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So I've been a music major in moorpark community college and im in my last semester before transferring to a university. I'm in the jazz band, absolutely love jazz, and play electric bass, but moorparks music program is a classical environment. I'm curious to know if the theory I've learned in...

So I'm going to be applying for UCLA soon as a transfer student, and I'd like to get some opinions as far as repertoire is concerned. The guidelines were essentially to just have some jazz standards prepared, and the thing is----I transcribed a few jazz things back in high school, and I'm only...

Although I love the jaco tone (Jazz bass, bridge pickup solo'd), I don't like using it much (but I've found that I like using it on ballads), BUT... Either I'm beginning to go deaf to the lower frequencies, or I'm on to something: Do any of you guys think that the "Jaco" tone REALLY makes any...

Piece by Piece? Being in school as a music major has forced me to take up piano and adapt to the entirely classical-baroque- TONAL harmonic music and stress things completely different from what I'm used to, which is keep the time PERFECT, and groove like a mother******. So I am somewhat...

I have always had a serious interest in the paranormal, as I'm sure many people here do, but not a single TV show on the subject is believable in any way to me (of course). I have had an experience that is not scientifically provable (but it is COMPLETELY unrelated to ghosts...but was some form...

So while at work (recordstore) I mentioned that I was going to nashville for vic's camp, and my manager asked me to get a bottle of whiskey pronounced "orble---Or-bull" that you are supposed to mix with other drinks, because that's what it's made for and it tastes like crap straight. On the back...

Occasionally you come across a song that gives you a feeling that you can not put into words, one that you don't bother to waste your time trying to explain and you simply leave it at "i loveeee it". It doesn't matter to you if it's simple or if it's Complicated, popular or obscure, you feel...

I remember seeing one boutique builder that made one with more tone controls than the real thing, and that peaked my interest, can anyone tell me what brand it was? Also, is it able to achieve a similar tone to the real thing? I also hear that the pup in tele's causes hum, is there anything...

Hey guys, I'm going to another of Wooten's camps in late september I believe and I'm wondering if I should bring one of my better basses or not. I remember the first time I went to camp, I can't tell if the extreme change in humidity affected my spector rebop in a negative way because I've...

Hey, so right now I'm transposing grapevine into all thirty keys because welll.....I want to get better (big surprise).Plus, I want to REALLY get used to my five string----I want to be able to sight read and use it EFFECTIVELY eventually. Unfortunately, as I was heading to class I shoved the...

So I literally only have two pairs of jeans that fit me perfectly and look good, but the problem is that the one I love the most are like five year old levies that were made in Egypt, an I just happened to see them in the levies store long ago and I'm pretty sure they aren't made any more. I was...

What is the first note that registers? for me, it's a very flat G. Do ya play a lot of songs in the key that shows up for you? I have this little thought that is completely unscientific and mainly just one of those thoughts that is fun to...well, think of. In fact, I ENCOURAGE you to mock...

Background: I got my first bass either in 7th or 8th grade on my birthday, and of course I was very clueless as to how to practice, and I would assume that I didn't *really* learn a single song. Fastforward to high school when I joined the jazz band and was forced to learn how to read, albeit...

So I took a diatonic harmony class this semester (ends next week) but due to the speed at which the class moves I feel as if there wasn't enough time to take what I learned and actually translate it to the two instruments I have access to (piano and my bass's). We have a four part composition...

So I've got a spector euro with chromes on it and I LOVEEEEE the tone I can get out of it, and even more so I love the feel of the strings... But it's a P/J.... The Empire has jazz pickups with an push/pull active passive switch, but I don't know if it would be a wasted set up since after...

I have been finding myself listening to this song because of it's sheer cool factor...and I want to lay out a plan before I tackle this. I think I have a good ear (of course there are many with better ears) but I really feel as if I haven't put enough into transcribing songs. The hardest...

