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  1. Geek99
    To be honest my first though was “you lazy ...” but then i thought about it a bit more. Back in 2001 i wanted to get certified in java nd i struggled in motivation. In th send i booked the test to give me an end goal. Then i got out a calendar nd allocated a topic to each day, with revision days. You don’t need someone else to organise you. ad i passed...
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    You could teach yourself - it’s not hard
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    Yes but amputation is final and there is no going back. it is a different situation Not learning to read is different because you are voluntarily passing up on a method of communication, rather than being unable to communicate
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    What good would it do if you could only communicate with your fellow English humans by sign language as opposed to communicating using a system of mutually understood words? That’s how I see reading music, you cannot share bass tab with a drummer (or indeed anything) learn it, but at a pace you can cope with. So a few key signatures, then one stave, then some rhythm symbols. Rome wasn’t built in a day, being unable to read music is having one hand tied behind your back
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    I listened to iron maiden this morning - lyrical drivel
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    “Not buying a cowbell” seems a good answer
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    Still are
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    Ed Friedlands book is a good start
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    Keeper
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    It’s like saying “don’t watch youtube! Ever” Tuning by ear comes with time or not at all. It really doesn’t matter if you can’t do it. I still can’t get it right and you know what ? The sky has not fallen in. I don’t see the harm in ten minutes of random notes or noodling to a simple drum beat (as part of a balanced practice routine). How else will you gain the confidence to play with a drummer without the crutch of a metronome?
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    Beginners don’t have that confidence If they get it wrong it sounds dreadful and many or even most will give up. Make it easy for them to sound good. Using a tuner is a good crutch and it’s not an imprisonable offence Even if you sound rubbish to a practised ear just doing your exercises to a simple drum beat is a good confidence boost. Metronomes are valuable but sap the soul and confidence of a beginner. I think sometimes we forget here what it’s like to have zero confidence, knowledge, experience and guided input and adopt a very 1930s attitude to learning. Make it fun and confidence-boosting and more people will stick at it
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    Why a five string squier?
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    I just use the ampeg sound and headphones
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    I use a zoom for practice and it’s fabulous if I go to a gig or OM night I just plug it into the PA
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    Doesn’t look like a number 2...
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    I've used one, albeit a jazz bass body and it was a total swine to grain-fill. I finished it out of dogged determination but if i'd had any sense I'd have burned it. See my Olympic White jazz with a difference build diary thread. As an aside, the back jazz pup rout was wrong, having the size of a bridge pup, but the lug placement of a neck pup. The jury is out on the neck rout as I've not yet found time to fix the neck issue
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    I am old and I like them too
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    Maybe they could have scanned it with straight pages though.
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    So ... here’s one I knocked up in ten minutes using Lego painted black and a few cotton wall balls. Sarcasm aside ... fabulous
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    You forgot “accept no substitute” and “keep it simple”
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    wear sunglasses?
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    Any ? 😛 not a bad I ever got into
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    You sound like Jeremy f ucking Corbyn
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    Ok forget the flowers, it’s a lost cause
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    thanks - I've seen imperfections now and I feel a whole lot better. You should get her a bunch of flowers. Today
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