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    SOLD Troll mic with FEThead

    Mic is in Russia. Here's an original post: For Sale - Troll mic with FEThead
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    SOLD Troll mic with FEThead

    Bought it used a few years ago from one of the TBers. Used it a couple of times myself. Nice mic, but I don't do amplified gigs lately. PayPal Price includes worldwide shipping.
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    Double Bass Practice routines for playing what you sing

    I actually practised #1 for some time, and it was fun at first, but than I realised, I need to develop my vocabulary, since all of my singing started to sound stale and repetitive. And #2 is a huge problem - I just loose track of the harmony even though it seems clear in my head right before I...
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    Double Bass Practice routines for playing what you sing

    Harry, thank you so much for such an explicit reply - that's exactly what I was looking for! I have some questions about "hearing longer" and transcribing, but I already have lots of things to do, so I'll start and after a while ask some more if you don't mind. Thanks again!
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    Double Bass Practice routines for playing what you sing

    At first I thought this suggestion was misleading, but actually it makes perfect sense, since practicing chords and scales is inevitable and I can sing while doing that. Thanks.
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    Double Bass Practice routines for playing what you sing

    Thanks for your reply, DoubleMIDI. That is something I've been trying to do and it felt like it'll take forever to be able to sing and play like this pianist: :) But maybe it's the only way. A lot of masters recommend playing what you sing, but nobody tells how to achieve it - as if it's...
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    Double Bass Practice routines for playing what you sing

    Hey, guys! Here is a track of me singing a blues bass line: My goal is to be able to play such lines on a bass the way I sing them - by ear (without "knowledge" of chords and all kinds of mechanical stuff aka noodling). The most obvious way to practice that is to transcribe sang lines which I...