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Lots of support for frontline NHS staff right now (and quite right too) but I know lots of people are also working hard to keep everything else working, not least bank employees like yourself. My sister works in a local branch and finds every day very stressful with customers losing their temper, not following the whole distancing thing and peoples stress levels generally heightened. So thank you.

Aw krap! Don't say that. I wanna remain the coolest guy in the band

Yep. But I keep thinking, how will anyone know how great I am unless I show them??? All well and good for Mr Sklar to have the respect of the entire music industry but I need to impress a bar full of drunken office workers and randy builders

I may well have to! But I was being specific about that one video. Watched the interview with GP as well now. What a lovely guy Mr Sklar is. Interesting to note that the Maccartney line he referred to when describing how good bass playing can be is similarly economical. I am excited to hear him let rip.

Just watched the first video up at the top of the thread there 👆. You could show that to anyone learning bass to illustrate how to support the song, to play well without the need for flashy fills. It's a beautiful illustration and a wake up call for me. I'm nowhere near as bad as I was 35 years ago but I am still guilty of playing way too much.

It comes down to cool.

Decided to take a day of from my arpeggios and circling fifths. Instead fettled and fiddled with a rack mount set up. A little Heath Robinson maybe but I like it. I need a shallower rack case and one less high too but this is what was in the shed. All my 👆2k go through their own amp into a 1x10 with horn, and have their own compression and a smidge of drive. All my 👇2k go through the SMX into a 1x15. The TE has with its own dedicated low compression and other tone sculpting goodies. Not decided which amp will power the small cab if ever I get back out there. Just trying a few options. Apart from the sound, which is amazing, set up and pack down will be much quicker and although I gain a big box I reckon I'll lose at least one case and one big cab.

I think I shall drill mine eventually. Right now it is glued to a length of insulation tape which is stuck to the bass. Easy to peel off if I don't like it but a very solid bond so it doesn't wobble. These details can make or break a bass for me. Never cared about nut width, don't worry about scale length or neck profile, but nowhere to rest my thumb? Neck dive? Pickup which cuts my finger? Deal breakers.

Horses for courses I guess. nothing wrong with Mark's content but I found the absolute opposite to be true. Zoltan was utterly engaging without the irritating happy chappy constant upbeat delivery of Talking Bass which puts me right off. Using a 5er was an excellent idea as his lessons work for 4 and 5 string players. I must have spent four or five hours in his company yesterday. Pure gold.

Every time I think I've heard it I hear another I like even more. But Bruce Thomas work on Every Day I Write The Book defies improvement to my ears.

Yay! I'm learning

Hi Zoltan, Is there a mistake in bar 5 of the pdf for the major and dominant 5th cycle? I was expecting a Bb. Still new to reading music so i may have missed something here!

All set up and nowhere to play! So many possibilities, some even practical. Most obviously wildly over the top like the two TE heads running here. But I have quarantine time while the plague is in town and I'm enjoying it. The ability to use a small cab for high mids and tops powered by a class D head and only take one larger cab saves space in the car. Also two heads are a lot easier to carry than my huge Trace biamp head. So thanks again for the advice. Bi-amping probably isn't necessary and maybe in a blind test I would be hard pressed to tell the difference, and yet I love it.

So far I'm loving the lessons. Really taking my time and getting into the scales and chords. Does the website have any details on costs for when the free course is finished?

I am investing many hours in a course which would usually cost you. And scrolling back it has been mentioned already. It has already began opening doors in my mind about how music works. It's exceptionally good. But right now free ... so move along nothing to see here etc

I so want to recommend the course I'm doing , but it's free right now and Al is very particular about what he will and will not tolerate. Shame though. It's a doozy

Yep. You can adapt your technique infinitely, but you can't magic a tortoise.

Brilliant! thank you. I know exactly what you mean about the finger nail sound so this could be a straight bullseye

Hi, I know I'm opening myself to lots of people telling me it's up to the individual and to try it for myself. But I figure it's nice to chat about things rather than buy and try and buy again. I haven't used a pick since I was a rhythm guitarist, but want to open every possible door I can into the instrument so I'm going to get me one. So if you have anything other than 'it's a matter of individual taste' or 'but really it is a matter of individual taste' then let's talk. Do bass picks have to be bigger that git picks? Is there a minimum pick thickness below which bass strings are too fat? What weight or thickness or however this stuff gets measured do you like, and why?

wow! Just listened to the first one beautiful stuff. Thanks for sharing

OP must have been very unlucky. Never had a problem with any of the HB I've bought. Could literally take them out of the box and gig them.

https://youtu.be/aY9mSZCKnSs

Favourite : Hey Bulldog * Least : Yellow Submarine *subject to change on a regular basis

I'm using jamkazam. Improved my latency so I can use it now up until mother loads up a boxset of death in paradise and starts streaming 🤦🏼‍♂️