Recent content by Bass_Bear

Just one bump.

Hey guys, I come to you for much needed advice once again. I'm going to start giving really really basic bass lessons to my drummer's daughter. She isn't very old, 7 I think and is pretty small. I had her try and press down on the strings from my bass and although she was able to do it, its...

Lovin' the Slave, that's some really cool stuff! And I should have figured that returning to Jamerson would have been the thing to do...thanks all!

Golden! Thanks for your input guys...keep it coming! Cheers!

Hey guys, So yet again I have need of your infinite wisdom talkbass. Basically I've been playing bass for a couple years now, and I've had a couple of band to show for it. As far as training is concerned I was taught by a pretty decent teacher about many different techniques, especially jazz...

Well were gonna try and time it next time we play, including some crowd banter which we will probably have to test on an imaginary audience...I think with talking between songs and setting up for our acoustic songs and stuff we might actually get by, but maybe adding one or two easy songs to the...

Considering we only have 4 weeks to come up with all these songs, I'm not sure what we could do in that situation. Hopefully it doesn't happen until later when we have more songs ready to go.

So I have an upcoming gig in the end of January at a private venue and our group has basically been given 1 hour to perform. Now keep in mind this band has only been together for a week at this point, however every member is quite talented and dedicated enough to learn the necessary material...

Sounds to me like they just want to ward off the drama-queens and attempt to find someone whose open and doesn't take things to seriously, a quality which can be surprisingly useful in stressful situations. The ability to remain calm when something serious and potentially bad happens makes for...

Without question someone trying to make a quick buck.

Ya I went ahead and told him to nevermind and that I wasn't interested. He seems angry, which seems to indicate that he to knows the worth of it.

Okay, thanks a lot for your post. This is exactly the kind of thing I was trying to avoid. Thanks man much appreciated. Cheers, Jason

So hopefully this post doesn't fall into the what not to do in this thread category but here it goes. I was browsing some adds this morning and saw this ad which was a PA system including mic and two acoustic speakers for 350$ CAD. Now I don't know much about PA systems, but I do know that they...

They gave me an idea of what they want to play in the sense that they want to resemble (not mimic) bands such as Lacuna Coil and Nightwish (minus the metal vocals). Now it's not my favorite kind of music but its still not bad. I've checked their website and they don't have any completed...

So I have an audition coming up with a potential new band which seems interesting to me right now. That's the good news, the bad news is they havn't sent me any material to learn, and no songs which they want me to play for them. So basically I'm gonna go in there and just meet them. Here is...