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Great news!! We have "watched worship" - the band plays and sings, the congregation sway / clap along / cry / jump around. No singing allowed - and nor do we expect it to happen until perhaps next year. I don't much like it - it feels too much like a performance. with too much focus on the band, and how well we play. That said, it has improved my chops massively. However, this means that the skill gap between the "improver" bands, and the regular band is increasing week by week. I am wondering what I can do to help.

To my surprise, I rather liked that! I thought that I would prefer a funky, or melodic line. However, the driving and unfussy bassline really supported the song, and showed me the value of a strong sense of rhythm. Thank for sharing.

I have a saved ebay search for these, and have never seen one with so low a starting price, and no bids. £199 - Hohner The Jack Vintage Bass Guitar , Headless , Black | eBay and it's for charity too. I shan't be buying it - too few strings, and I am doing the Gear Abstinence thing.

Paul McCartney and Wings, C Moon. Paul misses his vocal cue and says "Was that the intro? I should have been in . . ". Paul McCartney & Wings - C Moon [High Quality] - YouTube

A Reverse Kit - you buy it complete, then take it apart before putting back in a box and having it taken away by the driver in a big truck (the bin-man).

Hellzero, apologies for my misplaced quip. I had not intended to derail your thread, nor to offend you. I hope that you can accept my apology.

Is it bluegrass? Yee-haa. Gold Prospector's dance.

Was Not Was, when they were supporting Dire Straits. My dad was chuffed to have got us seats 5 rows from the front, looking into the stage-left bass enclosure, until the Was-sers (Wassocks?) started their tuneless barrage of funk playing. Awful. From that moment on, I took earplugs to gigs. However, on that day, I needed to use my own fingers.

I voted, for the first time. I very much enjoyed the music, and was impressed that basschatters have so much skill and imagination.

D, and G - the keys of worship (at least, they are in my church). And C is the key of ukulele. I started my bass journey with a 5 string - I did not want to think of the bass as a thick-stringed guitar, and wanted to treat the bass as a totally new (to me) instrument. However, I tended not to use the B string much. That's because the basslines that I was learning were from the 60s and 70s, and did not use the B string. It was also because the B string was a bit flappy, and did not encourage me to play across the neck. However, a new set of strings and better awareness of the fretboard, now allow me to use the B string for (say) the low E to G. On the few occasions that I tried it, I found it difficult to play a 4 string - all the notes are in the wrong place.

La Mer (Beyond the Sea) – Avalon Jazz Band. Treat your self to some French jazz. La Mer (Beyond the Sea) – Avalon Jazz Band - YouTube Tatiana Eva-Marie has an effortlessly smooth voice.

So, how does one tell that it is a fake Fender? It looks fine to me - big headstock, big tuners, the word "Fender" written on it. Strings on the headstock are at an odd angle, however. What should I be looking for, to tell real from fake?

Jacques Loussier 's jazz arrangement of Bach's Air on a G string, truncated by the Benson and Hedges cigar adverts. Jacques Loussier - Air On A G String - YouTube Only when I listened to the full version did I realise that there was an artist who was creating jazz arrangements of Bach pieces and that version that we are familiar with (from 0'56") had the introduction lopped off.

That's very sad - like a ghost town. I blame the Gear Abstinence thread, and the internet... I am always intrigued by how the shops move - Hanks was in the middle of the street, as was Wunjo's. Now, they are at opposite ends of the parade of shops. Music shops in Denmark Street are like hermit crabs - when a better shell is available, they move into it.

I had a set of Dunlop Roundwound Steels, 40s, and the B string was good - better than the previous set of La Bella flats. The B needs to be played more carefully - a gentler touch than I would use for the G string. As for the isolated recording, it does sound a bit clanky, and random - but in the mix, it sounds just right.

I read that as Gordon Brown (best know for his chart run from 1997 to 2007 as Chancellor of the Exchequer, but a lecturer in politics, journalist and editor for Scottish Television, Doctor of history, and Prime Minister)

Pachelbel. He was an organ and fugue composer of note, and his Canon and Gigue (jig) in D was lost and forgotten until the 1920s, when a single manuscript of the piece was discovered. As far as the public are concerned, it is his only hit, and was for 3 violins and "continuo" (bass) rather than organ. Tarrega was a virtuoso guitarists and composer, but is best known for two bars of music on a mobile phone - the Nokia ringtone, which forms part of his Grand Waltz.

yes - Ralph McTell is a country blues player, having taken his stage name from Blind Willie McTell.

This website may help - https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/john-butler-trio/ocean-tabs-777939. - to my surprise, a lot of church music is on there. I think that we use On Song which allows one to paste someone else''s version into it, and change key.

Ah, multiple choice. I pick B - "by predisposition won't do it". My final answer, I won't phone a friend, and I won't ask the audience (because that's even worse than smiling at them).

WWJD - what would Jaco do...

Not at all. You have shared the difficulties that are common to all church musicians. Your comments about the amount of time church musicians and the sound team need to invest made me realise how understanding my own leadership team are. It also made me understand why the model of willing amateurs just turning up to play does not always work (vocalists need to change key multiple times during a rehearsal; leader wants extra repeats or new songs in the service which would confuse people who do not know the songs well). Producing music that good worship is a challenge - more so during lock-down. In my own church, we no longer have any real rotation on most of the instruments, and we tend not to change the songs (we play what we are given, including 400 year old German hymns, Hillsong, Rend Collective, Townend, and Kendrick). We have previously been asked to have the young people involved, and did so, for a long time. However, they don't always turn up when booked, can't always play in time, and sometimes need to be taught how to play their instruments during the service. Again, that differs from your own experience of encouraging youngsters to get involved. We used to get the song list on Monday, the sheet music on Friday, and the chord charts when we arrived at church. We worked out the keys 45 minutes prior to the service, for as many as nine songs. We now get the songs over a week in advance and learn them on a Sunday run through and refine them at home throughout the week. For those reasons, we no longer involve children in the service, and the core band has been reduced from three dozen people willing to give it a go (carefully moderated by the sound guy), to perhaps nine hardcore people who are willing to give up their Sunday. When it works (and it very often does), the musical conversation between instruments, congregation and leader is wonderful to behold, and an incredible experience to be part of. It's a wonderful gig, but an odd one. Where else can one play each week, with a great PA, for 250 people, with musicians ranging from learners to professionals, with little warning of the songs?

Our only hope is that the sound engineer forgot to fade up your microphone . . .

Or did oldslapper just think about saying it . . . . ? I like the idea of a church band that requires a knowledge of songs and standards that rival a jazz combo, and a range of talent found in a primary school recorder recital.

It took me a while to get that, but when I did, the idea of a mixer tap piping the music made me smile!