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Hi @dodge_bass, can you post a link to your website? Thanks.

If you don't specifically need a book and want something excellent at no cost, then this site should do you very nicely: https://www.studybass.com.

Now sold, but you can get a good look at it from the photos: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/FGN_JMJ_2_Azuki.html

Another vote for BassBuzz / Josh Fossgreen. He explains things well and seems to have a lot of bass wisdom. He has a certain style, which will not be for everyone, but the content is excellent regardless. He has just released this video about GAS and how to beat it.

I don't gig so this is probably a stupid question, but here goes... Since the sound of a band is vital - it virtually defines some bands (think JJ Burnel's bass tone in The Stranglers), and could lead to a bad word-of-mouth when it's terrible - why don't bands have their own sound engineer, someone that they can rely on to ensure the band's sound no matter where they are playing?

The Hal Leonard “Bass Recorded Versions” series: https://www.halleonard.com/series/BASSRV?dt=item#products I imagine that they can be got from Amazon.

Good advert for Vanderkley bass cabs - looks like Fodera use them in-house. (Or perhaps in the house of one of the team.)

It's been a while since I last checked in here; listening to this today brought me back. (I did a search to see if it had already been posted, but found nothing.) This used to be available on Spotify, but it's greyed out now; darn! According to Wikipedia, "Three members of the group were murdered throughout the group's tenure"! Knowledge - "Dreadlocks Time"

Does it really matter what they sound like acoustically? If it looks ok, and it feels ok, then "sounds phenomenal plugged in" says everything, that's what a solid body electric bass is for after all.

I think this video by Andrew Pouska (the person behind StudyBass) is a gold nugget in all of the bass tutorials on YouTube. It teaches two fundamental ways of how to study. This should help beginners, or anyone who wants to learn but has never been taught how to learn.

I reckon Basshunter's Boten Anna fits this thread.

Bangin' folk rock from the British Isles (not in English); the video shows the lyrics so you can sing along...

First time I've ever heard that track. The bass line fits brilliantly, and your performance of it Basscabman is truly superb.

If you're into chilled out instrumental reggae/jazz fusion, I've just stumbled across the fact that Ireland's Avatar released a new album last September: https://avatar3.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-echoes

If you're interested in playing along to The Beatles' "Please Please Me" album, this web page is really useful: https://andrewmessner.net/2019/04/17/please-please-me-album-pitch-analysis Only one of the songs on the album has the recording at concert pitch (A = 440Hz). All of the others are flat in comparison, and by differing amounts. That web page lists what the writer reckons are the A reference values for each song. If you have a tuner that can be recalibrated for a different reference value for A, then you just set the tuner to the value given on the web page for the song, tune your bass as normal using the tuner, then play along - it'll sound in tune. I've had a Korg CA-30 tuner for I forget how many years. I remember thinking when I got it that the ability to recalibrate it to A not being 440Hz was something that I would never need to use, but I have been proved wrong - it was really useful to quickly retune my bass and get playing.

This Bass Backing Tracks playlist by Quist has some good material. Look in the description of each video to get the chord progression (if it isn't already part of the video itself). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVVk2nQ5iO8-S3OCCKcDJ9aokW_Ec3i2f

Thanks; I've subscribed. Looks like your channel will give a different take on things compared to most; I'm sure that I'll learn something.

My H-850 ear cushions have done the same, post the warranty period. I'm not a heavy user of them either. The headphones sound good, and that's what really counts, but I won't be buying new cushions from the distributors because I reckon that they will just split and peel too. I had the same problem with my Sony MDR-7506 headphones, which are also not budget headphones.

It's been 9 months since Alain M. posted anything on YouTube, until yesterday that is: Brilliant reggae bass tone as always from him.

Reggae's influence is somewhat different from reggae's evolution (which I don't have the experience to analyse). This one is somewhere in an outer orbit of planet reggae. For something a little different, only spend the next 4m 20s of your life listening to this if you are open to a reggae influenced modern rendering of a medieval melody, with latin lyrics, something resembling a slap bass solo (what!), and some spooky whispering thrown in too... This is Adaro with "Mariam Matrem (Radio Edit)":

Not exactly what I had in mind... but impressive how a little goes a long way!

Folk and rock music have been shown to fuse very well together, so why not folk and reggae? Edward II gave it a go, but somehow they never seemed very consistent, so they generally leave me somewhat disappointed. Nevertheless, here's one of their pieces that I do like, 'Swing Easy'. On SoundCloud On Spotify Anybody know of any other folk-reggae bands?

In the mid to late '70s punk and reggae became the most unlikely bedfellows. I don't think that any reggae groups covered any punk songs... but there were some notable reggae covers by punk groups. Here is one of them.

Here's a song with English lyrics from a Greek band. The tune is excellent, and although I generally prefer instrumentals, the singer's voice just nails it for me.