Recent content by Dazzare

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    Songs every Bassist should know/learn....

    Johnny Kick a Hole in the sky Great Chop Builder Blue Jazz Fiction Brainstorm by Beck MCS
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    seems slow

    When ever I play with a full band My playing seems slow. This has been going on for a few months now and its mainly the complicated fast slap riffs I do. Should I take this as a key to start working on speeding up my technique or just live with it because I know I havent slowed down. (sorry for...
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    shop sitcom?

    I wouldnt have to write up a script 0.o thats the strange part it would happen naturaly beleive it or not and our neighbors are a new york style bistro and a tatoo shop
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    shop sitcom?

    damn phone running out of text space any where I left off, Its a real challenge sometimes and Im the only active player in the shop so they are always asking me questions and they are assumining I gig on guitar and really I play bass very well people are always comparing me to thier...
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    shop sitcom?

    Allright guys I work in a music shop every thursday. Its a small independent shop but all the local players come to it, so there is something always going on so lets set up the usual suspects in the shop. First there is Perry the owner (not using real names) his claim to fame is that a...
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    Band Issues What Else is new!

    So in a nutshell here is my problem. The band I currently played with lost our drummer, he was a really great drummer too. We managed to play a lot of songs with heavy drums and bass to cover our guitar players "talent". Culminating into a very heavy drum and bass version of pink floyd which our...
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    Teaching

    Hey Ant, I recently fell into a teaching position. All the guys at the Guitar Shop where it's at think I'll do great. A few problems though I'm a musician who mainly focuses on bass. So I'm not the best lead guitarist(very far from it). A few of these kids that I'm teaching are gifted in music...
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    Playing Melodically

    Well, I have a ton of Technique in my playing and I can do anything from slap a triplet to double thumb a sixteenth note, but I don't want my playing to be all technique based. So i posed myself the question how and well melodic playing seems to be the answer. I do know my theory pretty well so...
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    Da Blues

    I believe I used the wrong terminology. Not Diatonic but a scale featuring 10 notes, or at least the blues scale. I'm moderately lost here at this point.
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    Da Blues

    Anyone mind Expounding on the Diatonic scale for me, and suggesting some crash course riffs and things to do for it.
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    Singing

    i just try to sing to make myself more marketable
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    "Check In" here before and after your gigs, set 3 - everyone's drunk now!

    Had a two night contract at a casino.Drummer drove in from Alabama. Got some Awesome comps, - Free Dinner - Drinks -green room - and 12 turtles in a tank ( It was in our contract for some reason.). We used a new Booking Agent. First Night we showed up an hour before hand and the house sound...
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    Singing

    So sup Miscellaneous guys. A few of the bands I'm in are trying to get me to do backing vocals. One Huge Catch. I think I'm pretty bad when it comes to singing. I can hit the note every once in a while ( like a blind horse can find water). So can you point me in the right direction plox? Most...
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    Normal to have HORRENDOUS timing when first metronoming?

    I have perfect time, it helps when you played concert snare and did marching line percussion for 11 years in school though it gets better with time
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    How Do You Remember Songs

    I practice them with my band and well, Improv what I don't know XD