Stub Mandrel

After last tuesday? ... speaker leads for supplied the guitar head/cabs...

Mitch and Noel 🙂

Have to be careful as it isn't confirmed yet... but I've got tickets to see a gig with my brothers later in the year. Last night the guitar tech saw my brother's band play and asked them if they would play the support 🙂

Lots of the 'bargains' on eBay are QC rejects. Nothing gets thrown out in China, just passed down the line until someone can make a profit out of it. This explains why you can often apparently get top gear at huge savings, in many cases the fails are cosmetic but I'd worry about that crack.

Discovering his affair was a bit like when you realised what your parents must have done to become your parents...

Do not underestimate Dave Pegg and Gerry Conway. Currently both in Fairport Convention, listen to Jethro Tull's Broadsword and the Beast for a tour-de-force that proves less can be more in the rhythm section. Peggy has done some pretty amazing stuff with Dave Mattacks as well.

Indeed, but while I see how the stave allows you to build chords, for example, because each adjacent pair of lines or spaces is a third apart my brain insists this is merely a convention that creates a meaningless inconsistency where you can't tell what type of chord it actually is. Actually, to me, the fact that the stave is inherently diatonic and suited to penny whistles and perhaps even pianos, it seems illogical to force it on a totally chromatic instrument like a bass.

I understand that, and I'm sure that's one reason why all the mnemonics in the world make no differnence. Perhaps its that I find tab more logical. I can't relate to the fact the difference between two lines on a stave might be one or two semitones; it makes some sense for a piano, but none for anything else - to me at least!

Which I have no difficulty finding my way around, athough I prefer to think in terms of intervals than specific notes. Ask me to play a common scale in a common key and I might think for a second first but I won't struggle. I'm B***d if I can learn those 9 positions on the treble clef though. Rhythm is not so hard for me, which is why I think I have a built in block stopping me learning the notes.

Anyone with a leopoard-skin double bass who claims that is probably telling the truth...

But then I can only play John Major Scales.

Brilliant name! I recently thought up 'The Mauve' and 'Green Dayglo'.

In my defense I say my ear is good - I reckon there errors in a lot of, if not most, tabs but they certainly speed things up and make great mnemonics when learning. I'd also say just because people don't read notation it doesn't mean they can't understand musical theory at least to a level appropriate to what they play. There's a lick I'm struggling with and I know it's because its in a harmonic minor scale and my brain just changes it unless I really concentrate - so at least I know why I'm getting it wrong 😜

Got p'd off on tuesday when the lid fell off my 'really useful box' covering the studio floor in pedals I now have a huge pedalboard case - spotted on the 'bay, and only 5 minutes from the practice studios so bought within an hour yesterday evening! Now off to screwfix for velcro... Hmm. Looks like there might be some spaces to fill...

Never thought of that! I'll have to keep my trousers up with gaffa tape.

Naturally a lot will have been said off camera - it's a totally artificial situation, these guys obviously only bring in their gear for the program - who has a snap-on cabinet full of tools out under a lean-too roof? I hope the refret was needed; I showed my precious 40-year old acoustic to a luthier and asked about a refret and he said it just needs a fret dress. I bet the guy was told, these are just to complete the look, you can take them off to play it and keep them safe. I wonder how he will get on with the instrument.

I eread teh first post and thought hmm... Morrisons always seem to play music that has wide appeal...

Ukelele maintenance instructions: Remove strings Throw leftovers in bin Catch fish using string My brother loves the things, but as far as I am concerned anything with the strings in the wrong order is junk...

Tiny little 8-note fill at the start of The Letter. Easy as pie, but it seems to be based on a harmonic minor so it's got a bit of a stretch and it doesn't fit any of my instinctive movements. I'm just playing it over and over again because if I go into it could I play the wrong scale.

Agreed on both counts. The neck profile is so important, and it's a jazz so the neck is already slender. A shame they didn't actually say what type of bass it was. Now I'm sitting here playing dum do-wap do-dee dum "I believe in miracles..."

They had some really good S/H deals when I got my Custom V in there. Look in the back part of the shop.