Wall of Mouths

Just to add, that the older zip drives won’t play the larger disk sizes, apparently. No idea how you can check but it’s worth keeping in mind.

KJC Dublin wrote:

Whatever next, a guitar that plays itself so that you can have a pint while on stage :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auxjSYCKL4s

I think dede73’s tabs are probably on the site I linked.

Misanthropologist wrote:

Oh, and don’t know the basic basslines. Some of them are the best.

I meant ‘knock’…

Oh, and don’t know the basic basslines. Some of them are the best.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

This site has loads of Guitar Pro files, as well as all the standard tab, too. You can set a filter to look for GP stuff.
The latest version of GP has a ‘real’ guitar/bass/drum sounds, if you have a moderately decent pc (it uses quite a bit of processor power). It’s quite impressive, especially compared with standard midi.

The other advantage with it is that, when someone makes a tab that’s slightly wrong, you can actually heaar that it’s wrong, rather than struggling to play it as written, and feeling like a failure. ;)

Those sorts of setups are just a quick spit and polish, though. You really can’t rely on them to do a good job for you. Particularly if you’re changing the strings from 9s to 11s!
Dennis is right, it could be the trussrod. I fixed a problem on my bass with frets buzzing up close to the nut by adjusting mine.

Ooh *salivates* Let me, let me!

Squall, if you can remove the nut when the strings are off, then you can actually just raise it up slightly with something underneath. Can literally be something like a thin sliver of wood, or even card (careful it doesn’t fuck up the tone, though).

The other way is to put something like epoxy resin into the slots that you want to raise, and then file them back down to the right shape.

Or you could just pay someone else to do it. :)

(I’ve got a guitar setup book somehwere, so I’ll check later to see if it suggests anything else. Like ‘for the love of god, don’t put epoxy resin in the slots!’ ;))

Noooo. I used to use 12’s, but they were a bit much. Plus I had to keep explaining to the idiot at the local guitar shop that I didn’t in fact want a set of strings for a twelve-string. :rolleyes: Elevens are good.

Hehe. :)

Lol :rolleyes: That joke sort of passed you by, did it? ;)

Dennis wrote:

Yeah, I see what you’re saying, and I do kind of agree, but at the moment I am not looking at writing my own stuff, I just wanna work out how the fook to play Johnny Marr’s stuff!

Still, thanks for the advice, appreciated.

Oh, sorry. I just assumed you had a creative side of your own. :p (No problem ;) )

Forgot to say:
The other use for alternate tunings is when you’re playing a particular song, and find that there’s a particular chord that’s just too difficult to get to. Then, you just adjust the tuning to make that particular song easier. But that’s more a mater of common sense.

I don’t use alternate tunings myself, but to be honest I think the idea (unless you’re just tuning each string down by the same amount) is to get a bit of lateral thinking into your playing. If you need tuition books to help you with that, then it’s probably not worth bothering with. I’m not having a go at you or anything, though. I’m just saying.
I mean, if you tuned to, say, open E, then to play a Major chord you’d just barre one finger across all the frets. You get E, F, F# etc that way. Then you use that basis to get the more complicated chrods by adding the notes that you need. Which is what I mean, that you need to have a good idea of what notes you want to add in the first place. So it’s more music theory that you’re after, rather than a book about tunings.

The other use for alternate tunings is just to get different voicings for the same old progressions, but again, to get the most out of it, I really think it’s about the theory. Learn the actual notes rather than any easy patterns, basically.
At least, that’s the way I see it, but as I said I don’t use them myself.

With red pony tails? :)

:D

Do you work for them, or something? :p

I’m not sure I do know what I’m doing, but I certainly know more than I did when I started! :D

It would be very nice to make a bass from scratch. I still have a long way to go before I could try that, though (both technically, and financially!).

Anyway, I’m off to bed now, so I’ll have to bid you goodnight. It’s good to see you again. :)

byee

Not quite: My bass is a Danelectro Rumor, but I have modified and customised it. It has a new scratchplate, and a parametric EQ, and I’ve replaced/changed some of the other wiring that was in there, too. But I was learning as I went along, so there were things that I changed, then changed back, then changed again…
it would be nice to start with a new Rumor, and do the same things, but do them better. :)

3ddo-on-the-balcony wrote:

my first bass was a genuine rubbish made by sakai. it was a true rubbish jazz bass and it sounden like crap amplified by a 50 watt guitar amp :)

I still love my bass, even after all the hardship it’s caused me! I’d actually like to get the same model, so I can make all the same changes, but do a better job this time. :)

Otherwise I’d be looking at a Jack Casady. But I can’t come close to being able to spend money on a new bass, unfortunately. :(

lol, I think you mean ‘bigger’?

I hope.

Though I don’t know, maybe I am a well-known bugger. :D

Hard to believe that this was actually one of the largest threads. Gracious Me makes a mockery of that. And everything else. :D

3ddo-on-the-balcony wrote:

status? what’s that? never heard of a bass called rubbish

You’ve never heard of a bass called rubbish? Funny, I could have sworn I’d mentioned my bass on here before…

Actually, this is where it all began for me. My very first posts on the WoM were made right here. *looks around* It seems smaller than it used to be… ;)

*wipes a tear from eye* :D

Now all we need is Tatty…

There’s only one way to summon him:

‘Status are rubbish!’

Aw, isn’t it lovely?!

Wait a minute… *peers closer* That’s just some sort of a drum! :mad:

As I recall it kind of backfired, though, since no venue would risk hiring them. Free Beer For All, I mean, not Barenaked Ladies.

Could be they were just shit, though.

Years ago, I remember a local band called ‘Free Beers On Night’. :D