Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

I will use it next go. Someone once said to me that - as a bass player - I need to let the sound guy know if I have a volume pedal. I figured a boost pedal would be the same thing.

What say you?

Also reminded me of these videos. I like this guy's videos.

 

[Count Bassie]

I will use it next go. Someone once said to me that - as a bass player - I need to let the sound guy know if I have a volume pedal. I figured a boost pedal would be the same thing.

What say you?

Tell him of any mods or amendments to your signal chain.

 

[Count Bassie]

I'm lichen it!

Nice.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I once knew how to read music.
Lost it after I didn’t stick with it.
I’m with Duke. Tabs are just confusing. So with the right players, it’s all up to the ears of where to go and what to create.

I used to read note for note years ago but with time found out the bass parts where kinda cheesy (prolly the lack of bass playing experience of the arranger) so I go off the chords and try to use counterpoint in the passing notes, then read when there's a mandatory line or break to be played...
years ago we were jamming at a birthday party in NE and there was this smoking Cuban cello player who had studied in Moscow and was playing in the Boston Pops at the time. We played all kindsa jazz standards from the book including Monk, Zawinul, Parker, Coltrane... to name a few to which she read and played parts flawlessly...it was fun with cello.....when it came time to play "Happy Birthday" (for which we had no chart) she was clueless..

 

[Engle]

I was thinking about building a downsized shortscale RD body for this:

Here ya go. 61 mm so about 2.4” (the dial wasn’t zeroed)

Cool! Thanks.

 

[TBird1958]

If it's stage right (house left) of center it's mine!

 

[ThaCoast]

I have one word for your singer - tambourine

Cowbell.

I see your tambourines & cowbells, & wager a triangle too

 

[Count Bassie]

I see your tambourines & cowbells, & wager a triangle too

Ouch...

 

[Count Bassie]

I was thinking about building a downsized shortscale RD body for this:
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Here ya go. 61 mm so about 2.4” (the dial wasn’t zeroed)

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I'll pass this along, thanks! What do you think you want for it?

 

[BklynKen]

If it's stage right (house left) of center it's mine!

Love that photo!

 

[JIO]

I see your tambourines & cowbells, & wager a triangle too

 

[GBassNorth]

Stage right feels most natural to me as well. Plus there's more soft targets there for the headstock (singers head, rhythm guitarist...) vs stage left where there's frequently a wall or scaffolding or lighting or a PA to crash your headstock into. Added plus is it puts my good ear towards the drummer.

 

[GBassNorth]

Silly dog Sunday...

...the pup falling asleep while waiting for a piece of bacon to drop to the breakfast room floor.

 

[JIO]

I used to read note for note years ago but with time found out the bass parts where kinda cheesy (prolly the lack of bass playing experience of the arranger) so I go off the chords and try to use counterpoint in the passing notes, then read when there's a mandatory line or break to be played...
years ago we were jamming at a birthday party in NE and there was this smoking Cuban cello player who had studied in Moscow and was playing in the Boston Pops at the time. We played all kindsa jazz standards from the book including Monk, Zawinul, Parker, Coltrane... to name a few to which she read and played parts flawlessly...it was fun with cello.....when it came time to play "Happy Birthday" (for which we had no chart) she was clueless..

Husband & wife double-bass playing friends just retired from the KC Symphony after 40 years and I was joking with Nancy saying, 'now you can start jamming at local clubs for fun" and she just laughed nervously.

 

[Gaolee]

I see your tambourines & cowbells, & wager a triangle too

I play with a singer who absolutely owns all of those, plus various shakers and a vibraslap. The triangle cracks us all up, but it works exactly right for the song when she hits it.

 

[Count Bassie]

Husband & wife double-bass playing friends just retired from the KC Symphony after 40 years and I was joking with Nancy saying, 'now you can start jamming at local clubs for fun" and she just laughed nervously.

That's funny.

 

[Count Bassie]

I play with a singer who absolutely owns all of those, plus various shakers and a vibraslap. The triangle cracks us all up, but it works exactly right for the song when she hits it.

Now there's a gag with some anticipation value.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Or a lefty who plays right handed. And that is where I usually go. I am not dyslexic, so far as anything goes, but right and left have always been mysterious. I rarely get lost. Anybody who asks me for directions will get lost at the first turn.

My parents were much more amused than they should have been when their teenage daughter had her hand slammed in the frontdoor after someone opened the backdoor -- is there a name for that phenomenon? -- and when they asked me which hand, I said my 'bowing hand'.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

My parents were much more amused than they should have been when their teenage daughter had her hand slammed in the frontdoor after someone opened the backdoor -- is there a name for that phenomenon? -- and when they asked me which hand, I said my 'bowing hand'.

That would be a vacuum... a very unfortunate one

 

[JIO]

That's funny.

I would react the same if someone put a sheet of music in front of me.