mic mac moe

I've always liked the look of them, and the idea of the semi thing appeals. The scientific name for my condition though, is Permaskint

The switch just give a bit more flexibility. I was using mine live, mind. If yours is for practice I'm sure you will be just fine without

Now she is a beauty! I hear what you say about other basses, I've tried them all, God knows!! I do love other sounds, like the fizzy gurgle of a jazz, but I always reach for my P in the first instance

Yup

I originally set this ball rolling to see people's opinions. It's getting out of hand here with people ferociously defending their own opinions. My take, for what it's worth is that reading is important. Not necessarily the correct opinion but it's mine. You are all entitled to yours

Quite

I never once said that this fella couldn't read or understand theory

Two things 1-i can count odd times. But it made the song sound crap, as it needed to be a standard 4/4 gap. 2-he never played it the same way twice Underlying point here is that if you bother to learn a little bit of how music works, it makes life in a group way easier

And if you don't read?

And when what sounds right, or standard, clashes with what's in the songwriters head?

You're missing my point mate. And I do respect your pedigree, by the way.

Ooh the celeb card

If someone brought a song to the band. You would play with a certain degree of understanding. The strops etc would be all squared away as standard timing dictates. And if said songwriter starts saying"no, it goes like this", but what he/she is saying doesn't make sense, then that stems from a lack of understanding on their part. If they are wanting a gap that's 13.5/16 notes long because that's what's in their head, then how do you work with that? Well, you try and standardise the gap into the way you understand music to work. Either that or you bend your own brain and that of the majority of your band mates who have also bothered to learn, around the crazy assed gap, written by someone ignorant of the general standard

Err... Ok

At least counting to 4

Is there much difference, other than the screen with the mini?

What do you use for a c# tuning mate? I get uncomfortable with drop d! 😆

Well, yeah it is. If you are only playing what's in your head without learning about a theoretical framework, you would always struggle to play with others

I once played for a songwriter in Canada. His son was the drummer. This guy had a similar philosophy to yours. No scales, no arpeggios(?) theory ppffft. His songs were good though and his guitar playing was excellent. Except, when he tried including stops or stabs at the intervals he had in his head, it all went south. He wouldn't (couldn't) count and for me and the drummer it was a nightmare, bordering on farcical. You need to know the standard in music before you can alter away from it. It's like me fixing a car, never bothered learning about mechanics, but I know how it's meant to run!!

Gawjuss!!

Give over!!

Beautiful p's!! I have a vester clipper thumb copy, and I count that as my "J" option, but the precision is my overall fave

Maybe sometimes it serves to restrain the more adventurous bass player? The purpose of playing parts is to reproduce how the writer created a piece. If you are going to improvise parts, you play off chord charts.

I put this in the wrong thread hahaha!!