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1 hour ago, Dad3353 said:

 

To me, that's F#m7; I'd be playing the root note on the bottom 'E' string, second fret, if there's no bass or keys playing, and mute (or just don't play...) the 'A' string. I'd drop the 'D' string down a semitone for the m6. I use these chords, along with Maj7 and Maj6 a lot. Just sayin'. 

Or it could be played when you see B11 (and other rootless voicings are possible too).

56 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

To me, that's F#m7; I'd be playing the root note on the bottom 'E' string, second fret, if there's no bass or keys playing, and mute (or just don't play...) the 'A' string. I'd drop the 'D' string down a semitone for the m6. I use these chords, along with Maj7 and Maj6 a lot. Just sayin'. 

Yes indeed, F#m7 and A6 contain the same notes so both answers are correct. In a way, a "6" chord doesn't follow the convention of stacked thirds, so its a bit of an outlier. But the 6th is so common in pentatonic major (and other) scales; and is such a mild dissonance, that its quite common to see.

(It also works for other pairs - the 6 of the 6th chord is the root of a min7 chord).

3 hours ago, Nicko said:

Some would argue that bass players should already have an intimate knowledge of chord theory.  Unless you are playing root notes how else do you know what fits?

By reading what's written? By playing the riff/line you learnt by ear?

There seems to be a (reasonable) assumption that bass players are also those who invent the bass line to play; which only fits certain genres of music and will clash horribly in others.

21 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Found it.

 

It's a maj7 played as a bar chord - sounds really cool - why isn't it used more?

 

 

The top one, ISN'T how you originally described it (a bar chord of the top 4 strings). Obvs the position on the D string is different. Thus its a different chord.

A "bar" on the top 4 strings would be the notes (let's say the bar is at fret 2): E A C# F#, which is A6 (but the root isn't at the bottom of the chord, so you could describe it as A6/E if you wanted to....but with guitars, I bet someone else is playing the root.....)

Chords aren't massively complicated on a guitar: There's 2 shapes, the "E" shape and the "G" shape. A and D open chords are the same as E but shifted down a string or two; C open chord is the same as G shifted down a string. Then there's variations on stuff, ie minor/major, adding 7th, 9th, #9, etc. Then there's playing just the top 3 or 4 strings, or the bottom 3 or 4, etc 

Or just buy a piano - they go for buttons these days, people can't get rid of them!! So long as you have the means to transport and accommodate it at home.

3 minutes ago, sammybee said:

 

What do you want to learn - piano or organ/synth? To me, they are requiring 2 different approaches. If organ/synth - you'll be better off with a 61key board with synth action, if Piano you'll be better served by a 7x/88 key weighted keyboard

 

If you're learning piano you'll want a sustain pedal at a minimum

 

 

 

True - if learning piano, go for full weighted.

I bought a 49 key keyboard some time ago (a Komplete Kontrol A49) and I've found even Grade 3 piano pieces don't fit on it, neither can they be made to fit with using the octave switch. So definitely the more the better. If its full size, then 88 vs 61 might be more tricky to accommodate and transport? But it would depend on the kind of music - anything piano related, the more the better. But if its purely synth stuff then 49 (or less) is fine. Since the Alesis Recital has a USB MIDI out (so say the specs - not sure if it does the job great though) it opens it up to a world of synths and other fun sounds.

On 28/01/2024 at 21:20, gjones said:

I watched this review and because the guitar sounded so good in the video I had to try it out.

 

When I actually played the guitar in my local shop it was absolutely s**t! The sound was thin and nasty and the tuners couldn't keep it in tune for more than a few seconds at a time.

 

I actually did buy a guitar that day, it was a Yamaha Pacifica that they had going secondhand. It stayed in tune, had a decent set up, sounded pretty good and only cost me £68.

 

Don't believe the hype.

 

 

 

I used to watch a bunch of Anderton's music stuff (the "Sound like ................. for £500" is a good series) but its best to consider it a long advert with a bit of actual useful info here and there.

I remember once at work we had a conversation on what might be the worst thing to happen to you. You know, things like a 9" grinder accident with it going into your abdomen; circular saw running at your hand; plate glass impalement; acid spills; welding incidents. Apparently "being stuck in a dead end job on an industrial estate near an airport for the rest of your career" isn't the right answer.

