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Paulownia body wood gets very mixed reviews.

https://www.alegree.co.uk/products/vintage-v30-maple-7-8-size-coaster-series-bass-guitar-boulevard-black?srsltid=AfmBOorEETRzDzAHGrbi9FJ8qaHtBxGGvLVbCpEdTTfsunjYlxh19NpI Considering this as a tinkering/upgrade project while my arm surgery heals. Anybody had a go on one?

https://www.alegree.co.uk/products/vintage-v30-maple-7-8-size-coaster-series-bass-guitar-boulevard-black?srsltid=AfmBOorEETRzDzAHGrbi9FJ8qaHtBxGGvLVbCpEdTTfsunjYlxh19NpI Considering this as a tinkering/upgrade project while my arm surgery heals. Anybody had a go on one?

I've tried quite a few different strings. I only play halfwounds or flats now. For a few years, I settled on Labella black tapewounds. Their depth of tone balanced-out the slightly "modern" tone of the pickups to give a nicely rounded sound with plenty of low end. Fender flatwounds didn't work quite so well - a bit too bright on this bass, in my opinion. I also tried some Status black nylons, but I was experiencing a lot of intonation issues. Then, I decided that tapewounds and nylons were a little too slack, and needed quite a high action which was tiring my fretting hand. At that point, I switched to Status Hot Wire half wounds, mainly because they were appreciably cheaper than most other good quality strings. These worked well for me on the bass and became my favourite strings until Status stopped making them. Now, the bass is strung with Picato stainless flatwounds 45/65/80/100 : https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/products/picato-stainless-steel-flatwound-45-100-bass-guitar-strings-short-scale?srsltid=AfmBOoqRRdcYcUJCqjgf78pul-hME30NWWN49P_8ZtwkNZBT3oXWarCN I had one set that lasted 2 years of rehearsing and gigging most weeks. Eventually, they started sounding a bit dull, so I replaced them with an identical new set - better the devil you know, I suppose.

A while ago, I had a Harley Benton shorty P bass. Put some Wilkinson alnico pickups in and a wiring loom off ebay. What an amazing bass, and all for £100. I stupidly sold it. Following an operation on my left elbow, I'm now off games for a couple of months and I'm bored. I'm looking for a good, sub £150 short scale P bass to tinker with. Is the HB Shorty still the best in that price range? Anything else?

Soul, neo soul, Northern Soul, Funk are my vibes. I tuned in to the programme intrigued to find out whether soul would work with a full concert orchestra. Very mixed results, in my opinion. My feelings: - Beverley Knight was by far the best singer. What a voice. - Bass was pretty high in the mix, which I hadn't expected. I quite thought it would be drowned out by a full orchestra. - Full orchestra treatment worked tolerably well with the more gospel, upbeat songs, but less so with the slower numbers. - Given that the programme was described as a "celebration of soul music", I was surprised by the dominance of the black/freedom/respect orientation. I absolutely realise the black african roots of soul music, but I was left slightly wondering what happened to white soul music. I suppose decisions had to be made about what to include and what to leave out in a 90-minute programme. - Trevor Nelson looked pretty uncomfortable as programme host. Stilted note-reading. - Overall; didn't quite do it for me.

Yes - that works. Thank you.

I had a very quick look at the Songster tab earlier today, and at the Chords on Ultimate Guitar. I must say, I was having trouble marrying the two together.

Aha! I hadn't seen that. Looks like it was published yesterday. Thanks for the link.

Aaah, yes - I see what you mean. Topic title changed.

Anybody got a tab for the bassline, please?

Just emailed the tab to you.

Hi, I'm not sure whether I sent you the bassline - apologies. Let me have your email address and I'll get it over to you.

Yep - Bb as last bar of Intro, verses, choruses, and definitely G# as last bar of bridge. Also, B (not G# as I originally had it) as last bar of chord sequence after the key change. I think I'm pretty much there now. Thanks to everybody.

Right - I've run it past Chordify a few times, I've re-read Terry M's and Burns-bass posts (thank you both), and I've tried to trust my non-musical cloth ears. This is what I've come up with so far. Three main things to check - 2nd bar in intro (Cm? Bbm?), Bridge chords, and last bar in chord sequence after the key change (G# or B?) Here goes - please be gentle - my music theory is very limited, as you'll see. Intro: |Cm |Bbm | F | G# G | Verses and chorus: | Cm |Cm |F | G# G | Bridge: |E | E |A |A |E |E |A |A |D |D |G |C# Thereafter: |C# |C# |F# |A G# |