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Indeed, but it's surprising the number of students I meet at work who didn't study music at secondary school.

You might want to read this. As someone who works full-time in music and with young people setting out on their music careers, I'd argue there's never been a better time. True, the cost of living crisis is impacting a lot of people. However, gone are the days when you needed a record contract or a huge budget behind you to record albums or singles. All you need nowadays is a smartphone and some creativity. Youngsters are also pretty adept at marketing themselves using social media. https://www.ukmusic.org/news/new-report-reveals-music-industry-delivers-4bn-exports-boost-to-uk-economy/

Following artists and musicians I like is the reason I have a social media presence. I find instagram is the best platform. You don’t need to get bogged down with the nonsense that’s on there. Just follow the people you want to follow.

Why are you playing the record and playing bass at the same time? Why not just record your track into your DAW, then play along to that? It’s omitting having two things going into the DAW at the same time. The few times I’ve done live-streamed gigs I used OBS. They were being streamed via YouTube. I haven’t tried via Facebook.

Have you checked the inputs on the DAW correspond to the imputs you’re using? It might be easier to record the backing track first and simply play along to it, rather than trying to record both simultaneously.

Send her a link to this thread. Job done.

A post like this has popped up on New Year's Day for as long as I've been a member of the forum. If you don't like something then don't watch it. I saw about thirty minutes of it. I didn't like the music but as a musician, I enjoyed watching the performances.

Just groove over F Ab and Bb.

It surely shouldn't make any difference where it's made. They should still be built to the same standard.

It's good that she gets to choose her audition pieces. The day of my audition is now just a blurry memory, but I remember being the most nervous that I've ever been. We could choose one of our own which could be an original piece. It had to showcase our technical proficiency - or otherwise. The other piece was given to us on the day. We were given a transcription and had - I think - 30 minutes to prepare it. Good luck to her anyway. I know a couple of people who studied music at Bath Spa. One is a guy I work with. They all have good things to say about it. She'll have a wonderful time. I miss my undergrad days. I'm often walking about at work, hearing the students practising in the rehearsal rooms, and wishing I could walk in and join them.

I teach on a BA Popular Music course. I don't teach on the performance modules but I did audition a couple of the bass students last year. One did Dream Theater’s 6 o'clock which I was very impressed by. Another student did Run for Hills by Iron Maiden.

Why not? I know lots of people who play more than one instrument. How good a musician is she? I know several bass players who have just a meagre knowledge of music and rely on TAB for the lines they play. On the other hand, all the keyboard players I know have a good knowledge of music. If she learns the parts then I don't see the problem.

The words ‘what an absolute mess’ spring to mind.

Is that on the same side of the road but back toward the centre? There is a pub there that has bands.

There are a few empty shops in the Custard Factory. I go there most days for coffee.

No, that's over the other side of the city centre. There's loads of work going on around Digbeth, it's for the tramway though.

The Irish Centre in Digbeth, Birmingham. I went to a few gigs there in the 1990s with my brother. It is, or was, just a few hundred metres from the college I teach at. Now, sadly reduced to a pile of rubble. Probably to make way for more of the flats and apartments you can see behind it.