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[quote name='Huge Hands' timestamp='1468583250' post='3091932'] This will probably be deemed as wrong by the experts, but when I did it, I kept my right (plucking) hand in the same position as a 4 string, which was to have my thumb resting on the E String (which on a 5 string became between the B and E string). This allowed for good muting of both strings when not playing them, and meant my hand was still in the same position relative to the EADG strings. As the years have gone on, I've changed my hand position, and (I think due to this) I now find it harder to go back to a 4 string than when my hand was as I've said above! [/quote] Yep, I found the biggest challenge was muting the B string - this led me to adopt the floating-thumb technique, which I now prefer on fours too. [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1468586130' post='3091957'] Put your 4 string basses away until the 5er becomes second nature. [/quote] Good advice - jump in at the deep end!

[size=1] [b] Business seller information[/b] [/size][size=1] Revaluation Books[/size] Well seeing what the RRP is, they've certainly revalued it!

I wasn't sure about this at first, but I gruter like it.

If you already have the awesome tone, you just need to mix it so that it's upfront and use some subtractive EQ on any other instruments that might be stepping on its toes.

[quote name='steviebee74' timestamp='1468234071' post='3089391'] Cheers Bigwan - [font=Comic Sans MS][size=3][color=#000000]They were my thoughts exactly but I wanted to ask around on here before I attempted it. Just recently changed strings on a Sandberg and the neck relief has obviously changed with it nut wondered if this was a way of getting a more “accurate” measurement. [/color][/size][/font] [/quote] Accuracy is overrated! The standard method will only get you into the ballpark, and from there you'll probably want to tweak the relief one way or another according to taste.

[quote name='Mottlefeeder' timestamp='1468170741' post='3088985'] No-one has volunteered a strategy for quickly working out the key of a song. Any takers on the last point? [/quote] Pick a note then "play your fingers right" - Higher! Lower! - until you hit it?

I'll be having some similar adventures when I go to my first ukulele jam night next week! So far my uke-ing has been noodling based on the fact that I can play top-four-strings-of-a-guitar shapes. But because it's tuned G-C-E-A, when I play "D" I'm hearing G, so if I want to hear D I need to play "A"... should be fun!

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1467892266' post='3087060'] Sight reading tab is easy! ... Granted tab is useless for conveying rhythm. [/quote] Hm...

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1467890511' post='3087035'] I was taught that it's Tiny (E&B ) Average (G&D) Big (A&E) when i was first shown it in school. Would explain why some people see it as an abbreviation rather than shortened verson of Tablature. [/quote] That sounds like a backronym! (And although tab can provoke religious wars, I hope none of them end in A&E )

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1467890179' post='3087031'] I'm old enough to have been around before the advent of tab. [/quote] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature: [quote][color=#252525][font=sans-serif]The first known occurrence in Europe is around 1300[/font][/color][/quote] Blimey!

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1467882842' post='3086901'] Not the usual tab vs dots question... [/quote]

So we have two more variants: [quote name='Vinny' timestamp='1467884707' post='3086938'] [/quote] "TaB"? [quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1467885175' post='3086944'] It should clearly be "TAB" in uppercase out of exclamation that folk actually use such a system when normal musical notation is available and far more descriptive through its design. [/quote] TAB!?!

[quote name='AndrewJordan' timestamp='1467822744' post='3086551'] Just listen to it and then move your fingers around until it sounds right...........................thats what I do...... [/quote] [quote name='paul h' timestamp='1467882860' post='3086902'] That's how I started out. I put on an Iron Maiden record and then moved my fingers around the fretboard until I found the notes that sounded correct. Really, isn't that just how everyone used to get started? [/quote] Although it sounds flippant, there's some truth in the 'moving your fingers around' method. What happens is that we quickly (hopefully!) learn that moving the fingers from A to B produces interval X... then when we next hear interval X, we know that we need to move our fingers from A to B. It's all about ear-training, and relating what we hear to fretboard. Theory helps enormously, but raw familiarity goes a long way.

Not the usual tab vs dots question... but I noticed in another thread that people keep referring to TAB - in capitals - and I'm wondering, why? It's short for tablature, so why not just call it "tab", or if one's being finickity, "tab."? Or is it a secret three-letter-abbreviation that I'm not aware of? #puzzled

Gogglebox theme - or at least the bit that frames the ad breaks (three notes)

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1466713099' post='3078164'] Rosewood feels nicer because it's not all varnished and shiny (and because I prefer rosewood)... [/quote] I prefer rosewood but my go-to bass is maple.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1467542734' post='3084360'] It's probably just me, but... whenever I see the word 'reliced', my mind interprets it as 're-liced'. As in, "the previous lice have all died, so I'm sending it off to be reliced". No? It's just me, isn't it. Ok, as you were. [/quote] It's not just you! I would prefer "relicking", as in "panicking". Although when I mentioned that before, someone said it sounded like something had been licked and needed to re-licked...

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1467458947' post='3083815'] James Jamerson used open strings to provide descending chromatic approach nights while playing in 'flat' keys. Although it's good not to become dependent upon open strings, that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't use them when they're available. [/quote] I was thinking the same thing! (Although I'd say ascending approach notes, e.g. an open D going up to E flat...) If it's good enough for Jameson... Also something like She's Lost Control without open strings would be... interesting.

Result!

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1467280684' post='3082439'] Had a Fender Bassman amp head. Took it to Andy's Guitars on Demark Street, for a commission sale. Andy Preston sold it, didn't give me the money, was subject to CCJ's, then went bankrupt, while managing to keep his Rolls Royce. So £500 loss. [/quote] Sounds familar, but I did eventually get my money - after several bounced cheques and a smalls-claims court action. Still regret selling the basses though!

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1467207511' post='3081924'] Yeah, this subject again - some of the comments get pretty abrasive [/quote] On second thoughts, I might not start that thread about the time I played my relic-ed basses (one rosewood, one maple for variety of sound), with a pick, in front of a music stand, for free...

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1467106960' post='3081174'] Seems I'm in the minority. I'm a protools user, have been for ages. I sometimes miss use logic though (no mac) [/quote] A minority of at least two! And there is actually a free version of PT now, but by all accounts it sucks!

Very nice, and just right in the mix too - none of that in-yer-face-look-at-me-mwa-mwa-mwa!

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1466960832' post='3080034'] If you still fancy Cubase, why not try 'Elements', the cut down version. Still, very, very usable, with a reasonable amount of Instruments and FX. You don't need a USB dongle either. [url="http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/cubase/line_up/cubase_elements_8.html"]http://www.steinberg...elements_8.html[/url] Better still - The fully working Trial version can be used for 30 days without any registration. [/quote] Yep, I'm not a Cubaser but I was going to ask if they do a cut-down version! Do you want to use third-party plugins? I know some of the (otherwise dandy) "entry-level" versions of the big DAWs don't support third-party plugins (but most have an excellent array of stock plug-ins).

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1467017967' post='3080395'] Coldplay...music for people who don't like music. I have no idea what I mean. [/quote] Perhaps that they're a band for people who put being part of an "event" before the music? They do the crowd-pleasing thing very well. I've not followed their career closely, but I remember that when they started they were talked about in the same bracket as Radiohead!