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Now that really [i]is [/i]short scale..! ... ... Edit: Ah, now I see it with my specs on; it's just a trick of the perspective. D'oh..!

[quote name='subaudio' timestamp='1507542685' post='3386106']... Is the position of bassist secure in the future of contemporary music?... [/quote] The 'bass sound' is necessary in most music; who or what is creating that sound is subject to evolution. Present trends are towards synthetics, but that is not a 'given' for ever and ever. The present electric bass, as an instrument, is likely to become as essential as past 'essential' instruments, such as the sackbutt, the banjo, the ukulele or the double bass. Still played (and enjoyed...), but not in [i]all [/i]future modern music. Just my tuppence-worth.

[quote name='petebassist' timestamp='1507539614' post='3386071']...I'm in no way saying that you have to be Arnold Schwarzenegger to play upright. I'll be Bach! [/quote]

Can a bass be 'made' into a short-scale by keeping a capo at the second fret..? This would open up considerably the options of acquisition, surely..? Worth trying out..?

Good stuff; thanks for posting.

I wish I'd known earlier that you were going to post this topic; I've have had time to think of a better response.

Tuned drums might have helped, too.

Good evening, Shonks, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. You took your time overcoming your timidity, though..! Ah, the youth of today, eh..?

Well, just how lucky can you get..? Just when a picture comes along for which I had, for many reasons, no particular inspiration, I chanced upon the very source I needed, and no farther afield than at the end of my own garden..! Out early, thinking to do a little light weeding, I thought I caught, out of the corner of my eye, a furtive movement in the hedgerow. Hardly daring to breath, I carefully took out my portable recording device (one never knows when an opportunity will strike, and struck it had indeed..!) and managed to capture the antics of this dainty creature, unaware of my presence..! She had fashioned a swing from the branches of our old apple tree, and, singing gently to herself, began to rock to and fro, higher and higher, faster and faster. Too much, though, for the poor old tree, which, despite the slight weight of the mere slip of an elf, gave audible signs of discomfort. Hearing this complaint, the swinging slowed and came to a halt. The moment was ended; the creature vanished. All that was left was the continued chirping and warbling of the wildlife in the vicinity, and the low rush of the morning breeze. I scurried back to my 'pica-studio' to listen eagerly to the sounds captured; here they are... [url="https://soundcloud.com/dad3353/a-creaking-bough"]A Creaking Bough ...[/url]

First gig..? 1968, The Martin Spicer Band, playing a pub on Kingsley Road, just across from Hounslow East tube station. Happy daze... Age: just turned 18 Bass: A Hofner President guitar, playing just the lower four strings Amp: Watkins Westminster The set list (some of it): Apple Tree Warbler (An MSB original...), Fat Anget (Donovan; we did it more like the Jefferson Airplane version...), some Grateful Dead-ish stuff.

Good evening, Chris, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, totorbass, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Scott, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share (but you knew that already, didn't you..? ).

Choose a few songs you like and play the chord notes of those songs. At appropriate moments, 'join the dots' by moving from one chord note to that of the next chord, chromatically. (Other plans are available...)

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1507034461' post='3382880'] It is you then, I want a word with you about some "right of way" for the fertiliser factory [/quote] What's the problem..? It's just a load of old crap, no..?