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[quote name='Doddy' post='1317313' date='Jul 26 2011, 04:59 PM']Go play some jazz...there are tons of improvising horn players there.[/quote] Trouble is the majority of brass players I play with are into classical and thats about it... Need to find me some Jazz people.

I'd go with a vespa and get a big GS sticker for it pretending I'm Sting. Then take a huge amount of speed and kick the sh*t out of some guitarists, I mean rockers.

Oh man, I hate personal plates with a passion. Even more so when people get the cheap plasticy ones and not pressed steel. Also, hello Barry Shepard

[quote name='jakesbass' post='1316651' date='Jul 26 2011, 09:26 AM']just for balance... I know loads [/quote] I need to meet more of these horn players, I love jamming with brass.

4003 are easy to replace. Sell thatun.

When you're a horn player. No seriously, I've yet to meet a horn player that can improvise or really play a lot without a bit of music in front of them. Mad...

I started with low, like low end of my crotch low. Raised it up a bit, then after getting a really painful wrist I took someones advice. Put it at the height you play it sitting down, best way. People who have it under their chin? No, I cannot imagine it being in any way comfortable and lets be honest you look like a berk whatever genre you play.

Put your name out there, even gigs you don't want/ probably won't get. CV's and business cards are cheap, get into the live music scene wholeheartedly, talk to some people and just drop into the conversation "Oh if you ever need a session bassist give us a bell" or something. No use sitting at home trying to get some work bud, make yourself known, build up reputation and contacts in whatever way you can. Same as any established business.

Assuming she's only going to get a few bars done you could probably work it out yourself in less than an hour and be better for it. Just remember good bassists deserve fine arse (The GBDFA on the lines of the stave, and the other notes in between). Took me 20 minutes to learn the fundamentals of notation and how to work out notes.

Sorry to state the obvious but spray it with the lacquer of your choice? Maybe a few coats of sanding sealer on the bare wood as well, it's designed to harden the ends of the grain, makes it better to sand and more hardwearing in the process. So after some sanding sealer and a polish with some 800-1200 grit you could probably oil it, and re oil from time to time.

Hats off to the bloke, that must have taken a lot of dedication and practise.

[quote name='mike257' post='1314113' date='Jul 23 2011, 07:12 PM']You don't use a case at all? You almost sound proud of it too. Mr T would undoubtedly pity you.[/quote] I've seen the light, hard cases are the worst, dead weight.

Rarely even use softcases myself, just be careful. I carry it over my shoulder, lean it in a corner somewhere, tune it just before going on. Lovely job.

"I'm the gardener, I hear your gutters need cleaning" ziiiip All I can think listening to that, it's good though.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' post='1313382' date='Jul 22 2011, 11:09 PM']I don't know what the bass is but it's great to see Jethro anytime. Ace.[/quote] Seconded, as a pretty poor flautist (Although no classical training) Ian Anderson is my god, I'd love to be able to do what he does. Loving some of the bass parts as well.

I use my thumb as part of my standard technique. And I never played guitar before falling into this technique either so it's not a guitarist thing... Thumb, first finger, and usually both of the other two at the same time. If I play it with just thumb then I know what you mean, seems a little warmier than fingers.

Tuck your cock back and balance it on your giant bassist testicles.

I had a great adventure, left my mates in a coffee shop to go buy some smokes, ended up paying a tramp to give me a tour, then got some cakes from what he claimed to be the best place for munchies and shared them with him. Had a great conversation about the meaning of life, then went back to my friends still in the coffee shop who thought I'd only been gone like 10 minutes. I was deep fried beyond belief, hill street blues had some insanely strong stuff.

[quote name='bassmachine2112' post='1310546' date='Jul 20 2011, 05:05 PM']Treat yer misses to 4 or 5 days in Amsterdam and visit coffee shops then go for cream cakes and forget the troubles of the world for a few days[/quote] I'm voting for this! The cakes in amsterdam are amazing as well, i ate so much over there.

I play all kinds of combinations, best way is to experiment. If you're really getting buried, turn it up louder!

Just wanted to say a big thankyou, just started these lessons and they are proving incredibly useful. Didn't realise how lacking my knowledge in theory was.

4 chords? I'm pretty sure I got so into prog I invented some new ones which souned terrible and then dubbed them backwards using a foil wheel and then somehow fed it in and out of a pigs brain while it was on a sh*t ton of acid then used it for a 7 section interval in 19/4 in combination with a balalaika and some screaming children. But hey man, thats what prog is all about, that and consuming just, massive amounts of hallucinogenic drugs.

Every time I listen to iron maiden I think back to driving down a busy highstreet quite fast in a clapped out old daihatsu hijet which was noisy as sin, me and driver topless, windows down. Blasting iron maiden out of the most ghetto soundsystem in the world.

Good phone support is incredibly rare these days, so rare infact I turn into a babbling idiot of niceties when someone is actually helpful on the phone. If they are even UK based and speak a reasonable standard of english, most of them read from a script of pre set idiocy.

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1310608' date='Jul 20 2011, 05:52 PM']Quite difficult I believe, the late great George Harrison had one back in the 60's but he didnt know how to play it, so he tuned it like a guitar and played it on Norwegian Wood. He later had lessons from Ravi Shankar and became quite proficient on it! [/quote] Indeed he did, I was listening to Ravi Shankar recently and looking at the cover "produced by George Harrison" I thought, that doesn't surprise me. It's a real pity teachers are notoriously difficult to find, I've managed to find one which teaches out of my university. I had a feeling it isn't the sort of instrument you can learn properly without a good teacher.