Not_Yet___016_Bass.pdf]

Hi All I'm in the process of learning a fairly tricky tune and having trouble with parts of it playing at speed - I've figured out the problem is my right hand as there's lots of quick string crossing which I'm not so good on - up & down in 4ths etc. So it's going to take me a while and I figure I need to improve my technique to hopefully speed things up. I have an excersise where I use one finger per fret per string and play up and down - so say fouth finger on the 5th fret of the E string, 3rd finger on the 4th fret of the A string, 2nd finger on the 3rd fret of the D string, 1st finger on the 2nd fret of the G string play up one note on each string then reverse the left hand position to descend - starting with the 4th finger on the 5th fret of the G string - which I find really good for right hand (and also a good stretch for the left if you play it lower down the neck) Anyone have any others specifically for right hand you'd care to share ? Thanks, Phil

I'm doing this at the minute as well, to play with a big band (was just about to write another post regarding it funnily enough !) - and I'm finding it a killer to get up to speed with ! I can't play it on a 5 string, I have to use a 6 to get round some of those bass runs !! I have the bass chart I can post so you can compare if you like ?

thanks for posting this, I've just sent him an email.

I hadn't seen him live before, and haven't heard anything he's done recently - I first heard him with Tania Maria years ago and really liked his playing so bought Basses Loaded on the back of that, which I thought was excellent, so I was really looking forward to seeing him on this gig.

Aaarrghh, that sounds like exactly how the London gig should have been if only they hadn't been playing in a massisve reverb filled church !! :-) Interesting to hear you say Tom's sound was good, at the London gig I thought it was terrible, all really, really high mids but still very indistinct and almost muffled...so I guess that must have been down to the venue as well...but what a band !!

+1 for Musescore

A good gig let down by the sound I thought, which is a shame. I really like the Union Chapel but when the the volume reached a certian level last night it sounded pretty awful, as it would if you have a fairly loud amplified band playing in a church ! - not much anyone could do about it really, unless they draped off the roof beforehand or something...and I'd forgotten my earplugs too which would have made it sound nicer ! But some great playing - although I wasn't keen on Tom Kennedy's sound, but I guess it's his... :-) He's an outstanding player though. Weckl however stole the show for me, he was absolutely on fire and was a joy to watch. Anyone else go ?

Hi there Basschatters Been lurking here for quite a while, have bought a bass from a member here and now have one up for sale so thought it would only be polite to introduce myself ! I'm based in north London, have been playing for a long time but had a bit of a break for several years so am now getting back into it - I have a day job so it's just for fun, although most of the gigs I do are paid (poorly...) :-) I play a Warwick Thumb 6 which I've had since '89, a very recent Dingwall AB2 5 string and a Squier VM fretless through a Markbass 800 tube and 2 x 12" NY cab. I play regularly with a big band and a salsa band, and do a weekly jazz jam night, and also the occasional dep here and there. I've really enjoyed the forum since I've been a member here, there's some excellent resources on the theory part, the Major's Boot Camp is outstanding, plus all the transcriptions and other stuff people put up - excellent. I've also really appreciated Bilbo's Jazz thread and of course all the endless debates that go on...keep up the good work ! :-) Phil

if you don't have any joy, the company i work for builds flightcases - just let me know if you want any info.

Hi there I'd be up for this, pm sent. Thanks, Phil