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[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1324505985' post='1475136'] He's good, our Higgie. Seen his Rhythm Stick cover? [/quote] pah!, I wish i could play [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A61i0Xscj-k"]Rhythm Stick[/url], its one of my faves. Twas a big hit back in 1978. I remember it from school, i think i was in the fourth year when it came out (age 15) I tell ya. Its not as if i cant get the notes or the speed correct, it seems to be just the timing (or Rhythm ) seems to be totally out. I even got the song and slowed it right down and still cant get it correct. Seems as if you need fingers like precision springs, with distributer cap timing, to get it down. Most annoying, eh! PS: NWR is da man!

[quote name='Cyrene' timestamp='1323941878' post='1468837'] If you can wait til tonight I'll get my wife to play it on piano. She can just hear a melody and repeat it. [/quote] Well a week has gone by, so im asuming she couldnt get her head around this one ?

The moral of the story is. Never sell on a favourite 'cheap' bass to get a better one, before you have lived with the new one for a few months. You may well regret it badly.

Ha! ! My Yin/Yang Victor W00ten Fodera cost all of £7000 and was worth every brass penny. Its high value makes me play to a higher standard. budget basses PAH! I wouldnt give them room in the coal shed.

[quote name='bisonkills' timestamp='1324207730' post='1471711'] ......... I'm playing in a three piece doing math rock stuff, with a bit of a post rock edge........... [/quote] What the ???

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1295873909' post='1100708'] I always thought it was a Ric, certainly sounds mostly like a Ric to my ears. He used a J with a third pickup in the Ric spot on Everything Must Go but, to me at least, that vicious growl on The Holy Bible is all Ric. [/quote] always preffered [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generation-Terrorists-Manic-Street-Preachers/dp/B000007VOL/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1324309251&sr=8-9"]Generation Terrorists[/url], personally.

I have finished my home made job and it appears to work great. Certainly the wardrobe door no longer vibes away in unison. also the bass simply sounds better, deeper, clearer or something. I noticed that straight away. I will have to do some decibell tests on it, but fewer sound vibrations are going through the floor, thats for sure. Of course i forgot to take a picture of it before i put my heavy cab and amp on top of it. So I will put an [i]end view [/i]diagram below and describe it. First of all the board and thick carpet are pretty standard and the same as the one pictured a few posts above by [i][url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_12_2011/post-775-0-18743600-1323644913.jpg"]Goingdownslow[/url]. [/i]The main difference is the other side from the carpet i glued one of those 1cm thick rubber mats used for putting in the garage to cushion the floor or for working on the car(see pic on right). For the rear I got some of that rubber/neoprene/whatever, pipe lagging from B&Q. The difference was the way I used it. Instead of cutting doughnut shapes out, I cut them lengthways. I bought 2 sizes, so that the larger half could fit inside the smaller half. (see pic on left below) I then glued them on to the underside of the board with no nails and sealant (to make sure), I put one on either edge. the gap in between i noticed was filled in with triangular shaped pices of foam on the Auralex Gramma Pad. So i filled in the gap on mine with single half pieces of smaller pipe lagging, so that they didnt touch the floor, but the gap was filled.

Relocating to [b]Thurruck[/b] ? didnt Russel Brand come from that neck o the woods? Thats all i know about it im afraid. Sounds sort of trading estate-ish. Why not move into the empty shop near me in Chester. I promise to pop in for a pick or two or maybe even a pedal from the [i]bargain bin [/i]ocassionally. There you go. Bish bosh. Problem sorted.

[quote name='yorick' timestamp='1324037442' post='1470032'] Envelope filter, delay and fuzz [/quote] A fuzzy delayed envelope ? Sounds like the mail at christmas........ .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zing! ........ aahh thankyew. .

[quote name='mrdreadful' timestamp='1323949944' post='1468981'] Well yes, better to ask a question and be a fool for a minute than not ask and be a fool for a lifetime and all that. Not really a bad day, I just believe that education need not come with a side order of mockery. [/quote] Just watch the [size=5][color=#b22222]Bad News[/color][/size] episode of [i]Comic Strip Presents[/i]

[size=4][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]As Ronni James Dio sang[/font][/size] [font=lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif][size=6][i]Long Live Rock and Roll. [/i][/size][/font] [font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=4] [/size][/font] [font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=4]and all her sail in her[/size][/font] [size=4] [/size]

Nah, I've seen Data playing a violin in the future, Also Mr spock played a vulcan lute. See pic below for someones home made effort. All silver and space agey. PS. Long live real music, never mind what Bleep & Booster say. No ones ever heard of them these days.

