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Have I got too many Es in the second bar? 😆

I've possibly got this next on my list, now that I've escaped my tyrant band leader (escaped with the singer and rhythm guitarist - tyrant leader effectively thrown out of his own band 😙) So, from the top, is it: |----------|-9-9-9-7-7-7-6-6-6-------|----------0--0--|---------0---0-|| |----------|-------------------9-7-6-|-----------7----|-----------7---|| |----------|-------------------------|-7--7-7-7-------|-7--7--7-------|| |----------|-------------------------|----------------|---------------|| ?

Sounds familiar...

I think this is why he's insisting I'll go out of time if I go all the way up to the octave and descend on the next bar? Thursday night established that what he wants is double time, ascending runs only. But I'm still playing two bars of the V anyway... Oh, and apparently playing higher up the neck of your bass (towards the bridge) gives your sound more bottom end. I think I know what he means - play on the thicker strings, but the way he demonstrates it is to go up an octave... Hopefully only another week of this poo to put up with. I will be getting my gear out of his unit for the gig, with no intention of taking it back.

I've got a Mikro, and I'm very happy with it. I don't play it very often, but it comes out to band practice when I have a bad back. I had a look at a Bronco in a shop, but wasn't that impressed with the bridge or the look of the single pickup. I didn't actually plug it in to play it, so can't really comment. 😝

And then the next time we practice, he'll say I should know the song...

That's what I heard - in the original, but then "Chuck Berry was sh*t when he started out"...

Got a feeling it probably won't. It's more the rhythm guitarist's 60th than my, errhhhmmm, birthday (closer to his birthday than mine, and his is bigger), but we all agreed we would do this at the beginning of the year.

Think I might put my foot down and insist on the original 12 bar version... it is my birthday do we're practicing for, after all!

Isn't the intro (on the film version) a little variation where it starts on the I (not sue how many bars), but then goes IV, IV, I, I, V, IV, I (instead of bars IV, IV, I, I, V, V, I)... Sorry, don't know myself if that makes sense? A bit like last night really. Oh, and I'm not allowed to count bars - "you should just feel it"...

I can use all three, I just favour my index if the tempo/style/sound dictates. Oh, and I can use a pick as well, but only downstrokes because "alternate up and down picking is really bad, especially for a bass player"... Edit: Obviously, there is a slight difference in tone/attack between my index and second finger - but in most songs I don't notice.

I did that. I sat there with my second finger extended and said quite innocently "I use my index finger, mostly, because this one doesn't bend." (I had an accident when I was young, and it honestly doesn't bend 😂)

Does anyone want to join my band? I've f*ing had enough of it... 😂

Song in question is Johnny B. Goode. Does "short 12 bar blues" mean anything to anyone? My band leader was trying to explain this last night... but I'm sceptical. As I understand it, he doesn't want me to go "all the way up" and start the second bar on the octave and work down - he wants me to play a repeat of the first bar. I understand the Marty McFly version is a little like this, but he didn't tell me this is the version he wanted when I f*ing learnt the song... After asking me which finger I use to pluck the string, he also told me most bassists use their second finger only... I'll leave that one with you.

However, even when it was too slow, I kept with the drummer, and all was well. Don't think I'm going to try to adjust the tempo ever again. Unless of course, it is really off...

Lol, we actually did this tonight... It was still slow... 😂

That looks superb!

Interesting stuff! How does the WO identify it as a Cort? The second one I posted a link to also has a WO number, but was described as a Gem...

What is this? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UN-NAMED-38-LONG-SUNBURST-ELECTRIC-BASS-GUITAR-WORKING-BUT-KNOCKS-W0-20676/273878437041?hash=item3fc46d4cb1%3Ag%3AvRkAAOSwbrlc-Snb&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Guyatone? Kent? Gem short scale? I notice all the similar pictures on Google show quite a bit of black paint on the body contour. This one doesn't seem to have a contour and the number on the back would suggest it's a little older than this one: https://reverb.com/item/10618653-gem-short-scale-bass-guitar-1960-s-1-pickup-sunburst-case It also looks as if it's been de-fretted.

That looks quite good, as an armadillo! Only joking. Now you've said it's an eagle, I can see it. Where is the best/cheapest place to buy materials from? I fancy having a go... but not sure about £10 a pop, on ebay...

Maybe we all need a click track...

...is there any way, as a band to recover? Sometimes it's the guitarist, sometimes drummer (don't think I start any songs ). If I try to correct it, I find myself and my drummer yo-yoing around the correct tempo, otherwise it's a case of dragging everything and feeling artificial, if it's too slow, or if we're slightly fast it feels manic to me, to the point where it's all I can think about and I forget where I am in the song...

How did it sound?

5'-3" and an 7.5...(gloves!)

Done! Thanks!