Roger2611

By the sound of things it sounds like you are achieving something that I think is called pinch harmonics...I may be wrong, but it is a technique that some of the best guitarists use and that many lesser guitarists would love to master, I think what is happening is, you hit the string (with a pick usually but possible to achieve finger style) then almost instantly another finger or the edge of your hand also hits the string creating a harmonic note? You may need to be a little bit firmer with your muting or if it is a stray finger causing it then you may just have to re-position your hand slightly. Try having a listen to Billy Gibbons guitarist of ZZ Top on the track Rough Boy he is brilliant at using pinch harmonics to create what is probably my all time favourite guitar solo and that is because of his use of the pinch harmonics I hope this helps Rog

I can't help you with guidance towards online tuition but I pretty much always play with a pick, from what you describe you are either digging in too hard or your pick is way too soft if it is effective turning in your hands and scraping your fingers down the strings. You don't have to play especially hard with a pick, if anything you can use a pick more gently than you would with finger style and still achieve the same volume. When it comes to knowing where the strings are, I am afraid that is going to be down to practice and just getting used to playing with a pick, keep going from one string to the next, up and down until you start finding it becoming automatic. Having started out some 35 years ago as a guitarist I found playing with a pick was far easier than finger style when I went over to the bass. Good luck Rog

The simple answer to avoid this idiot's regular rubbish is to search by UK only, I have honestly done that for a while purely to avoid being annoyed by his stupid listings, he may sell great stuff via his shop but if a seller deliberately wants to annoy me by listing overpriced crap then I would not buy from him irrespective of whether I really wanted something he was selling or not!

Like others, modern single cut basses leave me cold, also high end basses that look plain, I have seen a couple recently on sale for many bucks that look similar to an £80.00 cheap Chinese starter bass, no nice swirly woods to entice me in.

I am amazed you are considering swapping out the pickups in a P-Lyte, if it is an early one (so with the P-J pickup configuration) like mine it is the best sounding bass I have got, I haven't even done the resistor fix that cures the short battery life as I wouldn't do anything that changed the sound of it at all!

I saw this the other day, very sad, I am guessing DAF were the starting point for the EBM / Industrial scene and the likes of Rammstein, Apoptgyma Berzerk, Covenant and VNV Nation? Great band with music ahead of it's time

Got to be a Precision, it has been the weapon of choice by many bassists to wallop an errant punter over the head so it shouldn't have too much difficulty with an annoying virus, Jazz basses are for nice people!

My personal favourite would be Pino on Paul Young's Wonderland

Totally with Lozz on this one, loosen the strings slightly and just push them down on the tuning peg whilst you tighten the string back up, hopefully that will cure it. I have a 1981 Precision which rattles like a rattly thing on the A string if the string is not pushed all the way down on the peg...Lozz do I own your old bass

I have reported this and the rest of this pathetic scammers attempts to rip people off!

The neck is a concern to me, the seller doesn't make reference to the age of the bass which doesn't help but the old Tokai Jazz I owned had a truss rod access at the heel of the neck, the unbound headstock truss rod access on this bass is the normal for the cheapo Chinese necks, it could be a later bass which may have that type of truss rod access but I don't think that neck is from an early and hence desirable Tokai so personally I would walk away.....however, I don't profess to be an expert on Tokai basses

We do most of our recording this way, probably easier if the drummer can send you a guide track and drum track, you add the bass file and send it back, we currently use either Dropbox (or Crapbox as I like to call it) or WeTransfer to move stuff about, as long as the band members have the facility to drop the tracks into a DAW and the gear to be able to record their parts with decent quality then you can turn out some really good quality tracks. The attached was recorded remotely and was mixed and mastered by our drummer IBTFTY 2 (16BIT) STREAMING MASTERED 24feb2020 - 13.09pm.wav

it's probably not that difficult a bass line but The Jam's Going Underground was always the one that I was pleased to get right, there are a fair few different parts to it and some unusual note combinations

The very beautiful Soul in Isolation by the Chameleons

I have already said to Mrs2611 this is an ideal opportunity for me to spend time improving on the bass, she did suggest that I could teach her to play the guitar whilst we are isolated......I have said that is a terrible idea as I doubt isolation would be seen as a defence for a murder charge.....I jest, but I still am not teaching her

I shall do more bonding with my Status Energy Matrix, the love affair is going well so far

Will you monitor it and let us know when it is back up and running?

When the drill slipped off the neck plate it took out the rest of the guitar with it

I'd want to know the weight of it as he refers to it being very heavy in the text

Jeez, where to start! Squire Bass VI, had it for 3 or 4 years still can't really find a use for it! Mustang Bass, full of short scale wonderfulness, used for one rehearsal so far, great bass just not finding a use for it! 63 Custom Shop Precision, wonderful instrument, very expensive, not favoured as much as my 50's classic so again sitting in a case not getting used 1981 Precision, Olly White / Black / Maple amazing condition, under 10lbs in weight, possibly too valuable to be using for pub gigs, not as good as my 50's classic so not making the bigger gigs, again sitting in a case unused! Westone Thunder III fretless, sits in it's case unused as I prefer the Bass Collection. That's just the basses, I have a couple of guitars that also see usage but have a few more that don't Yes, I am a collector, I like the collection and all the instruments in it are there for a reason but it does mean that some don't get used at all. Not the easiest thing to equate with myself at times!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-1976-Vintage-Neckplate/202702978682?hash=item2f3209fe7a:g:t5wAAOSwlLBc~XHR Have a close up look at the wear on the neck plate, I am trying to work out what kind of normal wear and tear would create the plethora of spiral scratches on the chrome, it's almost as if someone attacked it with a drill for some unknown reason! perhaps it was a recognised cleaning method back in 76!

I don't want to derail the thread but, can I challenge that, as far as all the information I have heard they don't think you can catch it twice? Do you know something we don't?

I had a lodger many years back who was a bit of a Walter Mitty character, apparently he was a military trained helicopter pilot, ex SAS and still had time to be a founder member and bass player for the goth band Children on Stun, I decided to call his bluff one day and handed him my bass, he had clearly seen a bass before as he managed to hold it the right way up but I doubt he had ever actually played one before, but he made a half hearted attempt to bash the strings with one finger....his response on handing the bass back was "I'm a bit rusty!"

We have lost two festivals overnight due to virus fears, fortunately? we don't rely on gigs for income and don't get deposits for gigs so we are not going to lose money from it, if fact it will actually be the opposite for me, I won't be shelling out on fuel to get to and from the gigs!