K … what an incredible story!! Love it! A lot of our Canadian talent spends more time down south … LOL! I could totally see Neil sayin that tho
That’s the other benefit of being a ‘workin’ musician… you never know who you may run into!
Edit: Closest ‘brush’ with fame I got in the band… was we got to open for Age of Electric That was fun Neil Young tho… is a freakin LEGEND!!
And our first gig after we Spinal Tapped (fired first gig on the road)… Trooper was there the week before us… comin in to that fresh on the road…(after being fired) No pressure! LMAO!!
The Black Keys “Psychotic Girl”. Sounded like a nice, soothing groove to learn.
Roots notes are pretty simple. On the E strong, slide G - A sharp - A - C then back to G, all while letting that string ring out. Ok, that’s easy enough. Each root notes gets highlighted with an octave.
On the A sharp, A and C notes there’s a little shuffle around the octave. That’s easy to enough to hit, but it’s extremely tiring after just a few phrases. I feel like this isn’t what they’re playing live at this was be too exhausting and technical to play live.
I had Influ-something for just over 2-weeks - of feeling like death.
Couldn’t take a minute off, working 12+ hour days, everyone on the jobsite is sick so it didn’t really matter. Veins pumped Nyquil/Dayquil instead of blood. One of the worst flus I have ever had. I feel like they keep getting worse and worse.
I’m really struggling with the finger roll technique. Especially playing root, fifth, octave arpeggios, playing the fifth and the octave by rolling my pinky.
I’m really surprised there hasn’t been a bassbuzz video on them specifically. I’m dying for an exercise to help me practice it. I think it would be a great video concept
Hope you feel better soon … I usually get about a weeks worth of ugh near the beginning of winter… then good for the rest (usually)… I may catch yer cooties from this thread!
I’ve spent since Monday afternoon getting clobbered by the flu or COVID. I finally felt good enough to sit on a stool and play bass for 20 or 30 minutes today… and ended up a sweaty mess from that level of “exertion”.
Oh wow. That’s awesome, and I didn’t even say thank you! Sorry man, I’ve been swamped with holiday stuff and didn’t see this. I’m sorry. But really, thank you very much. You don’t know how much I appreciate this !
So here’s a potential struggle. I turned my rumble 40 around so that I can access the controls in the back. Do you think having it fire backwards and being under a desk is making it sound muddy/boomy instead of accurate and pleasing? I’ve even messed with EQ but it sounds like trash. I probably have to flip it back around I really don’t like this amp.
As it has it’s own DSP/EQ, I could just measure my playing position using REW (free software) and a UMIK-1 microphone.
The result is a very clean, non-boomy sound. It’s really excellent.
Also, cause the tweeter of the JBL is now not pointed at me, but reflects on the wall, it sounds much better in various playing positions.
If the Rumble 40 has EQ and you can measure the room and correct with EQ, I see no issue.
A cheap method to measure your room “reasonably” might be AudioTool for android.
For iOS: https://housecurve.com/
Thanks for the house curve suggestion! I’ll have to try it out. I’m also thinking of moving it out into the room and having it face at me which may lower the volume for the rest of the house.
I guess I just have to play with it.
It’s a ghost note. Just touch the string with your fretting hand, but just barely so it only makes a thudding sound when you pluck it. Don’t press down enough to sound a note.
Think of ghost notes as percussive sounds you use to play like a drum strike instead of a melodic tone.
