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Just watched Hang In Long Enough. Now that I really enjoyed. The whole thing not just the bass. To see that LS reacts in exactly the same way as I do toa mistake was heart warming and hilarious. Please keep them coming.

My pleasure. I am getting there, I can now recite the circle backwards (anti clockwise) without having to picture a bass and work out what comes next! The great thing about the exercise is it shows me clearly the area of the fretboard and the chords I don't know well. Probably predictably it's DB Ab and Gb. Weirdly I have less of a problem with C#, G# and F# 🤔

OK, well, that is a record for me. Three Phil Collins tracks in one day. Three more than I have listened to in the last decade! But oh what a treat. I Missed Again was a bit sloppy apparently. Ha ha ha - oh to be so sloppy. Wonderful wonderful bass line.

I fell over a bass

Hey back to the guy with the beard. I noticed he often plays with just his first finger on his right hand. Today is the day I stop seeing this as a major technique defect and, whenever I see a video of myself doing it, just let it go.

*stamps feet* I WANT MY CAKE

Things I have discovered during this period of isolation. 1: The sleep function of the G75 really works. Put the guitar down while going to the loo and the batteries cease to drain until you pick it up again. 2: Lloytron recheargable batteries bought from Proper Job run out when the remaining battery time on the G75 shows 3 hours and 30 minutes. 3: A fully charged set of Lidl 'Tronic' recheargables shows 6 hours 45 minutes when inserted. 4: I realise 2 and 3 above are pretty useless pieces of information when trying to determine the playing time privided by either Lloytron or Tronic. 5: Even the most disgusting cough sweets contain sugar. 6: 5 isn't more than tenuously connected with music but is important to me. 7: Plectrum delivery time, even while using Amazon Prime, is entirely unpredictable. 8: I have too much bass gear.

Realised my knowledge of the arpeggios was patchy (at best) so I've been working on the major / dominant 5ths exercise. Needless to say the course has stalled while I get my head around it! But it's coming ............... slooooooowly

Lots of support for frontline NHS staff right now (and quite right too) but I know lots of people are also working hard to keep everything else working, not least bank employees like yourself. My sister works in a local branch and finds every day very stressful with customers losing their temper, not following the whole distancing thing and peoples stress levels generally heightened. So thank you.

Aw krap! Don't say that. I wanna remain the coolest guy in the band

Yep. But I keep thinking, how will anyone know how great I am unless I show them??? All well and good for Mr Sklar to have the respect of the entire music industry but I need to impress a bar full of drunken office workers and randy builders

I may well have to! But I was being specific about that one video. Watched the interview with GP as well now. What a lovely guy Mr Sklar is. Interesting to note that the Maccartney line he referred to when describing how good bass playing can be is similarly economical. I am excited to hear him let rip.

Just watched the first video up at the top of the thread there 👆. You could show that to anyone learning bass to illustrate how to support the song, to play well without the need for flashy fills. It's a beautiful illustration and a wake up call for me. I'm nowhere near as bad as I was 35 years ago but I am still guilty of playing way too much.

It comes down to cool.

Decided to take a day of from my arpeggios and circling fifths. Instead fettled and fiddled with a rack mount set up. A little Heath Robinson maybe but I like it. I need a shallower rack case and one less high too but this is what was in the shed. All my 👆2k go through their own amp into a 1x10 with horn, and have their own compression and a smidge of drive. All my 👇2k go through the SMX into a 1x15. The TE has with its own dedicated low compression and other tone sculpting goodies. Not decided which amp will power the small cab if ever I get back out there. Just trying a few options. Apart from the sound, which is amazing, set up and pack down will be much quicker and although I gain a big box I reckon I'll lose at least one case and one big cab.

I think I shall drill mine eventually. Right now it is glued to a length of insulation tape which is stuck to the bass. Easy to peel off if I don't like it but a very solid bond so it doesn't wobble. These details can make or break a bass for me. Never cared about nut width, don't worry about scale length or neck profile, but nowhere to rest my thumb? Neck dive? Pickup which cuts my finger? Deal breakers.

Horses for courses I guess. nothing wrong with Mark's content but I found the absolute opposite to be true. Zoltan was utterly engaging without the irritating happy chappy constant upbeat delivery of Talking Bass which puts me right off. Using a 5er was an excellent idea as his lessons work for 4 and 5 string players. I must have spent four or five hours in his company yesterday. Pure gold.

Every time I think I've heard it I hear another I like even more. But Bruce Thomas work on Every Day I Write The Book defies improvement to my ears.

Yay! I'm learning

Hi Zoltan, Is there a mistake in bar 5 of the pdf for the major and dominant 5th cycle? I was expecting a Bb. Still new to reading music so i may have missed something here!

All set up and nowhere to play! So many possibilities, some even practical. Most obviously wildly over the top like the two TE heads running here. But I have quarantine time while the plague is in town and I'm enjoying it. The ability to use a small cab for high mids and tops powered by a class D head and only take one larger cab saves space in the car. Also two heads are a lot easier to carry than my huge Trace biamp head. So thanks again for the advice. Bi-amping probably isn't necessary and maybe in a blind test I would be hard pressed to tell the difference, and yet I love it.

So far I'm loving the lessons. Really taking my time and getting into the scales and chords. Does the website have any details on costs for when the free course is finished?