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True - he didn't play. He also had the disadvantage of observing my pretty basic (at the time, I like to think it's improved!) right hand technique.

Make it Google-able… for example if you call the band , say, Chicken Soup people may find recipes when googling for it and not your band. Gorkys Zygotic Myncy would not have that issue.

That's what I figured anyway. The teenage me didn't say that to my dad though!

Slightly off topic, but all this left/right talk got me thinking...... When I first stared to learn bass my dad questioned why the hands are that way round for a right handed person - as in his view the dominant right hand was doing the simple stuff (picking or strumming) and the left hand the complex stuff (fretting). I guess it's because the plucking hand is responsible for tone and timing etc... especially if you consider the whole string family. Any thoughts?

I also a) used to get them mixed up and b) hated both. But I’ve gone the other way…. Still hate Dan, love a bit of Span.

That is as basic as four track cassette based recording got! Be interesting to hear the recording (if you have any way to make an audio file 😉)!

I'm more likely to tolerate other features to get a nice colour!

Not sure if this is what the OP was looking for, but I tend to tolerate minor defects far to long..... loose jack socket, pick-up selector which has to be wiggled to get a good contact and so on. I get them fixed eventually... usually at the same cost (of money and/ effort) I could have fixed them for on day one 😞 .

The recorder is a terrible instrument for young school kids IMO. It is difficult to get a good tone, and it teaches only melody, not rhythm or harmony. I understand that many schools are now using the ukulele... great news - it's got short learning curve and covers melody, harmony and rhythm.

Option 2. I don't want to do too many gigs anyway. In fact the only thing to persuade me to do a lot of gigs is if they were particularly prestigious.

Same here... because I didn't like goth in general, I dismissed all bands who could be considered goth - including Bauhaus. But now, I see that Bauhaus were a really good band. I'm not gonna be a born-agin goth, but some good stuff did come from it.

Great thread! I only write and record solo nowadays. My recent bands have been covers. Otherwise it might be different. I mainly go the songwriter route... write the song with about half the full lyrics on guitar, before moving onto recording. Start with a rough drum beat add a guitar track which includes all the elements of the song. Add bass. Add guide vocal Chop it up into a full song arrangements - like intro verse chorus verse and so on. Then replace all of played instruments with 'live' takes. I might 'comp' a few tales together or swap out a mistake. Do the proper drums Do the final vocals. Add solos and extra bits. Then the hardest part - mixing and adding EQ, reverb etc. With guitar effects I used to just paly the line and add effects after. Now I am trying to move towards setting up the effect first and letting that influence the lines played.

On one hand, other instruments mean I spend much less time on bass. One the other hand I think it's really beneficial to play a 'harmonic' instrument (i.e plays chords like guitar or keys) alongside 'single note' instruments like bass or violin*. Helps learn about chord progressions, where the minor/major notes are and what they do and so on. * Yes I know you can play chords on Violin and bass.

Taraf De Haidouks - Balkan Gypsy Folk Music

I didn't get it a bass t-shirt as such, but....

I'd stay right handed, and learn to play without the little finger. So many players reject the 'one finger per fret' approach which needs a little finger. A lot of people just don't use that finger anyway. I do use the little finger, but I just picked up the bass, 'tied my little finger behind my back'........ and I could adapt to it pretty well almost straight away. And if you have any further doubt look at some vids of Django Reinhardt playing six-string guitar with his limited finger-set.

This kind of YT vid?

This is the clip which Youtube most wants me to watch. Not sure why the algorithm got this as it's not similar to what I listen to. But I do quite like it though!

Amazing skills-wise, but would not be something I'd actually listen to as music. It's fine as a party-piece or as a demo of where your bass-playing skills are at.

A lot of musical instruments have a long life cycle - e.g .the violin. There will always be bass... but the way of delivering bass will chnage over time... e.g .transition from Double bass to bass guitar. I think bass guitar will sit along synth bass etc for a few years yet.

Horsegirl:

You have got me tempted for one of these! There is a nice orange version costing 50 or 60 pounds more:

Or take speed.

The old adage "It's what you don't play" seems particularly pertinent to reggae.

I'm not any expert on D&B, but am open minded towards it and my feelings on it are as follows: Not too keen on the jazzy stuff (but that goes for any genre to be honest !) Prefer the weirder, noisier stuff (but that goes for any genre to be honest !) I think I've not really heard it properly - mainly on radio speakers and earphones - D&B sounds like it needs to be heard on a massive sound system. It maybe doesn't fit for me in the context of my life-style.... it's more of a "going-out" type music and I'm more of a 'bedroom' listener. There used to be a kind of pirate radio station in Luton which used to crash my car radio sometimes which played mainly D&B.... it would have sounded ok, but the 'DJ' just talked over it so much.... nothing interesting or imaginative, just an endless stream of "shout out to XYZ" 😞 .