SpondonBassed

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1481579504' post='3193501'] I still get a bit nostalgic for my old Fostex X15 now and then... [/quote] I still have mine.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1480543329' post='3185360'] And what type of physical condition your in also matters.If a guy is sporting a huge arse there's going to be some limitations. Blue [/quote] But if all else failed he'd be good at twerking.

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1480287640' post='3183162'] I'd always thought, maybe wrongly in that case, that ukele tuning was non incremental. I guess that's why I don't play a ukele! [/quote] GCEA is the standard tuning for a ukulele with the G being in the octave above the rest. The note run on the open strings IS sequential if you ignore the fact that the fourth string is an octave higher in pitch than you'd perhaps expect. When the instrument is strummed you get that undefinable tonal quality that only a uke in standard tuning has. For the OP, this would perhaps be of interest. My mate prefers to use a low G on his latest build, a baritone uke. It now sounds like a really mellow classical guitar.

It's very nice to have the opportunity to consider becoming professional. I can't offer any advice but I wish you every success. Also, I hope you have a great time doing it.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1480261264' post='3182862'] Goes without saying [/quote] Ahh warmth and fuzziness. Lovely.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1480018348' post='3181120'] Anyway the upshot of that long winded reply is that if you want to hear it/try it you're in Cheshire and the jam night is in Ashton In Makerfield so you'd be more than welcome to have a play with it or indeed try it in anger with the band. Les [/quote] Does he get an invite to the kebab house after though?

Nate Watts on Stevie Wonder's "I wish". I heard him say he liked a slack string with a high action. He seems to get the slackness from tuning to Eb.

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1480250920' post='3182765'] Makes sense! So I guess it's just that way but doesn't really matter more than what you get used to. (From your user name, are you from Spondon by any chance? I grew up in Spondon and still have a lot of family in the area) [/quote] Yes.

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1480179123' post='3182311'] Just a thought but why are the strings on basses/ guitars ordered top low- bottom high. Why not bottom low - top high? Would sort of make more sense. Is it because of how commonly each of the strings is used? (but doesn't that vary person to person as well?) [/quote] I can't tell you why but many players have the strings reversed in the manner you mention. Having started myself with a left handed friend's instrument I had to relearn on my first proper bass. I don't recall it being a problem relearning. I hadn't a great deal of experience anyway so I followed convention for convenience. I don't think I could play a lefty in the same way now though.

[quote name='simes' timestamp='1479440106' post='3176576'] Tenuous claim to fame......I was once on a course with Martin's wife and Wendy Smith taught me music therapy :-) [/quote] You should send that in to Shaun Keaveny's "Small Claims Court" on BBC 6Music's breakfast show. Perfect for the feature.

I'm looking forward to that. Thanks for the OP and the correction.

Phew! I thought for one horrible moment that 2016 had claimed one of the Sprouts! Loved them. I was lucky enough to have friends who were cool and played their albums before anyone else got them.

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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1475681170' post='3147931'] Realistically it's best if I just don't think about it, it's never gonna happen! [/quote] Oh, ok. Pulling your leg.

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1475631762' post='3147540'] Indeed it is. The 'Left brain/right brain' myth of cognitive style took hold in the 70s and has proven very difficult to eradicate. As a metaphor for different ways of thinking, it may be useful. It has been proven to be scientific bunkum, however. [/quote] I'm glad you told me that. Will you now please tell Paul Simon? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-WAfxOEKY

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1475670554' post='3147773'] If I could play like Geoff can with the one I got for free then I'd have a bid, I suspect I'd sound much the same with it, awful. [/quote] Yeah. That was sweet. Something to aspire to though eh Pete?