paul_c2

Can it be disabled in the meantime?

I can't see how high street music shops can survive, against the competition of online ones and the ability to return up to 14 days. It was marginal before CV19.

What an upside-down way of selling something! I get the idea that you'd not necessarily artificially lower and lower a price until something is sold - because if you did, then the market would become very sensitive to short term fluctuations - but surely, if you're selling something, then you'd offer your lowest price to the widest audience, for the maximum success. There is no "brand loyalty" with eBay stuff, the vast majority buy whatever item they're interested in, at the lowest price (assuming the same quality of item). A physical shop can build up a loyalty, an online store possibly but less so. But a trading platform such as eBay, not really.

In my experience, pianos don't uniformly drift 30 cents flat either! Good luck.

Unfortunately the piano is a bit too flat to adjust to with your tuner, 30 cents flat would be A = 432.44Hz Online calculator here: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-centsratio.htm If its distance recording (ie not playing together), then you could put the audio for the piano through a plugin on eg Reaper, to correct it to A=440, then everyone else could tune to concert pitch as normal.

It sounds like its just you and you've had bad experiences with poor music teachers. Without picking through the entirety of the long post, phrases like "caught up in the technical side of playing" suggest they are not very good teachers, in that they have fundamentally not balanced out having fun, making music, being creative etc alongside a solid understanding of theory and technique. Having said that, teaching adults in a complete PITA, occasionally you'll get a "can't learn won't learn" situation.

Unions still get paid, if the workers they represent go on strike and don't. We need a postal strike/dispute like a hole in the head at the moment - and I can't see the general public giving it much sympathy. Meanwhile......EVERY eBay Trader that still uses RM is switching to a crappier/cheaper courier as we speak.....

The easiest way to remember them is that the notes are.........5 letters apart? Because its the circle of fifths....

IMHO Yes

I live in the North West too. No issues with my post. So it must be an area smaller and more specific to you.

This is part of the "new normal". Firms are going to have to adapt and cope with getting on with their day-to-day business activities with up to 25% less staff or so. In some sectors demand has gone down - a lot - and in some, its gone up.

Doesn't that make it really hard to play along with?

Don't bands normally start up and rehearse somewhat randomly? Then get their shizzle together and do a few gigs? Then loads more. Then do some recording. So this is for some other area, I guess songwriters who like to play with themselves, or bands with a useless or disorganised bassist.

Let's not rush too quickly back into gigging once the restrictions are lifted.......give it a few weeks at least, to meet up and do some rehearsals first. Otherwise those first gigs will sound like a bag of spanners.

Our Xmas booking is looking 50/50, I'd say. Its kinda impossible to answer the question......nobody knows.....

I have a theory that the sound/technique relates to the ratio of pick thickness to string size - so if you change strings to a lighter gauge set, to truly compare them you'd also need to adjust the pick thickness you use. However it kinda falls apart when you realise you use the same pick for (for example) all the strings 0.100" to 0.040"! Anyway.....its down to personal preference, but I use 0.60mm for guitar and 0.73mm for bass. It seems to feel similar. And I've found I'm quite, errrr, "picky" about the thickness too - it makes a big difference to the comfort/feel of playing (IMHO).

I just counted the major keys (the natural minor is a mode of the related major). C major (no sharps or flats) 1-7 sharps 1-7 flats Out of the 15 there's some which are enharmonic equivalents (Db and C#; Gb and F#; Cb and B)

I'm not seeing the attraction here?

Weird how the word "Jazz" seems to have accidentally popped into the description. Weird.

Bass (and guitar) have the advantage that once the light bulb illuminates, modes across all 12 keys (okay...there's actually 15 keys) are pretty much the same complexity. On something like a flute or a trumpet, you need to do some further logical thinking to "get to" the modes and its harder.

How long did you take?

Would be interested too. I had assumed the lag would kill the idea.....but keen to hear if it can be overcome somehow.

I think they're going to bump up the amount you get for Universal Credit by £1000. So, if those self-employed go and claim it now, they'll start getting it. And there is an up-front loan so no 5 week delay.

By tomorrow, the government will have the legal powers to shut down events and venues.

A quick scan through and it has a low D! Do you want it tabbed for 5 string bass, or 4 string tuned DADG?