Recent content by Cowboy Dan!?

me and two other friends decided to get together and play "turning japanese" by the vapors for a school talent show. im playing bass and ill end up singing too. i have a great voice im told but i dont really sing(cept in the shower :laugh2: ). so im going to learn to sing this song and play...

ive never been a big pop n slap bassist. i just pretty much got started on learning some real pop n slap stuff but i have a little problem. after a little while of playing ill get a real bad blister on my index finger from popping. ive been switching my pop fingers but im getting blisters on...

i bought an used american strat last week and its the first guitar ive had with a tremelo bridge. i went out to buy some heavy gauge strings for it to replace the ones on it i think were medium light or regular gauge. since the heavys are more tight they keep pulling my bridge way up when i try...

i really started getting pissed off at my ghetto korg tuner and i decided to cough up the cash for a better one. i found the boss tu-2 chromatic tuner, and it seems pretty nice. has anybody had any experiences with this tuner? is it pretty acurate? maybe shed some light on the features...

ive been playing bass for around a year and a half now, and i decided to learn a little guitar. i decided on buying an epi g310. i got it last thurs and wanted to post pictures but i just got my camera working. overall i think it was an awesome buy. i fell in love with the way the guitar looks...

i got an epiphone sg (alder body, mahogany neck) coming and i was going to put some seymour duncans in it. i was planning on doin a jb/jazz or jb/59 combo. i dont know much about guitar pickups because this will be my first guitar. which seymour duncan humbucker combo would make me sound...

would it be possible to have a dot inlay taken out and replaced with an abalone dot inlay? if so, how much would it approxamatly cost to have a luthier do it? also.......is it possible to add abalone binding a neck and headstock that doest have a binding? again, how much would it cost to...

some bass solo i made up one day, i played it with a pick, and i barely ever play with a pick. during the second half i intended for there to be a guitar solo over it but ummmm i tried to make one and then i found out i cant play guitar. :rolleyes...

its down to these 2 options: buying an ampeg half stack(b-2r head and bse410hlf cab) for $1000 http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/sid=040801224941012215178035220068/g=bass/s=amps/search/detail/base_pid/480192/ buying an ampeg b-100r combo for $500...

here i am sitting around all night trying to get to sleep. so i decided to make some bass solo of the first few things that pop in my head. so here it is, a simple but cool bass solo i would like to share with you. http://www.angelfire.com/scary/cowboy_dan/basssolo.mp3 right...

ok heres the dilema: ive been learning all these scales and styles and whatnot on my bass and i want to exercise putting them to use(as in applying them over songs). but the thing is my friend who i jam with comes over and im like hey man lets make something up so i can practice using these...

i ordered a epiphone g-310 and i was going to put a jb/jazz combo in it. but i was wondering how a dimebucker would be in it. i will mostly be playing all sorts of rock n roll, from the beatles to black sabbath. which one would you recomend?

ive recently decided to learn electric guitar and i was going to buy one online since i only have 1 music store within 100 miles of me and it has crap. i mean someone please come down here and open a music store you will be rich because theres none down here where i live. in one of my threads i...

i was sitting in my room and i started to feel this song if you know what i mean. well the thing im bad at is i always make up something cool then im too lazy to write it down and i forget it by the next day. so i decided to record this. my parents were going to bed early and didnt want me to...

i downloaded cool edit pro and i used a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter(thanks beandip) to plug my bass straight into my mic input. i still need to get mixing boards and junk but right now this will do. heres my first test: i made up something real quick on my mandolin and then made on some bass for it...