It's a forum feature to break long links to protect against malicious stuff I think.

[quote=funkyhoney;17591085]Take the space out from the last 3 characters, I'm not sure why that happened.[/quote]

It's a convention of URLs on MX.

Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I see.

Anyway, you can watch them without having Facebook now.

And on that note, I'm going to work!

[QUOTE=Sablate McNuff;17591021]Steel strings have a great pick tone, but I just find them too aggressive and bright - every little click chimes through x 10000000[/QUOTE]

i dunno that's my thing I guess

I like uber brightness i boost my mids to hell too

[quote=honeydutchautopsy;17591109]i dunno that's my thing I guess

I like uber brightness i boost my mids to hell too[/quote]

I've never tried them on my Schecter or Spector, but I've tried them on my Stingray (which is aggressive as hell anyways) and they were overkill fingerstyle.

Everyone wants something different, it's all good.

What's next purchase, everyone?

Not a purchase, but I'm going to have my new pickup installed next week.

My next actual purchase is going to be some knobs for my bass. They go to 11.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;17587559]Gotta let me know how that is. Mastadon is growing on me, and Brendon Small is extremely funny to watch when he goes all out DethKlok.[/QUOTE]


The show was awesome.

Mastodon was a little more doom than I'd expected, but they were really tight and their vocals really impressed me.

Dethklok was insane. I spent 90% of their set in the pit tossing around little kids, which is always a good time. Their sound was very good, and they had animated music videos playing on a huge screen behind them ... awesome. At the end, Brendan did an entire conversation between all of the characters by himself, which was pretty sweet.

Overall, probably top 5 shows I've been to.

[QUOTE=:amaze:;17591306]Not a purchase, but I'm going to have my new pickup installed next week.

My next actual purchase is going to be some knobs for my bass. They go to 11.[/QUOTE]

Nice I'm going to get new hardware for one of mine also :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE

That made me smile on an otherwise awful morning

[QUOTE=gaslight;17591138]Everyone wants something different, it's all good.

What's next purchase, everyone?[/QUOTE]

Motorbike. Or new laptop. Or an acoustic bass.

[quote=gaslight;17591138]Everyone wants something different, it's all good.

What's next purchase, everyone?[/quote]

I'm actually selling stuff.

Plan to purchase soon:
[list][*]4-space SKB ATA case that will actually fit my amp[*]45-65-90-115 Ernie Ball steels (gotta order individually from juststrings)[*]12" Monster cable for my wireless[*]Hipshot ultralites for my Schecter (if they'll make them in satin gold)[/list]

Work to be done (that I'm paying for):
[list][*]EMG DCs installed in my Schecter[*]Again a setup on my 8-string[/list]

Work that I'll be doing:
[list][*]Staining and installing the ramp on my Schecter[*]Epoxying the fretless neck on my jazz (in the process of doing now)[*]Finishing the route cavities on my P-bass (almost done)[*]Side jack in the P-bass to allow for Vol-Tone-Vol-Tone electronics setup[*]Putting lead weights into the control cavity of my Spector & Schecter for balance[/list]

[quote=funkyhoney;17591361]Motorbike. Or new laptop. Or an acoustic bass.[/quote]

Buy my acoustic bass. It's a 32" Carlo Robelli, but the bronze strings have a surprising amount of tension. I'll sell it for $40 + actual shipping.

[QUOTE=Sablate McNuff;17591565]Buy my acoustic bass. It's a 32" Carlo Robelli, but the bronze strings have a surprising amount of tension. I'll sell it for $40 + actual shipping.[/QUOTE]

$40? And it's good you say?

Legally binding.

Well, with shipping to AUS, you could buy a better used ABG for the same price. The fretboard started to lift up near the first fret, but I gorilla glued it back down. The only other issue is that the 13th fret is a dead fret and I can't, for the life of me, get the other frets level enough. Other than that, she plays just fine.

May be adult content in this vid, as I haven't watched it yet, but it seems funny just by the title...
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-tell-real-boobs-from-fake-boobs-with-playboy-howcast-277778/

The average distance between a woman's chin and her nipples is 10" when laying down. Fascinating...

I just had a fantastic idea - I'm going to fix up my old Squier, give it a decent finish, and donate it to my old school's jazz band.

That's a sweet idea man.

donate it to me so i can pawn it please

[quote=honeydutchautopsy;17591967]donate it to me so i can pawn it please[/quote]

I could pawn it too, but rather than donate the $200 that I give to jazz band every year, I'd like to give them some instruments that I don't want or need anymore.

The colors of the school are green and gold, so I'll ebonize the fretboard, paint the headstock and body green, give it a nice black burst finish, then put a gold pickguard and some gold hardware on it. I've got most of the parts laying around anyways, so it'll be sweet.

$200 donation every year? I wish someone would donate $200 to one of my bands, ever.

[quote=gaslight;17592083]$200 donation every year? I wish someone would donate $200 to one of my bands, ever.[/quote]

Yep. Every year since graduation I've donated $200 to the school jazz band. It is so ridiculously underfunded that it's not even funny. One year, the school spent $25,000 re-modeling and upgrading the weight room for the football team. They gave the jazz band $500 for general instrument repair. The teacher who teaches it doesn't make anything extra for teaching the class, which isn't even offered as a legit music class - it's a pass/fail credit and the class starts and hour before school actually starts. On top of that, it's only a spring semester class because there is only one music teacher in the whole school that is required to teach the band, marching band, orchestra, and jazz band. It's really a crappy situation and our football team was never good enough to warrant all of the praise they get.

