Stub Mandrel

I've tried many approaches. I'm used to learning skills I find difficult and putting in the effort. Apart from sports requiring good balance skills (skateboarding, skating) and things beyond my physique (I'm endurance not sprint) sight-reading is the one thing I really can't crack, even with formal lessons. I understand the theory, it's just the note positions mean nothing to me, I believe my condition is termed dysmusia and has nothing to do with pitch skills (I don't't have perfect pitch, but I can whistle an A or a C within a few tens of cents).

Not entirely true, as there are loosely applied conventions about laying out the tab to indicate note length. But some tab does have them.

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I haven't rehearsed for months Getting bored with the setlists now. Have got one lined up for early feb. Going to add a few new songs, inclufing INXS New Sensation which is a bit poppy and outside my usual styles.

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Nope I can't. I can pretty much sight read rhythm but I can't read pitch despite (checks watch) over fifty years of trying.

Emotions in Motion is a great bass groove.

Indeed. The worst offender was a Zoom board of some sort that died every other rehearsal. Fortunately(?) that band didn't gig much... Maybe I just emit a field that screws up multi FX units? That said, Al uses one and it hasn't died yet.

I suspect you already knew this but it's a spot on observation, though I think you meant to say increase the mids Edited 6 minutes ago by Phil Starr It also shows why, especially at more moderate volumes, bass amps need a lot more power than guitar ones. There are lots of variations on those curves (phons are psycho acoustic so not everyone perceives the same change in volume, indeed drops and increase in volume are perceived differently). Here a perhaps more typical graph. The average is about 6-9dB/octave in the 50-200Hz range which differentiates between guitar and bass:

Yes 😈

We keep getting problems due to Google calendar sometimes taking weeks or months to show up entries across all of the band members. Sometimes it won't synch between my phone and pc, and it's refused to receive entries fom outlook for a year or two (it used to work). So... what's as simple to use as Google calendar but more reliable?

There's something almost pathetic about those who think they are gatekeepers of being a 'real bass player' according to what brand, value or style of bass you play.

Hi Sam! I must admit I'd heard a lot about the band but not much of the music. It was a brilliant night and always great to see a band totally relaxed, enjoying themselves and giving their best!

In that case we are both on the album 'Live Chronicles' 😎

They are like old friends.

My brother bought a 1962 SG junior for a steal before the prices went silly. He was told it was a refin. The luthier (yes a real one who makes teles from scratch) who set it up it beford he bought it swears he didn't need to refin it and it's all original. Then the pots went scratchy. With 1962 codes on. My brother made me swap them for CTS ones "I want to play the damn thing, not look at it".

Just this one point... I know from experience that that crud can build up in just five years, and be removed surprisingly effectively.

This Thursday and Basschaters from Caerdydd welcome!

Fingers crossed for Thursday... odd early evening gig but we've pushed the fact our frontman/guitarist was supporting Cardinal Black for a huge sellout gig on Saturday.

That's still pretty cheap, if you don't mind me saying 😀 Trick around here. £300 is pretty much the limit for most venues, you gave to accept that a pub or smaller club doesn't or can't get a huge audience.

I would love to persuade some guys to do either Supper's Ready, or the whole of Chronicle of the Black Sword.

Just search round. Both tabs are out there. The main riff is a doddle it's the chorus that's trickier.

No those are natural harmonics.