Recent content by Adam Gittins

Electric Upright Bass : Bassline Universal 4 string What the manufacturer says : Read the makers website and see some cool pictures here : Invalid Link Removed What I say : The EUB is a very cool looking, free-standing 4 string instrument. With both piezo and magnetic pickups it can...

Of course, we get guys doing solo didgeridoo gigs down here! Not sure about it myself, but the kangaroos love it. Hmm, Giant Steps on the Didgeridoo ........! Apropos of nothing whatsoever, our national anthem contains the blindingly obvious line, "our land is girt by sea" - rather like...

Interesting post - it would be nice to take a few gigs away from the ubiquitous singer / guitarists that infest the cafes of Sydney:) I've done a few of these gigs - both at very low key cafes gigs and a couple of times for friends' parties. The first approach that I have used is Double...

After a year in the repair shop (don't ask!) I got my much loved Polytone mini-brute back yesterday. It's around a 1980 model. So I thought I'd do a comparison with my new and groovy Acoustic Image Clarus / Contra combination. Test instruments were my 1880 flat back double bass with an...

(All in my opinion, of course) Don't use tape, pencil marks, white dots or anything else. You'll get hooked on looking at the fingerboard. Even if you never intend to read a note of music, you'll be the guy in the band looking at his instrument while everyone else looks at each other, giving...

Hey, that's weird - I don't know - but I reckon my fingers do (picks up small toy cricket bat and makes 10ths shape) Yep, that's it - always 2-->4 for major and minor. Generally I use the 3rd finger to support the 4th for the major, but not the minor. On the major, I generally use the first...

A quote variously attributed to Arthur Bax or Sir Thomas Beecham, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and morris dancing". If you are still keen, Morris Dancing is carried out to a selection of old English folk tunes. You really cannot go too far wrong...

First post for me - but a topic near to my heart. After 25 years of playing the "do you know this tune" game, I've found a solution that works for me. I've found a very low key, local gig for myself and a guitarist. I've selected 100 odd "must know" tunes and divided them into 6 1&1/2 hour...