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Not really; I expect it just sets off the 'search' again, being a dynamic function without static results. Just a guess, though.

Waiting for the next post in six hours time, when you wake up in your armchair, having missed it all. ...

Open the page in a new tab (or window, if you prefer, but I do 'tab'...). When finished perusing, just close that tab (or window...). Hope that helps.

... and Adolf had a military career (of sorts...), for a while. None of the above is gospel; Luck and Life play a part, whatever ...

No, not quite. I'll take the standard 'quarter note' (I call 'em crochets, but I'm old, so...), and count, as you said, as '1 2 3 4 ...'. For eighth notes, I'd count '1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and ...'. Sixteenths become a bit more tricky, but the principle is the same, with 1 uh and uh 2 uh and uh 3 uh and uh 4 uh and uh ...'. Try it out at 60 bpm (so 1 2 3 4 at 1 second intervals...). Repeat, at the same tempo, still with the 1 2 3 4 at second intervals, but with the 'and' interjection. Once that's done, do the same with sixteenths (you may want to slow the metronome down a little at first, though; it's not that simple for the tongue and respiration...). There, that's all there is to that. Next week: triplets and paradiddles...

It will help if you've a reference 'One' whilst you're playing. Either a metronome with a strong 'One', or a steady 'reggae-style' bass loop to lock onto. That's only 'training wheels' until it sinks in (see encouraging footnote ...). You can also try counting it differently, with something like 'one BOOM three four one BOOM three four...' in your head (or out loud, bugger 'em...). With a metronome, that becomes TIC BOOM tic toc TIC BOOM tic toc. The important thing is to 'feel' the 'One', despite not playing it. Encouraging footnote (which applies equally to many, many things in Life...) ... It's the first forty years that are the hardest, after which things sometimes tend to get slightly easier.

You do know what a quarter and an eighth of a cake are though..? It's exactly the same for notes.

As an exercise, try playing a simple shuffle on the hats (ting tingty-ting etc...), constant, hats closed at first. Count yourself in, and play the bass drum on the 'Two' (so one Two three four one Two three four...). No snare for now, just that for a while. Once that's going down naturally (you're 'feeling' the one-drop for the bass drum...), add sporadic cross-stick snare clicks. Anywhere in the riddum, as long as the shuffle continues and you don't lose track of the one-drop. If you do, leave the snare and pick up the pieces, carry on. It's just a matter of letting it happen, with in mind the notion of 'less is more'. an occasional hi-hat lift brings it to life, once it's all cooking. It helps, once you're able to do this 'one-drop', to get a bass in there, but it's not essential. Good luck wid it, bro...

Nah, I'll stick with my Hofner, which has all the bass sounds I'll ever need, thanks all the same. My globe-trotting days are over.

Now that I look, I find a Fender Japan Thinline. Hmm... Rare, but they do exist... 2012 Fender Japan Thinline Jazz Bass VMH ...

I've not yet seen a semi-acoustic (hollow-body...) version, which is the style (and weight..!) I prefer.

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'Never say never' and all that, but it's not looking likely for me, this time around. I've pinned it all, and put the pic on my desktop, as usual, but yet another bout of depression is setting in, which hinders my 'creative' muse quite heavily. Maybe, and I hope so, but it's only a 'maybe' for now.

Wasn't York, itself, named after some hick town in the US of A..?

What a strange question..! What would be your favourite Lada 1200 to drive as your only car (red ones count..!)..?

Yeah, new pots does that to a bass. ..

No more than new tyres on a second-hand car. Not the same (maybe...) for a curator of a museum, but I'm not such, soooooo...

Aha..! A convent cell, then..? ...

On the other hand, this wide-spread visibility hasn't done our 'friend', Facebook scammer Mick, any harm, so ...

Playing in prisons now, eh..? ...

Many decades ago now, I worked in a music shop, here in France, and worked regularly with one or two variety bands, as well as 'depping' often enough wherever a drummer or bassist was needed. There was a 'pool' of folk that would be called upon, over a rang of instruments, and a much wider 'pool' of competent musicians. These latter would rarely be first choice for opportunities, as, for whatever reason, they did not have, or maintain, the contact skills that the former used. Maybe less motivated, maybe with other commitments, maybe just less 'personable'... Whatever. Most had fine musical skills, chops, technique, repertoire etc, but didn't get the calls. I took a lesson from all of this, and honed my 'personal' skills almost as much as my drumming rudiments and chops. Luck plays a part, but contacts trumps playing ability most of the time, that, I'd say. Just my tuppence-worth.

'Whiter Shade Of Pale'..?

Is this where the term 'peddler' comes from..?

The reference is probably StewMac, USA. They are certainly not the cheapest, but their gear is decent stuff, not Chinese whatever. We found, for a couple of luthier projects, that it was well worth joining the StewMax 'club' thing, to get free shipping. The cost of the yearly sub was quickly saved, as shipping tools is expensive. We've looked at, and tested, quite a few cheaper options, but none have been worthwhile (well, not quite; we did get a few decent tools from a Spanish supplier...). I don't rate Amazon at all for this category (although I use 'em a lot for many other things...). Hope this helps. Douglas