Earbrass

The only things I'm interested in making are music and tea. (aged 51)

Mine's here, as in my sig: http://soundcloud.com/earbrass

Only one track up so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp0lwFjWXOo

and (despite the bad camerawork and the dodgy singing from the "joiners-in"...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIJoj7htYI&feature=feedf

[quote name='51m0n' post='1375426' date='Sep 16 2011, 12:55 PM']I bring a torch - does that make me a pansy??[/quote]

I also carry a small torch to bass gigs (it's just common sense - it'll probably be dark - you might need to see stuff)...but to be fair, I'm not exactly "rugged".

I always preferred his brother Windy.

[quote name='Marvin' post='1374653' date='Sep 15 2011, 04:48 PM'][attachment=89522:IMGP0503.JPG]

Our warbler at our last gig.[/quote]


Handcuffing her to the lighting rig was a low trick.

[quote]Baz, our dancing badger[/quote]

EVERY band should have a dancing badger.

[quote name='deanbean502' post='1373745' date='Sep 14 2011, 09:06 PM']something that there are only a few of really appeals to me. they just seem few and far between.[/quote]

Yeah, if only really rare basses were more common.... oh, hang on...

She's not exactly a "front-person", but I rather like [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorstetguidedwalks/3914449721/"]this[/url] photo which features Jacky, the lead musician in the morris side I play for, though it was taken some time before I joined.

[quote name='risingson' post='1373056' date='Sep 14 2011, 11:50 AM']And there's nothing contentious about this thread, that is the beauty of it...[/quote]

Oh no it isn't.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1372966' date='Sep 14 2011, 10:38 AM']I am a musician first and bass player second.[/quote]

+1

[quote name='J.R.Bass' post='1371701' date='Sep 13 2011, 12:57 PM']Motown was a company that was churning out song after song for the general public[/quote]

Just like Stock/Aitken/Waterman in the 80's or Simon Cowell today. I very much doubt whether it will be much listened to once the generation that grew up with it have passed on. How many people listen to Bing Crosby now? How many will in another twenty years time?

[quote name='ojwethorns' post='1371649' date='Sep 13 2011, 12:24 PM']Yes. It is G#minor7.
Cheers[/quote]


[quote name='SteveK' post='1371669' date='Sep 13 2011, 12:36 PM']Nope!

Whether it's Bmin6 or E7, it's a B on the bass, so let your guitarist/keyboard player decide...on the night [/quote]

Got to agree - I don't think there's a D# in there.

[quote name='SteveK' post='1371468' date='Sep 13 2011, 09:40 AM']A quick Youtube...

In that verse there is a keyboard line which plays a G# on the B minor chord, implying a B min 6[/quote]

..Aha. The G# would explain why I was leaning towards an E chord of some sort.

OK, I'd never heard this song before, but I just went and found the video on YouTube, thinking it would be a good "ear test". You are correct - it's a different chord. I'm sat at work with no musical instruments handy, so I'm going purely by ear, but I [i]think[/i] it might be E7 (assuming that verse is mainly D/G). I could well be wrong, though. Someone better qualified / equipped / informed will be along shortly, I'm sure.



EDIT Also - the incubator verse seems to be in a different key from the first verses and the following one. I think it's one whole tone lower than the other verses (so if other verses are principally E/A, the incubator verse wd be D/G).

[quote name='Dubs' post='1367670' date='Sep 9 2011, 02:14 PM']Cheers for the input. The more I listen to it the less I have issues with it. The first time I listened to it I thought the snare and kick were way too high in the mix and I couldn't really hear any definition of some of my bass parts (because I know what I should be able to hear!), but having listened through it another 4 or 5 times I think it's much less of an issue than I thought.[/quote]


I've only played it once, but I thought the snare was way too high, and the bass too low compared to the drums. Mind you, that's on (fairly decent) headphones.

EDIT: ...but that would mean disagreeing with 51m0n, so I'm probably wrong.

That's really nice. I can imagine it being the basis for a [i]Sigur Ros[/i] type piece. Be interesting to see where this ends up.

One from my Mum, to get me off games. Not quite so useful now I'm in my fifties, I'll grant you, but you never know...

Thanks for those kind words. It was a bit hard trying to explain to people what I was trying to do - "early music / folk / rock fusion" sounds a bit of a mouthful, but it made perfect sense inside my head.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' post='1358156' date='Aug 31 2011, 09:57 PM']I've just found this via another thread ,Stunning, I love it. Can I hear more and where? [/quote]

Wow, thanks.

That's all there is at the moment, I'm afraid. I'd like to do some more in the same vein - as I said that one took me a couple of years on and off, so probably shouldn't hold your breath

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1357684' date='Aug 31 2011, 04:17 PM'][/quote]

and furthermore...



and, in a reckless piece of [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=152657"]self-promotion[/url] which can only backfire given all the above comparison-points...

[quote]Being a better bassist by not playing bass[/quote]

This is so true. I haven't picked a bass up for a couple of months or so, and my abilities have soared to the point where I now have a god-like facility with the instrument, as proved by the amazing lines I play [i]in my imagination[/i]. Sadly, the closer I get to physically holding a bass the faster these skills recede, so that by the time I next actually play I will almost certainly have reverted to "average to poor" status, or worse.

Ever had one of those musical projects that hangs around for ages, keeps getting put on the back-burner as other more pressing jobs take over, only to get dusted off again months later? This is one of those. It started probably a couple of years ago, stalled for ages while I wondered what to do with the middle section and recorded an album with the pagan rock band. Earlier this year I finally got round to hiring a fiddle player to do the lead parts, then the mixing got put off while I got up to speed with the tunes for the morris team I'm now playing box for.

Well, this is what I've got now. It's a version of "Mein Freund", from Tielman Susato's Danserye of 1551, combined with a version of the traditional English tune the Sportsmans hornpipe

[url="http://soundcloud.com/earbrass/sets/the-earbrass-ensemble-1"]http://soundcloud.com/earbrass/sets/the-earbrass-ensemble-1[/url]

I think it's finished, but I find the mix sounds very different on different systems, and I've heard the whole thing so many times now I've lost all sense of perspective.

Feedback welcome, and, if you have been, thanks for listening.

[Khalid]

What is point bass?

What is point music?

What is point fun?

What is point girls?

[/Khalid]

(for Radio 4 fans)

Stop trying to change the subject and give us the link.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1324405' date='Aug 2 2011, 03:50 PM']I just decided I don't know how to spell practice/practise/practicing/practising. Maybe I should try harder.[/quote]

It's really easy - just remember that all those word pairs (practice/practise, license/licence etc) go like advice/advise, which you won't confuse because they sound different
- ie the verb uses an 's' and the noun uses a 'c'.

You practise when you would advise, and your practice is like your advice.
Licensing is like advising.
A licence is like advice.