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    10000 hours

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    There's this idea around that 10000 hours of doing anything gets you to complete mastery. 

     

    I'm playing about an hour a day at the moment, so that would take about 27 years in total.  During my teenage years, I reckon I played about an hour a day for maybe 5 years, and then just dribs and drabs through my 20s/30s.

     

    So perhaps 22 years to go.  How about you?

     

    Does anyone feel like they've pretty much mastered it in much less time?  Just interested as I seem to be making good progress, but nowhere near being able to say I'm a master.

    Scott's Bass Lessons technique accelerator

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted

    Through gritted teeth, I did in fact sign up for this.

     

    So far, I've found it absolutely excellent.  I can sort of see a justification for limiting it so that you have to spend a week on each lesson.  That structure is really good and helpful and stops you tearing ahead.  I think I'll make it to the 26 week mark no problem, and I'm sure my playing will have changed quite a lot by then.

     

    The live Q&A stuff I haven't really found useful so far.  I guess that is his justification for "opening" and "closing" the course, but it seems unnecessary to me.  Too many people sharing one hour with Scott, it's just never going to be that helpful.

     

    Apart from the overall structure being so beneficial, the sheer amount of focus you end up putting on tiny things has yielded surprising results.  Some weeks have been easy.  Others have shown me very clearly where areas of my technique are falling down, and given me exercises to improve those areas.  I don't see how this could have been done any better, to be honest.  I'm sure some people won't like the boring repetition of the exercises, but I find it quite therapeutic.

     

    So this grumpy grouch is actually quite impressed.  I feel like even 8 weeks in, I've already got value for my money.

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    Doing your own setup - the nut

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    58 minutes ago, Bunion said:

    I do my own setups but I tend to leave it to the usual truss rod, bridge, pickup height. 
    Unless a nut is cut wrong or the slots too large due to a string size change I’ve never had a reason to alter one, if I do it’s usually a trip to the tech for a new one. 
    I’m more than capable of doing the job but by the time I’ve got the new nut and set up to do it it’s just as easy to leave it to the pros who have the gear to hand. 

     

    Thanks, that's kind of how I'm thinking too.  I'm not enormously handy, so really don't want to mess it up.  I guess once the nut is sorted for a particular gauge of string, it's sorted for good, so long as you stick to that gauge.

    Doing your own setup - the nut

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    Yesterday I made my first ever attempt to set up my own bass, aided by the various Youtube videos there are.  I adjusted the truss rod, lowered the bridge saddles and got the intonation just about perfect.  Quite chuffed!

     

    But I wimped out on the nut.  I don't have the necessary files, and it seems like something that is irreversible if you get it wrong.  I was wondering whether other people skip the nut setup, or whether I should consider fitting just-a-nuts to my basses.

     

    Interested to hear any opinions.

    Bass Bros

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Willfunk said:


    Hi there,

     

    We are in Leamington Spa, please contact us to book an appointment. We operate by appointment only. The address info is another thing that will be added to the site with a map,etc. 

     

    The Hangers 

    Harbury Lane 

    Leamington Spa 

    CV33 9SA 

     

    I hope this helps 
     

    Thanks 

    Will

    Thanks Will :)

    The joy of the P

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I learned to play bass in the early 1980s when I was a teenager.  In those days, the only good bass (to me) was active with multiple pickups and preferably headless.  My right hand would always have been close to the bridge, and I was chasing "the honk" as much as possible.

     

    I've returned to the bass in recent years, and through GAS ended up with a Jazz, a P, and a PJ.  The P, in particular, has encouraged me to rest my thumb on the single pickup, further from the bridge than I was used to.  What a revelation!  I really feel the feedback I get from the less rigid string at this position makes me enjoy playing more.  Much more.  And the tone seems better there too.  I can't imagine heading back to the bridge now, except on the Jazz, and that makes me want to play the Jazz less.

     

    I think I've been seduced by the P.  Teenage me would have turned his nose up at a single pickup passive bass.  Anyone else been through this?

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    Flats - why do many rave about them

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    7 hours ago, nilebodgers said:

    Just a late addition to my experience with flats so far (Roto rs77). It has been going well, but I noticed that the octave G on the E string had an odd effect where the fundamental note decayed very quickly. It was only this note on the E string, no-where else. I wondered if the string was a bit iffy.

     

    I fiddled about with tension/untwisting etc to see if I could get any clues and finally when I pressed the E string down hard at the bridge to reinforce the witness point the fundamental note started to decay normally. So, user error, not the string and easily fixed.

     
    Odd as I’d already set the witness points in the same way as I have always done with rounds and they all seemed fine. The flats simply appear to need a bit more care on installation than rounds to get them right.

     

    TIL about witness points!

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