Richard R

Slightly off topic, but I do remember a bunch of the fourth formers forming a band called Stoned Leech. I have no memory of whether they were any good or not, but I do remember the name.

Yet another who didn't learn much in music lessons, but all I ever wanted to study was physics, so music didn't even last beyond the second form. According to my reports I was good at theory, and I remember a lesson on tonic triads (why that one???). I also briefly tried the trombone, but the lessons at lunchtime with a teacher who had obviously wet his whistle in the pib beforehand were unpleasant. Beery, smelly trombone noises from his side of the room. Trying not to vomit noises from mine.🤢🤮

Sounds excellent, here's hoping it works out! Three of my best friends from school all independently moved down that way. Nice part of the world.

Don't rush and overdo it. You wouldn't suddenly decide to run 10K if you hadn't done any running for the last 20years, and it would hurt like hell if you did and you would injure yourself. Fingers are the same as legs, just smaller and they have to move faster. Hard to do these days, but a real bass teacher is the best thing for starting.The online resources are good if you can sort the wheat from the chaff. Check out StudyBass.com (free) for a really solid foundation including technique, theory, avoiding injury and all sorts. A good complement to learning tunes you like. Scotts Bass Lessons has a good video on warm up somewhere as well. His style is marmite, but I like it and evntually coughed up the £100/year for the paid for stuff. Just to encourage you: I started 2 and a bit years ago aged 51. I still consider I am a hopeless beginner, and I don't practice anywhere near enough. However I can hack my way through a worship song and not embarrass myself of the band, I can make up basslines that aren't just roots and fifths, and am thoroughly enjoying myself. Most students over estimate what they can learn in a week or two, but underestimate where they could be in a year. Happy days!

Only the imported American ones. The homegrown variety are a bit delicate. Back to the topic: @Dom in Dorset, do you sell these basses as part of the piano refurb business, or make them just for your own enjoyment?

New, Original, Unbreakable and Shatterproof. What's not to like?

Last time I played with a band I couldn't quite get the timing right for one song, so the BL and I stayed after to go through it. At one point I said something like " Ah, it goes like this.." and sang the part. He looked at me and just said "You're no singer are you." Which then cracked me up because it was totally deadpan, not a joke, and completely accurate. It's now a catchphrase:-)

On this song do NOT try to swing your bass around by the lead like Roger Daltrey used to to with his microphone. Otherwise that howl of pain and rage will be from the bandmate who gets your bass in the back of his head!!

Must have been that 🙃 Later stuff is better. I must have bought the earlier stuff as exploring the catalogue. In the days before you could use Spotify to cheat.

Welcome aboard! Three Little Birds is the classic reggae learner piece 🙂 I bought my practice amp from here, a better amp second hand than I would have bought new for the same money. Check out the market place - but promise yourself you will NOT buy another bass until you can play the one you have!

Finished the Yes collection, now playing early Neil Young. He was/is an awful singer and wrote depressing dirges. Anyone know why I bought these????

I hadn't heard that one before. Nevermind, I have now.

I can't offer useful advice, but it does sound like a fantastic gig. Congratulations 👏 👏

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Solid-Wood-Guitar-Bass-Pick-Plectrum-Case-Box-Container-Holds-4pcs-Picks/254102905719 But it is solid wood. And heart-shaped.

Sorry!

Fender Acoustosonic: shuffled off to google this. Its, err, interesting. I have never seen a guitar with a plughole before, it looks like water should drain into it.

"Bass" is a noun not an adjective. I would say on the credits you play a "Baritone Bass".

Waiting for the next one already...

The key deciding factor. 👍

Given the strange pickup arrangement there would be little point in using anything magnetic, certainly not on the E.

I used "Fragments of Time" from Daft Punk's Random Access Memories for a while. Then I realised that album is so fantastically well recorded and produced you can play it on a phone in a bucket and it sounds awesome. So no use at all for test and diagnostics! So I went back to my mix CD of selected bits from Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn, Queen's The Works, Madonna's Music, and Bat out of Hell. Stuff I know that covers all the bases.

Fender purr-cision bass

Thanks, I shall go exploring 👍

Decided I need to increase my limited knowledge of The Dead (limited to American Beauty), and this seems to be a "must listen" live album based on the internet. Enjoying it, obviously much longer jams than on record. What else is worth sampling, @FinnDave?