Browncoat Musician's Thread by Gomithrous

Excellent, I love talking music!

I too am a bassist, I play a Yamaha RBX775 with the active electronics, in metallic blue with black hardware. I love her! I play in a hard rock band called Spit Fire: www.myspace.com/wearespitfire

I listen to everything from Blues, R n' B, Hip Hop, Rock, Funk, Soul, Pop, Classical but my favourite genre would have to be Metal. Below are various pics of my baby:

Factory shot:

Placying Mudvayne's Dig:

Gig @ The Royal in Dovercourt:

Gig & The Box in Chelmsford:

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Monday, November 27, 2006 5:31 AM

GED

I play guitar, violin, and I sing. I even learned how to play the Hero of Canton!

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Monday, November 27, 2006 5:32 AM

Also, for anyone who is in to Metal, check this out

it's Paul Gilbert (Guitar God) playing "Down To Mexico" and it has humour!!!

Oh and I found a shot of my bass:

And the bass I'm getting for my Birthday:

Beware the Giant Sock-Eating Purple Llama!!!

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Monday, November 27, 2006 6:10 AM

LITTLEALBATROSS29

I'm not a musican myself, but I do love all ( well most ) music. But my husband plays bass & my brother-in -law is the lead singer of a band as well as being a multi -instumentalist.
I'm trying to get them to learn the FF theme song.

Bryce
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So unstable inside and out.Don't know how much longer I'll take it.If you'd like I'll sell you a ticket, or you can get in for free.Am I enough of a freak , to be worth paying to see ? -Marillion

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Monday, November 27, 2006 8:18 AM

I found the guitar tab for the Ballad of Serenity, http://www.nd.edu/~jspies/serenity.html if you need it.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:05 AM

*Bump*

Let's have some more musicians, then!

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:31 AM

Cool thread. Nice to meet fellow Browncoat musicians and aspiring musicians. I'm just learning still, but I've got a '77 Guild accoustic guitar, a gift from my Uncle. It was his first guitar. I'll have to get a few pics of her up here. She's a little beat up, but she sounds great. Pure solid body baby. None of that laminant crap. I haven't named her yet though.

Just leaving work now. I'll see what I can do about getting some pics up.

Anybody got any recordings up to listen to?

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:52 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Anybody got any recordings up to listen to?

My band's demo is on our MySpace page - www.myspace.com/wearespitfire

Unfortunatly the bass is too low in the mix, but you'll get the general idea...

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:52 PM

Cool man. I'll have to check it out sometime when I'm not at work. They took away our speakers here.

I've got a MySpace band page www.myspace.com/b49teen84 , but I don't have a band. I have some recording programs on my computer and a mic and I just recorded two guitar parts and my mediocre voice. Just got one song up there now... "Walking After You" by the Foo Fighters.

I've been learning/playing for almost 3 years now. Never had any lessons... just learned the chords and tabs off the net. I'm hoping to get good enough to get in a band by the time I'm 30. I've got another 2 1/2 years. I love playing. I wish I picked it up when I was 10 instead of 24.

I'll put some pics of my girl up this weekend if I think about it.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:50 PM

I started when I was ten, partly lessons, but I'm mostly self-taught. So four years now. My guitar is a Fender acoustic, model Gemini II. Korea style, baby! I'm toting a 50's Gibson too.

I love all music, and aspire to play at least a fifth as good as John Frusciante one day. Me and some guys from class have a garage band called 'atlantistiger.' Mostly we just try to string something together that you can dance to, cause we play at parties and small jr. high dances
sometimes.

EDIT: Gomithrous, that LOTR sig is hi-larious!

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:14 PM

TERRI

I play a little. Will try to get a cool pic of me playing later.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:25 AM

My teacher says I'm really good and I'm learning a song a class, right now I'm trying to perfect slap (my thumb hurts like hell) and I'm learning Slither by Velvet Revolver. There are a couple guitar players and a drummer who do classes at the same time so we have a sort of bandish thing going on, none of us sing though so I'm attempting vocals. My bass teacher has an interesting method, "I could teach you music theory, but I'm not going too. All of you want to play in a band, so you're gonna play in a band". It's not a permanent thing but it's good to get the experience. When I do get a real band i want it to be something like Audioslave, I love Audioslave.

Rock On!

EDIT: I just listened to your band demo Gladiator that is sic!

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:25 AM

Damnit double post!

