Richard R

If you're playing old hymns then they're written for an organ, so long low notes are just fine. Weird problem with my IEMs today, just making farty flappy noises anything lower than the open D. Swapped the IEM amp and phones but same problem. I gave up and just listed to the room, as it sounded great out front.

Maybe lock this thread as the other has superceded it?

I found that learning and practicing scales and forcing myself initially to always play E and A on the 5th fret made it easy, easier than 4 to be honest as you can use the same chord shapes across the fretboard rather than going up and down. The lower notes are useful if you have a decent PA and the sound engineer rolls off the low end for everyone else. Finishing a song on on a rumbling low C or D is always good.

I could probably clamp a couple to my back using the strap for the bass. I wonder where the ones we had for camping are?

Band practice at church last night. Too hot, nobody could concentrate, the drummer and I could barely keep in time with each other and the trumpeters were dying of thirst. Should be fine on Sunday! 😅

Definitely interested.

Never heard of it before this thread. But it's excellent!

p.s. I'll be bringing a couple of basses, Ashdwon ABM C300-100 and extension cab. And hopefully dragging along a friend who has a rather nice Overwater 5 string fretless.

Clearly @rwillett is a man of action and ability. But it was not always thus, as this snippet from a prior carreers advice session reveals...

Very true. It's a problem afflicting men far more than women though. Which rather suggests men should stick to things that require occasional anger ( war, sport, hunting wolly mammoths) and leave the complicated stuff (wiring music studios, designing aircraft, international geopolitics) to women.

Possibly accompanied by grazed knuckles and a repeatedly bumped head? Or is that just me and rewiring? And of course there will be that time when you thread a really long XLR all the way through the run - only to realise you've got it the wrong way round.

Gone.

Definitely bringing the Brawley 5 and 4 string basses. Rarely seen in the UK, except at Bass Bashes. Will bring the Roland V-bass system fitted on an HB MusicMan-like, if I still have it. This is huge fun and does a pretty good impersonation of many other basses in a live mix. It's going up for sale next week though.

Sacrilege! Schisms and wars have been started over less.

This is a great build to follow. I understand the woodwork, after that makes almost no sense, but it's clearly going to very good indeed. 😎