Bassfinger

I could play ten times as well as her and I'd never get the gig because I have the visual appeal of a hippo's arriss.

Chums.

"I really want to play your guitar." "I really want to give you four stiff fingers in the throat. It's probably best that we both go home disappointed."

I've got CCTV at home so when delivery firms say this to me I can tell them what a bunch of lying bar stewards they are.

He seems a right plum.

^^^That's what got me my current billet.

Gary Glitter and Gary Moore. One wants me to join his gang, and one is out in the fields, and all I can remember is that one of those might be a bad choice.

Excellent. If they get a Jazz Bass too then it'll be worth visiting 😉

Looks great. But tell me, what is that strange thing on the left? Some kind of novelty tea chest?

Thank you! The photos don't show it, but as the poly has cured its sunk into the grain slightly. This has given a shiny but slightly textured finish which looks fantastic.

To be fair he's playing the patch really well.

I'm not entirely sure what it is,other than I'm fairly sure it isn't the maple it was sold as. It's fairly light, fairly soft, but that's all I really know. It does have some nice grain in places. Not bad for a cheapie.

Wilkinson Tuners. Well priced, look good, very little slop. What's not to like?

Recently went through this angst with my new bandmate chums. We discovered that the more serious and pretentious wer tried to be with the name, the more likely there was already a band with the same name. The more stupid and irreverent we were the less likely the name was already in use. Our keyboardist is a martial arts chap, and we were taking the pith, asking him if he'd entered the dragon lately when the idea for the name popped into our guitarists head.

I'm lucky, I guess. I can read music, which is just as well as tab is gobbledygook to me! If you can get your head around tab, choose a song with a not too difficult bassline (Sunshine of Your Love is a good one) and use the power of Google to find the tab. Practice until you've got the basics, and then start playing along with the song. Not necessarily a method on it's own for learning bass, but being able to play along to a few songs in short order is a real boost and will keep you interested and spur you on to more structured learning. It'll also get you used to playing, fingering (snigger) and you'll start to subliminally learn where the notes are on the fingerboard. Uk_lefty's tip for using an app is a tuner is a good one. Personally I recommend Guitar Tuna, but there are loads out there. But whatever method you use, best of luck!

Sir Paul McCartney is the same. That is, right handed but a leftie player, not the same as Mrs C.

Coming from 4 decades of guitar I pick play. I simply prefer it, and if Johnny O'pinionated doesn't like it then he can kiss my hairy arriss. However, I devote the final 10 minutes of every practice session to finger style playing, on the basis that one can never master too many techniques. Heres a picture of me not giving a sheet.

And on Gona set of Alan Entwistle pickups. I went for the ceramic magnets and it surprised me how weighty they are. I did a lot of reading around and the general buzz from testers is that they're decent budget performers and you need to spend proper money on DiMarzios or Duncan's to get an improvement. Well, spending that much on a budget build just was nae gonna happen.

I used to work with the guitarist, and asked him if he fancied getting a pub band together for a laugh. He knew a keyboard player (who by chance I also vaguely knew) and he knew a drummer. Took about 2 days of text messaging to sort.

Black Betty by Ram Jam.

I don't know that vinyl is archaic - in the english language sense it is I deed possessing the characteristics of an earlier period, but it is still very much current. It still functions well, and has comfortably outlived all other commercial sound reproduction formats, including those that were intended to replace it. It will outlive all the current popular file formats. When the current download formats become obsolete and we all have to upgrade our collections to some new standard to be able to listen to them, vinyl will still be functioning as well as it ever did, and selling steadily. As Pops the terminator said - it's old, not obsolete.

See, I'm in a strange nether world. I've pretty much no feeling in my right thumb and 3rd and 4th fingers due to injury. Add to that limited strength in my elbow and shoulder. The big rub there is I'm right handed. Over time I've subconsciously adapted, and if a door needs opening or a suitcase carrying my left hand automatically does it. As a result I've become e left hand dominant, although I am still right handed. I still write (bit jot much) with my right hand, and play bass right handed, but anything requiring heft goes to the left.

Is your drummer a leprechaun of stood in a hole?

Epiphone LPs punch well above their weight, and many of the older ones are genuine classics in their own right. The guy clearly doesn't know his guitars as well as someone who teaches the topic should. And the old pick bass player thing leaves me scratching my head every time I hear it. It's such an oft touted opinion, yet so many bass players play with picks. I reckon the ratio of players who use a pick some or all of the time compared to non pick players is probably greater than left handed folk to right handers, yet this stupid, Ill informed, and utterly ridiculous opinion is trotted out so much. Weird.

What Monkey Steve said. Whether they're there to party or there to play dominoes makes no odds to me, just so long as any fans (that'd be the day!) aren't inconvenienced.