Geek99

“Not buying a cowbell” seems a good answer

Still are

Ed Friedlands book is a good start

Keeper

It’s like saying “don’t watch youtube! Ever” Tuning by ear comes with time or not at all. It really doesn’t matter if you can’t do it. I still can’t get it right and you know what ? The sky has not fallen in. I don’t see the harm in ten minutes of random notes or noodling to a simple drum beat (as part of a balanced practice routine). How else will you gain the confidence to play with a drummer without the crutch of a metronome?

Beginners don’t have that confidence If they get it wrong it sounds dreadful and many or even most will give up. Make it easy for them to sound good. Using a tuner is a good crutch and it’s not an imprisonable offence Even if you sound rubbish to a practised ear just doing your exercises to a simple drum beat is a good confidence boost. Metronomes are valuable but sap the soul and confidence of a beginner. I think sometimes we forget here what it’s like to have zero confidence, knowledge, experience and guided input and adopt a very 1930s attitude to learning. Make it fun and confidence-boosting and more people will stick at it

Why a five string squier?

I just use the ampeg sound and headphones

I use a zoom for practice and it’s fabulous if I go to a gig or OM night I just plug it into the PA

Doesn’t look like a number 2...

I've used one, albeit a jazz bass body and it was a total swine to grain-fill. I finished it out of dogged determination but if i'd had any sense I'd have burned it. See my Olympic White jazz with a difference build diary thread. As an aside, the back jazz pup rout was wrong, having the size of a bridge pup, but the lug placement of a neck pup. The jury is out on the neck rout as I've not yet found time to fix the neck issue

I am old and I like them too

Maybe they could have scanned it with straight pages though.

So ... here’s one I knocked up in ten minutes using Lego painted black and a few cotton wall balls. Sarcasm aside ... fabulous

You forgot “accept no substitute” and “keep it simple”

wear sunglasses?

Any ? 😛 not a bad I ever got into

You sound like Jeremy f ucking Corbyn

Ok forget the flowers, it’s a lost cause

thanks - I've seen imperfections now and I feel a whole lot better. You should get her a bunch of flowers. Today

Can you stop doing all this so f ucking perfectly? I want to see pics where the chisel slipped, where you misread 3mm as 30mm and drilled a huge hole through the finger board making the truss rod embed itself in the wall, probably quivering slightly through its suddenly unleashed energy like a bad cartoon arrow grrr

Three a Vintage stingray clone bass doc 70s style p bass relic in 3tsb Olympic white stack knob jazz (home made) and a paragon acoustic that is my daughters

Hi - I’m in Orlando Oct 3rd 2020 if you fancy a beer ?