Dad3353

There is a quantum leap in difficulty between reading monophonic lines (essentially bass, or solo voice, or brass, with exceptions...), and polyphonic lines (keys, guitar, some choral works, drums...). getting one pitch right at a time compared to getting several pitches right, is a challenge, when learning. In that sense, bass is an easy one, and it's a reasonable excuse for a guitarist to say 'Thanks, but No thanks'.

This is true; sight-reading is an extension of 'reading', and has its own challenges. For most purposes, reading, albeit slowly and methodically, would be enough to get the enormous benefit that it brings; sight reading becomes a 'must' when depping theatre pit shows, concerts or studio session work. Many (most..?) concert pianists, and other performers, have the score in front of them, but have practised and rehearsed enough to not read from it, as it's been committed to memory. They have spent the time beforehand, though, studying the piece (reading it, obviously, but more than that, mostly...), and playing it through a number of times. Memorising is part of the skill in reading; few will be reading from the score 'live'.

Pretty fluent on drums, a bit more laborious for bass, tricky for guitar and very, very slow for keys. Luckily, I'm a drummer.

'Whom' seems to be on its way out of late. Such is Life, maybe; what can be done, I wonder..?

I'm not sure that that's an absolute. Most of the folk atttending our gigs know us personally, and would be very surprised if we started any out of character capers. They've come to see/hear us play the songs we do, and applaud after each. Some folk want exhibitionism, others don't appreciate it at all (it's my case, as it happens...). When I assist at a classical concert, I wouldn't be impressed by the conductor or solist prancing about. I often close my eyes, when listening to music, anyway. To me, music is essentially an audio experience. If I want to see party tricks (I don't...), I'd go to the circus. Just sayin'.

That's American trucks for you; self-repairing.

I've been looking for decades now for a 1950 Telecaster; none to be had. They've all been snapped up ages ago, I suppose.

[Pedantry] Not an acronym (which has to spell out a pronouncable word, such as LOL, or ASAP...), but the initials of ... [/Pedantry]

If there was even a snowball's chance of that, I'd chip in and contribute..! ...

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You'll want 'Auto' mode, with preset 1 to 7, depending on colour required. Easy enough if you have the footswitch; do you have that..?

Ooo... I do soooooo hate it when that happens.

Just a tad above my budget, I'm afraid. I'd love to try one out, but I doubt that my cloth ears could justify 1200€, even if I had the money. I'd test one, though, if any were going spare for a few weeks...

From Wikipedia ...

'Lefty-ism' is a bell-curve for the population as a whole, and most folks are, in any case ambidextrous to some extent. At each end of this 'spectrum' there are those who are 'totally' righty or lefty, and some folk are plumb in the middle, at ease either way round. The earlier one takes the opportunity to reverse things, the easier it is to assimilate the change; even more important is the realisation that one has the capacity to do at least something 'the other way around'. Often stubbornness will prevail, of course : 'I can't do it, so I'll abandon, as I'm [righty|lefty (pick one...)]. Necessity often dicates the change, but it's always useful to try things out anyway, just for fun. Most folk can do much better than they may have thought possible.

Maybe historical..? Plucking and strumming are relatively new, for stringed instruments. The violin extended family have been bowed for centuries, and the left hand relegated to the slightly lesser role of simply holding down the string. Bowing required the dexterity of the dominant hand (and so 'right'...), and that has been carried over to the later members of the string family. Maybe..?

S'been a very, very long time since I could play any of that stuff..!

For those that play for money. Some folk just like playing, for little money, or even for none.

Could have been framed differently, though.

It took you a minute, though.

It's a shame that the video sound quality is so poor..!

I had a tiny item to send to UK, and saw the paperwork involved. Luckily, I know a local Brit with a cottage nearby who travels regularly around Europe and the UK. He took my tiny packet to Blighty and posted it from there; job done. The item will come back to me, in time, posted to my buddy in the UK for him to bring across on his next visit. It's a slow process, but avoids all the bumf nicely. Cheers, Adam..!

... and here's the 'mash-up'; my drums and Lenny's ... well, whatever Lenny does. I set the controls to the heart of the sun set my drums to his frenetic 131 bpm, that's all. Great team, eh..? Hors Concours, obviously, just for fun. (and apologies to Lenny...)