StingRayBoy42

Shh! I've got my eye on that!

The Markbass CMD 101 Micro 60 is a cracking litle amp - more than enough for living room/garden noodling and enough for an open mic night. An easy one hand lift, too!

My favourite colour scheme on any Bass is natural/maple/black scratchplate... simple and classic. If you're going for anything else, go all out - glittery pink or purple!

Happy VTDI user here - I've used it for motown, reggae, jazz, edge of breakup indie rock, heavy rock, disco... it sounds fantastic for all of them. It's well made, it's compact, it's easy to dial in your sound(s), it's an absolutely cracking piece of kit all round. I've never used the other pedals recommended (I'm sure they're lovely too!) but I reckon if you do go for a VTDI, you'll be a happy bunny.

Oh, Thank God!

Apologies for the hijack... as you were.

If ever I'm asked "Are you a musician?" my answer is always "Good God, no - I'm a Bass player"

Oh don't worry about that, you can just make it up 😃

Apologies, the -> were meant to deonte moving from one note to the next

I know that 'Music Theory' is an academic subject but in my humble opinion, knowing note names, knowing which notes to play when and why *IS* music theory. Someone could have decent music theory knowledge without having studied it academically, surely? If a guitarist told you what chords he was playing and you knew which notes to play (or even just where to put your fingers) to make it sound good, that's music theory, surely? Maybe we should seperate it into Music Theory and music theory? Potato/Potato, Tomato/Tomato, let's Carl the whole thing Orff 😃

Yes, it is! That's why A -> C natural -> E will sound better under an A minor chord

I respectfully disagree - IMHO 'Music theory' is everything from knowing note names to knowing when, why and how to substitute a Subdominant for a Neapolitan Second chord and everything inbetween.

Not necessarily - 'Music theory' means knowing which notes to play over under which chords - A -> C natural -> E will (generally) sound better under an A minor chord than A -> C# -> E for instance, even if you couldn't read them on a score. You all know some scales and triads, even if you don't know that you know them!

Are you saying I'm fat?! I'll have you know it's all muscle.