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Started playing bass 10 years ago, and have been in and out of covers bands for the past 8 years. My initial guess at the number of songs I've played is - errrm - 250. Well, it's taken me all afternoon, and the total is 519. Blimey.

Anybody?

As a result of Santa bringing me The very best of Crowded House, I've been overdosing on their songs. I've played quite a few in covers bands before, but not Chocolate cake. I can find the chords on the web, but not a bass tab or a bass cover video. so I've had a go at tabbing out the bassline myself. Anybody else done this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M699TqhO06k

Yep - I strongly suspect you're right.

Update from Andertons; Delivery expected "on or about 15th January".....

and...Sharon Jones right in the soul groove here. Not completely convinced about Darryl Hall's singing in this instance, however.

Not sure whether this has been posted before. Had a bit of a funk--out last night:

Update from Andertons today: Delivery now put back to 5th January.

Just jammed along to it. Sort of. Thought I could hear some echoes of Paul Young and Mick Hucknall in the singer's voice. For me, the track slightly ran out of puff and direction about 2/3rds way through. Pino lifted the middle instrumental with some nicely understated playing but, overall, I felt the song lacked sparkle/bounce/interest/hooks. That's just me though.

Not here yet. Last message from Andertons on 27th October said they were expecting delivery "on or around 27th November"...

I wanted a Maple fretboard. The surf green one was just a smidge too, errm, "sweet" for my personal taste.

Held out for as long as I could. Caved in today, and ordered a CAR one...

Andertons are saying late November for delivery. Price has already gone up from £499 to £549, even though none has hit these shores yet... https://www.andertons.co.uk/g-l-tribute-fallout-short-scale-bass-candy-apple-red

Well, it was a long time ago when I did my Psychology degrees! Since then, I spent all of my working life as an Occupational Psychologist trying to understand and predict human behaviour in the workplace. Eventually, I gave up and retired. Took up bass playing instead. Off the top of my head, here are a few things may be innate in humans, but I'm not saying they definitely are; Blink reflex Disgust reaction , and an associated puckered-lipped expression. Garcia Effect, which is an innate predisposition to associate illness with taste on a one-trial basis. Wariness around snakes. The Five-Factor model of personality, sometimes referred to as the OCEAN model. Primacy and Recency effects in memory. - the tendency to remember the first and last things in messages. Eyebrow lift as a greeting. Miller's magic number 7 (Plus or minus 2) - how many "chunks" of information can humans comfortably process at any one time. Innate predisposition and ability to learn language. Chomsky was your main man there, I think The need for some sort of over-arching belief system. Doesn't matter what it is - Shamanism, Sun-worship, Communism, Belief in Spirits/Gods, whatever. It's long been argued that humans have an innate need to believe in something... Steve

Here's the link: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-33/october-2020/which-human-experiences-are-universal

My other half is attempting to learn piano, and she's really struggling. I show her how to play a scale, saying something like: "Let's start on C, do the do-rey-me thing, until we hit C again" Blank looks. She regards two C's an octave apart as different notes because they sound different. She is not Bolivian.

Thanks for the link to that article.

In the latest edition of The Psychologist - the magazine of the British Psychological Society - is a short article in the research section that discusses whether pitch perception is a universal human phenomenon. I'll try to paraphrase it: "In Western music, the octave system is mathematically based - move up an octave, and a given note doubles in frequency. Perhaps Western music has come to use this system because it relates to the way sound waves physically stimulate the cochlea in the inner ear. In other words, there's something biologically fundamental, and universal, about the way we perceive pitch. But, is this true for non-Western music? In 2019, a team from the Max Planck institute revealed that a remote group of people living in the Bolivian rainforest doesn't process pitch in this way. The Bolivians don't perceive similarities between two notes an octave apart. This work adds to other research, notably in vision and smell, revealing that, while all humans possess the same hardware, culture influences our sensory perceptions." I thought that was rather interesting.

Ha! This morning, I decided that I'd sell my Squier Musicmaster. Put it on Gumtree, I thought. Just before I did that, I checked the BC "Wanted" section and discovered that Cheddatom was looking for a white Musicmaster. We swapped photos and -yes! - I had his first ever bass. It's now back with him, and I'm really pleased that it turned out the way it did. Bit of BC Karma, right there. Steve

Just listened to it again. How about Root/octave for intro, verse and outro, with root/fifth for Pre chorus and chorus? I should have a first-stab version of a bass tab by the end of today if anybody wants a laugh.

Anybody working on the bassline for this song? It's from Weller's latest album, released in June (I think). I found the chord structure online - https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/paul-weller/more-chords-3219338 Sounds like bassline is more or less root-octave throughout. Anybody got it sorted?

So you're a Group B player then! Ha! What basses do you have at the moment, please?

Billy-no-mates here in Group B!?

Any other Group B short scalers out there? What bass do you play? I seem to like the inter-fret spacing of short scale, but not the short distance from the nut to my body. The reason I seem to get on with my Lakland Hollowbody 30 so well appears to be because the neck is positioned quite a way outboard, the neck is fairly chunky front-to-back, and the front strap pin is positioned at F 13. All this means that the bass - even though the neck is 38mm at the nut and 30" scale - doesn't feel anywhere near as cramped as other shorties I've tried.

Thanks for compiling this for us. Worth a stickie, maybe? A good look at the pictures, plus a chat with BC's Scrumpymike (encylopedic knowledge of short scales), has really helped me to narrow-down the basses that would most probably work for me.