Recent content by dhbailey52

Recording your rehearsals with the band will be an excellent way to analyze what's happening. If your on-the-beat bass playing allows the drummer more freedom to swing or to drive the band along, then you are doing a great job. If you're going to try to play just ahead of the drums, that...

Reminds me of a joke: How many conductors does it take to change a lightbulb? Nobody knows because nobody ever watches the conductor! To get back to earlier comments about how some swing problems are caused by horn players who aren't used to playing swing -- I've never met a community...

imslp.org has it. When you get to the IMSLP web-site, enter Schubert Arpeggione into the search panel. Once you get to the actual page scroll down to the scores section and click on the Arrangements tab and then scroll down to see the version for Bass.

Thanks -- I had seen that one in my searching. It does look good. If the place I ordered the Bobelock through at a great sale price doesn't come through with the bag, I'll definitely consider it.

Thank you for that suggestion -- at the moment transportation isn't an issue for me, but I'll certainly keep that in mind as opposed to the endpin wheel. Thanks!

Thanks for those thoughts. I've considered those questions -- I don't want backpack straps, I do want a shoulder strap (may well not use it but it will be good to have it in case), and handles for easy carrying. The Bobelock seems to have handles in good places, so I've gone ahead and ordered...

I've just come into possession of a very old plywood 3/4 bass, which currently has a very old canvas, not very padded, bag. I'm looking to buy a newer bag, one which offers more protection and have narrowed it down to the two following choices: Bobelock 1020 which I can buy for $255 (southwest...

The phrase "paralysis by analysis" is one I've heard frequently and I find that to be true. One of the things that having a teacher can do (if the teacher is any good) is to help filter out the information which isn't important, leaving only the important information for the student to work...

I'll second the recommendations to play along with a reference, whether it's a sound put out by a tuner or a sustained chord on a keyboard (organ tone, sustain pedal down will let that chord sound forever) or one of the accompaniment CDs from Jamey Aebersold. Playing with other instruments is...

I have a much less expensive Dean acoustic/electric fretless bass with the lines, and I've found several of the lines were not perfectly smooth with the neck around them. Admittedly the Dean is a very cheap instrument, so I'm not surprised about the problem. Let me say that I am a...

My copy of the Complete Edition (1, 2 and 3 in one volume plus CDs) says "copyright ©2004." The ISBN is 978-0-7935-6383-8 and the Hal Leonard stock number is HL00695074.

I don't think that keeping the tempo is easy for everybody who plays drums -- I've known plenty of drummers who gradually speed up without knowing it. And I've known plenty of drummers whose tempo is rock-solid and never changes unintentionally. It's the musician more than the instrument...

One way to look at it is to not think of them as two different fingering modes -- in reality it doesn't matter whether you use 124 or 1234 (OFPF). What matters is whether you can play the bass lines you want to play. And if that means that in some parts of a song you use 124 and in other parts...

Thank you very much for this information -- I'll investigate the Rotosound nylon tapewounds. My Dean EAB has a transducer pickup, not an electromagnetic pickup, so even with the D'Addario nylon tapewounds I have on now there's no extra sound coming through the amp.

To say that classical music over a 300-year period had nothing new to say as it evolved (and is still evolving) is the sort of close-mindedness that the classical music world had with the advent of rock-n-roll. You don't need to apologize for your dislike of classical music -- likes/dislikes...