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When i practised drum beats to bass and different chords from guirar and keyboard, I just used a lot of different wav saples, mixing together and playing over and over again. The collection i got was for free from my friend. It was easy and very healpful, but of couse there are a lot soft. One of them i was interested was ''gig a day''.

Beat it - MJ

When The Whip Comes Down - Stones

Hello. I've just stumbled across this thread and I'm intrigued. Any updates? I found myself in almost exactly the same situation with a perhaps even more battered old bass a few years ago, and managed to get it back into playable condition – I could probably provide some tips that would be helpful (and that would probably strike fear and dismay into a serious DB luthier).

Guitar Pro would fit the bill; it's easy to use, and a free trial is available. Not expensive, but try it first..? Guitar Pro ...

I'm sure it's gotta be 99% emperor's new clothes for those who are upgrading. I'd definitely go for a V2 if I was in the market for a comp, but never if I already had a V1. The metering is nice, but also in an odd way an admission you didn't really know how to set it before? 😅

It was the 5 sienna burst. Really incredibly light and resonant. A very good bass really - so totally different from the Euro, which weighs a ton

Are you winning the comp collecting comp?

I still have my first bass. It's a Charvette by Charvel from 88/89 ish maybe?). I bought it used in 1993. It's currently in pieces, waiting for a respray and some custom wound pickups.

Leatherman - Pearl Jam

That's my kind of pedal!

And of course, it never rains in Manc.....

Quite a groovy video really, I like that

Not much wrong with an upright piano, as long as it has a metal frame. Many (most..?) had wooden frames; they're the ones that can't hold their tuning. They are not, nowadays, considered as 'musical instruments', but as 'furniture'.

I am looking for something simple that will let me define a chord progression, and then play it back to me while I try without success to play an appropriate bassline. It needs to be completely quiet, so something that works with headphones, and also simple to use. Ireal pro is cheap and I think would work, but I don't have a tablet of any sort so would have to buy one. Hookpad is expensive but would run on my laptop. But surely there is something tailor made for practice?? I have: Laptop with W11, Reaper, Audio interface, wireless headphones. Any suggestions would be appreciated - I need to become completely silent to maintain some domestic harmony. Thanks for any help.

Steel worker. Big Black Steve albini RIP

… I did mention that at the start of the thread lol! Think the V2 are around £300 or so new, so a V1 for £200 is ok. I’m always surprised how some pedals hold their used values so well. Thing is I’ll probably end up getting a V2 alongside the V1 I already have at some point lol, I think I like collecting comps 😆

YMCA - Village People

How did they keep an upright piano in tune? What an amazing piece of Vid!

Wow, loads of interesting stories! My first guitar was a nylon one I put steel stings on and destroyed, but I still have its successor, a KT-2 cheap as chips thin plywood body 'SG', much modified. Must have bought it around March 1980 as Running Free had not long charted and was the first song I tried to play on it. My first bass was a Hohner jazz copy (similar to but predating the Arbor Series). I must have bought it in 1986 looking at my cv (which is a bit shaky on dates pre-1988) I gave it to my brother 10 or 15 years ago, but he still has it, the pickguard is faded to an incredible two-tone colour. Secretly, I want it back 😞 I still have my second bass, a Hohner B2 that my brother converted to a lefty, gave to me, and I converted back the "DEATHBURGER". All original except the finish and knobs it has had several finishes - white, then refinned white, then painted with sunset and standing stones, heavily stickered, carbon effect vinyl wrapped, then stone effect paint! Gigged it in the late 80s to 96 when I lost my way, and did all my proper band demo recordings with it as it sounds incredible. Since then gigged (once) and jammed with it recently. Oddly, I don't have any decent photos of it, and it's at my partner's house being easy to tuck away in its custom fit case (bought s/h for a song in the old Bass Centre in Birmingham about 1988/9).

I realised next year is the 10th anniversary of my ACG Finn 4 arriving, and that means it’ll then be a year off being the longest serving bass I’ve had* (currently a Status Retroactive J holds that record at just under 11 years). And that is the longest serving of the current crop - I can’t see any of them going anywhere any time soon. *I’ve still got my Vester Jazz which was my first bass but it was retired from main bass duties about 10 years after I got it, when I got my first 5 string. So I don’t count it.