Lord Sausage

I'm struggling. been looking since August for one for my originals band. One didn't have transport. One could barely rehearse. One joined then the week later said couldn't handle the commitment. Then our singer found someone who will help us out til we can find someone permanent, Now our singer has nodules on her vocal chords. So now the guitarist and I have no drummer or singer(temp). So we are gonna do a side project in the meantime. guess what? Need to find a drummer!

[quote name='JazzBassFan' timestamp='1359152974' post='1951013'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1. Jimbothy[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2. Paul JH[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]3. Lord Sausage - could I be after you please? If yes, then:[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]4. JazzBassFan[/font][/color] [/quote]When i get it i will post it to you

[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1359534538' post='1956117'] ...added myself to the list! [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1. Jimbothy[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2. Paul JH[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]3. Lord Sausage - could I be after you please? If yes, then:[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]4. JazzBassFan[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]5. Ubassman [/font][/color] ...any speed readers above me? [/quote] I read real quick, especially if i like something.

My fave http://youtu.be/beQ9yChEcHw

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1359495438' post='1955804'] It would be an honour mr sausage. Have a good old tour matey. [/quote]Thank you kindly good sir!

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1359494620' post='1955775'] You are very lucky. Most companies use stock fretted nuts on their fretless basses which is terrible news. That there is what a fretless nutt should look like. As with any instrument, fretted or fretless, the amount of pressure needed to fret at the 1st fret should the bare minimum without buzzing. Ideally a fretless should take off from the end of the fingerboard but that is the absolute ideal and rarely works out quite that way. [/quote] Thank you very much John. My next bass purchase will be off you. When i come off tour later this year hopefully i will have enough spare cash to get one of you works of art.

It sounds good, but there is a bit of rattle on the B and a bit sitar-y sounding on the G

Hi, i ain't very technically minded, so forgive terminology and stupid questions but.... i ordered an ESP 5 string fretless of Thomann 2 weeks ago and it came today. I immediately noticed the nut. The grooves in the nut were the strings go seem to have been cut to deep. To the point were the string, especially the B, is practically or is sitting on the fingerboard. This isn't good, right? I think i need to send it back, here are some pics so you can reassure and advise me please. Your help woul dbe greatly appreciated. [attachment=126341:DSCF5291.JPG] [attachment=126340:DSCF5292.JPG] [attachment=126339:DSCF5294.JPG] [attachment=126338:DSCF5296.JPG] [attachment=126336:DSCF5299.JPG]

Right so we're agreed then. Nobody do anything musically unless it the height of artistic and musical expression. If you aren't doing anything to advance your career or to play with others then just don't do it. No enjoying yourself. No playing your instruments just for something to do. And definitely no recording of yourself playing along to anything. Don't play covers. We only want the purest, form of original music.

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1359208459' post='1951573'] Anyone that even half know me,knows why I find this amusing [/quote] And everyone else will find this condescending!

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1359207335' post='1951552'] Players and coaching staff use the 'we' to refer to the club as a whole, including the fans. A Football club is a club, without the fans it would be nothing. Fans are very much a part of it, and contribute to it's continued existence. Ask any sport psychologist the importance of crowd support. [/quote] This!

I don't know if it's still the same, but a mate got in 10 years ago by doing a Phd over there and Teaching!

Is it me or is there a lot of meanness on BC this yr? Since the start of the year there has been a few 'Most hateful threads (quotes, songs etc). Criticising people for Youtube vids, other critical threads. Now this, criticising for terminology and use of words..f*** me this is sad. I'm sure BC not always been this bad!

God there's some miserable bastards on here. Can't people just enjoy themselves. Surely the initial point of Youtube was to share your own video's with people. It's not like everyone is trying to do their own Mona Lisa.

Excellent! Well done fella! Good Luck!

