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Nice one Ian all being well with the planned schedule, the date should be nailed down by the end of the first week in April, as I intend to allow one week for venue voting unless anyone objects / comes up with an alternative plan to works well. T

sunday seems to coming out favourite so far. Anyone surprised at all ? Are all the other bashes on sunday ? T

Friday I'm in love - the cure happy times T

Just in case the detail gets missed in the pages of a long thread, I've posted a seperate thread to address the problem Vote is currently underway to decide saturday or sunday Vote will be held in first - second week April to decide venue. This will allow approx 5 - 6 weeks for people to arrange their own schedules once the venue and date is known. Vote, vote, vote ! T

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Advance warning of schedule here. I intend to post a vote on venue choice by first week in April, perhaps second week latest, which is only 3-4 weeks away. This will give folk a further 5 - 6 weeks until early June to arrange their own schedules. I will change this schedule if someone comes up with a good reason. Otherwise, I'd like to get target dates up to move this thing along. Jack London - would you please enquire the in / outs of that wood street venue ? cheers everyone T

I'm gathering a list of current contenders for venues. If I've missed something out, please add it or PM me and I'll edit. In no particular order: - Friern Barnet (posted by molan) - Creekside studios (posted by bloodaxe) - Wood Green (Posted by jacklondon) I'm looking into this some more when I have a mo Cheers T

there was an interesting discussion around this topic in a thread on right hand technique. I would post the link, but being a dinosaur, I don't know how yet T

[quote name='molan' post='774374' date='Mar 14 2010, 03:45 PM']I'll badger my daughter to speak to the head tomorrow - do we prefer a Saturday or a Sunday?[/quote] MMmm intersting question, which is probably best thrown open to the forum, so I've opened up a poll, which will close next Saturday. T

I was pondering this very topic this morning following the first outing of a new rig with two GS112's on Friday. I thought the extra height would help the whole band to hear the bass guitar a little clearer in the on stage setting, without increasing the overall volume. The choices at this point were - To stack the GS112's on their sides to gain the height for the top cab. Not sure how this would affect the performance of the speaker cones themselves however. - To carry some kind of purpose built stand. The least preferable option as it would involve more carrying. Perhaps there are other solutions ? T

[quote name='molan' post='774203' date='Mar 14 2010, 11:50 AM']After waiting for a while for a response I got a tentative 'yes' from my daughter's school in Friern Barnet as a possible location. It's about 10 minutes walk from Arnos Grove tube (Picc line), a few minutes off the north circ for driving and plenty of parking. Large school hall with a stage and other spaces we could use as well. Haven't got a price out of them yet but it's a decent North London option if that's of any interest.[/quote] Hey Molan ! this one looks like one of the most promising so far. 1. It has the parking option 2. The flexibility offered by the use of more than one room 3. A stage for possible presentations etc Any poss. ideas on available dates in June please ? Watching with interest T

Popular opinion so far is +1 to London Transport access if at all possible T

[quote name='bass5' post='773898' date='Mar 13 2010, 09:18 PM']Sorry I am new here, what is this bash all about? And why are people bringing their gear? Is this a... "show me yours and I'll show you mine?" type of thing? Thanks[/quote] That seems to be it T

Soooo, B.C has spoken and the clock is now ticking to a June London Bash 2010. June = 35.29 % (12) Any month is ok = 29.41 % (10) May = 14.71 % (5) April = 20.59 % (7) Next job is to choose a venue. Some places have been suggested already, but at the end of the day, it's up to you to choose. T

[quote name='yorick' post='772451' date='Mar 12 2010, 09:13 AM']My first orchestral dep playing Holst's Planet suite from end to end for a wedding in the grounds of a medieval manor. [/quote] I would have travelled a long way to do that gig ! what a tremendous peice of music ! what were you playing ? arrangement ? the orginal orchestral or modded for electric ? T

voting draws to an end soon folks T

[quote name='Bilbo' post='771509' date='Mar 11 2010, 12:42 PM']When did I say that? Seriously, I do it another way. I now do all of my transcriptions on Sibelius and start with the notes in bar one and work on from there to the end bar. When I have finished writing out the notes the bass plays, I look for the chords. Sometimes I find them by playing along with a guitar, sometimes I have real book charts already but occasionally I go to the net. Sometimes I get a riff and stick with that, other times I look for every fill. It it does depend on why you are transcribing. Sometimes I only want to study a short passage, a few bars. Sometimes, I just want to work out a head, or a solo, or a riff etc. The ones I publish here are generally (but not all) 'complete' end to end transcriptions in a effort to be helpful to people who want to study them but, at home, I transcribe as much or as little as I need to get what I want out of the exercise.[/quote] Quite right Bilbo. I should have said: LEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEAR NTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOR E ADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSIC Heartily agree with that T

As others have said, train your ears !!!!!!!!!! The practice you put into this will be repaid to you throughout your life, as at sometime in the future, it could be sitting in a traffic jam, or anywhere, you will listen to something and be able to honestly say you know how it goes without even picking an instrument up. And as Bilbo says: LEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSIC T

Met Steve at the Birmingham NEC to pick up a rack case from him. Steve even changed his schedule to help out mine went up the wall. A nice straightforward deal with good communication throughout Nice one Steve Cheers ! T

Ordered cables on monday evening Posted Tuesday Arrived Wednesday I Mentioned to Dave on Monday I had a gig the coming Friday and needed some cables. As you can see, he came through, bless him. Excellent quality gear too. As Higgie said, I won't be going anywhere else. top man Cheers Dave ! T

Aha ! so that's where the money went Steve glad it was spent well T