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Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:51 AM

ZORPRIME01

I've been a musician for about 20 years now (guitar, mainly). I also do a lot of singing.

I have quite a few musical projects going at any given time, including...

The Shake Ups ( http://myspace.com/theshakeups)
An indie pop band, mainly with 60's rock & 90's alternative influences. Catchy, melodic music with some guitar bite.

The Madeira ( http://myspace.com/themadeira)
Instrumental surf ala Dick Dale, we're signed to the indie label Double Crown Records, who put out our first two releases this year.

P.J. Otaku ( http://myspace.com/pjotaku)
Punk rock ukulelist.

"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak" - Jayne

"Looks like wishes are horses today." - Spike

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Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:39 PM

Wow it's so great to see that there all these musicians among us, only 3 people posted on the original thread so this is so great. Make sure to post pics of your instruments and maybe recomend some music?

Rock on!

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Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:28 PM

CUNNINGORANGETOQUE

I am a multi-tasker.

I play Alto and Baritone Saxophone, piano, clarinet. I also have an on again/off again relationship with guitar.

My primary function though is singing.

In an all-guy acapella quartet with my brother and 2 other guys our age. We do gigs every now and then when we can. Our biggest gig was awesome, because we were hired by a local radio company (a branch of Jim Pattison Co.) to pitch for a radio station in Calgary so we were flown out, with paid hotel as well, food, everything. Hockey Jerseys (World Cup was on) and all that Jazz and $500 each. Not too shabby.

Ok done my little speel.

Great to see a musician thread!

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Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:50 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST

Ok loving the music talk.

Sorry not able to contribute with the guitar play so much on account of me being extremely un-Hendrix in ability!

However I'm more inclined towards the composing side of things and I do got me a keyboard, a Mac, and the necessary software to produce a few tunes now and again... I had aspirations of scoring for films a few years back, so that's how that came about....

Anyway so far I've produced three albums under the guise of Loreman. Nothing fancy just me experimenting with various sounds and ideas.

It's been a year or so since I was able to make anything serious on account of not having the necessary space to set up the studio - but soon my girlfriend and I should be moving to a bigger place and hopefully I'll be able to start composing again, incorporating my girlfriends voice in to a few tunes. (She can sing I can't!)

If you wanna listen then follow this link:

http://www.cirqus.com/loreman/loreman.html

Cheers
The
Somnambulist

www.cirqus.com

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Saturday, December 2, 2006 12:09 PM

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Originally posted by Gomithrous:

EDIT: I just listened to your band demo Gladiator that is sic!

Many thanks friend, glad you liked it! Any more music-types out there?? There's gotta be more!

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Saturday, December 2, 2006 12:15 PM

There must be at least a few more Browncoat Musicians, any instrument not just guitar and bass maybe a drummer

? Oh and by the way Gladiator, if anything ever brings your band to Toronto, I know the President of the Music Gallery, I could probably set you up a gig.

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Saturday, December 2, 2006 12:25 PM

How randomly brilliant, thank you! Mind you, the furthest away we've played is Guildford (a whole 200 miles away from my house!), but you never know!

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Saturday, December 2, 2006 1:20 PM

CHARLIETHEBLOODY

I wouldn't call myself a musician but I play the guitar a bit, and sing along, not in front of actual people though (unless I've had quite a few drinks, then I can be persuaded ;) I started teaching myself when I was about 13 (ten years ago) and never really got to any advanced stuff, I can bang out a few chords in the right order though

I had piano lessons when I was little but I've forgotten most of that, I think it helps for picking out tunes to transfer to the guitar though.

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Saturday, December 2, 2006 2:17 PM

RAINSTICK

gladiator, your band sounds quite good. how long have you been playing together?

as for myself, I've learned classical guitar from when I was 10 till i was 17 or 18, then I stopped taking classes. I've always played chords just on the side. since I stopped classical i have mainly played electric guitar, but only for myself until a couple of months ago i started a band. we're still in the very early stages and practising songs that I used to perform on my own during open mic nights. it's all very primitive punky stuff, because that's what I mainly listen too. we're just a basic three-piece. Me (a german) on guitar and vocals, a french on drums, and a bangladeshi on bass. doesn't get better than that, does it? unfortunately we haven't got a myspace account yet or any recordings up. that should happen soon however, and then I'm going to use this thread for shameless self-promotion.

