Any Musicians Here?

I thought Beadle was in my office this morning, it was that ridiculous.

Nah, this place is fucked now for internal moving about. Basically, the only way it'll get better if my current boss simply quits. And bizarrely, he did hint at this recently. It would be fucking great.

What notes are you playing then?

I think with bass though, if it's right for the song, then that's all you need really. Half the time you just need it there and that's enough.

What I sometimes do when we come up with a song is put something together for it, like a placeholder if you like, then we jam it out a few times till everyone else gets their bits and then the next few days, I'll listen to it at home through the stereo and just pick up my bass and play over it, and that way, it's so easy to go, "Ah, what I need to do *here* is something like *this* maybe" - I'll do that until it's memorised, and then go back to the studio the next friday and see how it fits in.

That's effectively my entire bass approach in that paragraph above - stick something on it, piss about with it *on my own* where I have time to improve it, then done.

It's there but you can't hear it. But you can feel it. And notice it if it's not there.

Bass is weird.

Yeah, I found a jazz bass sits better in our music mix. Just seems to click better with the other instruments. We've got synths and multiple singers though, so I can't just steamroll over it with thundering bass - the jazz suits it just bang on.

And harris is just mad

It's great when you find the one you like isn't it. I've not picked up my other basses for ages now.

I've been really good at not buying things recently too. But I've just cracked - I've been after a smallish keyboard that's portable and does really cool electric piano noises, but mainly for a Rhodes piano type sound. And if it had effects, then that would be the icing on the cake.

And I've just read the review of this motherfucker -



Man, that Clavinet with the Wah effect is Funk Central.

And it's £300.

Sold!

Haha have you caved too?! It does look like immense fun though

We finished a quick demo of this one yesterday and I quite like it. My mate says he's changing the drum and guitar sounds and I need to tidy up my vox and the levels but it's roughly there. We're up into the double figures of possible songs for this new album now so it's going alright. I'm finding that I'm getting used to singing in a slightly lower register now as I'm trying to expand my range. The high stuff has always been where I go to but the chorus here is lower than I would normally do. A few of our newer songs are like this and I quite like it. I also like my bass part.

drive.google.com/file/d/16UtU0YMucG-GHsYfvohgjb8NldEtSgek/view?usp=sharing

Bloody work fools

Nice! You going to record anything?

I've got a specific cable for it arriving today so I can plug it into the stereo in the living room. They're fairly good speakers so looking forward to that too!

COMPLETELY missed this man! I'll have a listen later but at a glance visually it looks great. Very professional.

I can't play any instruments but have always had a hankering to be able to play a few tunes on a piano or keyboard (my dream is to play the Hammond organ cinema theatre style), I'm aware I can go and get lessons from a private tutor at £X an hour but is there a real cheap way to do it, I simply cannot afford the alternative, perhaps online or an evening course or something? Having a bit of a google/search and the choices seem endless and consequently a bit overwhelming so thought I'd ask you good people for any suggestions?

You can get a yamaha reface yc that does surprisingly good old school organs, Hammonds etc for £250. Or a midi controller that comes with thousands of sounds for around £170. Though it's best suited connected to a pc. All the software that comes with it is free though so you're all set from the get go.

As for lessons, I've successfully managed to nick stuff from basic online arpeggio videos. Basically, any yt video that shows you basic arpeggio stuff is invaluable to get something up and running almost straight away. And the beauty is, you'll fuck it up the first few times trying to do it, and that is exactly when you'll stumble over something you think is cool. And then you take it from there. If the passion is there, you'll sort it