Bootsy may have been some the dude who put the FUNK into Funkenstein, at one time. but all he means to me nowerdays is someone with an unplayable bass with far too many knobs on and he wears a big daft hat. PS: Bah humbug

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1323890245' post='1468435'] Seriously, how hard is it to get £5 together? Thats, what, the cost a McDonalds? A pint and a half at the pub? Good grief. [/quote] If they were really serious they be on the Town Hall steps, flogging their arses to get that fiver! Commitmant PAH! They dont know the meaning of the word. ps: how much do arses go for these days ? Im a little out of touch.

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1323880774' post='1468200'] Radio, or MP3 player on shuffle. Another thing I do is just pick the bass up, don't even plug it in, and just play whatever comes under my fingers, without thinking about it too much. At first it either sounded like 12-bar blues or Velvet Underground on a really bad night, but over the years I've got more and more usable bass lines out of it. [/quote] I play my basses unplugged maybe 80% of the time.

Has anyone got the notes of that short but haunting piano refrain in the 1946 film [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/combined"]a matter of life and death[/url].? (the one where David Niven crashes in a plane but fails to be seen by his guide to the afterlife because of a thick english channel fog) I know it is short & should be easy to guess at, and it might well be on the piano, but not on my bass ? Go [url="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Shoes-Michael-Powell-Pressburger/dp/B000068PVB"]here [/url]and click #6 for a short snatch . NB (Im sure this will end up as just another in a long list of unanswered pleas from me, in this section of the forum)

Dreadfull. It sounds like he is hitting notes at random to me ?

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1323796155' post='1467209'] [list] [*]Entry to the venue was slow (I was there at Saturday opening), having to use the lift was very inefficient, but I suspect this is beyond your control and maybe a H&S requirement of the venue. [/list] [/quote] "the lift" ? You are not saying thats the only way to gain entry are you ?

[quote name='Doc B' timestamp='1209253060' post='186243'] For the past few days I've been unable to get Joy Division's 'Digital' out of my head - hypnotic bass and vocals. I mentioned this to my wife and she suggested putting the song on when we got home - so I dug out my Joy Division Substance CD (the first CD I ever bought). [/quote] [b]Digital [/b]is super hypnotic. I can play it for hours. It was one of the first riifs i learned, simple to play but powerfull. Seems a long time ago now, way back in December 2009. Which is nearly as old as this thread [media]http://youtu.be/tRnWYALFPCw[/media]

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1323283378' post='1461635'] If people washed their hands each time before picking up the bass, it would reduce drastically, the need for fret cleaning in the first place, not to mention prolonging string life. I have often seen guitarists and bassists pick up their instrument with hands that looked like they had just come from changing the engine in a car. All I ever need for FB cleaning is a moist cloth and a quick rub when changing strings. Also, oiling (regardless of what you use) should be kept to a minimum, as over oiling can be as bad as none at all. I oil my FB around every eighteen months or two years. Still looks great. [/quote] Indeedy. I always at least give the old hands a quick rinse before picking the bass up. I have noticed that this has made me very aware of the few times that i have picked the bass up with greasy hands, after eating a pizza or something. Once you get into a routine of rinsing your hands before playing the bass, you do it automatically, just like you do before you eat. PS: Does anyone know if there Is anywhere in the UK you can buy [i]Fret Doctor[/i], so you dont have to pay mad post charges for something the size of a half eaten pack of Polo mints ?

