Archive for the '16th notes' Category

Rick Peckham’s site

Just found site of Rick Peckham with nice set of lessons. He is not a bass man, but jazz chord summary, uses of Harmonic Major, rhythmic patterns to practice and others will be useful for every musician.

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Duracell Procell

In this thread, tplyons recommends Duracell Procell as long-lasting reliable source of 9V for active basses (I think pedals will accept them too :) ). Never saw them in stores, but I’ll give them a try next time (recently I got 4pk of Energizers). You can got them, for example, on eBay.

Duracell Procell 9V 12pk

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BassPlaying.com

Relatively new bass site from authors of Wheat’s BassBook. A lot of useful info and alive forum.

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What is “pocket player” and “playing in the pocket”

I’ve heard this hundreds of times - good “pocket player” or “oh, yeah, this was in the pocket”. This discussion may explain what is this.

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Innovative bass pedals

Innovative bass pedals! One of a kind! A must have for every bassist. :)

Jaco-B-Gone, Bass-B-Havior and Fret-B-Gone from RedTelectronix.

A pedal of the greatest magnitude!! I’ve seen all the grousing on the various discussion boards about “busy” bass players in blues bands and the grief they can cause. Give ‘em a break guys and girls, it’s not their fault! It’s the dreaded Jaco Syndrome (no disrespect intended!). Simply insert the Jaco-B-Gone in your bass players signal chain and he or she will never know what hit them! No matter how hard they try, all that comes out is a deep, grooving, solid bass line.

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Ninjam servers status page

Recent outage of Ninjam servers shows all ninjamers we need more servers in different places. This nice page shows status of 10 known servers. Come on and play! :)

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Open Mikes

If you are still not in a band - here is great site with open mikes listings. Every place accompanied by comments, maps and links to homepage. Nice resource for bandless musicians and musicians at all.

OpenMikes.net

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StudyBass.com

StudyBass.com is another site with online bass lessons. All articles are well illustrated and cover wide range of topics. There are lessons about basics, bass technique, reading music, practicing, common bass patterns, rhythm, intervals, bass scales and bass chord patterns. Every beginner or intermediate player could find there something new.

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Making a bass a tapping instrument

Here is recommendations how to screw up your bass and make it tapping instrument.

No irreversible modifications except nut filing. Easy and fast. If you don’t want to invest into “Mobius Megatar” but want to try - all recommendations looks reasonable.

Popularity: 7% [?]