Davethebassboss

[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1463579106' post='3052502'] It would be worthwhile posting a thread in the warwick forum if you haven't already. [/quote] Sorry, didn't think of that, duh! Will do... Thanks

Thank you for the suggestion; I'll go and have a look! I had a John East setup in a secondhand Sei but I didn't like the (to me) rather woolly tone so passed it on...I don't know if that was the bass or the preamp though... Someone outside the forum suggested buying a Glockenklang or Nordstrand preamp but I don't know much about their uses or how they affect the tone of the bass; they seem cheaper but are they as good at reproducing that Warwick sound, anyone know...?! David

Hi all, I've been around the forum for ages but haven't posted anything much, so please excuse this rather long post... I own a 2001 German-made Warwick Streamer LX6 which is a joy to play, but it has a problem with the MEC-2 actives. Ever since I bought the bass it has been cutting out and intermittently playing passive-only, but now it has died altogether - it still plays through the passive circuit, but the active eq board has given up. Interestingly, once I started investigating, and had the jack socket replaced as I assumed it would help, I discovered that sometime in its past it had been rewired from the original spec, (eg the battery -ve was soldered directly onto the jack socket earth, and so on...) Whether or not the original owner had had the same problem and sought to bypass it, I can only surmise... Ok, so here's the Question: is it worth buying a new MEC-2 circuit with pots etc direct from Warwick, to regain the original sound of the bass (which I hear is really good!) or should I ditch the lot and go for something else? I don't have a huge budget - who does?! - so I don't want to go for something that isn't 'right'... Oh, and someone told me that only Warwick pots fit the original Warwick knobs, or vice versa - is that correct?! All advice, comments, donations welcome David

[quote name='SimBass' post='686403' date='Dec 16 2009, 03:21 PM']Thanks for all the advice...particularly the about lesson structure! Out of curiosity...at what point did you start transcribing the songs he was learning...did you do that from the start? or did he just learn a pattern at a time (and did you use tab/staff music notation or both) My instinct is that introducing conventional music notation as early as possible is good but this may be my classical background creeping up on me?[/quote] At first we did just finger patterns/shapes to find the right notes and learn by sight (let's face it, most of the songs were three/four chord rock stuff anyway so it was very straight forward!!). Then we started putting it down as a chord chart; a simple structure for him to follow, introducing counting at the same time - (eg.A,2,3,4 and change,2,3,4...etc.) I've never used tab for anything as I've found it almost as complicated to learn and follow as getting stuck into the real notes, so I try and introduce the proper notes as soon as possible. He learned quite slowly as he had a good ear to play things, but he got there eventually. My 9-year-old daughter reads proper drum music on staves, and my 12-year-old reads piano music, so it is definitely do-able !! You just have to focus on them learning something tangible first, then explain to them how they just did that...!!

Hi there I taught a 9-year old at Musicians Institute - he had been sent by his mum to learn all sorts of instruments and wasn't exactly excited at the thought of theory !! I found that by diving into his library of good tunes on his CD Walkman we were able to learn some simple basslines that he could play along with, and then formulated the lessons this way: 5 minutes listening to the tune from last week 10 minutes playing the tune 10 minutes looking at what we were playing, eg notes, simple scales 5 minutes listening to a tune for next week (at first it would take a couple of weeks for one tune) This meant that it was centered around playing which he actually liked to do (!!) and gave him a sense of achievement at being able to play his favourite tunes. His technique built up as he played, and I corrected it as we went along. After about 6 months doing this we then introduced proper scales and simple notation which he then used to play other tunes not previously known to him. I taught him until he was 12, by which time he could read simple music, follow a chord chart with his own bassline, and play simple solos using modes over a piano chord structure... Hope that helps