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First post here in many years, I’ve wanted a double bass for a long time and one has appeared in an auction that might fit the bill if the repairs can be a DIY thing and the price stays low. Its a low end student model Chinese plywood bass, neck has broken loose. I have some woodworking...

Hey everyone, I am contemplating getting my feet wet into the DB world without to large of a investment. The used market around me for DBs is minimal so I've done some browsing for new ones and stumbled across this bass (link at the bottom sorry for the raw link). Just wondering if anyone owns...

Might sound like a dumb question but i have a real problem singing and playing at the same time. I must say im proud of myself to have came as far as i have as a bass player in the last year or so but I just cant seem to get this down. I can be just going right along doing my thing then as soon...

Ok, Ive seen odd posts in this section before but this one ranks up there:D. Anyways Im looking into the vehicle that are sold only in Australia, parts of the UK, New Zeeland and i have also heard South Africa, Russia and rarely in India and Japan as well. I found this car totally by accident...

Hi everybody, Been along while since ive been on TB but im glad to see it hasnt changed during my leave :cool:, but I come to you all today to ask about doing a neck swap on this junker silvertone i have. For being a cheapo starter guitar it has good sound problem is i have a hard time...

Earlier tonight two of my friends were talking about playing for a college orchestra, one of my friends is a year into a masters degree however my other friend is not going to school at all anywhere yet he gets to play with the orchesta. Although my second friend has 8 years of band experince he...

I love the song "I want you"(shes so heavy) by the beatles but there are big chunks of the song I cant play how it is called for. I can play the epic and never ending outro, the chorus and the fills but i cant play the verses how they are tabbed. Can someone dumb it down for me, I just need to...

ive started asking myself that question lately, i am begining to wonder if i will ever get better. I can practice for hours day after day but no matter how much i play i still suck. I can't play 98% of the material that i actually want to play or attempt to and the 2% i can play sounds aweful...

we have this dude in our group, hes the oldest person in my group of friends hes like 30 when the next oldest is 21. hes a great guy, got a great sence of humor and hes smart as hell. well the reason he has been spending so much time with us that he and his wife have a failing marrige but she...

hi all like the title says i want some nonbias thoughts on this jam im in with this girl i want to get a date with. im 95% sure i can get that date with her but what im worried about is the repercussions of me asking her out. see her mom and my mom grew up together and are best friends and her...

ive always wanted to try my hand at the double bass but im not sure where to start. i know renting is a good way to start but theres nothing in this part of the world in the way of teachers or rentals. i live 45 mins northwest of toledo. any thoughts?

ive talked on here before about my other passion, auto racing, and at last the car is done and the race is on sunday at my local dirt track. ive always loved going fast and racing but about a week after i got my licence i ended up in a chase with a michigan state police officer. even though i...

some members might remember me having a thread about this chick singer who had a HUGE drug problem but lots of raw talent, well just a quick update shes out of jail, quit school and moved to georgia with her boyfriend whom she went to jail over in the first place so shes out of the...

i have a crate bt-100 combo and the pedal has some issues. i left it at my friends place for a while and when i got it back the jack on the pedal was gone. looks like it got tore out. is this something that can be fixed or do i have to get a new pedal?

my band and i have be throwing this idea around of taking the instrumentaly parts of a couple of songs, rewrite and rename them and put them on our first album:bassist:. thing is none of us knows where to get the permission from to do that. who should i contact? the artist we are look at right...

i just got home from a pertty sweet concert so i figured id share it with everyone. the name of the band is "the fab four" they are a tribute to the beatles and they are legit!:ninja: they sound just like the real guys and look like them too. my only complaint about them is that they didnt play...

ok me and four of my close friends we up at my dads lake house last night til like 1 am til we went back to our hometown when i woke up the next morning at my place i couldnt find my wallet that had a credit card in it:( then i get a call from my cousin tonight (shes lives there temporarly but...

i am having a hell of a time finding a teacher to help me learn the lap guitar, there is no one near me who teaches (or possibly even plays) the lap guitar. i know theres lots of instructional videos out there for it but ive found i learn better when actually working with another person face to...

