Richard R

Welcome aboard! Lots of love for Yamaha here, whole threads about them in fact. Is your band gigging again? I've lost track of covid restrictions in Scotland.

Welcome aboard! I like the idea of free- form jazz reggae. Weather Report In Jamaica 😎

Welcome back! 🇫🇷

Aha, the great "pianist left hand" conundrum 😀. There are probably already a dozen threads on this over the years. Piano playing in the same register as bass can be completely mask the bass, both being stringed instruments at the same pitch. So fkr example if the pianist plays a thumping C chord on every beat of the bar, or a heavy boogie-woogie line, there is almost no point in the bass player doing anything. Root notes are already there and any interesting lines get drowned out. If the FOH engineer is on the ball s/he may have rollled off the piano or ducked the LF under the bass so that you can hear both in the mix. But that's not always easy to do well without making the piano sound a bit honky-tonk. So in ad hoc bands or where the pianist isn't used to having a bass player, there's often a tension/negotiation between the two instruments. Orchestral pads are usually easily distinguished from bass notes and sit back in the mix anyway. It's all good fun 😁

It will be great. A very clever idea which I'm sure will now be copied by lots of people on here. Who wants two boring dots on the fretboard at the 12th fret when you could have a silver feather, for example? (And if you're suitably pierced could wear a matching one in your ear and see if anyone ever noticed 😅)

Welcome aboard! This site tends to go in for gentle taking the mick and strongly raised eyebrows rather than arguments. But others may of course violently disagree. 😉 Not off the UK shores it isn't!

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Welcome aboard! No need to apologise for your English, you should (not) hear my terrible French!

They almost look like ear studs - which opens up a whole world of possibilities for someone with skill, a Dremell, and some resin. I've got some cuff links that would work rather well too.

From what I remember of last year, gifts over which you had no influence are OK. Gifts where you point, nudge, wink, heavily suggest, or purchase for your spouse to give to you, weren't. Damn!

Yep, bonkers. But thoroughly enjoyable. 😀

Not sure how I missed the start of this, but it looks Fabulous!

Welcome aboard! Like the band name, very neat. 👍

This is fascinating! Really enjoying following this, and glad to hear you're feeling better. Happy New Year!

It's the taking on of new gear, the principle being to be satisfied with what we have. Though the reason I join in and follow the thread is to witness the sheer imagination and ingenuity that goes into the excuses and attempts to wriggle round that simple premis. 😅

Is this bass a specific commission, or for stock? Asking for a friend...

While bungee jumping. The aim is to cover the fretboard ascending while you descend, then descending as you bound back etc. Keeping time accurately of course. Or, in the absence of a bridge and bungee, play up and down with different rhythm patterns and see how funky you can get.

Last year's rules were anything in the signal chain, excluding consumables such as strings, and so excluded straps, gigbags etc. Not sure where non-bass purchases such as MIDI keyboards, or things like PA gear and IEM headphones sat. I don't intend to buy any basses this year, but could be tempted by some decent IEMs if I manage to play live more. Or a tenor-sized bass Uke like the one at the Midlands Bass Bash. Or a....? Count me in. 👍

This ^^^. Videos make it look like the player has the neck parallel to their collar bone. If you push is out more like 45 degrees then you whole left arm moves out, the wrist doesn't have to bend and it's much more comfortable. I only realised this a few months ago, though subconsciously I had been sticking my neck out for ages. This (free) course on inproving technique is where I realised it. Lesson 1 has some good basics on posture too. https://scottsbasslessons.com/challenge/ten-day-technique-challenge/lesson-1-nov-17th

Head over to Studybass.com and/or Scotts Bass Lessons. Both have excellent beginner guides including how to position and hold the bass to avoid injury. The SBL one requires signing up to the free trial, bit is well worth it https://scottsbasslessons.com/courses/a-bassists-guide-to-preventing-injury/introduction

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Welcome aboard Paul! Whenever I hear the words "real estate", I automatically think of the line from Huey Lewis' song "Hip to be square". Which I won't quote as I know you know it. 😉 Cracking song list. 😎