Mrbigstuff

wheres it gone? it appears to no longer be on his site

great bloke to deal with, consistent communication, and had faith in me when paypal failed. Also the product arrived next day, well protected and in great nick!

one was advertised in the gallery at 2.5k and went pretty quick

i think mines an 86 and i really love it! i bought it as a present to myself for workin overtime and then it became my main bass. i sold my musicman because it just wansnt anywhere near as good

it went up £400 in 5 seconds

if there was one you really liked the feel of but thought it was lacking in tone, dont forget you can easily switch the pickups

My 5 needs new strings and i want to get the tightest B string. Any recommendations would be great

try this flamed maple bass, i unfortunately cant afford it. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FINE-QUALITY-VINTAGE-3-4-DOUBLE-BASS-FRENCH-MIRECOURT_W0QQitemZ250796249254QQcategoryZ16222QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp5197.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D5%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8171213818068877872#ht_4765wt_1462"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FINE-QUALITY-VINTAGE...#ht_4765wt_1462[/url]

is it just me or do the cool looking road worn basses always have a nitro finish, thats why it wears down so smoothly. Obviously you get old 70's fenders which are "worn" but that is mainly just chunks and dents and looks battered

i opened it up and it seemed fine and then put it back together and it worked ok. I used the same bass and same leads. If it starts again i think il take it to someone who actually knows how amps work, ie not me

amp just seems to be spluttering out lumps of noise, any ideas what it could be?

I think its a good article and makes a great deal of sense. I would of thought that unless you were relying on luck to make a career for you 10,000 hours is a minimum and thats why most contemporary music courses offer 3 or 4 years. The difficulty is balancing this out with time to socialize as iv found who your friends with often decides the quality of the gigs your offered

your own personality on bass will come from experimenting with others. Stuart Zender said his style was from Jaco, Benard Edwards and James Jamerson although i think Benard Edwards had more infuence. Im sure Andrew Levy who recorded some early songs with Jamiroquai had a big influence too. Regarding stuart Zenders tone, gear has very little to do with it. He digs in really hard and uses warm mids. Thats all you need regardless of bass. You caould play his exact set up and sound nothing like him.

[quote name='blackmn90' post='1159853' date='Mar 12 2011, 09:03 PM']what wood is used for the top of the bass on the bottom left?[/quote] just found it on the GB site, damn thats exquisite walnut

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='1159775' date='Mar 12 2011, 08:01 PM']London Bass Guitar Show GB stand porn![/quote] what wood is used for the top of the bass on the bottom left?

The reason you need to slap is its the only way of impressing these young vocalists or guitarists with a bass guitar. You can have all the music knowledge and feel in the world but a good slap line is all their after. If you cant slap and show off, its unlikely you'll be offered the gig.

its definately tight with warm mids and the most unbelievable definition in the notes. Its not as punchy as an eden or orange though. I do play the lh500 through mine though so that would help the clarity

yes iv owned it since the day it was released and t is awesome. If you like the Hydrive sound its the best cab ever

unfortunately when i started looking at for my first fretless i had a go on several rockbass' and they all had the same major problem. The ebonised finsh on the fingerboard doesnt give a realistic fretless tone. So you wont ever get the "fretless tone" you would hear on a record without putting an ebony or decent rosewood board on there. I was lucky and managed to get a fairly cheap German Warwick with an ebony board, so i recommend you try out a few fretless basses and once you know whats good look in the for sale section here. +1 to everyone who's recommended fretless bass its great fun and great for your ears

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=122548&hl=acm"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=122548&hl=acm[/url] that topic has a good looking place recommended by jakesbass.... I think the institute is very small and laid back. Both arn't appealing to me but horses for courses and all that.

soundcloud and spotify are where most people go. Soundclouds the easiest to sign up to

[quote name='RhysP' post='1152478' date='Mar 7 2011, 01:49 PM']Being a good player is absolutely no guarantee that you'll be a good teacher.[/quote] i didn't say player specifically, but i did mean both. Trouble is a good teacher should have a good grasp of musical knowledge but also can come up with idea's of how to get this knowledge across to the paying student. Iv found when teaching that each student learnt things in a different way meaning if i made plans i would ether have to alter them slightly or scrap that and do something more beneficial. If someone uses a book to tell them what method of teaching they should use, then your not being as efficient as you could be as a teacher. Plus the student will have to a) buy the book, and b ) pay for an assessment. Both (when using Rockshcool, trinity arn't too bad) are massive wastes of time and money.

I just put up a poster in my local shop and got a bit of interest. I think the best thing to do is teach at a store. This is good for both you and the shop. For you it means you may get more interest because people will associate your lessons with the store and if they like the store they will think your more credible. For the store they get more business if you sell it to your students right. An increase in sales may lead to them bringing your rent down as my dad found. There is also busking but don't busk too far away from where your going to teach as even if people are going to be interested they may be put off by distance. Also Rockschool is an absolute sin, i wouldn't put anyone through it personally. If your good enough to teach you don't need a book to tell you how to do it. The best thing to start with is songs, because thats why people pick up the bass, to play songs.

learn the intervals that make up a scale and then find songs that use these scales. Such as a lot of funk stuff like good time use a Dorian scale. Then you can really see how these boring scales can be used to make something much more interesting. Once you know what scale that bassline/ riff uses then improvise with the line and find your own way of using the scales to make something you enjoy playing. After all if its not fun your not going to want to do it

check out this video .... www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KuCXCVjS8