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Saturday, December 2, 2006 3:22 PM

For anybody here who plays electric guitar, I found some instructional videos by Paul Gilbert. He's amazing and hilarious.

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There are a bunch of others but I think these are the most useful ones. And just for fun, Paul playing the guitar... with a drill!

Almost as cool as a polka.

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Sunday, December 3, 2006 12:06 AM

Cheers Rainstick! We been playing together for maybe two years now.

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Sunday, December 3, 2006 6:21 AM

ARTCAT81

i have,
pennywhistles
recorders
ocarina
electric violin
bowlback mandolin (with a butterfly inlay circa 1800's)
Bowed Psaltry
bamboo flute
didgeridoo

can I play them? not so much but I do love music and am looking into violin lessons

the psaltry I can do simple tunes, same thing on the ocarina and the recorder, the violin throws its bridge at me when i tune it, and I can make interesting noises with the didge. The mandolin, I can tune

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

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Sunday, December 3, 2006 7:31 AM

CHARLIETHEBLOODY

oh yeah, I've got a violin too, picked it up at the dump for £10, and I managed to work out the angel theme tune on it but it's in the attic now cos I got loads of complaints

(philistines)

I'd love to have a go on a mandolin too, that must be cool

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Tuesday, December 5, 2006 2:10 PM

Well I found my bass teachers band on MySpace, check it out.
http://www.myspace.com/zerotolerance2006

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Tuesday, January 2, 2007 4:29 PM

Hello fellow Browncoat musicians, I know this thread hasn't been posted on in a while but I NEED some help, musical help.
I need the bass tab for Obsession by Animotion. It's impossible to find tab on the internet so I'm hoping somebody here knows it. If anybody has any idea, any idea at all as how to play it PLEASE help me

. Help is greatly appreciated, it's an fun song and the bass is absolutely sic.

Peace out

Gomithrous

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Tuesday, January 2, 2007 5:40 PM

BLAZESOLO

Haven't played guitar in 20yrs and I got one for Christmas!! It's an acoustic Takamini(sp). Time ta re-learn all that stuff I'd forgot. Gonna have LOTS OF FUN !!!

I wear a blaster under my Browncoat

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Tuesday, January 2, 2007 6:50 PM

DOCTROID

Artcat81, sounds like we'd get along. I hesitate to call myself a "musician", even though I've played melodeon (diatonic button accordion) for a local morris dancing group for about 17 years now and they haven't kicked me out yet. I have three melodeons I play (and a few I don't).

I took a couple years of piano lessons when young; my mom cancelled them because I never practiced (and boy, was I mad) -- I've messed around with keyboards ever since, and have been trying to learn a simple Beethoven piece and resurrect a Bach piece lately. I own one electronic keyboard, no real piano.

After piano I took clarinet lessons at school -- and I was diligent about practicing -- not that I ever got much good at it, but I did practice! Switched to bass clarinet, then to alto, then back to bass. Stopped playing for many years, but lately I've bought two soprano clarinets, an alto, and a bass on eBay. Haven't done much with them yet, but I hope to.

I have a couple of recorders I used to be able to play some, and a handful of pennywhistles, and a bamboo flute, and a tabor pipe or two that I never fully got the hang of, and an ocarina or two I never got the hang of at all, and a concertina I would've learned to play better if it weren't such a cheap crappy instrument (moral to the story: buy good instruments, even if you're a beginner), and a 5-gallon plastic water carboy I've used as a drum, and a couple of drums I've used as drums, and a washboard, a couple other miscellaneous percussion instruments... I think that's about it. I'd like to try sax, but haven't yet. I had a guitar once, but gave up on it after spending several weeks learning how to go:

chord
...
...
chord
...
...
...
chord oops that wasn't right chord yuck chord
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...
chord

It just was not the instrument for me. (Or maybe it was another case of I should've bought a better instrument.)

Then there's my wife's instruments.

And my son's. If we all had time to practice, we could be a band.

Some (extremely varied) examples of how I'm not really much of a musician here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=136095
and here:
http://music.download.com/doctroid/3600-8575-100572467.html?tag=quicku
rl

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Tuesday, January 2, 2007 7:32 PM

Hey Gomithrous. Can't make any promises, but I downloaded a file of about 100,000 Guitar Tab Pro 4 & 5 files about a year ago. I use it pretty frequently, but never looked for that song. I'll see what I can do. Sometimes the tabs only have guitar, but other times they have bass and drums and voice and keyboard too. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that program, but it's great for learning how to play. All of the tabs are user generated though so the quality varies... not much unlike ASCII tabs there.

