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Further to this. Once we've all used to isolated bass to learn the notes, here is what we need to play along. Do you come out of the instrumental break at the same time as the drummer? I don't 😫

Welcome to the gang! I hope you love it as much as I do.

I once put up a curtain pole for a man who's girlfriend is the niece of John Deacon.

I have the same white knob, I believe it is the Spectracomp toneprint I loaded on it. Excellent compressor, does what I want it to. Which is lucky.

Heaven - the raw animal power of Lemmy, the smile of Kinga Glyk.... I think you can all see where this is heading 😬

With me outside, nose pressed against the window

This looks like a very serious piece of kit! Congrats on tracking it down.

Sorry, I started work on it, got distracted, and didn't finish! I'll take another look at it.

Good lord! That's a heck of a thing. Good luck.

Entirely painless transaction with Gareth concluded today when the footswitch I bought arrived. Highly considerate seller, marking the goods as sold while I sorted my finances. Happy to recommend this most excellent Basschatter.

Jamerson playing. Bruce Thomas on my left, Norman Watt - Roy on my right.

Reading Nile Rogers' autobiography and one memory he shares is of sitting in an audience with Chris Squire on his left, Bernard Edwards on his right and Paul McCartney on stage. Bassist heaven he called it. I doubt any of us can match that, so let's fantasise. Who's sitting next to you and who is on stage?

Didn't see what you wrote after this, too busy vigorously nodding my head.

Nice job!

Just brought back memories of an horrendous guitar player filling the stage and the room with bottom end. So loud, so overwhelming that I just stopped playing. I couldn't be heard. He was blithely unaware. When I asked him afterwards if he had noticed he had no idea what I meant. Cloth eared twerp.

This is exactly it. I have spent a lifetime following the chord tones and using trial and error to join them with notes in between. Sometimes certain notes fitted other times they didn't. I want to learn to understand which notes work and why, rather than throwing darts blindfold and hoping to hit the right number. In the past if jamming with folk I would just play incredibly quickly when moving from one chord to another.It hid the bum notes and impressed the muggles. Had a happy career for decades doing this, but now I want to learn differently. Also its wonderfully rewarding and fascinating.

This is one of the main reasons I'm not a tone chaser. Also why I know that the SVT is, and in all probability will remain, the finest amp I ever played through. I've come to enjoy the tone I get at home but never chase it in a gig. Too many variables Rooms vary, ebb and flow of bodies changes things, sound engineers make you sound how they like it, and different mates or band members giving you the nod in a pub soundcheck have their concept of levels too. And most importantly what I hear won't be what the audience hears anyway. The SVT by the way just sounded awesome in every single setting.

I only know if Mr Pastorius from this forum. However as my prejudice fades and my tastes expand I am open to learn from anyone. The exercise was suggested by Jeff Berlin in his FB group.

Ouch!

Approaching Chuck Berry territory