Voted

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1358897209' post='1946936'] I don't know if it's a matter organisation. A lot of people don't want the hassle and expense of posting the scores out to the various musicians,especially when it's generally expected that they can read well enough o do the gig anyway. I've rarely had to read piano scores as well....the only time I have is when an Am Dram company is doing a compilation show and they just photocopy a piano reduction to give to everyone. It is annoying when you get them though. [/quote] I know an incredible guitarist who demands pads a couple of weeks before the show. When i last did a show with him which featured Kerry Ellis who works with Brian May he blew her away with his playing. Anyway he says you can have it good with a first time read or incredible because i know it inside out and can apply all the nuances. He always gets the pad!

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1358888620' post='1946722'] Kills me that to. I do 6 or 7 am dram shows a year, always get the part 5 to 6 weeks in advance. And you won't get to do You're the One That I Want in Grease. The publishers are very, very hot on changing the stage script to the movie version, and when you sign the contract to do the show there's whole pages on what you're not allowed to do! [/quote] Yeah when i did it we couldn't do that!

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1358812810' post='1945657'] You've been very lucky then if you get them weeks in advance. Literally every show I've done, I've not seen the pad until the first band call. [/quote] Luck or i've just worked with more organised MD's. Don't get me wrong, I've had a couple where you get it just before or when you get there. A lot of the time it's friggin piano score has well so your reading 12 lines below. Which frankly pisses me off!

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1358877469' post='1946451'] Surely a great deal of knowledge can be gained from 'Books' ? - Melody/Harmoney/Counter part, how the great classical composers went about it. Rimsky Korsakov's principle of Orchestration is still much used today. [b]Free On-line Study here[/b], well worth a look. [url="http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/77-Principles-of-Orchestration-On-line"]http://www.northerns...tration-On-line[/url] Garry [/quote] He's kind of the daddy of orchestration took it nearly to it's limit. He taught Stravinsky Composition and Orchestration. Stravinsky probably surpassed him but only just and he was massively influenced by him.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358872778' post='1946360'] My heart is for pumping blood around my body. It has no part in the process of composing music. I normally hear pretty much the whole musical arrangement as a finished piece in my head. I then have to work out what the arrangement is and how to play it. [/quote] So that's what it does!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358867314' post='1946271'] Compositions should come from your head, not your fingers, or what you believe music theory is telling you. [/quote] [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1358871537' post='1946339'] I propose that composition is a mixture of heart AND head. The ideas germinate emotionally but the process of development is partly inspiration and partly good old-fashioned graft. [/quote] Compositions should be a mix of all your musical personality. Your feel, inspiration mixed with your knowledge of the language of music. You can express yourself better the more you know verbally and it's the same with music. I love composing and i don't feel trapped by two chords or by complexity. Stravinsky, after being criticised by Schonberg (serialist composer) said something along the lines of ' Why should I be trapped by 13 notes when i have the freedom of seven'. I've done lots of different styles thru college, uni and after from Rock songs to Jazz big band to Glassian Minimalism to jazz fusion to Prog. It just depends where your voice and head is. The only restriction i feel is in the recording. I could write a full big band piece, chords, melody, counter-melody and score it for all instruments at a piano but never get it recorded unless i used midi and it would just sound sh*t. So i tend to just compose now within what i can record at home. But i'm definitely not restricted by musical language and ideas.

I was in a band that played a friends 18th birthday years ago. The drummer dropped a pill before we started playing. The first 45 mins was good but after that the tempos just got faster and faster. To be honest it was pretty funny. I wouldn't wanna do it again tho. I was on edge for a lot of the gig, expecting the worst!

[quote name='Ninja_Baby' timestamp='1350553906' post='1840350'] Any excuse to show my newest member of the family. [/quote]Initially i thought the pattern on the curtains which is reflected on the scratchplate, was like a hologram in the scratchplate. Which i thought 'How f***in cool is that!'. Unfortunately not. Still a cool bass tho!

It's just different! Not good. If this was the original would it have been popular. Probably no!