My Gear YAMAHA RBX375

The Yamaha RBX 375 5-String Bass Guitar, Black. Great value, fine-playing, great-sounding, versatile instrument.

The Yamaha RBX 375 represents amazing value yet the quality is everything you would expect from a Yamaha bass. The Yamaha RBX 375 features include a muscular, contoured double-cut alder body , a smooth tapered feel bolt-on maple neck which carries a genuine rosewood fingerboard and a 3-D headstock design for cool looks. The combination of high-output ceramic humbucking pickups with 2-band active EQ and pickup blending pots, let you dial in a wide range of thick tones. A remarkably versatile bass that sounds great in jazz, blues, funk, gospel, rock, metal.

The main features of the Yamaha RBX 375 include:

• Body - Alder
• Alder is popular as a material for electric guitar bodies, used by many guitar makers such as Fender, ESP, and Jackson. Alder provides a brighter tone than other woods (such as mahogany), and—as alder is not a particularly dense wood—it provides a resonant, well-rounded tone with excellent sustain. Alder is also occasionally used to make harps, although this is a rarity. It is a favored wood for banjos and dulcimers, and is occasionally used for cigar box guitars

• Neck - Maple
• Maple is considered a tonewood, or a wood that carries sound waves well, and is used in numerous musical instruments. Maple is harder and has a brighter sound than Mahogany, which is the other major tonewood used in instrument manufacture.
  
  The back, sides, and neck of most violins, violas, cellos, double basses and many guitars are made from maple.
  
  
  
  Electric guitar necks are commonly made from maple. The necks of the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster were originally an entirely maple one piece neck, but later were also available with rosewood fingerboards. Maple fingerboards have a brighter sound than rosewood. The tops of Gibson's Les Paul guitars are made from carved maple. Many Les Pauls have quilted or flamed maple tops, and these models are particularly prized by players and collectors. Very few solid body guitars are made entirely from maple, as it is considered too heavy. Many guitars do, however, have maple tops or veneers. Gibson uses laminated maple in the manufacture of many of its semi-hollowbody guitars.
  
  Maple is also often used to make bassoons and sometimes for other woodwind instruments.
  
  Most drums are made from maple. From the 70s to the 90s, maple drum kits were a vast majority of all drum kits made. In recent years, Birch has become popular for drums once again
  
  
  
  
  
  Controls - Master Volume 1, Pan-Pot and 2-Band EQ
  
• As I told you it is a versatile bass that sounds great in jazz, blues, funk, gospel, rock, metal. You can work your tone out experiment a little bit, there's a lot that this bass can offer, rich sounding instrument. Most of the time I use Middle pan pot a little bit of bass boost and 50% Treble, in such way the richness of the bass sound blends together with when your playing in a band. Well maybe depends on which genre you're playing. As I said if you have this bass man experiment a little you will hear amazing sounds this baby can offer.

• Great value, fine-playing, great-sounding, versatile instrument
• Muscular, contoured double-cut alder body
• Bolt-on maple neck
• Rosewood, 23 5/8’’ = 600mm radius fingerboard
• 24 Frets
• (864mm) 34 inches Scale Length
• High-output, ceramic humbucker pickups
• 2-Band Active EQ
• Master volume, master tone, pickup balance and 2-Band EQ controls
• Diecast bridge black
• Diecast black enclosed tuners

That's pretty much the first Part of Yamaha RBX375 Review. I use this at Church and it sounded awesome blends really well with the band and the genre of the song. Watch out for the next Chapters..

One more thing

I will be posting tabs on how I play Hillsong stuff, not how the original bass players do but my version of it. There is only few changes of it. And before I forget yeah, and some videos as well.. Keep the subscribers coming thank you very much..

A little outside information

I saw this from wikipedia and there is a BIG FAT chance that this guy is my relative...

I was born in Bokod Benguet but my Father's root came from Ilocos sur where this guy was born. Ain't this awesome..

