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Bit of a slow day today but I don't want to not post something so here is the first Minuet from the Bach Cello Suite in G Major. Something to chew on whilst I work on Wagner's Ring Cycle. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/cell-suite-no-i-in-g-major-meneut-bach/

An update - I am working through Grade 2, and really struggling with this new level of playing. It feels so much more difficult than before. However, the reality is that I simply need to apply myself - to practice daily, and with more focus. • With the bass, I play what I know, in the same 4 or 5 keys, and probably haven't improved in 5 years. • With the piano, I am always playing beyond my skill level - two-handed parallel scales that I can't play with the right fingering; pieces with independent left and right hands; music full of accidentals; music with written timings (not by feel or ear). So, that is why I am struggling with piano. Incidentally, I have been practicing piano with a metronome, and when I mentioned it to my teacher, he said that I didn't want to be doing that "because it's difficult ". Surely a metronome is a beneficial discipline, and something that I should aspire to?

Yeah literally plugged the usb into my phone and hit record on the native camera app, didn't even need to change any settings!

Holy Jazz Bass, Batman

Love the colour on that Dark Knight!! I know Fender call it Dark Night but if Batman played bass that is what he would play.

Been hoping to find one for a Ric, but they discontinued them years ago. The only option would be to change all the tuners to something like the "Lite", and fit the appropriate de-tuner.

I might 'forget' the occasional comma in a sentence, at least I've not forgotten my wallet and jacket and had to do a second 200 mile journey!

I Ham What I Am - Gloria Gaynor

First question to ask as the pickups are single coils: Is the bass fully and correctly shielded?

Thank you, @BassTractor. Other Internet searches suggested the same issue, so I need to pluck up the courage to take the piano apart, and look at the pad beneath the A-flat. More likely, I will contact a repairer that I know, and ask him to look at it - I am not a bold or confident fixer of things.

Thanks matey. Tried it out, no luck unfortunately. I'll have another look in the cavity.

Veal Meat Again - Vera Lynn

This reminds of a quite similar situation: I went to buy (only 250 kilometres round trip, but twice, read below for the funny part) an Ashdown CTM-300 with its dedicated made in U.K. 8x10 cab, and came back with an Ashdown CTM-100 with an Ashdown 1200 Watts made in U.K. 4x10 cab as I own a stupid Peugeot 508 with a trunk and not a hatchback, so I had to put the cab on the back seat as it couldn't get in the immense trunk and the head in the said trunk. That said, eventually, the 100 Watts head coupled to that 4x10 cab was more suited to my taste, so a win-win situation. Now, the funny part: I had to go back there the next day has I had forgotten my jacket with my wallet at the seller's place and only noticed it when back home, you know the "new toy syndrome". 🤦🏻🤪🫨 My wife who accompanied me both times was laughing like a child and I had to pay the restaurant on the second day. 😉

Goat West - The Petshop Boys

For All The Cows - Foo Fighters

Chicken Leave Your Hat On -Joe Cocker