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Unfortunately the piano is a bit too flat to adjust to with your tuner, 30 cents flat would be A = 432.44Hz Online calculator here: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-centsratio.htm If its distance recording (ie not playing together), then you could put the audio for the piano through a plugin on eg Reaper, to correct it to A=440, then everyone else could tune to concert pitch as normal.

It sounds like its just you and you've had bad experiences with poor music teachers. Without picking through the entirety of the long post, phrases like "caught up in the technical side of playing" suggest they are not very good teachers, in that they have fundamentally not balanced out having fun, making music, being creative etc alongside a solid understanding of theory and technique. Having said that, teaching adults in a complete PITA, occasionally you'll get a "can't learn won't learn" situation.

Unions still get paid, if the workers they represent go on strike and don't. We need a postal strike/dispute like a hole in the head at the moment - and I can't see the general public giving it much sympathy. Meanwhile......EVERY eBay Trader that still uses RM is switching to a crappier/cheaper courier as we speak.....

The easiest way to remember them is that the notes are.........5 letters apart? Because its the circle of fifths....

IMHO Yes

I live in the North West too. No issues with my post. So it must be an area smaller and more specific to you.

This is part of the "new normal". Firms are going to have to adapt and cope with getting on with their day-to-day business activities with up to 25% less staff or so. In some sectors demand has gone down - a lot - and in some, its gone up.

Doesn't that make it really hard to play along with?

Don't bands normally start up and rehearse somewhat randomly? Then get their shizzle together and do a few gigs? Then loads more. Then do some recording. So this is for some other area, I guess songwriters who like to play with themselves, or bands with a useless or disorganised bassist.

Let's not rush too quickly back into gigging once the restrictions are lifted.......give it a few weeks at least, to meet up and do some rehearsals first. Otherwise those first gigs will sound like a bag of spanners.

Our Xmas booking is looking 50/50, I'd say. Its kinda impossible to answer the question......nobody knows.....

I have a theory that the sound/technique relates to the ratio of pick thickness to string size - so if you change strings to a lighter gauge set, to truly compare them you'd also need to adjust the pick thickness you use. However it kinda falls apart when you realise you use the same pick for (for example) all the strings 0.100" to 0.040"! Anyway.....its down to personal preference, but I use 0.60mm for guitar and 0.73mm for bass. It seems to feel similar. And I've found I'm quite, errrr, "picky" about the thickness too - it makes a big difference to the comfort/feel of playing (IMHO).

I just counted the major keys (the natural minor is a mode of the related major). C major (no sharps or flats) 1-7 sharps 1-7 flats Out of the 15 there's some which are enharmonic equivalents (Db and C#; Gb and F#; Cb and B)

I'm not seeing the attraction here?

Weird how the word "Jazz" seems to have accidentally popped into the description. Weird.

Bass (and guitar) have the advantage that once the light bulb illuminates, modes across all 12 keys (okay...there's actually 15 keys) are pretty much the same complexity. On something like a flute or a trumpet, you need to do some further logical thinking to "get to" the modes and its harder.

How long did you take?

Would be interested too. I had assumed the lag would kill the idea.....but keen to hear if it can be overcome somehow.

I think they're going to bump up the amount you get for Universal Credit by £1000. So, if those self-employed go and claim it now, they'll start getting it. And there is an up-front loan so no 5 week delay.

By tomorrow, the government will have the legal powers to shut down events and venues.

A quick scan through and it has a low D! Do you want it tabbed for 5 string bass, or 4 string tuned DADG?

Wouldn't the best one, be the one you already own and are familiar with? You DO know how long the virus can survive on solid surfaces, right? If you're serious about not catching the virus, you'd need to disinfect everything that is delivered to your home!!! How do you disinfect the packet of disinfectant wipes from the supermarket delivery?

Just back from possibly the last rehearsal for a long time.....out of normally about 20, there was 9 attending and big gaps in instrument lineup. Most disappointingly, 3x of the over 70s turned up anyway and lied about their age when asked! But that's the crux of the issue - the government's advised them to self-isolate but don't actually have the power (yet) to enforce it. I suspect they've deliberately stopped short of obliging eg clubs and pubs to close (TODAY) because of the potential to claim compensation. TOMORROW might be a different matter, now that they've effectively given themselves the power to pass legislation without a vote.....expect some pretty wide-sweeping emergency powers to be implemented in the next few days.....!!

IoM TT race cancelled too, unsurprisingly. I've had 1 gig cancelled so far; and all 3 groups have either cancelled rehearsals, or considering it (so the gigs will go too, obvs). The government advice is sufficiently vague to make it borderline, but with the groups being big bands - typically 15-20 people - rather than simply about 4-5 of us, its unclear if its a "social gathering" of sufficient size, or whether we can take precautions eg stay about 2m apart, own music stands, don't share mugs in the break etc