stingrayPete1977

Thanks guys I'll have a play around with those suggestions.

Thumb just touching 'the silver' of the frog, index finger on the leather bit, fore finger opposite the thumb loosely placed over the frog. [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/IMG_0698_zpsmsyy6kqx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/IMG_0698_zpsmsyy6kqx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Any corrections, tips, pictures more than welcome. I've got my Rufus Reid book back out along with the metronome and a mirror

My own hand over view [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/IMG_0697_zpsf39ouxtz.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/IMG_0697_zpsf39ouxtz.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I haven't got small hands so Jake must have really long fingers, I suppose that's why there can't be a strict rule as such.

Following on from the bass bash ive found some pictures, this is Jake Newman's hand holding my Yita bow on my Gedo bass. [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-02/20150215_140122_zpsjlgzpvqk.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-02/20150215_140122_zpsjlgzpvqk.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1475730403' post='3148242'] ... yet you play Stingrays, whose scratchplates came straight off a banjo I once specc'd up a bass that looked a lot like this from Cataldo and it came to £1600. Nice one Jow. [/quote] Only my classic5 has the banjo one actually, the others are 5 stringers with the even uglier ones,lol. I think they look good overall, who's going first then?

I enjoyed that, I even casted (?) it onto the big tele.

I will have a go though, see if I can use the tips given to me

Realistically it's best if I just don't think about it, it's never gonna happen!

I'm seeing The Stray Birds at the Stafford gate house soon and red hot chili peppers in Manchester in December.

I struggle to look at basses with a pick guard that looks like it's off something else, I get that that is the point. Seafoam with a musicman pickup and a black 3 ply guard made to follow the body and pickups, pop on a fifth string and that might be pretty cool!

Having so far no bass failures and a few amp ones I'd rather lend a spare bass out than the only bass amp in the venue to be honest.

If I could play like Geoff can with the one I got for free then I'd have a bid, I suspect I'd sound much the same with it, awful.

Who's Andy Partridge?

I'd like to go to a bass bash with the people that don't allow other people to try each others gear,it would be like a weird cult! At the double bass bash I think Owen ended up with about 12 cabs and five amps gathered from around the room, much fun was had! I treat everything on it's own merits regarding sharing stuff, rarely when out on motorbikes do we end up on our own bikes all day, it's fun to see what gives you gas and what extinguishes gas!

I've just tried mine the other way around, it's really hard because my jumper keeps muting all the strings!

You can see the enjoyment on my face as I hold onto the coffee mug to stop it rattling off the table!

Those tricky audio cabs are spot on, I really like them.

Great quality pics, I'm still amazed at how good the Yamaha sounded with a bow, I wouldn't be able to tell once mixed in with other instruments playing, fantastic.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1475576652' post='3146990'] Perhaps music shops should take a lesson from the masters of retailing, Supermarkets. Just walk in, spend as long as you like looking and picking stuff up. Pay at the check-out when ready? That applies to food, clothes, TV's etc etc. [/quote] That's how musical exchanges in Birmingham was in 1990, and guess what, all those annoying kids grew up, got jobs and spent loads of cash in there just a few years later,my originals band must have spent nearly 10k in there over a few years.

City folk think anywhere that the tube doesn't go to is remote, how many threads do we see where buyers are willing to spend £2500 on a bass or amp but won't spend £40 on fuel to drive to bass direct or similar to try it and collect it yet happy to take a chance on internet reviews.

I was once told "your playing is beyond description", with hindsight I suspect this was not a compliment

Nothing made by Yamaha has broken ever, that is an actual fact

I like mine with a MM pickup and an active preamp, everything else I like about normal Fender ones.

There was a radio programme on today on radio 4 that sounded interesting regarding this, apparently sinister is latin for left handed! They said no one is truly ambidextrous, people call themselves that if they do some things one way and other tasks the other rather than all tasks with either equally well.

Gash