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Don't call joss stone, Ellie goulding, ruby turner or Paloma faith singers on last nights evidence. Glorified shouting, not sincere, not entertaining. Sorry, gets my goat! Continued watching just drool over swift's guitar and rig.

Smile, learn their names and make no fuss. They won't be wanting a robo-pro just looking for a gig.

Blues Brothers soundtrack.

I'd be speaking to my tutor about this. If the title of your course is jazz performance then stick to that genre by all means, but if it's just bass performance then we'd have been told on our course to broaden our palette. If you do a bit of Parker and a bit of Jaco that's only a 40 year snapshot. Worst case scenario (and I'm not saying you'd do this at all) but examining 45 minutes of burpy back pickup jazz would be wearing even to the most enthusiastic of experts, and would only demonstrate you have the persistence to improve your dexterity after a while. Have you looked at the examination success criteria? Is there any mention of musicality and expression? (To clarify I'm not saying Blues for Alice isn't expressive, but I'd have thought you need to have more than one flavour on your plate as it were!)

Variety would be nice, not only of genre but of tempo and timbre as well. I'd definitely get a baroque piece in there, along the lines of a Bach cello piece. When you say solo, is that all by yourself or will you have accompaniment? (When I did my finals solo meant piano accompaniment if I wanted)

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1419766410' post='2642493'] Bass Player live interview and a little bit of playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slJKsSWe9Y [/quote] These bass player live videos are annual treat! This one though I thought was disappointing, not least because the razzle dazzle you hear from him in the dirty loop songs is conspicuously absent. Micheal manring from last year, or Bobby vega the performance is right there, Nathan east's is great- dammit I could go on. Henrik though is flat. Far less viewed from this year and way more informative is chuck rainey's, but he talks about music making not playing.

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1419638309' post='2641585'] I attach the IEM to my strap, over my shoulder, low enough to be able to reach round and adjust the volume. I run the wire up the strap itself (woven through the leather loops) and then bring the buds in from behind my neck. Comfy, easy to fit, no tangles. The whole topic is covered in depth in the other thread but cable placement seems to be the only area not really touched on to any great degree. [/quote] Thank you

If anyone can help with where to position the cables that would be useful too. I have tried the traditional iPhone arrangement up the front, round the back, one ear in one out, gaffa taping bits, in and outside of clothing but whatever I try the cable snags on my strap and pulls on the earpiece. Drives me nuts.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1419336616' post='2638838'] My uncle worked down the pit. I think that makes him a relative miner. Seriously, the relationships between notes are defined by the harmony being used and a chromatic scale has no harmony per se so the relationship between the notes would not be termed minor or major or inverted etc. If there are chords involved, that changes everything and the A - C relationship becomes a sharp nine, an inverted sixth and a minor third, depending on the context. S'complicated [/quote] If they dropped a piano on him, he'd be a flat minor.... Meanwhile, chromatic scales are continuous semi tone runs- fret by fret on a single string effectively. Intervals can be inverted although as correctly stated this is not an inversion. My piano teacher gave me a useful tip for working out inverted intervals. Reverse the polarity of the interval as it were; Major becomes minor and vice versa, diminished becomes augmented etc and the number must add up to 9. So a major 2nd becomes a minor 7th, augmented fifth becomes a diminished 4th and so on. Perfect intervals are so called because when you invert them they remain perfect. Not pertinent to chromatic scale really but a nice tip!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1419187106' post='2637403'] And isn`t it odd that bands have to play through those poxy limiter things, whereas one bloke with a laptop doesn`t, yet invariably is louder than virtually all the bands (put together, in some cases). [/quote] One act I play for got a gig in Shoreditch at this venue with banksys in the pub garden. When the dj came on it was so loud I could feel my hair moving. Insane and totally irresponsible.