Philip Vera Cruz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philip Vera Cruz (December 25, 1904 – June 12, 1994) was a Filipino American labor leader, farmworker, and leader in the Asian American civil rights movement. He was a co-founder of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, which later merged with the National Farm Workers Association to become the United Farm Workers. As the union's long-time vice president, he worked to improve the working conditions for migrant workers.^[1]

Contents  [hide] 1 Early life 2 Labor activities 3 Leaving the UFW and later life 4 References 5 External links

[edit]Early life

Vera Cruz was born in Saoag, Ilocos Sur, the Philippines on December 25, 1904. As he grew older, he undertook some farm work there, which he described as much easier than the work he would do in California.^[2] In 1926, Vera Cruz moved to the United States, where he performed a wide variety of jobs, including working in an Alaskan cannery, a restaurant, and a box factory.^[3] He was briefly a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.^[4]

[edit]Labor activities

Vera Cruz eventually settled in California, where he became a farmworker. He joined the AFL-CIO-affiliated union, the National Farm Labor Union, in the 1950s. His union local, based inDelano, California, had an Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). The prime focus of AWOC was to add members to the National Farm Labor Union. AWOC was composed primarily of Filipino American farmworker organizers, although it did hire Dolores Huerta. Huerta eventually quit the AWOC to join the National Farm Workers of America, which had a primarily Mexican American membership.^[5]

Philip Vera Cruz, a former UFW Vice President, described the start of the great Delano grape strike. "On September 8,1965, at the Filipino Hall at 1457 Glenwood St. in Delano, the Filipino members of AWOC held a mass meeting to discuss and decide whether to strike or to accept the reduced wages proposed by the growers. The decision was 'to strike" and it became one of the most significant and famous decisions ever made in the entire history of the farmworkers struggles in California. It was like an incendiary bomb, exploding out the strike message to the workers in the vineyards, telling them to have sit-ins in the labor camps, and set up picket lines at every grower's ranch… It was this strike that eventually made the UFW, the farmworkers movement, and Cesar Chavez famous worldwide."^[5]

On September 8, 1965, the Delano local voted to strike against the grape growers. Following the strike call, the growers attempted to bring in Mexican American workers, some of whom were affiliated with the National Farm Workers of America. Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and other leaders of the National Farm Workers of America met with several National Farm Labor Union organizers, including Vera Cruz, Larry Itliong, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco. Together, they decided that both unions would strike against the grape growers, an action which eventually led to both unions joining to become the United Farm Workers.^[6] The new union debuted in August 1966, and continued the strike into 1970.^[7]

In the new union, Vera Cruz served as second vice president and on the managing board.^[3]

[edit]Leaving the UFW and later life

Vera Cruz resigned from the UFW in 1977. That year, Cesar Chavez traveled to the Philippines to meet with Ferdinand Marcos, who Vera Cruz saw as a brutal dictator.^[8] Vera Cruz continued to live in the San Joaquin Valley of California after his resignation, and remained active in union and social justice issues for the rest of his life.^[7] Vera Cruz received the Ninoy M. Aquino Award in 1987, traveling to the Philippines for the first time in fifty years to accept it.^[9] In 1992, the AFL-CIO's Asia Pacific American Labor Committee honored Vera Cruz at its founding convention.^[10]

Hi Guys,

It's me Erson and this blog is all about reviews to what Instruments we use at Hillsong London Surrey campus I'm talking about Guitars, Guitar amplification, Bass and it's proper amplification, Keyboards, Pianos, Drum, and goes to mixing consoles . This is intended to help Churches with around 250-500 members decide what is a good buy or not. I will be posting pictures to how we set-up these instruments early in the morning and how we pack it down after the service. I will be asking people around why we use these gadgets, sound engineers and some of the players. I am a Bass Player with Hillsong Church London and to start with the blog this week will be about my Bass, pedals that I use and the Amplification that I am using at Church. Yes it is true that we get to buy our own Instruments but plug them in the Church property amps.

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