Woodinblack

Got to have had a hard time at school with that

There is a SubZero midi merge box?

Nope, every bass has its strap. Some of them are the generic ones though. and obviously there is a spare

There is of course a bit of both. I was always in the 'I can never play hit me with your rythmn stick' because it is too fast for me. Turns out with a lot of playing slow and speeding up, I now can mostly play it. I am now sure I am hitting a physical limit but before that I was definately against a mental limit.

Oh I was counting straps as consumables. I had to get a turquoise strap from the states, I mean, it is hard to get the right colour when you have a turquiose bass. In fairness, it was more than the effects pedals!

Book finally turned up. Guess I have to try and get into it now!

Pretty balanced here: Out: G&L 2500 Roland GAIA Chapman NS-Stick Gretch G220 Some effects pedals In: Shuker 6 String (and ready to go out again) Shuker 5 string some effects pedals of less value than the ones that went out In and then out: Ibanez EHB1505 (sent back, lost, ready for replace, none available got fed up chasing) Line 6 Helix So currently, I am actually up on this year for the first time ever

At least - maybe 500 more...

That is the very definition of a gentleman. Someone who can play the banjo but doesn't

There was a maintainance guy where i used to work who used some kind of spray black paint on his head. He was fairly bald in the middle so that was sprayed too. From a distance it looked quite bad, close up it looked just like he had sprayed his head with a can of halfords black car spray paint. It was hard concentrating when you were talking to him.

Indeed, I don't think that has been documented before. Although I must admit, it does look like he used spray paint

My limiting factor is speed in my left hand. This isnt a new issue, this is since i have been a child, my left hand can not move as fast as my right hand. This is more a piano issue than a guitar / bass issue, as often on the piano your hands have to do the same things. Its not a huge limitation. I can play fool for your loving no problem, I don't find it hard. I am pointing out however that just because I don't find it hard doesn't mean that many other people might find it hard, and that saying 'oh its easy get over it' is not really that helpful. My piano teacher used to shout at me about my hand being slow, saying I was being lazy not making it faster. Probably why I react a bit too much to people saying its easy. Three finger plucking I can do all day, because that is my right hand. I don't find any steve harris song hard. Obviously if I had to do a whole set of his I would probably get knackered after a while and certainly if I haven't played much for a while my hand would notice after run to the hills, but in general not an issue. Having said that, Hysteria for instance, two fingered plucking, after a while I willl stop it and play plectrum style as my hand has a problem with that. HIt me with your rythmn stick I can do but in the middle change around bit my left hand with its clumsy slowness will often mess up. None of that, I just know after all these years of trying (and i really did try when I was young), the fingers on my left hand will not move past a certain speed.

Not always true, there is a hard physical limit of what you can do. I have no problem with Fool for your loving, don't find it that hard, but some of the faster lines, my fingers will physically not move fast enough with all the will in the world and all the practice. Running a 4 minute mile is just a question of running an 8 minute mile faster, doesn't mean everyones bodies can actually do it, even if they know how to put their feet in the right place!

If you have to have a 6 string, fender do actually do a 6 string Jazz bass! https://reverb.com/uk/item/2274150-fender-steve-bailey-signature-6-string-bass

Yeh, there were a few songs that we dropped for our singer, but in the end it just sounded a bit lifeless that low, so one we put back up for him to struggle with, the other one we dropped.

This is a nice example of Just tuning which is one of the original ways of tuning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daw93bRHe4Y

Its that, its just higher or lower than you want. There is no difference in key in a current western scale.

Well, what it conveys now is nothing, it just changes the pitch. What it conveyed before was different. How you related to that and how you felt about it, obviously that is interpretation. Using certainly keys and intervals in the middle ages would have been enough to get you strung up, so you didn't do it to express some feelings, or at least not where the church was powerful! And obviously how the key feels depends what key the instrument is tuned to. That list up there of moods were playing keys in an instrument tuned to the key of C, ie, a harpsichord. If that instrument had been tuned to D flat, then all the moods would shift by one. Luckily with the bass, the frequencies are low enough to not cause us issues, but you certainly notice it if you ever try to tune a guitar, especially via harmonics. However it means you can do interesting things with tuning, like tuning to a key for a song will give you a much nicer tone, but then means you cant play other things.

Wait.. something in Radstock? I assumed there was nothing in radstock apart from a coop and a funeral place.

The relationship between any two notes can only be the same if the scale is even tempered. If it isn't, it means the relationship between a specific interval in a different scale has to be different. Hence why different keys in olden days had a different feel. Which is the reason that compositions were in specific keys. When it comes to even tempered, it isnt exactly in tune, like 3:2 is, that would be a frequency of 1.5 times the original. However, in even tempered it is 1.49831. ie, it is just off. All the notes are just off, and as a result, nothing is quite in tune, but nothing is very out of tune either. And more importantly, every key is the same off tune. Sadly audio frequencies weren't designed to be nicely divided by 12.

There was truth to it back in the day*. Now we have an even tempered scale, meaning the differences between each note is the same, no there is no difference (even d minor isn't really the saddest key). But back in the day, the notes were difference so there really was a difference between the scales. The day being about 200 years ago. Since the beginning of the 1800s even temprement has been the norm. Before that, anyones choice. Stuff really did sound different

Me too, with only my brief periods of anger at bax to keep me sane!

The vapours, It is in my bands current set list and with the last band - thinking about it it is one of the ones I copied across. Should have also copied pump it up, used to like playing that one. Well, and the jam stuff but that wouldn't suit our band

I see you still have the same keyboard

Well, agreed, it doesn't have to be a straight copy and fills and trills are certainly as required and when the band is playing it like there is a bus to catch some of those have to go, as long as the core is there, like the run down on the line 'fool for your loving' which i have heard reduced to a note on fool and a note on loving