[quote name='Chlo_treacher' timestamp='1323623624' post='1465134'] I get what your saying however I think it differs from player to player, If I were to try and force myself to daily practise the stuff like scales and modes that I dont really like it would drive me up the wall and probably just make me want to stop playing all together. Its useful to know scales and modes, yeah this is undeniable. but PLAYING is the most important, to remember why you do it and why you love it. No aspect of music should be a chore, music is basically a way of celebration and expression which people do because they love it. So why make yourself do things that stop you feeling or thinking that way? To be more educational? In my own personal experience the brain just shuts off, stops taking any information in and then you get frustrated and give up trying to do what you set out to do. Its like saying to an painter the only way you can get better at painting is by daily writing down explanations of what brush strokes you need to learn and how to make various colors and stretching canvas' and the theory behind painting but never touching paint brush to paper when actually all you want to do is paint a picture! From teaching I also have to say getting my students to just find music that gets them excited to learn has been far more effective. Of course all of my students are taught the basics of reading notation, playing with proper technique so they dont injure themselves, a technique for ear training the notes on the fret board, how to lock in with a drummer etc etc but all of it is done from playing songs. The information they learn that is 'theory' based is allowed to seep into their brain at their own pace (all the information and 'answers' are there on the page, they just get used to seeing it more often) but all they have to do is play a song that they like. Everything else comes after. You'll be amazed at how little problems I have getting my students to practise too, compared with a lot of teachers I know merely because I dont force a regime on them. [/quote] I understand where you are coming form Chloe. but at this stage of my learning the bass, Now i am no longer a beginer. I dont actually find it a chore practising Triads or chord tones etc. Now that i can see where they are coming from, and now I am more able to see how they fit into the make up of many tunes, I find them more interesting to learn. Certainly more so than when i first started and tried to learn scales by boring repetition. The only thing i have any bother with is learning the fretboard, which i should know off by heart after 2 years. Anyone have any suggestions ?

I cant [i]'really [/i]play' if by[i] really[/i], you mean play to a high standard. I do however, now know that I have defintely improved over the last 6 months. I have been playing bass for 2 years now. For the first year I slowly improved, then i sort of got into a rut, or at least think I did? Its sort of hard to tell. I know i still dont know the frets like I should do thats for sure! But there has been an improvement since the summer. This came about because I tried to play some of my favorite pieces by JJ burnell and Jah Wobble, These were pieces that I had tried before. I first started to attempt them maybe after 6 months of playing, and had been unsucsessful. I could pick the notes out with a little less hesitation, but the best you could say about it was that i played the correct notes in the wrong rythym, or in stacatto fashion with no rythmic flow. I thought to myself that as I still had got nowhere with those pieces that the conclusion was that I had not moved forward at all. The reason that months later I knew that I[i] have[/i] improved at all, is that I can now play these same favourite tracks and they sound almost as good as the originals. My fingers are moving smoother and my hessitation has gone (at least from songs that I know well) I do sometimes have a problem with playing in front of stangers, if its someone who i know can play. I still have a long way to go i know that. But i was watching some of the teaching videos on Scott Devin's new website, and he made me realise that once you get to a certain standard, you then have a choice. You can carry on like you are and maybe get very slowly better. Or you can knuckle down and get some hard practice in every day. Hard practice means regularly at least an hour a day of practising things like chord tones, scales and Modes every day. It does not mean noodling way for 3 hours. Noodling is not practice, and whilst it may be enjoyable in the long run it is not helpful, unless done in conjunction with a regular practice regime, when it can be done as a sort of little reward to oneself after putting in a few hours of proper practising. Where it might come in usefull. Such as after practising the blues scale over the frets for an hour the other week. My noodling self reward later, was trying to come up with things based around the blues scale. I need to keep up a proper daily practice regime now one has been started. What I really need I suppose is now to find people to jam with. Easier said than done though.

Mine is in the shed awaiting its top carpet affixed. I have made it from a board, one of those (pvc/rubber.polypropalene ?) interlocking garage floor tiles, and some of those sort of rubbery pipe insulation things. will try and remember to take a pic later.

Wigan Casino ? What you mean you've gone all 32 inch bags, with Segs on your brogues, and wearing a 'dancing vest' ? I remember some of the older lads round our way used to go back in its early 1970s heydays. I use to see their patches and beer towel kecks etc. They used to write cryptic graffiti words on the wall such as '[i]Cloud 9' [/i]or[i] Temptations' [/i]? Which my young brain didnt understand.

I doubt very much if the vast majority are more than 23k, just looked at mine and its 17k, mine seems a pretty average one in pixel size, colour, contrast, etc. Your right though any 'rougue' avatars may slow down a page if using a phone browser. Or if you still have 56k dial up! (surely nobody?) But the avarage line in the UK is over 3.8Mbps