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I didn’t really get Placebo at first but then rediscovered them a few years later and they are now one of my favourite bands,

440 refers to standard 440hz tuning. You should never need to adjust that unless playing with musicians who use a strange base setting (possibly used on the continent but I could be wrong).

It sounds great, are you still going to try and get the discount or just sign up?

How are youu getting on with this? I am planning to sign up for the freebie two weeks on Saturday as I have next week off so make more use of it.

Thanks, that clears it up a little. I sometimes think my mind is too scientific for music as I struggle if I can’t find the ‘why’ as opposed to just accepting that is just the way it is. As I was hoping to mess around playing bass to accompany my fledgling sax playing (the reason the subject came up) I think I need to study this all a bit more!

Apologies if this is a stupid question, and it probably is, but what is the benefit to that? Is it purely the ability to move finger positions across instruments?

And a genuinely nice bloke to boot. I had the pleasure of is company for a short while a few years ago as part of a project I was involved in with 20 kids with a range of disabilities. He promised to come back and find us after the event and was true to his word and took time to talk to each and every one of them. Quite a day that was, Stirling Moss, another true gentleman also took a lot of time to talk to the kids.

That’s odd, they have replaced two of mine because of this, about a year apart. I just needed to send the product code on a small sticker underneath. Both bought at the same time but one developed the problem later for some reason. A dodgy batch by all accounts.

The bass makes sense, but if different instruments play different notes wouldn’t there be the possibility of it sounding terrible? Or is the interval such that it’s always ok? I think,I must be missing something really obvious here but just can’t quite get my head around it.

Doing some reading as part of yet another attempt at becoming slightly less musically inept with regard to theory. Couple of things I don’t get with relation to transposing instruments, firstly- why? Why would you want an instrument to play an A when a C is written? Is it some sort of trick for composers to get a fuller sound by instruments at different intervals? And secondly the article said a bass guitar is a transposing instruments, well that’s the first I have heard of that, so is it or isn’t it? Thanks in advance for helping me in my stupidness.

Leonard Cohen is guaranteed to get me out of any room. What a dirge.....

I had tickets to see him this summer. That’s all gone belly up sadly 😟

It’s brilliant, Bob Mould was going through a really rough patch of his life with band and relationship breakups and other problems. You can really hear it all come out through the album. And as we all know, happy people don’t write good music.............

Now you mention that, Black sheets of Rain by Bob Mould, utterly miserable and brilliant at the same time. My wife hates it.

I love NiN Broken, bit it doesn’t seem popular with many people. I think it’s a work of complete genius.

A wedding we played last year, seems a long time ago..........

Sunshine of your love was on my original list, it’s a cracking riff (one of the best imho) but they must hear it sooooooo many times.

Thanks for that info. I plan to sign up in a few weeks when I have some of the basics down a bit better. Not sure how much stuff is on there for complete beginners.

As a complete beginner to saxophone (less than a month in) I have been learning Baker St. It reminded me of trip to PMT in Birmingham a couple of years ago. The rhythm guitarist in one of the bands I play in dared me to ask to try a bass and then play seven nation army. Just for fun I agreed and even managed to ask the salesman with a straight face if he had ever heard it before, his reply was ‘once or twice’. I have felt a bit bad about it ever since (just a bit) I imagine Baker St Is one of those tunes that every saxophone salesperson must be utterly sick of as well. So it got me wondering what tunes shouldn’t you play in a music shop if you don’t want to upset the sales people. So....... Bass - Seven nation army, sunshine of my love Guitar - smoke on the water, stairway to heaven Saxophone - Baker St,. So what others are there?

I have a couple of jazz basses, one with Seymour Duncan’s and one with super cheap Entwistle ones in. The Entwistle ones were fitted after a recommendation on here. For the money they are stunning and compare very nicely with the SD ones. And if for some reason you didn’t like them you haven’t risked a lot of money. £24 gets you a pair delivered. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Entwistle-JBX-pickup-for-bass-guitar-ceramic-designed-by-Alan-Entwistle/232855804486?hash=item3637499a46:m:mOy4G8FemBuWEWzNJZWMWhA

If you are interested in glues look at some of the data sheets. I used to build and race single seat electric race cars. I used a mix of carbon honeycomb and aluminium extrusions for the monocoques, all glued together with 3M DP410 full structural adhesive. It is ridiculously strong stuff.

Looks like the sort of thing a shop would have for background muzak and announcements.

Will do, at the moment I am using a mix of lessons from a mate (handy man to know) by Skype, YouTube videos and tips from a saxophone forum. I am generally happy to self teach, that way I can bypass all the sensible stuff, get into lots of bad habits and generally stuff it up, sorry I meant ‘learn at my own pace’

You can pay month by month though, I am waiting to get a few more basics sorted then will sign up for the free trial.

I was gutted to see this last night. I love the stranglers and they do not get anything like the recognition they deserve. As a kid their irreverence was striking and spoke to me as a grumpy teenager. This performance from Dutch TV is my favourite of any band anywhere ever. I understand that they wanted to play live but were told they couldn’t so this was their response.