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Paul, seriously, I mean ... W T actual F?

There are no greatest basslines. Its too subjective to decide the absolute best.

I think it should have read, upgraded with an angle grinder antiquity" to describe horrendous false ageing 😁

Weave looks amazing!

I like the phrase "upgraded antiquity" to describe horrendous false ageing. Is that also part of the boilerplate AI?

Hard As A Rock - AC/DC

think so Stevie. Its not accepted behaviour here. He'd be wearing an empty bottle of Buckie that night. Dave

Two I’ve been working on lately which I really like the basslines to, Marcia one is by Lloyd Parks and Damien Marley, really like this one and a great one to play

Love this! Inspired me to start getting up to speed on midi (I'm a complete newbie!), but have got myself a Disaster Area 3XL and three of my Boss pedals are midi capable: GT1000Core, SY-200 and the XS-100 Any tips and suggestions very welcome! Also just asked ChatGPT to prepare me a midi introductory course!

That’s a good approach and really helps develop the ear. It was, after all, how the old fogies among us like me learned - playing along to the radio or to records. There’s absolutely a degree of innate skill involved there but a lot can be achieved by practice ad studying the right things - over time, of course! And being thrown into the deep end at something like a jam really sharpens up the skills and focuses the mind!! 🤣 When I was in my 20s I would play in the worship band at church, led by a friend of mine on acoustic guitar. He was quite disorganised and rarely knew what songs we were going to play until the Sunday morning. Often he didn’t know what songs he was going to do next during the service and wouldn’t necessarily start them up with the correct chords or in the right key. So I had to learn to busk/jam along early on and me and the keys player spent many services squinting at his left hand to work out the key and chords! Also, learning to play songs from chord sheets was helpful in terms of working out how to link notes and chords together on the fly. In terms of learning and developing skills, the things that were really the lightbulb moments for me were… Learning the major and minor scales and, in particular the shapes related to them on the fretboard, Learning and getting an innate feel for what different intervals sounded like - third, fourth, fifth, major and minor sevenths - that just takes lots of practice and repetition, but the BIG one was… Understanding the harmonised major and minor scales and how they related to common song chord structures. That is (not sure how much folk have looked at this) understanding how the standard chords in a particular key are made up from notes of that scale and that the pattern of major / minor chords is the same across different keys. Knowing that, for most mainstream rock/pop, if you’re in the key of G, the most likely chords to come up are G major, A minor, B minor, C major and D major really - or if you’re in A then it’s A major, B minor, C# minor, D major and E major - really helps navigate the way through a song you’re not familiar with. And of course, that’s where the understanding of intervals helps identify the next chord. Starting to understand the commonly used chord patterns was a huge thing when combined with the above. Al the last country jam I ended up playing a few songs I’d not heard before and it was really helpful when the guitarist said, “It’s a simple 1 -4-2-5 in G…” (i.e. G major, C major, A minor, D major) and I immediately had a mental roadmap for the notes I should be aiming for to begin with.

One one hand I want to correct them, but I'd probably get really annoyed and do the "if I sell this I can buy 10 of them" type things... and on the other I don't want to get mugged in the car park! As it happens I did sell it and still didn't buy a Fender!

Great one, that’s one of my all time favourites

I've had quite a few Japanese Yamaha BBs and I’ve had that exact experience a few times. So much so that one of my friends, who’s a drummer who has been there and seen it happen, asks me every time he sees me, “Bought a Fender yet, mate?”. It never gets old.

TBH I want the cab sim on the jack out too - not just the DI. 😆

Eh?

If this happened in Scotland the band would have broken up the band leader....

Yet another pain-free transaction!👍

I did a jazz gig with a Zon Hyperbass once - and someone asked me if one day I hoped to be able to get a Fender? FFS.

Could you be a kid or maybe Leo Fender is bored in the afterlife