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  1. Richard R
    +1 for SBL and players path. For the cost of four face-to-face lessons there is easilly a year's worth of material ans a huge amount of genuinely interesting stuff. It isn't the same as having a tutor roll his eyes and forcibly move your thumb, but Scott and others do answer questions and you can submit videos for comments. The seminars with other tutors and interesting as well. -1 for the chat and email spam, but I can live with one and have a rule to deal with the other. I have just kicked off a piece at Level 2, and it is easy to play slowly and badly and bloody fiddly to get right! I dread to think what L9 is.
  2. Richard R
    Fab colour BTW! 🙃
  3. Richard R
    It'll sand out, nobody will notice. 😉
  4. Richard R
    Finally sitting down to watch this. Adds not too intrusive, and great playing.
  5. Richard R
    One consideration, if the mac/pc/linux box will be in the same room as you are recording is fan noise. Gaming PCs are rather loud when the fan kicks in, and quite capable of ruining a take, so I would hesitate at buying one. Scan computers build dedicated music PCs with low latency components where it matters, and some entirely silent machines. Not cheap, but utterly reliable. As others have said, if you like Mac, buy Mac. If you haven't used a Mac, stick to a PC. Pretty much anything will cope with 16 tracks and a few plugins.
  6. Richard R
    This was pre-war. I can't imagine anyone wanting it now. Just heard Satriani's Always with me, Always with you. That would be quite fitting.
  7. Richard R
    Fortunately the italian restaurant video played without any sound!! Frankly though, who cares? Forty years ago, yes forty years ago, Roger Waters tried to break up a legal entity which he didn't have the right to, and the other co-owners of that legal entity successfully and correctly prevented him. Not the outcome he wanted, but tough. I saw his tour last year and really enjoyed it. But I do think that if he had just released more music people actually want to listen to then his credibility would be much higher. Play the albums you like -Floyd, Waters and Gilmour- ignore the rest of the stuff.
  8. Richard R
    "... each visitable within a lunch hour..." would have been a better phrase 😁
  9. Richard R
    I am slowly realising how fortunate I am living in Solihull and working in the centre of Birmingham. Bass Direct and Presto music in Leamington; PMT, Guitar Guitar, Fair Deal Music, Hobgoblin, The Little Guitar Shop all visitable in a lunch hour from the office. One in Coventry that I can never remember the name of, Express Music down the road for occasional odds and sods. I hope they all survive.
  10. Richard R
    Going Home, Runrig. Heaven WILL have highlands.
  11. Richard R
    So do I. So did my school friends. But the uni lot? Nope. Maybe that's why I never lost touch with school friends, but have none from university?
  12. Richard R
    The one album guaranteed to remove people from my room at university was, odd as it may seem, by ELO. The second side of ELO2 is very easy listening compared to some of the others here, but From the Sun to the World and Kuiama were clearly a bit much for my Dire Straits loving friends.
  13. Richard R
    It's a bit like Zeppelin and the blues artists lifting riffs and licks from older tunes and incorporating them into their stuff. My guess is that these guys has heard the older one and wrote an updated version. Mum says thanks btw, she had never heard the full song either 👍
  14. Richard R
    That's the face you see when the worship leader has transposed YET ANOTHER song into Eb.
  15. Richard R
    I've been following this while hiding behind the sofa, scared of the damage. Well done @stewblack, both on accepting the challenge and the progress so far.
  16. Richard R
    A story my mother tells is that before the war her father had a job repairing furnaces, including those in crematoria. They must have had two furnaces, or not actually lit them during the service as he and his best mate were often working under the crematorium while funerals were taking place. Apparently they got so completely fed up with The Funeral March on record that shortly after this came out my grandfather had to physically restrain his friend from swapping that record for this. I have occasionally wondered what the song was like, and now I know. I shall forward the link on to Mum, so thank you from both of us.
  17. Richard R
    Looks across at black tuners on beloved bass. Notices white rings. Agrees with @Stub Mandrel that they are sub optimal. Decides to leave them in place in the hope of watching him froth at the mouth at the 2021 Midlands Bass Bash 🙂
  18. Richard R
    There's also an E on the 5th fret of the B string, so isn't your starting point the Eb on the 4th fret there?
  19. Richard R
    Can someone else pick up the baton on this? I am running to stand still at the moment and dont have spare brainpower. We can try Hangouts or webex or whatever. Thanks, Rich
  20. Richard R
    I know virtuoso musicians practice basic scales every day, but you practice wood joints? That really is dedication!
  21. Richard R
    Exciting times. As long as the noise wasnt a constant Ab, in which case it might have just been mains hum.
  22. Richard R
    Thanks, now I have "Cherish" stuck in my head. Could be worse I guess. There's another thread about smuggling pop bass lines into worship songs. Turns out it is a very popular pastime.
  23. Richard R
    Sorry Andy. I will go upstairs and practice scales.
  24. Richard R
    And if you have high nuts and a low action then please join me for a chorus of Saturday Night Fever. One two three and.. "Well you can tell by the way I sing and squark.."
  25. Richard R
    I meant this stuff you referred to earlier. https://www.stardustcolors.co.uk/pearls-special-effect-paint/781-pearlized-clearcoat-spray.html#/845-colours-multicolored_turquoise_blue_purple But you have so much gloss just on the appliance white, that it looks very cool as it is.
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