I'd say they are worthwhile to use as a guideline for one's ability in an instrument. Yes they are classically focused, but that's not a bad thing in itself since anything 'classical' can be applied to any other genre of music - there are a lot of transferrable skills.

Whether its worth £60 to go through the process of visiting an examination centre, playing in an unfamiliar room to an examiner who's heard 167 renditions of the same piece that week, is another thing - if it helps with the course/overall career path, then yes. Some people get terrified of exams, just like some people are good at playing but get terrified at performing live.

On 18/09/2023 at 14:10, theplumber said:

Been a member for a few years on here and have bought and sold without any issues. Either by phone or message I have spoken to the other party either about the item/items,postage and arrangements,etc. About 10 day's ago I made contact with a trusted member on this site....well,let's be honest we are all trusted members I hope! He was selling an item and had reduced the price to £95 so I decided to contact him and make arrangements for payment. I offered to pay using bank transfer or paypal. He opted to ask for a bank transfer. In a private message he gave me his bank details and I asked my wife to do a bank transfer to him and checked after about half an hour to see if he had been paid. He said nothing had come through. We went out shopping and contacted him again after about an hour and a half....still nothing. I thought this was odd as I am sure in the past it has been almost straight away for a bank transfer....anyway later in the day about 4.30pm he contacted me to say it still wasn't through. I asked the wife to check the telephone banking app and sure enough it said payment cleared where earlier it had said pending. Now here is the thing,the payment had been sent to a totally different name,different bank account and sorting code! I double checked the details I had given the wife and sure enough she had entered the correct details. In fact we both seen his name and details at the start on the banking app and it was marked pending at the very start. Anyway I contacted the member and told him to double check that he had not received the money...nothing!! Anyway as most folk will know you have to contact the bank straight away....which is pretty hard on call centres and as they close at 7 we were lucky to speak to someone who froze my wife's card and told us to contact the fraud section next morning which we did.They asked loads of questions and asked about the transaction and where I was buying from. We were off on holiday for a week and heard nothing until this morning.We have been told at no time was our account hacked but that's all they can say at the moment. It was referred to as a authorised push payment scam (google that!!) I know they will refund the money and I know that the item has been sold to someone else (I told the member just to forget selling it to me because of the issues) Now...I am not saying that the member is in anyway at fault as as far as I can tell he has been a member of this forum for a very long time. The conversations we had in private about the item were spot on...I have had conversations with folk on facebook who were scammers and knew nothing and appeared not to even speak basic English!! Sorry about the length of this post but in light of the recent scam attempts on here recently does anyone think that the private message could have been hacked or had anything like this on here or elsewhere happen. I know they say that bank transfer is one if not the safest way to transfer money (within reason as long as you sent it to a trusted person and did a bit of digging) I also know folks thoughts on the pros and cons of Paypal on here and elsewhere. Any ideas folks?

A couple of points:

1) Banks are required to do "account validation" ie you enter the sort code, account number and accountholder name, it verifies the account num/sort code relate to the entered name. BUT they are not required to block unverified transfers, a lot of banks will allow such a payment to go through, maybe with an additional screen. If you yourself didn't do it, your wife needs to verify if this occurred or not obvs.

2) I am not sure if the details would match if there is a CASS Redirect (Current account switching service) in place - or more than one. It might be that the reported details will legitimately differ to the entered details with no concern for that.

3) You have no way of provably knowing the money DIDN'T arrive in the intended bank account, except for the word of the seller. This is worth bearing in mind

4) The bank's refunded you now, so you don't need to further worry.

5) Not taking Paypal for an online transaction like this, in my eyes, is a big red flag - big enough to halt a prospective purchase.

On 07/09/2023 at 08:00, wateroftyne said:

Ideally, it would be useful to see insights into forum browsing vs. search.

 

Does anyone click through the individual forums to browse the topics anymore?

Its worth considering how its viewed by new users, certainly if I'm new to a forum, (and often when browsing anyway) I'll look at the various subforums.

5 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

The saddest of all keys...

Actually, Eb minor makes me quite teary, especially when a community orchestra is trying to play in it..........

30 minutes ago, Paolo85 said:

but I am under the impression that the crime here is that he likes jazz, or teaches it. I am pretty sure there are worse things one can do

 

Like, country music?

