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I did say I might be wrong, as I was talking about my experience as a player. There is obviously playing something, and then there’s playing something. To me my reggae playing sucks, to someone else it might be perfectly acceptable.

I might be wrong, but I don’t think reggae is something that you can just play. It’s a feel thing, you have to feel it, to do that I think you need to have immersed yourself in it. I struggle to play it, but I’ve never really listened to it. It was featured in the ‘world music’ module at university, I admit to having been hopeless at it. Listen to Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare working together, they are/were fabulous.

I very briefly played with a Free tribute band. I left after a few weeks, they were simply too loud. First rehearsal they start Alright now, then stop, turn to me and ask: ‘why aren’t you playing?’

To be honest - he says grabbing his coat and making for the door - the misaligned headstock decal, poor spray job, and wonky fretboard markers, surely make it a genuine Fender? 😆

I always think how amazing it is when people are so knowledgable about things like this. The only thing that struck me was the poor quality sunburst.

Beautiful. I hadn’t seen that, thanks for sharing it.

Can you not record it in OBS, then transfer the video plus sound into Ableton? I know if you import a video and its soundtrack into Logic Pro, it automatically separates the two parts. I haven’t a lot of experience of using Ableton to record, I’ve only ever used it in a live situation.

The cargo hold bit would be for a few hours. I believe the cargo hold of a modern jet aircraft is pressurised and air conditioned, just like the passenger cabin to minimise internal stress.

Aren’t they usually too hot in the summer, and freezing cold in the winter?

Yes, they take photos of it being handed over.

One of the benefits of playing a 6 string bass is I can play pretty much any chart from one position. A low E all the way up to an A that would otherwise be at the 14th fret of the G string.

Someone else’s.

Yes, it should be fine.

What keyboard is it?

There’s a band I occasionally play for, the youngest is mid-70s and the oldest is mid-80s. They moan a bit about their various ailments, and the sax player has to keep running off for a wee, other than that they’re quite good fun.

Q. What’s a bass guitar? A. It’s the instrument played by the coolest member of a band.

This is very true. As I said earlier, if I was having to learn lines quickly for a gig, I’d be starting with the chords and not a tabbed part. At uni we had to learn a Cream song for a weekly live performance workshop. The part was taken from a live recording, I don’t think there was a single riff that was repeated note for note. It always struck me as being a bit daft having to learn it note perfectly, it would have made more sense - and have fitted the style of the song better - to have been allowed to use it as a springboard for our own lines.

Laurence Fox. Politics aside, someone posted a video of him ‘performing’ on a TV show. I felt desperately sorry for the two musicians playing with him. I love watching artists like Michael Stipe or Thom Yorke, two of my favourite performers. As much as I love Steven Wilson’s music, he’s a very quiet lead person, he doesn’t have a great stage presence.

It’s only recently that I discovered people who are dyslexic can also have problems with reading music. A lot of people are dyslexic to some degree or an other without knowing it. Which might explain why some people struggle with learning to read music.

If I had to learn a bass line for a gig, and I had to do it quickly, the first thing I would do is find out what the chords are. The bass line will pretty much come from that. I’d use them along with a recording of the song, You’d still need to do sit down with a recording with the Tablature, due to the lack of rhythmic information. I can see its use though if players are starting out and want to get playing.

This basically. They're sometimes written by people just starting out. Often it’s a case though that the person that’s written it out plays it wrong - or simply differently. I find TAB confusing. The few times that I’ve used it to write something out for someone, I’ve got into a mess with it, mainly because I’ve been wanting to put more detail in the notation that it’s possible to put, and it still be legible.

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I see someone has posted this on Facebook marketplace as a warning. Some other poor person scammed by him.