[quote name='notable9' timestamp='1419165181' post='2637099'] +1 and look where it's got us. I had to go to my local towns Xmas lights switch on (dont ask) and the local radio station was using what must have been around a 2/3000 wt rig in a small packed space. Jeez I had to put me plugs in which I always carry now,..ridiculous sound pressure levels, I even saw little kids with their fingers in their ears....madness. [/quote] We did our local Christmas lights switch on! If it's us you're thinking of I apologise, and would like to point out I used a small rig and the guitarist's amp was set to 5w! Volume out the front out of our hands.

Cheese Louise the volume some of you guys must play at- excuse me for being frank but it must be borderline insanity. Back in the day I used to play in a full bore rock band, Marshall stacks and heavy handed drummer etc but I used 410 with a 140w head, running at 8 ohms. At a recent hearing test my response to bass frequencies was below the average for my age group. I actually play bigger gigs now, including the fabled 'festival' stage size, which I take to mean outdoors on a stage you can actually move around on. Two 112 cabs is more than enough, and that again is with a drummer capable of moments of seismic proportions. The ego of the people responsible for the midrange seems paramount, if they are volume mad lunatics it causes chaos for everyone else. Been there and done that with the full stack business and not only am I convinced no one needs 500w plus and cabs capable of in excess of 100db I'm sure that it's ruining the live music scene for all concerned. In this day and age, if anyone in your audience has to shout in the ear of who they are talking too you as an musician are irresponsible. As a demographic we've been capable of producing these volume levels for 40 years and that initial generation, who haven't died before they got old have trashed hearing. The full stack is a dinosaur that should go the way of ducking witches and drilling holes in the head to cure headaches.

Recording technique aside, the players were (on average) better and more experienced. Couldn't make chicken soup out of chicken shi*, unlike now, of course.

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1418929113' post='2634998'] I think it was Pink Floyd who had a ghetto blaster in the mix room to hear how the track would sound to the 'average' punter - knew a thing or three, those old-timers............ [/quote] And again, I've seen them check mixes on smartphone speakers, iPod healdphones, and still even cassette by driving round in a 50s mg!

Good- nearly 80 or thereabouts, but I am including am-dram weeks, so that clocks up loads if you do 9 shows. Other gigs have ranged from been booked to play tree planting ceremonies to London Jazz festival, at the Barbican. Knackering all in all but very conscious this might be the only chance to be as busy, so making hay while the sun shines.

Friend of mine was a major player in the studio scene in the 80s, head engineer at AIR Montserrat for example. He was asked to give a seminar to masters students at a well known university. He opened with, "let's mic up that drum kit." Cue blank looks all round.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1418582152' post='2631415'] Say "You and me is" to the 4/4 beat The words are different lengths but they all up to 4 Play on: AND + Is . Baffling, but works [/quote] Which beat do you start you on?

This thread just triggers a recurring line of thought for me- musicians are one of the biggest causes of the slow death of live music, principally due to volume.

I can do a passable rhythm stick- first verse and chorus. Second time round, might wobble might be ok, guaranteed to mess it up by the end. It's not a stamina thing, just a concentration/ psychological thing. Should be a break it down, be patient type problem but it grates. Technically, the version of grapevine in standing in the shadows of Motown bugs me too, the descending C7 in the chorus, looks so innocent but my fingers just don't work that way!

This thread forwarded to our lead singer- thank you! Having a stand doesn't stop him, or my wife who shares vocal duties being great on stage but it does make us look half baked on first look and it really messes photos and video of live shows.

There is only one answer to these kind of threads, G&L!

I use the vpf filter all the time, the posh control as I call it. I've got my eq the same pretty much all the time and then dial back the the vpf to as little as I can get away with. Works for me although the graph readers might tell us all why it's wrong...

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1417520817' post='2621219'] Well having a bad drummer didn't stop the Beatles haha. [/quote] You- outside.

Just watched it, you kind of guess what's coming next each chapter but it's great to anorak out at all the gear.