stewblack

I live with my elderly mother who takes one walk a day. This is the time I can plug in my amp. Silent practice otherwise. A music room I could store my gear in and play at reasonable rehearsal volume whenever I want is the stuff of dreams for me.

you win!

Similar situation here. Jammed with some guys online had video chats with one of my bands, but nothing scratches that itch

It's learned. I don't think I was ever in a band that wrote songs with a Gb or a Db in the chord structure. However F#m cropped up all the time and Bb and Eb often came up too. A, D, G all the time. Heck, I only just discover B# and Cb aren't made up!

Nope. I'm the same.

Very kind.

Just watched Hang In Long Enough. Now that I really enjoyed. The whole thing not just the bass. To see that LS reacts in exactly the same way as I do toa mistake was heart warming and hilarious. Please keep them coming.

My pleasure. I am getting there, I can now recite the circle backwards (anti clockwise) without having to picture a bass and work out what comes next! The great thing about the exercise is it shows me clearly the area of the fretboard and the chords I don't know well. Probably predictably it's DB Ab and Gb. Weirdly I have less of a problem with C#, G# and F# 🤔

OK, well, that is a record for me. Three Phil Collins tracks in one day. Three more than I have listened to in the last decade! But oh what a treat. I Missed Again was a bit sloppy apparently. Ha ha ha - oh to be so sloppy. Wonderful wonderful bass line.

I fell over a bass

Hey back to the guy with the beard. I noticed he often plays with just his first finger on his right hand. Today is the day I stop seeing this as a major technique defect and, whenever I see a video of myself doing it, just let it go.

*stamps feet* I WANT MY CAKE

Things I have discovered during this period of isolation. 1: The sleep function of the G75 really works. Put the guitar down while going to the loo and the batteries cease to drain until you pick it up again. 2: Lloytron recheargable batteries bought from Proper Job run out when the remaining battery time on the G75 shows 3 hours and 30 minutes. 3: A fully charged set of Lidl 'Tronic' recheargables shows 6 hours 45 minutes when inserted. 4: I realise 2 and 3 above are pretty useless pieces of information when trying to determine the playing time privided by either Lloytron or Tronic. 5: Even the most disgusting cough sweets contain sugar. 6: 5 isn't more than tenuously connected with music but is important to me. 7: Plectrum delivery time, even while using Amazon Prime, is entirely unpredictable. 8: I have too much bass gear.

Realised my knowledge of the arpeggios was patchy (at best) so I've been working on the major / dominant 5ths exercise. Needless to say the course has stalled while I get my head around it! But it's coming ............... slooooooowly

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.