Stub Mandrel

My first dep gig, to be followed by the second a few hours later!

Half way through four rehearsals in as many days with three different bands. At the weekend looking at two gigs with one band on Saturday so very glad the gig with another on Sunday is 6-8pm!

Sorry! Obviously e sounds fine over Cmaj.

Usually true as c-f is up a fourth. The simple rule is up a fifth, down a fourth. The f will sound dissonant against the e in Cmaj but may be OK against the Eb in Cm. YMMV.* *Your music may vary.

That's an example of creating a tension then resolving it, usually described as 'leading into' a chord. The circle of fifths theory tells us nothing about this.

If root-fifth is the next step from just hitting the root, root-fifth, flat-seventh, octave is the next note group that works over MOST chords including both major and minor. If I have to improvise for an unfamiliar song, it's what I start using until I have sussed the key/mode.

But if you are only doing it to learn a song, what benefit do you get from transposing the notation for an instrument like a bass that is essentially 'key blind'? (Unless the piece requires open strings in which case detune and play transposed anyway).

But that only stops notifications it doesn't affect 'content I posted in' (normally).

I have a 1980s Hohner B2. Early on it was converted to left hand drive and back again. Holes filled. Then resprayed. Overpainted, stickered, decorated. Then vinyl wrapped. I stripped it. Filled it. Sanded it. Primed it. For weeks. Colour sprayed it. Left for weeks to cure awaiting a vinyl logo and final lacquer. Logo wrong size. Couple of weeks later... fell off the hanger and got scratched chipped and dinged... Refilled, sanded, primed. Fell down again less damage. Filled... I am on the point of giving up on a good finish and either spraying it with textured stone paint or airbrushing it with German WW2 tank camouflage and weathering it...

First... the DoI has returned to my feed. Second, there are some threads you post in and regret ever having done so. The word association thread being my own bête noir. Rather like a cyclist who fixates on an obstacle and becomes powerless to avoid it and the resultant catastrophe, I'm afraid the advice to 'simply ignore the thread' ignores certain universal human failings. After all, curiosity killed the cat.

In that circumstance, I would just move everything up a fret. That's when having a mental picture of how to play various intervals can be more useful than 'knowing the fretboard'.

My hpf is 24dB/octave -3dB at 30Hz. I hear what people say about the value of getting the low harmonics, but I use a cab with a -3dB point at 35Hz and di into a PA with subs that go down to 32. I sometimes play 5 string or drop D so having a setup that can handle it, why not use it? To me the value of an hpf is losing handling noise and rumble not gaining headroom I don't need by losing the fundamental.

Played Superstition the other week and the keyboard generously let me do all the funkhy bits!

I understand that most sound engineers would use the Soundcraft 100Hz HPF on all channels except bass, kick drum and maybe keyboard. I was told that by a professional sound engineer about two weeks ago because I asked him specifically when I should use it.

New bass day.

But was there Dundee cake?

My design... 24dB / octave with the -3dB point at 30Hz. Chosen to barely affect the low B, while almost completely removing subsonic rumbles.

Fairport were pretty much 50% Dylan tribute when they started out.

Yellow works best for selling offers. Look at magazine offers, price reductions etc. Orange + monochrome was a whole theme for advertising 20 years ago (led by Orange telecom but many others followed). It's amazing how advertising does show so much 'clumping'.

I think directly in terms of moving around on the neck. E A D G C F Bb Eb Ab C# F# B . All worked out by mentally moving across the strings...

Seems I unfollowed it... but I have re-followed. Looks like it may still take a while to return though.

For some time I have noticed that certain threads disappear from my 'content you have posted in' list, rarely making a fleeting return after weeks or months, then disappearing again. Typically, it's when I see them in the 'recent activity' list that I realise there are pages of content that hasn't come up on my feed. Now it's happened to the Den of Iniquity, a disaster of immeasurable proportions! Is it possible to fix what seems to be a significant glitch, it's been happening going back at least a year.

Busy weekend coming up soon. My first two dep gigs on 26 August, then on Sunday: