Downunderwonder

On a dark stage the glare of the knob lights will make the away facing white dot indicators invisible. Dopey design. If the knobs had pointers they would be silhouetted.

No frets = fingerboard, as on a DB.

With that much theory you are streets ahead of me. But I can read dots. I don't actually read the dots though. I think this may be where you are at a disconnect. I read the accidentals and the rhythm pattern. The accidentals tell me I have work to do to escape the scale finger pattern and follow the funky chord. A good teacher should be able to take all your known theory and use that to help you see the patterns in the dots. I reckon you would become a reading machine once the penny drops

Knowing your way around the fretted neck is going to do squat for your fretless playing. It could very well frustrate you. Lines are but a guide. Where you finger notes between frets with great precision you finger 'on' the lines. Good advice taken.

Ordinarily, hell no. You have hit on an exception. I guess Eden have gamed the system a little to give you a cab that is loud but has given away trying to make lows. If you go further down that path you have a guitar cab that can tear your head off with 100w.

It only takes one noisy light to make a hash of your pristine unbalanced signal.

Cash Converters have a history of putting dud returns back on the shelf so be careful.

I don’t know about grades but those bass parts are ideal teeth cutting material. 20 minutes a day and in a week he should be OK to bumble through a new one actually reading it. That's when confidence grows. Reading the music isn't the hard part. The plopping of the fingers in time in the right place is. You already know how to do that!

Chicken, prepare to meet egg, on your face.

Add some little bit of wind and the cure is actually free!

Yep. The tab lines up with the notation. If you would rather play it with more usual fingerings you have to transpose your bass. My advice. Grab the opportunity to learn to read notation and play it on the regular 4 string as written.

The whole thing is odd. TAB is not what you usually get issued. There may be regular notation printed parts for bass in someone's drawer. If so there is a golden opportunity to knuckle down and figure out notation with pop tunes you already know.

I wouldn't mind one on my board just so people would point and ask and I would say something like "Beware the Attack Goat!" before changing the topic.

Nice work if you can get it.

Put up a curtain cloth. Tastefully of course.