The logical extension would be other bass instruments, starting with the Bassoon (to keep the branding on point as "SBL") but then Tuba, Sousaphone, Bass saxophone, piano (left hand technique only), etc etc

The few times I've looked, pianos are indeed one of the best value secondhand instruments on a £/kg basis. Even upright pianos are undesirable because you can buy a decent electronic version for about £400. So, anything bigger and secondhand/old/a bit worn, will start at that and be on a sliding scale to £0.

House clearance firms might be a good try. Or some random hopeful thru classifieds? Maybe if you offered delivery (work out the cost of a van with taillift hire and borrowing a few mates) it would go. I believe the way to shift a grand is to use a frame/device to 'set it upright', remove the legs then wheel it on and off a van/truck on a platform or trolley.

How loud is it acoustically?

1 hour ago, JapanAxe said:

Unless you don’t.

 

If you play with a fully floating thumb, the side of it rests against the strings below (in pitch) the one you are playing, thus damping them.

So a 5 string is pointless in that scenario.

No..........you need somewhere to rest your thumb when playing the other 4 strings.....

It was more in a corporate setting I was thinking of. Many of the breaches historically, can trace their origin to a disgruntled employee with some high-level security access making a copy of some important database or two, then either putting it onto a CD-R, DVD-R, USB key or emailing or otherwise transferring it off premises. Many companies now have robust procedures for denying access AFTER an employee has left, a few pro-actively monitored what they were doing before they left (ie, everyone....) and guarded against this type of scenario - which is otherwise quite hard to manage.

I know Bank of America used to use desktop PCs WITHOUT a CD-R drive, when pretty much every other computer had one. The IT guys had to remove the drives, then fit the blanking plate (which ironically, cost more than the drive itself). And they were HP desktops with a BIOS password and a case lock, which was always fun to get around with a dead one.

20 minutes ago, SumOne said:

 

In both this and the Royal Blood discussion there's an air of 'they get moody and say things I don't agree with.... I never liked them anyway, they're 1 trick pony's'.

 

Extend being offended by people in bands saying things you don't agree with and we'll end up with bland AI bands that never say anything contentious. 

Nah, I think its possible to differentiate between bands which say something contentious; and bands which display some overly inflated entitlement/superiority and look down on their audience. We can avoid bland quite easily without the unpleasantness displayed by eg Royal Blood and Sleaford Mods.

It reminds me of this:

At 9:08, was the girl with the black hair and black top (with white stripe) not enjoying it, or perhaps is she just a bit more introverted than the rest of the audience? I bet Iggy Pop didn't go on Twitter straight after that performance, and have a strop like a 14 year old girl.

26 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

This still requires that the hacker can get hold of the file of password hacks.

Yes, a good secure system will have "defence in depth" - it will have many layers, all of which alone, ought to be impenetrable. For example, the building itself will have secure access, then the individual rooms where the servers are will each have further access needed, then the computers themselves are locked, CCTV, no network ports left open, maybe even cabinets locked, etc. And for remote attacks, a similar bunch of layers eg a firewall with tightly-formed rules, then the database is secured to only certain accounts to have access, then data has encryption at rest, etc. And all the relevant systems are kept up-to-date.

I believe its now possible to have monitoring software sufficiently intelligent to sense when unusual activity occurs, for example an employee copies a large database file, or puts it onto a USB stick, or similar.

26 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

Current encryption technology relies on it taking so long to try and break the encryption that it’s not a practical approach. The promise of quantum computers is that, among other things, they will be orders of magnitude faster, making it practical to try many different key combinations. There seem to be legitimate concerns that the encryption approaches we use today will no longer protect the things we want protected. 

But (I think) the argument goes, that as computers get more powerful, the encryption can be done quicker and its a linear increase, for an exponential increase in decrypting time required. So, so long as encryption also keeps up with computer hardware development (and things like companies stores of personal information are updated with better encryption at rest, rather than sitting idle on aging systems) then the increase of hardware performance is actually a benefit to security.

In 99.9% of these data breach etc cases you hear about on the news, once the root cause analysis is done, its always something a bit stupid or lackadaisical that an employee has done, like ignore or not plan for the need to update software, leave a backdoor open, leave a connection open, etc. So its a human problem, not a computer problem really.

You mean I need to change my password from "password" to something else????