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[quote name='johnnylager' post='204747' date='May 23 2008, 08:43 AM']Might I suggest [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18245&st=0&p=186138&#entry186138"]this[/url]..?[/quote] yes please! Afraid I couldn't get down to collect though, I'm on crutches at the moment due to a "gardening" accident (very Spinal Tap), so can't drive. How do you want to handle payment etc?

Thanks everyone for some excellent replies and great advice - I'm convinced and the search for a bass and practice amp has started. In fact you all sound so committed I can see me having a dabble with it myself!

Thanks all for some really helpful replies. Based on what you've said I think I'm prepared to take a chance. I'd rather she had a go than put her off and like someone said I could always try taking it up myself if she gives it up (although I've recently started learning guitar and I'm not sure I could contend with learning both at the same time!)

Hi. Hope someone here can give me some reassurance or advice. My 13 year old daughter has decided that she wants to learn bass. Now, I'm all for encouraging any musical education in my children. It's one of my greatest regrets that I didnt learn an instrument myself when I was younger. But I've laid out several hundred quid before on a flute for her that has now resided in a cupboard for a couple of years, to say nothing of the lessons. I've given up on her taking it up again because admittedly it's not much of an instrument for a proto-emo/goth adolescent. But even so before I commit to anything else for her I want to be reasonably sure it's a viable option and bass gives me some concerns. I should explain that personally I love bass and I think it's a great instrument but I just worry about how she would learn it in isolation? Part of a rhythm section yes, but it doesn't strike me as an instrument suited to solitary learning and if that is the case then I'm worried about how she will stay motivated to learn. I'd get her a teacher of course, but she's a bit young to join a band just yet! I hope I haven't said anything to offend anyone here, because you obviously all love your chosen instrument. Perhaps some advice on how you all got by to start off with would help?