Lord Sausage

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1360351719' post='1969250'] I am similar to you but I have started to do a bit of scale practise based on the fact that you only develop muscle memory if you give it something to memorise. I can pretty much play Summer of 69 blindfold , and that only comes from gigging it week after week for ???? years . [/quote]I don't go in for all this muscle memory stuff, it's just the brain. We don't have muscles in our fingers!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1360352927' post='1969285'] Perhaps, but is it art..? Discuss... [/quote]It's probably more Entertainment!

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1360350819' post='1969233'] Yep, that will be me and I would strongly suggest that should be the general starting point for any music that is based on a backbeat. Of course, like all rules it can be disregarded at will but IMO that should be the fallback position. For me, the drums and bass should work together as a unit and provide a foundation for the vocals and chordal / lead instruments. One of the nicest compliments I ever received wasn’t someone telling me how impressive my individual bass playing was. It came from a very talented guitarist & vocalist who is reasonably well known and who does sessions in London (Jake Newman has mentioned on here working with him) as well as his own stuff and a few bands (i.e. a very good musician who knows his stuff). He sat in for a couple of tunes on a blues gig I was playing. After the gig, we were chatting and exchanging pleasantries and I mentioned that it was the drummer’s first gig with the band. He seemed genuinely surprised, so I told him that we had played together in a couple of other bands for ten years. His response was that he could tell and that we worked together well and were a really good rhythm section. That meant a lot more to me as a bass player than someone being impressed by the odd bits of nonsense you sometimes throw in!! [/quote]I wouldn't say any form of music! When you're playing ballads in musicals you're lucky if you get to play any notes after beat 1 in a bar!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1360349241' post='1969192'] [/quote]Now that really is Expression!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360339384' post='1968994'] That really is the only way isn't it. [/quote]Aye!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360338920' post='1968984'] Grown up as in an experienced gigging and recording musician. I actually think a lot of people get given a song and think 'what am I going to do with the bass?' instead of 'what am I going to do with the music?' [/quote] Yeah, i can dig it! When i was 15 i probably thought like that. But i learned pretty quick. I'm lucky that all the muso's i've worked with recently apart from the last drummer, always think musically and not instrumentally.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360337023' post='1968925'] I remember a grown up musician on here (can't remember who) saying pretty much every note on the kick drum should be covered by a bass note. I honestly couldn't comprehend why anyone would believe that. Bizarre [/quote] Grown up musician? What is this, that of you speak?!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360335150' post='1968873'] That's almost exactly how I approach bass lines with Kit. It works really well generally. Playing to the vocal is my thing, playing to the drums is most definitely not as important to me as designing lines that support the vocal. I like to let the drums have a lot of space, I like to hear them shine. [/quote]I try to play with the drums, support the harmony, play with the geets and support/play off the vocals depending on the tune and what it's doing. as Bill Hicks says 'I am the weaver'.

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1360278029' post='1968145'] Agreed, I've been ganged up on by the BC massive before and it's very unpleasant - I notice a few of the same names are involved here. Some people just like to put the boot in and they feel stronger with their gang in support. Very easy on line, but I wonder how tough these people are face to face, one on one. It's all a bit 'Lord Of The Flies' and quite unnecessary. [/quote] I had a 'to do' with a number who i considered to be the BC elite, it may include some of the names you mean, when i was a relative newbie. I found it far from unpleasant. It was pretty heavy and the thread got edited due to one of the kings requests, I think. I just stood my ground without being disrespectful, and i could have been as i know one of them tho i don't think they remember me. They were quite disrespectful to me, well they thought they were but i took it with a pinch of salt. The longer i've been here i've got to know a couple a little better tho i have no 'friends' on here yet. essentially they were hjust protecting their site and it's unwritten rules, which at the time was part of my argument (how they behave). But they really care about this place, i don't think it's personal or bullying. They just look out for each other.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1360323373' post='1968529'] You say ee-ther, and I say ai-ther ... [/quote] oh dear!

I'm afraid i think FB is the way it is. last year we did a number of original gigs and all the promoters were pushing the use of FB for promoting. It's basically gonna become SKYNET

just get it set up in e flat

As they say in my neck of the woods 'Keep gooin wi' yed down!'

I've done the poll but non of the questions quite fit to how i work. 1) The lines come very quickly but i constantly refine them so they change a lot. 2) I've always had control over my lines but if someone (guitarist, producer, keyboard player) offers a good idea and it works i will use it 3) Sometimes I play simple music, sometimes complex, never that challenging 4) tHe amount i write a year varies

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1360275343' post='1968091'] It's a shame he felt the need to do that [/quote]Not really!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360190100' post='1966599'] I went through the lot tonight, liked all of them and listened to most that had music. Some very good music on there. [/quote] [quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1360236447' post='1967058'] I've checked a few out and had a few 'likes' as a result of posting my band's page up here - thanks chaps! [/quote]I will try to find time to listen to some and i will not put a link up to my own until i feel i have listened to enough. Also, silldx, i've had a listen to a bit of Kit Richardsons stuff recently. I remember a post you put about going for it this year. I'm afraid a thing that i think may work against you is........................that maybe it's a little too good! If ya know what i mean!

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1360275011' post='1968079'] I don't think so. [/quote]i went back it says no videos. typed in in search bit and they are all private.

One point that popped up a bit was a few people saying how a musician who has studied a lot may get exasperated by people who don't know as much. But i ain't sure this is true. I think i'm well educated musically, up to degree (classical), Hnd Jazz, grade 8 etc. I know plenty of musicians who haven't done that and they just blow me away even if tho they don't have what is considered, not by me, as proper understanding. Also i have a relative who studied clarinet at Yale in America under some specialist, is genuinely world class and played in all the big orchestra. In some aspects of music I am more capable, tho obviously she twats me at most stuff!

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1360273444' post='1968031'] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][url="http://www.youtube.com/musselerran"]http://www.youtube.com/musselerran[/url][/color][/font] [/quote]There's nowt there!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1360263294' post='1967791'] How [i]does [/i]one change one's member name, anyway? I want to be called 'Lord Awesome'. [/quote]Join me and we will sent up our own House of Lords where we can pass decrees in what's Art and what's entertainment. We could just ask The Jam tho!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1360261608' post='1967733'] Is xilddx pronounced the same as silddx? [/quote]How do you pronounce either?

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1360251532' post='1967415'] So does your mum! [/quote] Classic and genius!

Where can i here this Antiloco's music?

Will anyone actually check these out tho? Or will it just be a list of facebook pages?!