Trust me, even if I can't find the tab for you, you gotta check out that program. The site is Guitar-Pro.com. You should pay for software this great.... but... if you wanted to, say, download a trial version before you decided to do the right thing and pay for it, you could always use a bittorrent client to download it. Plenty of tabs on there too, but you can find free tabs on sites online. Some freeware alternative to Guitar Pro can be found on this link: ( http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa082299.htm )I've never tried them though.

Message me private on here if I don't get back to you on this. I got a lot going on and I might forget to check.

Later

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Wednesday, January 3, 2007 3:28 AM

Thanks alot for your help 6ixStringJack. I'm also really glad to see a couple new people are posting.

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Wednesday, January 3, 2007 4:01 PM

SHINYSTRAWBERRIES

I'm relatively new to this site and I was looking through the forums and I saw this and I had to post. I love music. I was kind of disappointed though when I didn't see any drummers on here! There have to be some more Browncoat drummers out there!

Anyway, I play drums. My kit's a Sonor 500 Series, I believe. I don't like my snare all that much, but the rest of it's pretty cool. I've got great cymbals, especially my ride. Zildjian! Not that any of that means anything to anybody...

I also play trombone, though I'm in the beginning stages. I just started in like October. It took me nearly a whole month just to learn the B flat scale! Now, I can play a few songs. I play from piano books since they have more variety than the few trombone books I can find.

I've been playing piano for about a year now, but I'm not all that good at it.

Girls are bonkers, boys are crazy, and there's only a few sane people in this world.

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Wednesday, January 3, 2007 4:13 PM

Yay for our first Drummer!!!

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:18 PM

Hey man. I'm back at work now. I had a few days off, but I forgot to check my tabs. I'll write myself an email now to see if I can find it when I get home. I've got a really bad memory about things sometimes. It's been real hectic personally with the holidays and the aftermath.

Did you check out any of that software? I don't know if you use tab or not, but those programs are great, particularly Guitar Tab Pro 5.

I forgot to mention Power Tab. That's a great free program. Not as good as Guitar Tab Pro though.

Download it here: http://www.power-tab.net/
Get tabs here: http://powertabs.net/

You can find tabs for both all over the place. Just Google em.

If you haven't used one of these programs before you'll probably be amazed at how much you can do with them. RIP ASCII tabs.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:23 PM

I do use tabs, I can't read music for s

. I'm afraid I haven't checked out the software yet, I've been away for a bit but I'll definitely get to that sometime soon.

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:42 PM

I play trombone.

"When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl, when you can't do that...You find someone to carry you."

You don't truely understand that quote. Until you needed it.

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Sunday, January 7, 2007 4:40 PM

The neck on my Gemini got broken. I don't know how, but it happened. Since I keep my guitar at school, there's a tiny chance that somebody broke it, God knows why. My Gibson's messed up beyond my repair, and there isn't a repair shop for hundreds of miles.

Hold me...

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Friday, January 12, 2007 1:41 PM

SHINYSTRAWBERRIES

Hey, DJToes, I have a question. My trombone is having issues with the slide. You know that part of the trombone slide that screws into the part that connects to the bell? Well, my inner slide there is stuck to my outer slide, and when I try to move my outer slide, the inner slide comes right out with it. Got any tips other than taking it to a fixer place? I've tried using slide grease where the inner slide meets the outer slide, but no luck. I will be forever thankful if you know what to do.

Girls are bonkers, boys are crazy, and there's only a few sane people in this world.

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Friday, January 12, 2007 2:05 PM

STINKINGROSE

13- ...Wow....that really really sucks. Sorry. It's probably too far to send it to a luthier near me isn't it..

I go lalala, not so much with the plunka-plunka.

I'm working on it sporadically.
I took about 3 months of fiddle and love it (need to practice).
10 weeks of guitar in college (need to practice)
Pennywhistle that I've tootled on (need to practice).
Bodrhan I bought and noodled on (need to practice), just attended a hand drumming workshop last night which was fun (need to practice on hubby's drum).
Strum Stick (3 strings, no clunkers)I'm trying to learn (need to practice).
Took clarinet for 3 years in elementary school (not even gonna bother practicing).
Kazoo. I can do kazoo pretty reliably. Washboard a little bit.

