Stub Mandrel

Indeed, perhaps I worded it poorly. Many people assume because 'aluminium' is soft aluminium alloys are a poor choice for jobs where toughness is a useful attribute. I do my own anodising BTW, usually 6082:

Has taht got THora Hird on it? Oh... Brian Bennett...

Chose the right aluminium alloy (7075) and it's harder and stronger than mild steel, even without anodising.

I find it hard to believe they would bother rehearsing this at a piano...

I watched Jon Pertwee hypnotising Aggedoir today by singing a Venusian Lullaby* a capella. As far as I could tell by playing along he was singing in C minor, despite it being pretty 'rough' sounding. I wonder if he'd been given a pitch cue because it would be pretty odd to hit that key at random. *OK, nonsense words to the tune of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

I normally find that as long as a time signature stays constant, I'm OK. I find syncopated stuff like Monkey Wrench or Papa was a Rolling Stone, harder. This has got me confused, it;''s a slow as a bassline can get, one note per bar, can anyone help?

No, although we've exchanged a few comments on his videos. He comes over as a really decent guy. I'm always struck by how easy it is to follow his videos (perhaps with 0.5x speed for the tricky bits) and they always seem to be much more accurate than most tab.

Troy gets a tone to die for on this - using a Jazz (and the guy has got a Ricky...)

Not the music I was expecting from a band with a name according to the Black <noun> formula.

It's funny. I commented elsewhere hat I'm a by-ear player who uses tab as an aid to understanding. I like to learn things properly, simply because avoiding any shortcuts means I have to stretch myself and as a result my playing continues to improve. Unlike many people I often prefer live albums to studio ones, warts and all, because I like hearing musicians enjoying themselves and enjoying the freedom of playing live. I'd rather hear someone play what's right at the moment rather than trying to slavishly copy a recording. In my own small way, playing live it's when I get a chance to improvise that I have most fun and the best bit of my last gig was when we needed and encore, and I called a song we had only played once together. The structure disappeared, I just followed where the vocalist went, and it was great fun and the audience loved it. So why would I be interested in tabs of some of your Whitesnake classics? Mainly because I'm not convinced of some of the ones in places like Ultimate Guitar and I'd rather start from something accurate rather than a rough idea, then decide what works for me. That's how I'm, very slowly, working through The Real Me - first challenge is just learning all those parts and variations, second challenge is getting into the guts of the song so I can just play along and cope even if it ends up with an extra verse or the bridge in the wrong place.

I'm really a by-ear player who uses tab as an aid (rather than a guide - for a start I almost always change the fingering).

Dishwasher does a better job than the old boiling up with Persil to restore old strings.

The best tab uses 'notes' with numbers instead of heads, so it shows the rhythm in the same way (I can 'read' rhythm, but not pitch, don't ask me why, I don't know). I hear different to what's written for some songs, just like shuffle rhythms are often an 'approximation' of what's notated.

I doubt the cold will affect the structure of all metal strings, even with bronze on steel the differential expansion effect will be negligible compared to coiling and uncoiling a string. If you had aluminium alloy strings, then potentially there could be an effect, especially if recently heat treated. For sensible string metals, no effects happening at those temperatures. HOWEVER... Temperature cycling does 'age' metals causing internal tensions to dissipate, which might accelerate the ageing process. So continually putting your strings in and out of the fridge might be bad. SO MAKE YOU MIND UP!

I don't read music, but I've noticed that a lot of tab (even 'advanced' tab that shows note durations like notation) can't really show syncopation and repeated listening is the only way to get the original 'feel'. I find imitating the rhythm (like some low-grade human beat box) really helps me get an unusual rhythm into my head.

I got one from Aliexpress for slightly more than SFA ($35), got here in about a week from China, arrived today. I thought it was for guitar so I was going to give it to my brother. But it's for bass and ultra cute so 🙂 Still haven't done anything more than watch the pretty lights and scratch my head looking at the instructions...

My (and a whole day's worth of patient's) Flu vaccination has been put back until 19th as the supplier failed to get the delivery to the GP last week.

I hate 99.5% of all Christmas songs. Merry Christmas Every Body and Santa Claus is Coming to Town (by the Boss) both stand up as good time songs on their own. But I do like this as well:

Back in the 90s I always used the pre-EQ FX loop of the three (count 'em) loops on my Laney ProBass. This time round I just use them between bass and amp.

I had the Black Watch and the Scientific Calculator 🙂

I was thinking "I hope that's one song per line..."

Or even produce a tab version for mere mortals like me ... 🙂

Boggle...

Hey, this is a man whose production could make your career...