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I'm Home Cooking, having substituted some ingredients I didn't even recognise reading the recipe, and I often have trouble with seasoning, rendering the result either tasteless or too salty, or even bitter.

Different spelling, so different pronunciation. No great risk of confusion. Motörhead made more noise, for certain.

Good morning, DG, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Craigster... I rather fear that, with the various posts appearing here (mine included...), you're likely to become more confused. May I suggest (with all due respect to the other posters...) that it may be as well to start from the beginning, and work your way forward, constructing on each step..? To this end, I'd suggest having a look at this site ... MusicTheory.net ... ... where things are explained in sequence, building a solid foundation before going on. It's pretty easy reading; not difficult at all, and, I'd say, a much faster method for understanding all of these notions. Worth a look..?

Good evening, Craigster... An excellent question, and the answers you find will unlock whole swathes of musical knowledge and appreciation. A vast subject, but here's an entry point that might help with your direct query : how are chords built from scales..? Read through this (a couple of times, if need be; take your time to let it sink in...) Introduction to chords ... I'll look up a couple of book/methods easily and cheaply available, and post links to 'em here, too. No get reading...

And get that Composition sorted, too..! ...

Good evening, Winton, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Do it, or get it done by Someone Who Knows, before the data gets lost. After, it's too late. Once the process is set up, it's simple enough (even I manage, so... ).

Good afternoon, RSF, and welcome back ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share (but you knew that anyway, didn't you..? )..

Most folks perform a back-up of their important data regularly, especially after they've previously lost stuff from failed disks, theft, floods or fire (other catastrophes are available...). What form this back-up takes varies; one method is to have an identical hard disk plugged into a USB port, for instance, and have the whole of one's disk contents copied onto this second disk, to make an identical copy (a 'clone'...). There is software to do this, which will depend on what System your information is stored, but the process is the same. Another method is to have a second drive plugged in, and copy by hand all the information needing back-up. I usually define this as being any data which cannot be bought nor replaced. For information such as access codes, license n°s, important serial n°s and such, it's not a daft idea to have them written down (OK, printed out if one is that way inclined...) onto paper, to be stored away in a safe place (and not forgotten about or thrown out..!). It all depends on how much one values the data. Try, as a test, imagining the total loss of the computer (stolen, dropped overboard, burnt to a crisp...), and estimate what would be lost. If the answer is 'Nothing', no need for back-up. If it's uber-important that nothing be lost, consult a specialist and act upon their advice. Hope this helps.

Good evening, FB1, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Well, they were good enough for Jaco, so you're in good company.

Good evening, Richard, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. Others will be along shortly; you'll soon have more advice than you can cope with, and all contradictory..!

A tip that may help with longer pieces : start from the end. That's to say : learn the last section, then, when that's going well, learn the preceding section, and follow through to the end. Rinse and repeat. As you move towards the beginning, you're playing more and more into familiar territory. Hope this helps.

I wouldn't want that much bass in the mix (general pop/rock: Bowie, Radiohead, Noir Désir...). Our main bass cab is an HH 2x15 folded horn (weighs as much as a small moon...), driven by a Hiwatt 200w head, with no EQ (tone at 12 o'clock...). We don't play stupidly loud, either (PA is a pair of 15" tops from a mixer/amp head, no subs, for vox, acoustic guitar and keys...). Excess 'low' adds nothing but mush for what we play.

I've no expertise on this, but I'd say that the first hit is setting the level for compression/limiting, which cuts it all down. Given a respite, another 'first hit' would probably do the same thing. I doubt that there's an easy solution, except more sophisticated software, perhaps, but expectations of how it all works over t'web should be low, in any case. Good luck with it, just the same.

There you go; I knew it..! It's Autumn, and Fingers proves it by taking photos from his front door with his Triumph..! Yah..! Boo..! Sucks to you, you false Lurks, you..! Shame on you for trying to fool an old man that he's overslept (or under-slept; I'm not really sure any more...). Where's that nice lady with the pink pills..? Should I put my pyjama trousers back on..? Why is that light always on..? (shuffles off in worn slippers, bumps into armchair and looks with puzzled frown at his shins...)

Who are you..? What have you done with Lurksalot..? If it's a ransom you're after, be aware that I have little of value. I'm calling @fleabag, he'll get this sorted out, double time..! (And if we don't hear from Lurks himself in the next 24 hours, you'll be hearing from @Teebs, so be afraid; be very afraid. )

Good Stuff, Nick, and 'Well Done' for taking this initiative. I've no intention (nor the ability...) of starting a virtual band, but I can see the advantages of sharing stuff well enough (I might have been tempted if our Singer wasn't quite so technophobe, though...). I'll just make one, slightly derogatory, remark concerning Cakewalk. I'll not deny its usefulness nor fitness for purpose for Mortals, but (and now I have to reveal the naked truth and heart of the problem...) I'm old. I followed the link, and 'installed' it. Silly me, thinking it'd install summit on my PC, which I looked for, but couldn't find (obviously; there's nowt...). To get that far, even, I had to 'log in', which wrought more confusion, as the System has better memory than I, and I learned that I had already set this process off in 2018, and have had it available since. Much good it did me at the time, and little more today, as I still don't know how it works. 'Back then', I had apparently managed to 'save' a Project, with a couple of lines of Brass, but when I look a bit closer at it, it fell very far short of features that I currently use through my present DAW on my PC. I'll not go into the pro's and con's of each DAW, but have serious doubts concerning any possibility of me composing through Cakewalk. I'm certain that others manage to do fine work with it, but it seems to need a specific 'mind-set' to be able to do stuff along those lines. Have I any better suggestion..? As a DAW, absolutely, but how effective it would be for this collaborative methodology is outside of my experience, so... Just to say, then, that if this works for you, and others, that's fine, but it may not suite everyone; it's rather 'odd' in its organisation. I may well be alone in this, and perhaps too harsh, so I'll be well pleased if others chip in to totally contradict me, and will humbly accept the heaps of 'that old duffer' I'd rightly deserve in that case. I'll be following along, to see how this goes forward; meanwhile... Keep well, stay safe

What..? Are you trying to tell me that it's no longer Autumn..? What happened..? Where are we now, then..? Have I slept so soundly ..? Serves me right for not owning a watch, of course. What's that..? Watches don't tell the seasons..? Of what possible other use could I have for one, then..? Anyway, the important thing is... Is it safe to come out yet..? Have the waters receded..? What about the Strontium 90 levels..? We were told they'd stay high for ... Well, even longer than that, and that Mother's Milk was already so contaminated as to addle the brains of the next generation or two. Did that happen, then..? Confused, of Norwich.

Here is my contribution to the April 2020 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by the previous winner: Fingers211..! Something a bit jaunty for blowing away the cobwebs of current affairs, with a sort of Gaelic/Celtic bent in there somewhere. Good for dancing to, too, if the fancy takes you. Go on, there's no-one looking. All Kontakt instruments, save the fine Ruby bass. Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy.

Would be better posted in GuitarChat, no..?