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Oh, you've heard me play it then.

It's in cut time, so it's really 240 bars of rests.

Other way round for me. I tend to start higher up, and sometimes find it easier to go back down for some songs after struggling to reach the right speed - Echo Beach and Back On The Chain Gang being a couple of recent examples. I don't think I would like to lose the flexibility of the five-string but sometimes the four-string fingering works better.

And a very loaded one, which unless you're severely autistic, is something you knew perfectly well when you posted it. The fact that you attracted such a big pile-on last night should tell you something.

I think he's just trying to weed out unsuitable forum posters...

Aye, I'm going to have to do something. That or some folky stuff about the Clearances - they love that down Bannermanns on a Saturday night. I'm just sad I didn't have what it takes to be in a covers band.

Prophetic thread this... just had a WhatsApp from our BL. They're firing me because I needed more than one listen to nail Jerry Was A Race Car Driver. Gutted 😭😭😭😭😭

Well, I am. So are all the other Basschatters I've met. Haven't met you, though.

Rispek. I've managed something similar with Heaven by the Psychedelic Furs. But that's a dead simple three-chord job with straight-eighth root notes all the way through. Two or three listens to get the shape of it, a few more to work out the passing notes and job done. But - there's a big difference between cracking something simple on a few listens and nailing songs like Atomic, Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Roxanne or For Whom The Bell Tolls, which is why the assertion that one listen is enough strikes me as fatuous.

Indeed. I think most of us have rather higher standards than one listen being good enough. No way would I perform something in public on bass unless I'd nailed it, just like I wouldn't do it on keys, violin, trumpet, voice or any of the other instruments I've played over the years.

The Cold Warriors.

Ain't that the case! I have a Glowplug too and it makes quite a difference. I use a 118 extension cab, and it really fills out the sound. I second the EMAS proposal!

I'm an Eden fan, too. If you're selling, I'm buying 😉 I love the Eden sound. Twenty kilos isn't outrageously heavy. I couldn't use it as a practice amp though - I live in a tenement flat, so I have to use my WTX-264 as a headphone amp. But the sheer volume my Metro cranks out has got me hankering for an Eden valve power amp. We got back to regular rehearsals a few weeks ago. Our normal venue is a college recording studio, which sports a Phil James bass combo with 4 x 5" speakers below a weedy Class D amp which I cranked up to eleven. My bandmates, quite rightly, complained about the lack of bass on the rehearsal recordings. After a few rehearsals, I took the Metro along. Instantly, the reaction changed from 'no bass, wotcha daeing Lozz' to 'sh!t, the bass is drowning everything'. I'd had the weed up to eleven and the Metro was less than half-way up. The Metro is valve pre-amp and solid-state power amp. That's why I'd love to try an Eden valve power amp. I think it would take the roof off.

Aye, I saw the one on here and I think the seller eventually pulled the ad. I can see its limitations - big heavy box, can't run it with no load, expensive to replace the power valves, no headphone circuit and unless you own a mansion, it's complete overkill for home use, so rehearsals and gigs only. I'd still like to try one, though!

Tempting, but I already have four Eden amps (EC8, WTX-264, Metro and WTP600). I'm just hoping that a VT300 doesn't appear in the Marketplace...

BC aye has the answer - using nose grease would ruin my makeup and I don't suppose a mix of grease and foundation on the strings would do them much good. I've been having problems with sticky fingers (quiet in the cheap seats!) and I think @Delberthot's fan trick sounds like a good idea. So, which fan is best for metal? 😉

Sorry to hear that. Best wishes to him for a full and speedy recovery. How about some Jam songs?

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Software. That's written by them spotty little 'erberts wot types on keyboards, innit? That means you need fingers to earn a bit of bread. Be a shame if something were to 'appen to them. Well, we've 'ad a good run of 'andouts from that Sunak geezer, but this is a dirty bleedin' liberty. I'm taking Pliers off furlough - got a little job for 'im.

That sounds like the voice of experience...

Any idea what the going rate is for unlimited TLRTs and getting someone else banned? 😉

Eh? You mean that user admin is a chargeable service? How does that work? I'd have thought site admins should be able to do account recovery easily enough. What am I missing?

Can't one of the admins update your old account? It'd be a shame to have to start all over again!

Here you go. I copied it from the Hal Leonard Best of Queen full score transcriptions. Only difference is the staccato eighth As in verse 3. They're not on the score but you can clearly hear them on the record, so I've added them. Hammer_To_Fall.pdf

I'm currently working up the vox and bassline for The Boys Are Back In Town. Having said that, we've been offered a gig on the 6th November, so that's now taking a back seat to tightening up the set list and trying desperately to smooth out the octave jumps in Atomic... it's surprising and annoying how just one bloody bar can take up so much practice time. Even the bass solo isn't as hard as that wee bar steward...

Is there any way you could translate it yourself using a dictionary and thesaurus? That might get round any potential issues if your translation is noticeably different to the others?