Wouldn't the band own their own instruments anyway?

I feel you though, at my high school also all of the bands/ensembles were not credited, they were extra-curricular activities like sport except sport was compulsory and musical things weren't.

At the time I was there, they had just revamped our sports centre and apparently (I never verified) but it was supposed to be third best training facilities in the country except for at the main army training centre and the national sport institute centre.

We had a nice music centre too but we were never allowed to actually rehearse in the rehearsal rooms because the secretaries would say the noise disturbed them. Had a decent amount of instruments though including four upright basses (however only orchestra members were ever allowed to touch them) but nothing to speak of in the electric bass department. Even had a little recording studio, but noone was ever allowed to use it because none of the music teachers were qualified (face, palm).

[quote=gaslight;17592179]Wouldn't the band own their own instruments anyway?

I feel you though, at my high school also all of the bands/ensembles were not credited, they were extra-curricular activities like sport except sport was compulsory and musical things weren't.

At the time I was there, they had just revamped our sports centre and apparently (I never verified) but it was supposed to be third best training facilities in the country except for at the main army training centre and the national sport institute centre.

We had a nice music centre too but we were never allowed to actually rehearse in the rehearsal rooms because the secretaries would say the noise disturbed them. Had a decent amount of instruments though including four upright basses (however only orchestra members were ever allowed to touch them) but nothing to speak of in the electric bass department. Even had a little recording studio, but noone was ever allowed to use it because none of the music teachers were qualified (face, palm).[/quote]

Some own their own, but music is so expensive to buy/rent an instrument only to find out that you don't like it. A lot of parents aren't made of money, and it's a shame to hold somebody back from their potential passion for financial reasons. Plus, they say musicians (not just lame punk-rockers that pick up a guitar and play a Ramones cover) often do better in school.

Technically, I wasn't really allowed to touch the upright basses either, but then again, I was a non-traditionalist and my jazz teacher let me do a lot of things. I knew my modes and scales and such, but I couldn't read music very well at all. I memorized one of the audition pieces, and then he threw an on-the-spot sight-reading piece in front of me. I got a measure in before I started improvising the bassline based on the chord names above each measure. He and the other teacher looked up at me, but kept playing the piano/drums (in a slightly jazzier feel) until the piece finished. I got the part because of my ability to just feel the jazz and improvise. Haha. Sweet.

Yeah man, people who can't improvise to a form, especially bassists, have no place in a jazz band.

Pretty much the most important skill for a modern bassist is to be able to improvise a bassline to a chord chart.

Reading is important too but I'd rather be able to improvise excellently than read excellently if I had to choose. Of course reading excellently is vastly more profitable career-wise but for me, if I couldn't write my own music I'd never bother touching an instrument.

What was the piece?

[quote=gaslight;17592225]Yeah man, people who can't improvise to a form, especially bassists, have no place in a jazz band.

Pretty much the most important skill for a modern bassist is to be able to improvise a bassline to a chord chart.

Reading is important too but I'd rather be able to improvise excellently than read excellently if I had to choose. Of course reading excellently is vastly more profitable career-wise but for me, if I couldn't write my own music I'd never bother touching an instrument.[/quote]


Straight up. Jazz improv is relatively easy (in my eyes). Sure, there's all the complex theory behind it with the odd chords and passing tones and such, but when it comes down to it, it's a feeling - as is all music.

I couldn't tell you what the piece was - it was 5 years ago. Haha.

It depends what you're improvising over, it's up to that, and up to how hard you push your brain while doing it. Truly improvising on a jazz tune is more than just sounding good over the chords, to truly engage with a song in a solo you need to be able to play the melody. If someone can pick the tune you are playing by your solo - not just the chord changes, but the actual song, because so many jazz tunes share the same changes - then you've got it down. You don't have to do it all the time, but you should ideally be able to do if it you choose to. That kind of sums it up.

The drills for practising jazz improv are a god damn nightmare, so it's a relief when you get to actual just improvise. Super heavy duty practise though, real proper practise, brain in a vice, walls are closing in kind of feeling :lol:.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;17592103]Yep. Every year since graduation I've donated $200 to the school jazz band. It is so ridiculously underfunded that it's not even funny. One year, the school spent $25,000 re-modeling and upgrading the weight room for the football team.[/QUOTE]
well, i'm sure the football team brings in a lot more money for the school than the jazz band. was the weight room just for the football team or does the rest of the school have any access to it?




jazz improv is only as hard as you make it, provided you are tasteful and have decent grasp on phrasing

[quote=Jaded;17592249]well, i'm sure the football team brings in a lot more money for the school than the jazz band. was the weight room just for the football team or does the rest of the school have any access to it?

jazz improv is only as hard as you make it, provided you are tasteful and have decent grasp on phrasing[/quote]

That's probably true. The weight-lifting classes had access to it during class, but only the athletes were allowed to use it at their designated times.

It's true, there's a lot of jazz improv theory, but then you can argue that there are two styles of improv - structured and unstructured.