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I should have done one years ago. I always wanted a P with a J neck. I might start planning another one now! It does seem to be quite a good way of getting another bass into the house past the boss. Parts arriving is far less obvious! I can't afford a EBMM Joe Dart but I do have a good MM type pickup (Aguilar), tuners, an old BBOT bridge and a selection of old pots lying about. Might have to start looking at ebay for cheap bodies... Won't even have to be painted!

That's very kind but I actually found one - they are the same as PRS strap buttons and when I had a PRS a long time ago I swapped the strap buttons for strap locks, so there was one in my random jar of metal shiny things. There's a thread on it in Bass Guitars now. Just needs some good strings on it now.

it’s sounding mostly ace, just getting some warbling on the G string on high fretted notes so I suspect either the pickup is too high or the string is twisted. I’ll sort that out tomorrow. I went with a 0.1uF cap and it goes super dark and reggae like with the tone fully down. and I did my maths right… it’s bang on 7lb.

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFLB1L-Pqqo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link They look lovely! https://www.gallien-krueger.com/rb-legacy

I really like the look of that.

I think so, it can reduce a little low flub just by having the EA coil further back.

That sounds fun to me.... but it's about 400 miles away!

That's what most community orchestras are like - they often get a wide range of instruments to deal with - lots of them brass or reed instruments so they naturally end up sounding like an orchestra or a jazz big band. I still remember my first rehearsal with one - a jazz band. Seven Nation Army to start - nice and easy even though it was in a different key. Then it was Stevie Wonder (in a different key and with a completely jazzed up middle section) and things started to fall apart. Not helped by the look I got from an 11 year old (yes, really) trumpet player who was already Grade 8 and looking to study at a conservatoire already. I finally quit last summer after a total of 12 years there in different ensembles, with about 7 years in the Jazz Band. I learned a huge amount. I only started because my kids wanted to attend and it wasn't worth driving home and then back again to collect them.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there - until it becomes a genuine second language it needs practice every day. It's a perishable skill. But so is reading English if you have enough time away from it. It's also why any teacher will say "10 minutes a day" rather than 3 hours on a Saturday. 10 mins a day is only 70 mins a week, but it is far more effective doing short daily practice so the brain gets programmed with it properly.

I know - I bought the book in about 2004/5 as I was going to a jam night and one of the scratch bands wanted to do it and it was quicker than transcribing it myself. Wasn't as many tab sites 20 years ago!

It is my first bitsa. I don't have any string trees that aren't already on basses.

There's no further duty to pay because it's already included in the price.

If you paid with a credit card or paypal, get them involved.

Question! I am in the process of assembling a parts bass for which all the parts were purchased last year. However... I forgot to buy a string tree wotsit for the headstock. If I buy one (for about £4) would that be a breach? I notice the grey area bit on Page 1 about parts for bitsas.

Probably only 32.8 KG!

Or maybe fretless because of some sort of weird offset tuning system. Like the Buzz Feiten thing that was popular for 5 minutes.

How many trombones can you fit in an oboe player before they (thankfully) stop playing?

That'ss a weird thing with tab. It limits the player to someone else’s choice of position playing. I once bought the official Muse bass book and although the notes were right, Hysteria’s tab was all string skipping instead of pedalling open strings. It made it much harder to play. I suspect they used software to read the notation a human had written out and it just generated the lowest possible position for a note rather than considering playing ease.

Just before xmas. Cheap stuff seems to be as quick as it used to be. Expensive stuff seems to take an age to clear customs.

I just spotted this thread. It might be an Origin item that I really want. And it would be significantly cheaper than buying a Noble di!

That sort of thing is rather rare. And it doesn't look like it is in C Major so it's lacking a key signature. I don't know why so many guitarists and bassists try to find often more complex ways of reading than just learning the system that every other instrument uses without a thought. It really isn't difficult and despite the "don't learn theory - it ruins creativity" crowd, this is NOT learning theory, it's just learning reading. We can all read a novel in our primary language without needing to know what the Past Perfect Progressive tense is or how it works. EDIT: It also doesn't mention tuning so there is no actual confirmation of pitch information. And it doesn't have a clef so it could be for bass, or as it shows 4 strings it could be for violin, cello, uke as well.

Maybe the boss thinks the OP is going to steal the tracks and then set up a competing band... organising rehearsals for maybe 20 people and dealing with all that admin.... (I'd rather cut my own hands off!)

Me too. I'm kind of looking at this as being a middle ground between a fully featured combo and a separates rig, and ultimately not doing either job. I get it a lot more for guitarists using modellers more extensively.

I do remember one occasion at a rehearsal where we were playing a big band version of Europe's "Final Countdown." The bass part was crap and the entire arrangement lacked the feel of the original which had quite a driving tempo. So I did something different. The MD was all "what on earth are you playing?" Me: "Exactly what is on the sheet." MD: "No you are not" Me: "I am - I'm just not playing the bass part! I'm playing the guitar part. It's on the sheet" The guitar part is quite gallop-like. We then tried it both ways and my version was preferred, especially as at the time we didn't have a guitarist. My formative years of being obsessed by Steve Harris definitely helped there!