… including the original composer and her band is cool …
As always, thanks for viewing.
On ByteXD: Why people use Linux
There’s a nice article over at ByteXD on “13 compelling reasons why people use Linux“. In case you aren’t, you still are – you only don’t think about it 😉 And that article also sets some numbers straight.
Good to know that some of us had a vision even more than 30 years ago 🙂 And I knew why some 25 years ago (or more? forgot) I was turning away from closed source because it’s simply not worth your time…
Recommended reading.
Portrait of Cookie
As always, thanks for viewing.
She is Here!
Fabulous track from Ms Snoop90, to which I just added a few low notes:
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As always, thanks to my friends and to Wikiloops for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening 🙂
Cookie taking a nap
Pssst – don’t wake him!
As always, thanks for viewing.
Poppy Sing Sang
Awesome song from Pat and from Ms Snoop, couldn’t resist to add a few low notes to it:
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As always, thanks to my friends from Wikiloops for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening 🙂
Waking The Cat
This morning I set my new toy to the ‘FLIP TOP-Style’, which should make it sound like an Ampeg B-15N. Then I loaded Don’s and Rolf’s awesome ‘Waking The Cat’ song into my DAW, closed my eyes, and these guys transported me straight to Memphis, TN:
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As always, thanks to my friends at Wikiloops for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening.
… and more about great bass lines …
YouTuber pdbass reports about one of his favourite bass lines, and he said it had two notes only. Of course there were a few more, but basically he’s right, it’s a perfect example of restraint making a song great. Watch and learn:
And here’s the complete official video from 1985. I was 28, and oh my how we were all melting away when hearing this:
So yes, if you can play just two note on the bass – ok, four if you don’t count the slappy parts – you might sound great. And it’s surely a good lesson in becoming groovy…
As always, thanks for viewing.
New toy
Couldn’t afford a B-15N, and an Ampeg SVT with its two fridges is a bit loud for our living room, so I bought this instead:
Hear it here – a first take with the bass going into two channels (as you can see in the photo, I used the parallel output for a clean bass as well):
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As always, thanks for viewing, listening, and reading 🙂 More to come…
Transcribing the greatest bass lines ever…
Over at Scott’s Bass Lessons, Ian Martin Allison has a nice series of until now 4 episodes, transcribing the greatest bass lines ever. And two of these first four weren’t even played on basses, can you imagine? But that is no reason and no excuse to not learn them. Here they are in ascending order:
Ian shows how to count *while* you play (very important to get some of these 16th syncopated notes), how to get the sound (including some gear), and he’s obviously having a lot of fun doing this. I think you’d have the greatest benefit if you’d transcribe songs like these yourself instead of taking their free pdf sheets, but you can have these as well if you like. People asked for some Joe Darts lines for instance, but really, a DIY approach would be even better.
Anyway, it was fun watching these. Good times indeed 🙂