Worship Released

The next Deep to Deep gathering for Christian bassists will take place on Saturday 26 April 2008 at Mid Sussex Christian Centre (180 Leylands Road, Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 8HS).

The day will run from 11:00 am until 3:30 pm (for the sake of those travelling some distance to attend). Bring bass(es), amp(s), other toy(s) and a packed lunch (or money to buy something from the local chippy); there will be no charge for the day.

It would be useful for me to have an idea of how many are likely to come along as soon as possible, as well as what gear and experience you are planning to bring and any ideas for subjects you would like to cover.

Wulf

ps. if you blog about the event or post photos, etc, and want to tag them, please use deep2deep, which will aggregate them with other people's contributions

pps. ... that is to say, mainly my own so far but I live in hope of deep2deep getting switched onto the Web2.0 world, probably just in time for Web6.4...

A bit far for me this time, However I will be in that area next month! a bit far for a day trip in a Landrover!

Maybe next time!

We have the following three seminars lined up for this Saturday:

* "Musician, Listen to Thyself" - the practicalities and value of learning by recording your playing and reviewing the results
* "And All That Jazz" - how to make familiar worship tunes swing with the best of them.
* "All in the Fingers" - ideas for right hand techniques to add variety to your playing. All advice easily reversible.

Wulf

Today!

Wulf

Photos are on Flickr (click the group shot above) and you can read a report on the day on my blog.

Wulf

looks like a good turn out - now doubly gutted not to have been there

A bass guitar meeting with the number of strings not divisible by 4! Obviously it's only us poor northerners that have to make do with 4 strings on a bass. Sigh.

Sorry I couldn't be there ...

I think the cheapest bass in the room was... a seven string! Andy Long recently bought one (brand new) for about £80 from ebay and, it has to be said, that it is a remarkable instrument for the price.

Wulf

Looks like you had a good day.

Even if I'd realised it was happening I wouldn't have been able to make it down this time since I had gigs on both Friday and Saturday evenings (the Friday one on double bass).

I'm still hoping to get down to another D2D sometime. Perhaps I'll even bring Claudia (my borrowed double bass) with me.

- Magnus

wulf wrote:I think the cheapest bass in the room was... a seven string! Andy Long recently bought one (brand new) for about £80 from ebay and, it has to be said, that it is a remarkable instrument for the price.

Wulf

Andy is obviously related to an octopus - how else can you play a 7 string. Hmmm. £80 eh. Now what was my ebay password ....


Just found a youtube entry for an 11 string bass just here

The wackiest instrument I've seen on ebay recently had 18 strings - it was a six string bass right next to a 12 string guitar. Because of the difference in scale length, frets for each side didn't run all the way across the neck. I've no idea if it was even slightly playable (I've heard bad things about other instruments from the same source) but the headstock (18 machine heads!) looked amazing.

When you compare it to that, seven strings is really quite sensible!

If I didn't have such a cool six string, I would definitely consider a seven (and, I still toy with the idea of tuning my six either E - F or D - Eb... I rarely drop below D and often using chordal ideas which sound clearer on thinner strings).

Wulf