i would like to say right now this post is not about me, i was blessed by having great parents by my best friend has not been so lucky. my friend was born down in miami, florida and his real dad ditched his mom when he was 6 weeks old then she moved a 1,000 miles away up to michigan and never...

my friend asked me to play bass with him on the drum and his brother on guitar at his open house a week from today. prolly to most of you this would be nothing but ive never played in front of more then like 6 people before and now im playing in front of like 200 people....and my god am i...

this moring i was putting my favorite kind of strings, d'addario chromes .045-.100, on my new squire jazz bass and the e string snapped, these are brand new strings and it wasnt all the way up to full tension yet. i called their customer support hotline and left a message. will i be able to get...

i cant find the tabs anywhere anyone got em

ok ive been wondering this should my band and i shy away from long songs (6 mins plus and longer), im not worried about our performance im worried about crowd reaction, will they get bored with a long song and poorly rate us even if its well done? winning isnt everything but i dont wanna ruin...

Invalid Link Removed im looking to get this puppy as my new primary bass to give my tired old 71' phantom a rest. its got good reviews but i really wanna hear from my fellow TBers on this especialy since its not available in stores so i cant try it before i buy it:rollno:

one of my bassist freinds told me today since im a big guy (6' 3" 260 lbs) that i shouldnt use a short scale bass and that short scale is for kids, girls and tiny people is this true?

well guys since i see everyone on TB as my friends (hell were all bassists right!:bassist:) i wanna ask you for some advice on life outside music so i can get a non-bias advice. im know im not the only guy on here that has had girl problems but heres my story, so theres this really cute girl...

i took some rounds off one of my basses and put flats on it just to see what it was like and now i wanna put the rounds i took off back on, is this a good idea? my guitar friend says is a bad idea and that the strings wont ever be right agian

im thinking about getting one, who has one? what do you think of it?

well i got a knock off starter bass that i have stopped using since i got a different and better guitar. my question is for someone who plays lots for blues and 60's rock what is more imprtant to have another electric bass or an acoustic bass? i looked on guitar center last night for cheap...

ok i had a theard up about this like a month ago, to fill you in a guitar player and a female singer invited me to play bass for their band but our styles and musical tastes are way different. well i went and jammed with the guitar player, we had a good time hanging out and all but musicaly...

ive heard lots of guys on here throw the name d'addario name around but ive never used them myself. im looking to get the 45-100's for my hollowbody bass. what do you guys think of them?

i got a old yamaha record players that my dad bought back in 1972 when he was in college that had seperate speakers from the turntable its self. he said he blew the orignal pair in the 80's so he bought new ones. well my mom without thinking sold the speakers like 10 years ago, so i got a really...

maybe this is a noob question but is there such thing as a slide bass? using bottle neck thingy like dunae allman or george harrison but on a bass. anybody do it or know someone who does it? i love that sound on guitar and id like to try it out on bass but idk if it can be done

well i think i got screwed over,:mad: i found a tab book, it was exactly what i was looking for and resonalbly priced but it was in england. i couldnt find this book anywhere stateside so i ordered it anyways, i paid like £18 including shipping for this book...that was march 20, arival date...

ive been noticing my e string makes a springy nosie when i push it down on the fretboard. its the only string thats doing it. their old flatwounds idk what the brand is PS the bass is in tune:rolleyes:

well i got a offer to play bass for this dude ive know for a few years. right now theres him on the guitar and a female singer but there are some issues that i need advice on. 1. the guitard is considered a douche by my musical friends, some of them refuse to play with him even in jam...

well im putting togther a battle of the bands band and all is in place execpt the singer, which is who gets the most attention as we know so well. i got this friend who i go to highschool with and have known her my whole life whose a damn good singer. she looks like rihanna and sounds like...

ok well ive never played in a concert but im gonna play in that battle of the bands in my town in june, my question is can me and my bandmates get sued or something for covering another band's music with out permission? this is prolly a total noob question but i really dont know. were looking to...

if i go from extra light rounds to medium flats will my action need adjusted so it dont rattle

some back ground on this, i got my bass at a pawnshop and these strings came wit it so i dont know how old they are or how wore out they are, plus these are my first flatwounds (i love them). i know flatwounds last for a long time so how can i tell if they are shot?