Sunday 29 May 2022
by Wulf
Comments Off on Was it Loud Enough?
This is my double bass, set up and ready to go for the Charnwood Symphonic Wind Orchestra gig at Knighton Park on the south side of Leicester this afternoon. The question, which I posed last week, was whether it would … Continue reading
Sunday 22 May 2022
by Wulf
Comments Off on Doubling up with the wind band
So far in my tenure with the Charnwood Symphonic Wind Orchestra, I’ve been playing electric bass. It’s been good to get my sight reading chops better and works very well with most of the pieces. However, it has always been … Continue reading
Wednesday 16 February 2022
by Wulf
Comments Off on It started with a … book?
A while ago, I signed up with bass education site Scott’s Bass Lessons. There’s a wealth of learning material on there, which tends to go further and have more structure than random videos picked off the internet. It also has … Continue reading
Saturday 5 February 2022
by Wulf
Comments Off on One/many of the basses that got away
Fifteen or so years ago, Line6 released a bass that caught my interest. It was in their Variax line and claimed to be able to produce the sounds of a couple of dozen different basses, including workhorses like the Fender … Continue reading
Monday 8 November 2021
by Wulf
Comments Off on Bass and Vox
Think of all the bands you know who have a singer. Now narrow it down to a singer who is also an instrumentalist… and playing that instrument most or all of the time. Unless you have very odd musical tastes, … Continue reading
Sunday 26 September 2021
by Wulf
Comments Off on A Brassy Move
This evening, I joined Charnwood Symphonic Wind Orchestra for their rehearsal. The connection is that our trumpet player at church is a long-time member of the band and they have got a vacancy in the string bass chair. Unfortunately, I … Continue reading
Thursday 2 September 2021
by Wulf
Comments Off on Rotoscope
I’ve managed to get round to recording another Players Path track today: The particular challenge of a piece like this is not losing concentration. There are two, fairly subtle variations of the main riff and you have to keep tabs … Continue reading