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Yet another Verithin, which I've owned since the late 80s. It dates from 1967, so it's the same age as me [Img]http://www.cybertects.co.uk/music/images/hofner_sml.jpg" class="ipsImage" />

[quote name='tinyd' timestamp='1374135168' post='2145567']Another thing to remember is that the whole band (in particular the drummer) have to be playing with a similar feel.[/quote] Although Fleetwood Mac famously trash that particular rule and make it work, with Mick Fleetwood playing ahead of the beat on drums, and John McVie on bass, playing slightly behind it. Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman had a similar sort of arrangement.

Apols for the slight bumpage TBH, I suspect attempting to use a metronome against a Beatles track is probably going to be inaccurate - Ringo didn't use a click track and he's a human being. I love the Beatles, but strict accuracy of BPM timing was never their strong point. There's a fascinating article (plus follow up) on using computers to analyse the deviations from metronomic time in popular music [url="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/02/in-search-of-the-click-track/"]http://musicmachiner...he-click-track/[/url] [url="http://musicmachinery.com/2010/02/08/revisiting-the-click-track/"]http://musicmachiner...he-click-track/[/url] and you can try it out for yourself [url="http://labs.echonest.com/click/?songId=SOAAFWL13927072F2F&artist=The+Beatles&title=Lucy+In+The+Sky+With+Diamonds"]http://labs.echonest...y+With+Diamonds[/url] [url="http://labs.echonest.com/click/?songId=SOYPINJ12B0B808B33&artist=Nirvana&title=Heart-shaped+box"]http://labs.echonest...eart-shaped+box[/url]

You gotta love some Philip Webb.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1374709356' post='2152391']Just learned the other strings are meant to be tuned differently, so now I've suddenly gotten the A, the D and the G to relate to as well, making a total of four (4) different notes![/quote] Oh. I wish someone had told me this before. I just tried it and those strange clicky-flappy noises on the Musicman went away. But the 5th string on my 5-string is still second 'E', right? Like a 12-string guitar doubles up on notes? Thanks for the welcome.

Hi all - thought I should introduce myself here. I've been playing bass for about 25 years (eek!) though sometimes I still feel like I'm a rhythm guitarist masquerading as a bass player. The peril of being a teenager in bands put together from friends where where everyone is a guitar player is that *somebody* has to play bass and and drums :-) With family commitments, I've scaled back my gigging to a few times a year in recent times rather than the sometimes several times a week that I used to do in my 20s. Amazingly I am still playing with a mate that I was at school with. Main duties are carried out on a 1979 Musicman Sabre that I've owned for about 20 years, which seems to do just about anything I ever ask of it with aplomb. The other two instruments that come out to play on on occasion are a 1967 Hofner Verithin (it does bass feedback wonderfully when I need it and its a darn sight lighter than the MM) and an OLP MM3 5-string. Modest amplification - I've had the same rig of a Marshall 3520 head and Gallien Krueger 210T cab for most of the last two decades. That said, the postman brought me a shiny and tiny GK MB500 this very morning! When I'm not playing bass, I'm either at my day job messing with computers or indulging in my other long-standing passion, photography. Pics of the kit and other stuff on my web site http://www.cybertects.co.uk/music See you all round. Rob