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Stub Mandrel
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Good luck with the scratchplate film! And don't forget the backs of the tuners!
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Taking a break and doing this one instead! Definitely on a Freddie King binge... learnt Hide Away yesterday for our rehearsal too.
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I'm Torn Down is not renowned as a tricky song... it's just a twelve bar right? But this version is something of a challenge to play smoothly and keep it up 😰
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I'd never heard of a Jedson Tele Bass two weeks ago, but they seem to be 20% of all the 'first basses' on this thread!
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Ve haf vays of making you play 1FPF!
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Mein gott! Used it at rehearsal. Everyone thinks it looks lovely, especially the hardware. It goes with the drumkit (Pearl, slightly darker metallic green of similar hue). It sounds huge. It's majorly louder than my other basses, I have to turn down the gain a lot, or it sounds like death metal. Absolutely love this bass.
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Yes scotchbrite would be better. Grade 1000 is enough for toning down a gloss. -
It would be interesting to see a video of several people playing the same short selection of pieces to compare their fingering styles.
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I can understand why people don't want to do a pinky stretch, it's using ring and pinky together I struggle to understand, as I find it unnatural/uncomfortable. I can see it's a necessity for double bass with long, taught, high action strings, however. I don't have any agenda to stop others doing it though!
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Hi @sprocketflup, roughly where are you?
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I have big fingers and can cover the first four frets 1234 no problem, certainly no stretching for 3, it just drops straight down behind the fret. Surely those with shorter fingers can just place 3 somewhat behind the fret?
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Serious question. Why use 124 on an electric bass. You don't need two finger strength , and even people with smaller hands should have no trouble covering three frets with 123?
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My brother and his partner invited me along to a planned meet up of some Budgie fans in Cardiff. Only one other turned up, but we all had a great chat, and she turned out to be the artist who designed this. Pretty impressive to fill Roger Dean's shoes:
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I like translucent blue.
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Just experimented with my new Embassy, which is a set-neck bass. I can even get an insanely high harmonic at the 11th fret, I can't even find it on any harmonic maps.
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Usually transparent laquer over the colour, or sometimes just a colour coat. Use very, very fine grade wet and dry or wire wool, and you should be able to matt it without taking the colour off. I did this once and it worked.
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Doesn't that immobilise your hand? my fingers would be too short to manage it, especially on the 5-string's wide neck I'd never reach the b string. Owning a fiver made me switch to floating thumb right hand damping .. bit of a revelation that as I'd never understood the need for right hand damping when I only played a four string. Edited 19 hours ago by NickA I'd be unlikely to use do it on my fiver, but for plodding away at a riffs that just use three frets...
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What a great way to present tabI had fun 'sight reading' it. No mishtakes, honest 😉
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When I switch from 1fpf to just using the first three fingers, I rest the neck in my palm and use my thumb to mute the E string.
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My Kay guitar has a stained fingerboard. Looking at the thumb rest, it's the original tug bar but has been moved (screw holes in pickguard) I can move it back. Perhaps fill the old holes with amber beeswax. Neck doesn't look laminated like the one in the video.
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Wow I think recognise several iof those places, is that near the canal behind the Custard factory at the start?
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What are you listening to right now?
Stub Mandrel replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