Hey, I'm just curious as to what can solve my little dilemma. It's a fodera N.Y.C. empire, and I had it set up by John K, so I'm thinking it's the strings. I mistakenly put a gauge of D'addario steels that I didn't want on it. The G and D are light gauge, while all the lower ones a medium...

For me, it's "get up I feel like being a sex machine". The intensity of bootsys baseline coupled with James browns energy and the tightness of jab o's groove just takes me to a place where I measure how focused I am by the amount I sweat. What about you?

So after having a lesson with Anthony Wellington the other day, it has come to my attention that I either rush the E of a beat to the AND, or I end up turning it around and playing the UH. This is driving me absolutely nuts because I don't feel like there is a way for me to practice hitting the...

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Hey all, so I'm in love with my spector euro with flats and the P solo'd----- Money is no issue, because I won't be getting it for a long time, but I've realized that a 5 string P bass will be very handy for those times when guitarists want to play in alternate tunings. I have a 5 string fodera...

My musicianship teacher is old, and he has lived one hell of a life. He only tells us what he KNOWS, not what he thinks. This leads him to tell stories while lecturing. He was the principal trumpet player of the ventura county philharmonic for 28 years. Yesterday, he told us one of his...

My cover of the Tammi Terrel and Marvin Gaye version----Exercising my hook. I love this song so much. Please give me advice, tips, and critiques.

Hey guys, I'm having trouble figuring out how to record a movie of me playing "aint no mountain high enough". I have a 1/4 to 1/8 adapter, and i'm having no problem recording my playing in the movie but I AM having trouble figuring out how to record my playing OVER the original song... Before I...

Check out "Redemption Street" on the album Liminal by Adam Nitti. That unique tone similar to Marcus Miller's----where it's crispy yet clear and bluesy---- I currently use a Spector Euro 4 with everything stock-----and I like the tones that it can get but it cannot achieve this with the stock...

Pay is 500 dollars total, so it's not really good but the music is a lot of fun--- It's a broadway musical called "the Wild Party" set in prohibition era. I'll be playing bass, and we have a drummer, keyboardist, and a flute....it has a killer sax part that just neeeeeds to be done, and there...

So I recently got a spector euro, and I'm in love with the neck and the electronics, but I'm looking for a thicker sound... In particular I am trying to achieve a similar tone to Rocco Prestia's bass line on "Drop it in the slot" Which pickup should I replace in order to achieve this sound...

I'm a seasoned player but I lack knowledge concerning effects and electronics... I have 3 pedals, a Qtron envelope filter, a roland RC50 loop, and a source distortion pedal.. I am planning on getting a few more in the future, but I am completely lost as to the concept of a pedal board...

Looking for sheets of: I feel good---Make it funky 1971-1975 version I cant stand it "76"--Make it funky 1971-1975 version Mind power There it is Parts 1 & 2---Make it funky 1971-1975

I have a choice between the NS-2J special edition walnut burl top or a spector euro... Invalid Link Removed I have no idea which one I shoudl get

I have a little bit to go before I have the money for either but I am caught between getting a warmoth neck and body or a spector euro 4 string. My current bass is a spector rebop and I love it but I just don't get enough variation in the sound. The reason I only consider the spector euro is...

NOT jaco's version, I want the original Herbie Hancock version, in sheet music if possible.

Often when you think of chords you think vertically...and this is appropriate, but harmony is not vertical-harmony is linear, continuously moving forward. You must be familiar with: The harmonic minor scale, how to construct chords, key signatures, and intervals to understand what I am about to...

But I have absolutely no clue where to begin. I have no experience with woodworking at all, but this is something that I've wanted to do ever since I got my first bass 10 years ago. I don't care how many times I screw up, this is something I WILL learn. Can anyone point me in the right...

So I'm saving up for my very first warmoth bass, working overtime every day of the week so I can try and get it before I head to Wooten's bass/nature camp in july but I doubt it... I just want opinions and knowledge regarding the sound of the woods I've chosen and the electronics. I honestly...