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I think the 14 days thing is only for distance selling/purchasing.

It's very good at that. I was recorded by a local radio station last year, he used one and it sounded great when played back over the radio. It's got a combination of mics, mid-sides and X/Y I believe. I use a Zoom H4n Pro for recording gigs and for general field-recording, I'm really happy with it.

I came across a photo on Instagram last week. It was a photo of the dashboard of someone's truck in America, they were off on a road trip. It showed a pile of cassettes in front of the cassette player, one of them was mine, which was kind of nice. my Mom and Dad were happy.

It’s telling the keyboard or guitar player what to include. Including a 6th or 11th actually in a chord gives it a lot more colour. I tell students to analyse bass lines; try it yourself, pick any line that you know and compare it against the chords for the song or piece; analyse it and see what harmonically the line is doing. Or use the one above. There’s no mention of playing a 6th or 13th over the BbM7, but it’s in the line; the G.

You can play any note from the scale (and outside) really. It depends entirely on how you want it to sound. Look at the transcribed line I've attached for instance. There's a lot of root notes, also some chromaticism, 4ths, 6ths. Bar 17 for example the chord is a BbM7. The line starts on the root note Bb, the next note is a G which is the major 6th, the next is an F the 5th, back to the G then an A which is the 7th.

I had an email this last week from the MU, offering free PAT testing for members in Birmingham.

The guy who I studied with when I was 15/16 got me into jazz. He leant me the cd of Miles at Montreux on this tour.

Totally off topic, but Rietveld does a beautiful solo here:

I liked Foley’s piccolo bass playing with Miles. Benny Reitveld was playing regular bass.

My oldest student will soon be 81. I think that says it all about never being too old to learn. He’s just bought a 5 string too. I have a few students in their 40s and 50s. You just need to have the desire and time to learn, that’s all.

I do it all the time.

I’ve had a lot of success using Facebook. There’s usually a sales group for a specific item, effects pedals there are a few, there’s a couple of good bass guitar ones, a great synth one. Obviously there’s gumtree too which I’ve had luck with.

I've heard of trading fours, whereby each member takes it in turn to solo for four bars. it only lasts until each member has solo'd though.

It’s quite scary really the lengths people will go to scamming you. Did the person who did the buying here use a normal PayPal payment funded by a debit or credit card? If they did then surely they could get their money back from the bank. I bought something from eBay once that never got sent, NatWest refunded me in a few days, I just had to send them screenshots of the emails and eBay screens as proof.

Won’t the court award compensation?

Michael Manring's Thonk. https://www.allmusic.com/album/thonk-mw0000622623

The Motown book is good.

Practice?

Cassette tapes haven't disappeared at all, if anything they're growing in popularity. There's at least five cassette only labels that I know of. I released a cassette album in January, it sold surprisingly well, there's another being released by the same label early next month, and a release is scheduled on a different label in September. Cassettes are probably quite genre specific. Check out these labels : https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/music https://softerror.bandcamp.com/album/care-work

Birmingham. Just an hour and a half from London, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool. Great motorway access, excellent railway access.

Songs, I have whole genres.