josie

Welcome! (from a New England to Olde Englande expat 🙂 )

Or, as I do, play with a high neck angle, so the top horn sits comfortably between your boobs (see pic above, middle of page 2). The long slim top horn on the GMR is ideal, but it works fine with a Jazz too. I've only ever had a problem with my single cut, and it's too heavy for me to play standing up anyway 😞

Welcome! I've been to Colne a few times for the blues festival - nice part of the world, but probably quite a lot quieter for the other 361 days of the year I imagine...

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Welcome! The marketplace is dangerous... as you have already noticed... it's been the ruin of many a poor boy (and girl) 🙂 Looking forward to hearing more from you 🙂

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If you want the original research paper it's in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 2017

Not OT at all, they definitely do. I've just been poking around 't internet and found these, you may already know them: Basic explanation from the Dyspraxia Foundation. Mentions "Little sense of time, speed, distance or weight. Leading to difficulties driving, cooking" and "Lack of rhythm when dancing, doing aerobics". "Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programmes of Study" from the University of Worcester includes a page on Music and Students with Dyspraxia, with further links on different aspects. There's a conversation on Reddit about music lessons for children with dyspraxia. And there's a piece on the "Understood" website - resources for inclusion of children with "learning & attention issues" - on different musical instruments and the type of coordination skills they require. None of these say anything about how to teach an awareness of rhythm though...

A study last year found that in non-dyslexic people the arrangements of visual receptor cells in the two eyes are slightly different, and one eye is dominant (usually the right). In many dyslexics the arrangement is the same in both eyes, so neither is dominant, leading to confusion in visual processing and perception. So it would make perfect sense for covering one eye to help. In fact it ought to be more widely recommended.

You're right about the coloured paper / overlays, but they don't work for everyone, and when they do, it's different colours for different people, so experiment for each student and see what works best for each one individually. Many people with dyslexia have associated visual stress ("scotopic sensitivity") but not all. Nor is everyone with scotopic sensitivity dyslexic. I'm highly biassed *towards* written language, and read everything on light blue paper or screen when I can. One thing I've noticed in working with dyslexic university students is that there seems to be actually quite a strong correlation with their preferences in style of music. I love the Baroque - I love listening to the structure of the music - anything from the Romantic period sounds to me sloppy and slushy. My dyslexic students (those who had any opinion) have all loved those heavy lush sounds, and found the Baroque too dry and sterile. I don't know of any studies on this, and it's a small sample, but it makes sense. If my hunch is right, you might find that dyslexic music students would find it easier to relate to the tone-colours in chords than the linear patterns in scales and arpeggios. Whereas I find chords a bit of a mush, and enjoy ornamented scale exercises and walking basslines. This is *purely* a hunch based on limited experience - I'd love someone to study it properly.

Vicarious gear acquisition can be quite satisfying. Went with my son to the Manchester Guitar Show this morning. He found a handsome Ibby hollow-body to replace his Fender Strat, cheap enough that I didn't have to subsidise it as I was expecting to. Our teacher has always rather coveted the Strat and is now going to have it in exchange for a suitable number of free lessons. I came away with nothing but a cheap, decent quality 2nd hand gig bag, which I needed because mine is about to fall apart. Result all round 🙂

I was already anyway 😞 It gave me something to look forward to when I got (physically) better 🙂

Could be worse. A couple of years ago my GMR single-cut 5 was delivered the day after I had fallen downstairs and completely mashed up my left side (3 broken ribs). I somehow got it out of the box and then stared at it for several days before I had enough use of my left arm to even pick it up, and several more days before I could reach the headstock to tune it.

I'll admit I'm glad to be tall enough and have big enough hands that a long-scale 5-string is comfortable. And I play with the body quite low and a high neck angle, so I find a Jazz is no problem, and my main squeeze GMR feels like an optional body part 🙂

When the drummer in my ex-band wrote the description of us for our/their now ex-Facebook page, she said "We even have a female drummer!" Personally I thought "an all-female rhythm section" would have been more interesting, but it wasn't worth arguing. I find people aren't too surprised to learn that I'm in a band, but they assume guitar and then are very surprised when I say I play bass. And often then assume DB and are even more surprised when I say electric bass guitar. Otoh I get a lot of very positive response from women in an audience, especially younger women, so hopefully just being out there in sight will encourage some of them to try it themselves.

I've always loved words and where they came from. When my sons were little, when they asked me the meaning of a word, without thinking, I would tell them a bit about the history of the word and why it meant what it did. Until the day when the younger - then about 8? - said "Mum what does - mean but don't tell me the Latin!" (OT, sorry...)

Beautiful Ibby 6 arrived from paulie this morning. Every bit as good as described, well packed, shipped quickly, good comms. Excellent transaction - thank you!

Thank you all... I now feel positively moderate and virtuous having just bought my second 6 (Ibanez) a whole three months after the first (Warwick) - and I will sell the Warwick when I can be bothered, honest, so it doesn't really count anyway 🙂

http://www.mojoguitarshows.co.uk/ Anyone else planning to go? Not sure how much bass gear will be there, hopefully nothing too tempting 🙂 ... My son is looking for an upgrade to his Strat and wants me to go with him, I wouldn't dream of suspecting for a minute that he might be hoping I will subsidise this 🙂

I've always loved this cover of GBPPH from the Pentangle (I bought Sweet Child pretty much the day it came out in 1968) with Danny Thompson on DB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Uj9Pqaic DT is still gigging and awesome. His 2012 cd "Connected" compiling his work with many other musicians over many years should be required listening for any bass player imho. https://www.therealdannythompson.co.uk/

This too! One silver lining to moving from a large house to a small flat is that the basses and guitars which used to be squashed into a broom-cupboard "third bedroom" are now pretty much everywhere. The whole place is effectively a music room. Always feels good to come home to 🙂

Completely agree. I'm taking two to the Manchester Guitar Show next Sunday (taking my son shopping for an upgrade replacement for his MIM Strat, honest 🙂 ) in case there's a chance of selling them there - luckily I don't desperately need need the money or space and I don't have to give a *&^% what anyone else thinks, but if someone walks up and offers me what I paid for these two I'll be happy. That leaves two acoustics and five electrics, all of which I love, and play, and also wouldn't be able sell for anything like what they're worth to me. I actually feel guilty about how little I paid for a couple of them, but I tried to talk the seller up and he refused.

Sorrow for the end, but hopefully many good memories to carry. Good to be positive about the future. Hope all goes well.

Sympathy. It's good to hear that the basses are staying in the family and the other gear is being helped to good homes. I hope it gives you some comfort.

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