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I think they were also fretted at this time too? I’m looking forward to this at my university in March. http://barber.org.uk/fretwork/

Online: The situation is not as clear-cut online. The legally binding contract is complete when a retailer accepts an order. However, acceptance does not necessarily happen at the point of order. Even the confirmation email may not be an acceptance. Some retailers reserve the right to cancel an order up to the point of delivery.

Is it different to a shop then, where they have to sell it at the advertised price?

The small print says they're only 20cm tall.

I don't really know what that is tbh, but I'm guessing it's a lot lighter than my 6.5kg bass :).

A grand total of 72. Including 2 in Paris, and 24 of them were solo.

Yep.

Why I love Logic Pro, though I’m sure other DAWs will do the same. I’ve been doing a remote session for a guy over the last day or so. It’s a kind of prog-rock thing in 7/4, very, very minimal percussion and drums. All he sent me was a WAV of the track. I imported it into Logic Pro, and using the tempo detect the tempo fluctuates quite a lot. So just playing along and recording was ridiculous. There are piano stabs at the start of each bar that you need to hit, which isn’t easy when they don’t fall exactly where you anticipate them. They were only maybe a fraction of a second out, but it sounds messy if you don’t get them exact. The tempo detect function though will not only detect the tempo but also add a click to record along with.

I thought we weren't allowed to mention it?

Thomman used to be my first port of call for most things. Alas not so now, something happened in late June last year that has seen their prices rise so they're no longer as competitive as they were. Could it be that their stock turns around faster than a lot of smaller UK shops, so the prices we're seeing are reflecting the lower value of the pound?

We all have our own preferences I guess. A 125 is what you'd find with those strings in a set. Personally I use a 110 B string on a 6 string bass, I tend to buy a 4 string heavy set and then buy lighter G and C strings. At the end of the day it's what you play and how you play. I do a lot of chordal stuff, and find that very light gauge works well for that. It obviously wouldn't work for other types of playing.

Amazon sell separate D'Addario strings, just buy maybe a 125, 105, 085, 065, or whatever your preferred gauges are.

How old is Tony Levin?

Michael Manring’s Soliloquy, and Steve Lawson’s behind every word. Those two albums opened my eyes to what bass can do. I was never really interested in playing bass as a ‘bass’, always more as an instrument, then I realised that you could. I’m now of the opinion that a groove is something you get stuck in, and should be avoided at all costs 😊.

The one jazz band I play in is made up of guys all in their 70s. This is Les, my student.

Slightly off topic. Did anyone see the news last night, the 84 year old lady sprinter? Music I think is brilliant for mental agility.

You don’t know him! His lady friend is about 30 years his junior 😊

One of my students was 80 in September. He's actually out of all my students the most dedicated. We're currently doing chord melody jazz stuff. He saw me showing off a few weeks ago, and wanted to learn how to do it. He's also getting a 5 string after Christmas. You're never too old.

It does do things a little differently. I'm like where's that?????? I end up posting on Facebook and the legion of people I know who use it come to my aid. I'm really just using it for diffusion. I spent last night bouncing 14 tracks down and importing them into a Reaper project that I've got to take into uni later for a tutorial. Reaper's multichannel capabilities are amazing, especially when combined with some of the GRM plugins. Really, I just need to spend more time with it.