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"Where's the amplifier, boys and girls?" "It's left behind you!!" "Oh no! It isn't.....!?" Oh yes it was.....

It perhaps won't help you, but in my band, I don't have keys in my stage mix. That way, I am not distracted by what they are doing. The house mix is different of course - the Sound Engineer can decide how best to weave keys and bass together. For all I know, he may have switched me off in the room! hahah I also play in a way that a keyboard player can't - so, driving bass riffs, hammer-ons, slides, melodic riffs, and plucking different parts of the string for different tones. An active bass and steel roundwounds help to cut through the mix.

It's not an effects pedal - it's the natural acoustic reverb in the 300 foot tall vaulted ceiling . . . .

So many talented musicians lost to us at an early age 1970 - Robert Johnson appears on the Old Grey Whistle Test 1980 - the Mama Cass Workout video is released. 1990 - Buddy Holly reunites with the Crickets, and plays at Wembley stadium. 2000 - Jimi Hendrix composes a piece for orchestra, to great acclaim. 2010 - Brian Jones leaves the Rolling Stones, citing ill health. Has a regular slot on Radio 2 ("Sounds of the 60s").

"Hey Joe - where you going with that airgun in your hand?"

Nick Drake would have a YouTube masterclass channel, in which he and Rick Beato shows everyone the tricky tunings used in his first five albums....

I would be tempted to add in some musical quotes from Avicii's Wake Me Up. To my untrained ear, it sounds like the same chord sequence, and the Euro-pop-synth motif evokes the Avicii riff. “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

Spot on - they don't need a home-grown version of the song. They need the right, and familiar, version. As for learning a dance to a song, is this the 2022 equivalent of learning hand-actions to a song? For me, one of the reasons I started playing guitar in church was to exempt me from songs with actions . . .

Now gone, to a good home

You don't need a new bass. A multiscale Dingwall would require special strings, and you can't therefore swap out strings from your other bass. You may find that you need a different case to what you currently have. The technique of playing a multiscale Dingwall may not easily transfer to a standard instrument. If you play fretless, then there does not appear to be a fretless Dingwall. All the same arguments that I formulated, when I had the same desire for a Dingwall. "Step away from the Search Engine, sir. Put down your mouse, and back away from the open tabs."

That's a warning to me. I saw a through-neck Washburn, buyer collection from Alloa, £350. Barely affordable, and I have never tried one before. I have now decided not to try to get it. Instead, I will use the Wanted ads to go for the instrument that I really want.

So, I have previously been overwhelmed by the choice at Camden's Bass Gallery (5 different acoustic five-stringers when I was looking for my own instrument!). Perhaps a bass meet-up is also a good opportunity to try other instruments.

Worshipping myself has been my lifelong problem - I have found that things get better when I worship my God!

Good answers. I see now that the other people on the course were sharing examples of great worship while they were part of a congregation - and I, as a full-time church bassist, was wondering why I had not experienced that as part of the band. Of course, why would I, when I am focusing on playing a setlist of 7 to 9 songs, after a 45 minute run through, complete with key changes. One thing that I identified at last night's session was the need for a private worship time. I have already realised that I need to avoid having an instrument in my hand, as it quickly becomes a music session - I think that I shocked my worship leader when I told him that I don't play acoustic guitar and sing at home. Part of the reason for that is because I am not a natural guitarist - and I don't have a quiet house before everyone is up. At those times, my wife, daughter, son in law, and two grandchildren are all sleeping! Likewise, when I arrive home, they ready for bed again.

Our church has started the Worship Central course. The Course — English — Worship Central.urlhttps://worshipcentral.org/the-course/eng I am finding it hard work - the playing is easy, but I find the act of worship while playing very difficult. Even the idea of someone playing guitar to lead worship in a small group, I find very cringy and I have not manged to sing along yet. I have realised that I only play while on stage - my worship is reserved for those weeks when I am not playing in the band. Has anyone else tried the Worship Central course? Anyone else struggle to raise their metaphorical hands while playing the bass?

I think that Fender basses look unattractive. Too big, both body and headstock.

Is that a 5 string Ricky? I had no idea that they existed!

I practice at home two or three times a week, so when I arrive at the rehearsals, it sounds like I don't need to rehearse.

I never adjust my tone, balance or volume controls. Instead, 15 years ago, I set them where I liked them, and put a spot of nail varnish on each knob to show me where they should be.

In the last episode, they will perhaps unmask him. "You thought that he was a useless duffer. In fact, you have him in your record collection . . . "

It is an operating system, used on Tablets (of Stone) . . .

Is this still available? I wanted to try a D'Addario set, but the B String especially!

A free Hiscox 4-unit rack case, to whoever can pick it up from Swanley (Junction 3 M25), and do so with a smile and a friendly wave.

We have a white-majority band, and a perhaps 30 per cent of the congregation is black. So, it would have felt inauthentic to do a reggae version of anything in the service. However, we did mess about one rehearsal and came up with a pretty convincing version of "Your Love Never Fails". I would like to try it in the service one day - perhaps during Black History Month, play songs in the style of reggae, or Motown. Oooh - and, and for Fathers Day, some AOR-style songs. We do try to mix it up - a lot of the Rend Collective songs end up sound like bad bluegrass music, so, we try to use different styles. The only thing that we fail on is old hymns - it always has to have some funky beat under it, even though the people for whom we are playing it do not necessarily want that.