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Once upon a time there was a bass, a happy bass, a bass that enjoyed being owned by Basschatters such as @bassace and @Clarky. It was a fragile wee thing and needed a reasonable amount of upkeep and maintenance, because it always looked as if it was about to collapse into (as @Owen puts it) a bunch of matchsticks. But I loved it to bits, played hundreds of gigs with it, and asked myself, "What's the worst that could happen?". And then, one day, the worst happened. Are you familiar with the expression an exploded diagram? You are? Excellent! Here are some exploded photographs ...

You could have warned us that was a Rob Chapman video. I and many others thoroughly detest the man, and I resent giving one of his videos even the briefest of engagement.

It's cheaper than a service.

If you can write tab then you can use an app that will then generate the notes on the stave for you. It will then also flag if anything written is incorrect for the key and time signature. It's not difficult anymore. And there are now at least a dozen AI based transcribing apps - they actually transcribe from the audio. I suppose it was just the natural evolution of spoken language computer dictation.

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Doesn't take any musical knowledge to write up tab you just have to know where your fingers went on the fretboard. I doubt he was notating it as a musical score but I'm just guessing. Having said that I get really confused writing out tab but then I'm a dufus. I'd forgotten that he'd actually released someone's tune on spotify as his own. I don't know how it works though if you are covering someone else's music and correctly attribute it. I've never put anything on spotify. Er. Well. It could have been. I guess. If so that'd be even more impressive than if they acutally played it! Good grief - imagine having to learn it so well you can mime every note on the fretboard but you're not actually playing it. With a live drummer!

Some great advice - I had a Takamine acoustic bass a few years ago, but didn't get on with it very well, mainly the size of it, and constant struggling with feedback. I've since bought the Martin shortscale acoustic, and it's a working well for me. As I plug in, I've had to buy the feedback buster for the sound hole, which has cured the issue I had with feedback (along with setting on my Ashdown acoustic pre-amp). I've currently got coated strings on it, but looking to change soon, so will look out for some nylon coated flat wounds to see if they give me more of the sound I'm looking for........

Nice story, but this is where it falls down in my head. The online mentioning that triggered the gift was the desired model. I’d say that has an element of choice, similar to you picking a guitar up in store. As above, no prompt as to receiving a gift but a prompt online as to what you wanted even if not directed at your friend. There’s still room for interpretation in the rules that allow it to be judged on a case by case basis. The jury has spoken on this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO4T7gBIj3I

Yeah - I've got an old Digitech iStomp. It's currently set to nice boost pedal and I have no plans to change it - but I have no idea if the iOS app still works for it.

yep I had that too Insane

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Ok, let's make it simple, what @kwmlondon saw may have been a playback live performance where all the musicians where mimicking. Better this way? 😉

i live in the Rocky Mountain region and i know Texas very well. I respectfully disagree….

I've watched Danny's videos, but if hes not claiming to have written the music he was releasing on spotify, who is he stating has written it? Also how do you transcribe tunes with no musical knowledge? According to the video its not the composers. Jonny