Then there's son's trumpet (needs to practice) piano lessons (has not practiced today but he's sick so we'll excuse him), and hubby's collection (which you've heard about elsewhere).

So far as I am aware very few (one, maybe a couple more but I doubt it) people have managed to capture me on recording equipment.

Musical family runs in my family.

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Friday, January 12, 2007 2:49 PM

Nice to see another trombonist! What do you play? I have a silver King 3B and a Getzen ( that was my first). Do you play Jazz? or classical stuff? Oh this is fun....Okay anyway...

Well my frist thought was you need more slide grease. You need to make sure you keep water on it. If it feels bone dry (pardon the pun), you need more water and grease. Try this first, put grease on the entire slide, wipe it with a cloth once, then on the slightly raised part, you know by seventh position, put grease on that, then water. wipe clean, and repeat. Keep grease on it and water on it. water every day. If that's not working, check the slide for dents. If the inner part of the slide could have small dents that are screwing up the movment of the slide. the inner slide could be bent out slightly that is to wide to fit into the part you move for positions, so that could be a problem. Do NOT try to fix dents yourself. I'm sure you know that already, but just in case. I knew a girl who put her trumpet through the dishwasher. *shudders* She just didn't get you can't fix things like that yourself. Anyway, if you're renting it take it to the place you're renting it from and see if they have some kind of repair deal. If it's yours, take it to a music shopm, one that sells trombones. I know, in Ohio (in the US...idk where you are) there's a place called Colonail Music, that's where i take mine. Another problem could be there's dirt in the slide. You might need to buy a cleaning snake (can buy at a music store, that has brass instrument supplies). I hope that helps, if that doesn't, tell me. I might have more options for you. I grew up with a household of trombonists, so if I don't know, one of them will. :-D

They ain't cuddly like me.

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Friday, January 12, 2007 3:11 PM

okay i obviously didn't read your question all the way through. If the inner slide is coming off with the outer slide. Then it's got to be broken. It shouldn't be doing that. It's possible that it's too dry. But my guess is, there's something stuck, or it's broken. Does it look broken? if you have a picture of it. I might be able to help you. I really hope i could help. Tell me how it works out.

They ain't cuddly like me.

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:00 AM

SHINYSTRAWBERRIES

Thanks for the advice, DJTOES. I just started playing in October or November, so I'm relatively new at this. As to what I play, I play a Conn Director. It's from my school, so it's kinda old and there are a few dents in it. Right now, I'm just learning from the piano books in our house and pulling it down an octave or two, but I'm getting some trombone books in the mail some time soon. Hopefully I'll get it fixed by then. Yeah, and I'll just play whatever I can. Lots of pop and country since that's mostly what I own now, and some of the WW2 big band stuff. I'd like to learn some Latin stuff someday and jazz, but I don't think I'm good enough yet.

Girls are bonkers, boys are crazy, and there's only a few sane people in this world.

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:29 AM

DBERRIFF

I too play bass - with a swing band and soul covers band. I have too many basses for my own good - Fender and G&L with my G&Ls having just that little bit eztra. I use a Euphonics Audio combo. So it is not only great movies that we import from the USA ...

Happy Jack wasn't old but he was a man
He lived in the sand at the Isle Of Man

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:59 AM

Another bass player cool, can you maybe help explain to me how somebody breaks the E string? I left mine at school for 1 day and when I get back the E string is broken! It must take some sort of power tools to do that!

Oh and I'm $150.00 away from my Ibanez EDB 400!!!

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 6:05 AM

I played some jazz in high school, in our jazz ensemble. It was fun, but I don't like to solo, so the improv stuff I hated. But Swing (or big band stuff) is fun! Latin too. Try to play St. Thomas, it's a great tune, and fun. Not too hard, but if you're just starting out, it might be a little difficult at first, i don't know. Another trombonist, this is so exciting! hahaha

They ain't cuddly like me.

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:00 AM

DBERRIFF

I never managed to break any kind of bass string but usually it happens because a sharp edge on the bridge saddle causes a weak point.
I enjoy the supporting role of the bass player - I'm one of the crew rather than the captain, but I can shift some serious air when I need to. That's not cuddly ...
Don't do what I did and stop playing for over 20 years. I had to learn to read music again in my 50s for the swing band and that is no fun. Well worth it though.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:10 AM