SpondonBassed

Welcome Phil.

It isn't the best idea to go to a fancy dress party dressed as Donald Duck. (Funny. I could only find the clip in Hungarian Language)

I believe there is an operation for that.

Nah... Scots' national dress. (To the left or to the right depending on preference.) These days you'd have to take into account that most famous of Donalds in world affairs today. If he turned up trooserless, in person, so to speak, it would not only be indecent but it would also be decorated with ginger pubes!

Aw cute. He must have been practising his hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Can anyone offer any first hand knowledge of a body or organisation that aims to help disabled musicians please?

Yes. Worse than that... I was living in Ireland at the time and the only channels available were RTE, UTV and Auntie Beeb. I seem to remember they ALL went Scots for the night. These days I think of it as Scotland aversion therapy.

I might be able to help. A sufficiently large gap is sometimes referred to as a chasm.

Stop with the relentless enlightenment already.

It's one way of cutting down on finger callouses I suppose.

That's a bit of knowledge that I feel much better off knowing. Thank you for that.

Don't tempt me to search the dark web Silvia. I am quite sure that someone somewhere has mastered that technique already. Still and all, I take your point.

I'm just grateful that TV doesn't get taken over by the Scots on NYE any more. I mean, just because the English can't hold their drink and run a TV station, we had such weirdness when I was little. Although years had passed since the trauma, I was still afraid that Donald would turn up without troosers at any minute last night. Happy New Year to you all!

Angelique Kidjo maims it: Angelique Kidjo nails it:

Oh yes. Have you never bought one of those compilations that used to be commonplace where all of the songs were covers? They'd get the instrumentation, arrangement and overall delivery as the original but it would never quite work. They were playing to a score, I'm sure. They'd have to have heard the originals but they never seemed to actually get them. Maybe you are too young to remember all those cassette albums that claimed to be by original artists but weren't.

Sorry to pick up on this Marco but I have to ask @Christine; is that your fretting or plucking hand? I can't work out which or even if all four fingers in that image are from the same hand. It looks like the index and ring fingers from both hands to me. Thanks for the warning both.

Well said. You could say that musicians loosely fall into two categories; Those who have an inbuilt meter which allows them to play swings and roundabouts with an otherwise geometrically regular rhythm and those who adhere strictly to that rhythm because, after all, it is written there in black and white. Both sorts are employable. Both have their merits. Relatively few folk fall into both camps until they've gained many years experience but with personal growth, there is a convergence of the two schools of playing over time. That's just how it strikes me as an amateur. I've probably got it completely wrong.

Nice. Have you an authentic restoration in mind or some current tech in a classic body? The Build Diaries may be of help in either case.

Welcome Starbass.

Welcome Sezles.

Joe's secret is that he had a pioneering operation during his youth to swap the the skin from each of his fingertips with the skin from each toe. Initially, he did this to help with his early career as a cat burgler. Having found that there was little money to be earned by just stealing cats, he tried selling them as well. While waiting for responses to his classified ads for affordable pedigree moggies, he took up bass and realised that he had something that no-one else had. He's not looked back since and cat theft has been at a record low since records began.

Isn't that the elusive part though? You can learn the meter of the song and measure your notes precisely against the bar and yet that does not guarantee you a groove. I believe in the words of the title of Deee-Lite's song; Groove is in the Heart... ain't it the truth?

Shame. I still think it sounds like fun though. Good on yer. Shan't. I'm one of those who can't stand authority figures who are sure they are right and everything else is somehow not valid. I have no need to suffer the righteousness of zealous teachers any more - so there. While I respect Scott's expertise as a teacher, I can't conform. Having the highest IQ in most of the schools that I attended, I never could. The handicap to it was that teachers saw me as a vehicle to advance their own careers. I realised that when one of my secondary school teachers tried to earn geek points from the fact that I had learned the first three years worth of the Vocational School syllabus for tech drawing, metalwork and art in a single year. I passed with good grades while maintaining the grades in my established subjects. I mean to say; who had to do the work? Her or me? Sorry. There is nothing wrong with what you say. It just doesn't work for me.

By who's definition though? Hmmm.