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Welcome aboard - looking forward to seeing your creations

I play a classical guitar as well as a bass - the only issue is that the right hand technique is *very* different (oh, and long fingernails don't help the bass playing), but there is a little overlap. Why not? I've just started playing drums for something a bit different and it's a scream - if you have the time and find it fun then there should be no issue. Music is 10% technique, 90% feeling (mind you, the 10% technique can take a lifetime to acquire)

Ah the Thumb - I've thought about the other way around (selling a thumb and buying something else) but I just don't think I could do it. The Thumb is perfect (to my ears and hands anyway)... go for it

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1354026253' post='1881002'] Numbers are important. They get everywhere. [/quote] Numbers are serious, they leave their shape everywhere?

Oh dear - a couple of cringeworthy moments spring to mind. I remember coming in after 4 bars of lead guitar with a massive power chord... in the wrong key! I had no idea what was going on in my head... we just stopped - laughed a lot - and re-started the whole thing. The audience seemed cool about it (charity gig - forgiving crowd!) Oh, and playing almost the entire 'killing me softly' in F# minor rather than F minor, but funnily enough it didn't seem to be a problem until the end of the first chorus where it sounded bad enough that i worked out the problem. Funnily enough, the band didn't ask me to pack my bags....

EUB sounds fun but I'm playing bass, classical, and drums at the moment. I need another instrument like a hole in the head

Funny old world indeed. I think - for what it's worth - music is all about people, you know, the chance to play music with others and create for other people's enjoyment, and for your own. As soon as you lose sight of this it goes flat!

I've been playing over the last few weeks (Odery kit with TRX dark jazz cymbals) and it's a complete scream! Recommend a few lessons though and then you're good to go for a bit of fun

A limited edition Thumb?? Bring it on... you can't have too many Thumbs

Well, more like "the hills are alive, with the sound of Warwick!"

Well music is music and you might get 'the fire' again, who knows Yes, we made up - off to pub for a beer or two...

Donation made - worth every penny - great community to be 'part of' Keep up the good work.

So... about 8 weeks ago I stopped playing bass, left my band, turned my cabs off and picked up my classical guitar again and (shock!) grew my fingernails. All the joy and fun had gone out of playing bass after a couple of years of excitement, learning, gigging, and thinking bass was the best thing since sliced bread... I'm loving my classical again, and remembering what it was like to play runs, chords, melody and all the other classical-ness. But I had a sh*t morning this morning with the other half - rowing and spitting feathers over the stupidest little thing - dunno, maybe the endless rain and grey skies had got to us. I Stormed out - spent the day walking on the hills on my own and thinking about stuff. Came back an hour or so ago and for some strange reason just picked up my bass again, plugged it in and played for an hour. Suddenly remembered why I liked it, why it speaks to me, how playing along to my favourite music lets out all kinds of crap from me and lets me just enjoy the music. Somehow the playing has improved - kind of relaxed and fun, I wasn't expecting anything much but what a scream, and it just seemed to 'flow' more. Now I'm all excited to play - and play *lots* again Has anyone else had a similar experience? A break and then back with a vengeance?

I'd recommend Odery if the budget stretches - a brazilian drum brand (one of the largest in Brazil) has just started exporting and hence a great price. Drummer magazine just reviewed one of their entry level kits and were wowed I have TRX (dark jazz) cymbals with mine (with a Sabian china) and it's an excellent combo.

Well, two weeks doesn't seem so bad then - I'm well back into bass so it's probably just a wimpy couple of weeks.

Nope - we do none of those (original OP's list). Our top tracks are: Woman's Heart (Mary Black and Kirsty Maccoll) Don't Know Why (Norah Jones) Run (Amy McDonald) Hotel California Jocob's Dream Killing me Softly (Roberta Flack) Chasing Cars Shut up and Drive

I had a bass lesson yesterday. Nothing unusual in that I guess, but it's after two weeks of just not being 'into' playing my bass. For well over a year now i've played my bass every day, and loved every moment of it - couldn't get enough of it to be honest; but two weeks ago I suddenly couldn't really care less. Apart from pre-booked gigs, I didn't bother and went out and bought myself a drum kit and booked my first two drum lessons. Talk about mid life crisis! I'm loving the drums - i've always wanted to try them - and I'm going to continue playing them, but yesterday's bass lesson came and went and I realised that all I needed was a break and a bit of 'bass-down-time' Just wondering if anyone else had been through the same kind of feelings during their bass playing history? How long did it last? Has it happened more than once?

Welcome on board - beware though, this forum can be an incredible black hole into which much of your free/practice time can be absorbed with no hope of escape!

Great gig last night - did about a 45 minute set as 'the featured band' and played/sang well - seemed to click with the lead guitarist at last Two people came up afterwards and said I should do more vocals as my voice was 'great'... (though that might not have pleased our vocalist) the crowd was relaxed and happy and whooped and clapped after each track. Quite a buzz really

Just call Bernie and give him the description, serial and photo and he'll soon tell you if he built it. That's what I did with mine (and he had built it to my relief). Bernie has records but remembers many of his basis from their build anyway.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1349511698' post='1827141'] I can play a lot of different instruments, but I've never got anywhere with drums. It requires the kind of physical co-ordination of all 4 limbs that you've either got, or you haven't! [/quote] I had a lesson (just 1!) back in may and found the coordination between feet and hands relatively natural - I found I could pump out a syncopated, or slowly changing, pattern without too much practice. I know there is far more to it than this, but my teacher at the time said that my coordination was pretty good. I've booked another lesson - just managed to squeeze this task in before my up coming 5 hour band rehearsal with loads of bass playing