Richard R

If those South Westerners can organise one then we surely can too. The year before last, actually...😪

Pre lockdown we would always have a rehearsal during the week, and a run through before the service. Evening services were a bit more relaxed, usually get there by 4:30 for a service starting at 6:30.

I think that's very valid. If you are a musician then worship through is likely to be important to you, and you are more likely to be in a church with a strong musical element in the service. And therefore have the opportunity to join in leading. Thinking about our church, we have lost members from all our bands due to moving away, age, death etc., but they have been replaced, through members of the youth band who have stayed local after university, new members joining the church and bringing their talents, or in one regrettable case the sound engineer taking up bass guitar.

Leave it so we can see the laminates - it looks really good having those stripes that line up with the pale wood beyond the pickups.

😁 I started after the age of 50. Yes a real human is the best option, not sure what Scott Devine is ...😉 Just make sure you do something with a bit of structure to it - hence the StudyBass recommendation. You can of course download bass tab and experiment and do all that too. I spent ages with a bass tab of "Day Tripper" just after I bought my bass. I've never been that high up the fretboard since, and couldn't play it at the proper speed to save my life, but it was fun and sounded like music. Look forward to the pics of the bass as a NDB post on the Gear forum. (NBD = New Bass Day)

That link is to a 5 string - have you gone straight to the dark side?? Check out StudyBass.com as an excellent free resource to start learning bass. I really recommend reading his lessons, especially the starters. Things like how to hold a bass, avoiding injury, all worth getting down early. Scotts Bass Lessons is also excellent, cost works out around $100, which is the equivalent of three decent lessons. Happy days 🎵🎵👍 (There are some good reasons to play 5 string though. Which is why I bought one a couple of weeks back 😉)

Radio Three. It's quiet in here....

While I don't disagree with this, my 20 year old daughter seems to know a lot of 80s stuff for example, I find it very odd. 1981 was 40 years ago. Radio 1 didn't play Glen Miller in the 1980's in pursuit of youth.🤔

This will be the sort of instrument that you look at and immediately want to pick up and play, regardless of what you should actually be doing. Very nice.

W O W !!

Grateful Dead - Cornell 8 May 1977. Still can't believe I didn't discover this band until a couple of years ago!

https://open.spotify.com/track/5CKueZ0DBHwkd58ZTPRckt

I'm out anyway, but I wonder if there should be an exemption for these: @bassfan to adjudicate.

Waiting for mine. Post here has been really slow for the last six months.

You're all lucky. All I get is Ikea wardrobes!

With apologies to Lin-Manuel Miranda: "After his tea Andy went to the cellar (Despite what he says he's a clever little fella) He finishes his cocoa and he does his lutherie 'I practice lutherie, Jabba lives not far from me' Even though they started at the very same time Andrew J Rogers began to climb How to account for his rise to the top? Man - the man is non-stop!"

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Andy is too modest to post the link: https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2021/03/01/bass-of-the-week-ajrguitar-mods-swift-triple/

Likewise, it's one of my favourite albums of all time. Not a fan of their other stuff particularly, but that album is well worth the million dollars they spent on it!

Welome aboard, to all of you!

Welcome aboard! There are so many good value basses available, and anything by Yamaha is good. I first picked up a bass three years ago. I'm not good, but I can get by, and it's one of the best things I've done. Welcome to a great, if occasionally very frustrating, hobby 😎

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Welcome aboard! Hope you find the site to your taste. Less brash than our American cousins, and with a tendency to descend to silliness rather than flame wars, but a hugely knowledgeable and helpful community.