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Because we use a ridiculous low tuning (drop A#) I've been telling the guitarist for ages now he should try a baritone guitar to get some decent definition in the lower notes. Last night he turned up with one. It's such a huge improvement to our overall sound compared to his standard strat. He complained a lot about how difficult it is playing with a .60 lowest string. I pointed out mine is more than double the thickness and told him to stop complaining. I'm not sure if it was just because the guitar sounded so much better but we all seemed to be really tight and it was a really productive rehearsal.

I don't ever want to see that again.

I have a wedding ring (she's a lucky lady) on my fretting hand and honestly never notice it when playing.

Domination - Pantera

I don't really enjoy covers to be honest. A band with more members may be less stressful, with just the one guitar and drums and not a lot of vocals, the bass is a huge part of the overall sound so mistakes really stand out. The issue with finding another band is Somerset is a bit of a heavy metal waste land, its all folk and blues bands.

I get really bad anxiety. Dunno why, makes no sense, don't know what I'm anxious and stressed about. I used to spend my weekends doing activities which regularly caused serious injuries and id be excited all week. Now that I'm just standing on stage plucking see strings in a slightly aggressive manner I dread it. The worst that could happen is Tony Iommi could hear us and decide to sue for a riff or two we may have borrowed.

After a busy year with the band, writing, recording and our first few gigs including a support slot with a thrash metal legend, I've come to realise gigging isn't for me. I enjoy the actual gig but get stressed out for a couple weeks before and I've decided it's not worth the stress. We've got two more gigs in January and then I'm out of the band and selling my gear. I'm not much of a home noodler and don't really enjoy playing along to songs so I guess that's it.

They go up to grade 8. I think NIB and Welcome To Paradise are definitely very easy compared to other grade 7 tunes such as Hysteria

Tell her you've decided as a band that it's time to become a Cannibal Corpse tribute band. Ask her whether she knows the lyrics to "I c*m blood" and "Relentless Beating". If that doesn't work, tell her you've reconsidered and decided a Kid Rock tribute is the future and ask how her racism skills are.

A mate of mine worked with the Proclaimers once. According to him, they are seriously toxic brothers who absolutely hate each other and are absolute corn holes to work with. He was also not a fan of working with Chemical brothers but I don't think they are actual brothers.

The sub harmonic is good as long as you keep it around 3 o clock

It confused me for a while.

Try the shape button, it makes a huge difference to the mids. Is it an ABM600? The older ABM500 and other earlier models are quite different.

She can play Orion and Pulling Teeth really well but doesn't want to use them because she thinks they've probably heard them both dozens of times. Same for the Tool songs she knows. I'm not so sure, I think they'll have heard them played badly dozens of times so would be more impressed by hearing them played right.

I'm quite surprised NIB by Black Sabbath is grade 7. It's a lot easier than anything else on the list. Even the bass solo at the start is dead easy.

The grades are used as a measure of performance difficulty in more formal lessons. There are exams at each level. I believe there are certain criteria which define what is required at each level. It goes up to grade 8. From memory, grade 1 is very basic with simple rhythms and straightforward note patterns. As you progress the grades, the rhythms get more complex and techniques such as slap and tapping are introduced and the songs get more challenging. It's about performance of covers, not music theory.

Thanks. I'm surprised there's a couple on there I can play. I've never done grades and kind of assumed grade 7 was much higher than I could play.

That's him

That's the badger.

It's a different professor now, I forget his name but he was in quite a successful 90's rock band. We visited last month and its a beautiful place and the facilities are amazing. We left with me wanting to sign up! We live in Frome, not far from Bath so we know the city.

It's Bath Spa she's applying to, the commercial music course. She was going to go with Orion by Metallica or Hysteria by Muse but thought they've probably heard those dozens of times so wanted to play something different. My suggestion was Maxwell Murders by Rancid but she says it's too Ska to show what she wants to do.

I suggested that one. I learned to play it. It's a bit of an endurance test.

She's applying for a commercial music course. I think Dream Theater might be a bit too prog. The audition is supposed to reflect what the applicants most enjoy. Maiden is good though

The offspring (my daughter, not the terrible pop punkers) is working on a uni audition and needs a few grade 7 recordings and she wants one of them to be a metal piece to show what she loves most. Any suggestions for interesting, preferably not prog metal bass lines? Edit : needs to be 4 string and preferably not involve tuning below C#

I had not heard this before but just had a quick listen. I like it and requires further listening.