Bilbo

53 and playing the best gigs of my whole career. I arrange most of them myself and am very selective about who I play with. I am almost always the worst player but it's generally well received. I have also started working on my guitar playing again so there is always something to enjoy. I do get where people are coming from with regards to the physicality of playing.

Naah. It's a deader. Off to Deutschland it goes.

I have me more option to try courtesy of the interweb but I have emailed Thomann for advice prior to asking for a replacement. I understand that replacing the preamp is easy so that may also be a possibility but, yes, it's a ball ache.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1490738716' post='3267624'] You wouldn't care to expand on that, by any chance..? A bit cryptic for an old beggar such as I, and I'd be interested to have any ambiguity resolved. [/quote] Just busy doing other things. I seem to have less time than ever and am tending to practice and study rather than compose. If I am honest, I have also found some of the recent images uninspiring. Crowd surfing speaks to me of the kinds of music that leaves me cold.

Just to add, the Harley Benton HBO 850 SB e acoustic guitar costs £98, I can't recommend it enough as an entry level option.

After playing it acoustically for a couple of days, I plugged it in. Dead as a dodo. Changed battery. Nothing. Different leads and Amps. Nothing. XLR connection. Nothing. It appears that my electro acoustic guitar is entirely acoustic :-D Buggery bollocks. It's now got to go back to Germany for a holiday.

Yep. And the picking technique book, three different books of solos and several Piazzolla charts. Hours of fun.

I am known on here for advocating reading of music and have seen dozens of threads about the importance or otherwise of the skill. I have recently started working much more intensively on my reading and am now reading treble clef as well as bass. What I am finding is that by slowing myself down, I am learning quicker. I cock about with a chart for days and then, all of a sudden, I am playing it. More importantly, I find that new charts are becoming easier to move around as I become more and more comfortable. I am looking at Al Di Meola stuff, some Piazzolla, two Ravel pieces and some Scarlatti. I stress that I am NOT sight reading these pieces cold but studying them through the learning process. It feels like 'more haste, less speed' as the saying goes. There is so much material out there now, it's wonderful.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490790186' post='3267984'] Hope you've had better luck with them than I have. [/quote] My favourite is the Cielo De Terra book. I can only play one track all of the way through (Enigma of Desire) but the bits I can execute are getting longer and smoother. I guess it is about realising that you don't have to be able to do the whole thing for it to be a valuable learning experience. I also have some of my own transcriptions of his stuff that I revisit occasionally.

I have had a small number of lessons over the years. These have been one with Paul Westwood, two with Dudley Phillips and a few with a guy called Dan Quinton. Dad's were the most useful as they were properly focused on my learning needs. Most of it is self taught.

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1490789313' post='3267974'] Music stand.. With the score to Moondance on it.. [/quote] Or a Pastorale by Scarlatti ;-)

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490788528' post='3267968'] Very nice indeed. Would you like to borrow my Al Dimeola guitar tuition book? [/quote] I already have several

My wife hates Jazz. The last time she came to a gig was about three years ago when I played with Jason Rebello. She sat at a table outside and talked to her fried all the way through. Didn't see a second of the gig.

I am not getting to these lately, I am afraid.

Custom Legend. It's chuffing lush....

[URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/DSC_0131_zpsyeecqq7m.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/DSC_0131_zpsyeecqq7m.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I am sorry. I did a bad thing.

Looks like a bass, sounds like a bass. What's not to like?

Essex guitarist Simon Hurley. A monster player and still getting better. [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/Hurley%20and%20palmer%20Three_zpsno34epga.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/Hurley%20and%20palmer%20Three_zpsno34epga.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

With saxophone titan Simon Spillett at my Jazz Club Jazz East at The Alex in Felixstowe [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/Looking%20up%20at%20Spillett_zpsguwrmplm.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/Looking%20up%20at%20Spillett_zpsguwrmplm.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/Simon%20Spillett%20Quartetcolour_zpsthm8hq2e.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/Simon%20Spillett%20Quartetcolour_zpsthm8hq2e.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/FullSizeRender-3_zps6gjvxt9f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/FullSizeRender-3_zps6gjvxt9f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Me and big John last year.

I know a major Jazz artist who auditioned for a major pop act who everyone on here will have heard of. He was told he had got the job and then never heard from them again.

http://youtu.be/7b3ilv2y2JE

I am binging on Ralph Towner at the moment.

It's lovely to see one's work benefitting others so far down the line.

I posted the whole transcription here seven years ago. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/83558-a-remark-you-made/page__fromsearch__1