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[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1365541567' post='2041026'] If it's for Blues, you need the key an open 4th below the singer's key i.e. if Singer is in C, you need a G, D>A, E>B etc etc. No idea what you need for Gene Genie. G. [/quote] Cross harp or blues harp is fourth above not fourth below. Key E = A harp Key C = F harp Key D = G harp etc.

[quote name='danthevan' timestamp='1365518086' post='2040593'] Google says no guitarist version. Maybe we could compile one, and the same for drummers and singers too Get some suggestions and i'll whack them together [/quote] Drop tuning.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1365497954' post='2040231'] I'm only thankful that were no fines for "Cod attempts at bass lines by Bernard Edwards or Pino Palladino." [/quote] That's the equivalent of 'Playing Jaco groove on samba'.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1365507582' post='2040390'] You don't have to do anything special or different now just because you're playing a fretless. Just play your normal lines. [/quote] Yes, playing what you already know is a good way to get on top of your intonation and a bassline is a bassline whether it's played on fretted or unfretted.

[quote name='Stan_da_man' timestamp='1365332461' post='2038058'] Fact of the matter is, you won't be playing a gig quietly unless you're one of those sh*tty bands which only does gigs at seated venues ( ). [/quote] Not true.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1365364707' post='2038666'] P bass = Precision bass - this has 2 pups together, but staggered. See this one : [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/204309-for-sale-fender-usa-standard-precision-bass-l600/"]http://basschat.co.u...sion-bass-l600/[/url] [/quote] The Precision pickup is actually just one pickup but is split-coil and is hum-cancelling (i.e. less hum or buzz) and, relatively speaking, thicker sound. The Jazz pickups are single-coil and not normally hum-cancelling and so, relatively speaking, a thinner sound. [quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1365364707' post='2038666'] Best thing to do is to go to a shop and try a few [/quote] That's it.

Don't concentrate on being loud enough to hear yourself. Instead, be quiet enough that you can hear everyone else. If everyone does that, then there is no problem.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1365354627' post='2038447'] Two should be plenty unless you need to wind the string down to the bottom of the post to get a sensible break angle over the nut. The more string you wrap around the machine head post, the longer it will take to give up its excess elasticity and therefore the longer it will take for the tuning to stabilise after changing strings. [/quote] Well, as you probably realise BRX, as a Fender user I do seek a break angle. However, I've never had any issue with tuning stability even with new strings.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1365337301' post='2038140'] The strings all have 2 full winds around the string posts. [/quote] I'd go for three or four winds. [quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1365338026' post='2038156'] I pull, stretch and bend mine with all my strength, until they won't go out of tune. [/quote] I would never do this.

Great idea but without the Badass, and without the Pickguard, and with a '51 single coil pickup and a piezo in the bridge it would have been a great success.

Get a piano, it's all laid out in front of you.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1364887565' post='2032100'] No mention of The Clash.....London Calling has got to ne up there..... nor mention of the stones.... no van morrison? astral weeks has laways been up there... seriously flawed list [/quote] Rolling Stones at number six.

Five of the top ten I have never knowingly heard so I think I'll just keep out of it.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1364845835' post='2031693'] In that case, I apologise for taking your post the wrong way and being stroppy. [/quote] Thanks but no need to apologise as I had failed to be explicit.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1364834276' post='2031454'] This thread began by asking if going short scale would solve the weight problem. It is not certain that it would, it depends entirely on the bass. The principal problem the OP is suffering is weight of bass, not length of scale. People seem to have leapt onto the short scale part of this, somewhat unnecessarily. Of course, many semi-hollow and hollow basses are short scale (Gibson EB-2, Epiphone Rivoli, Guild/DeArmond Starfire, Hofner Club etc), so we may not be at such cross purposes after all. But my suggestion is both expedient (as in readily available) and correct (I can vouch for it being light) - thus neatly solving the OP's problem. [/quote] Yes, I was meaning to agree with you and not to point out a problem.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1364826383' post='2031313'] Oh yeah, I forgot. My Epiphone Jack Casady is pretty light [/quote] ... and long scale too.

Hollow body and short scale - now that can be lightweight.

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1364658185' post='2029328'] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Rihanna"]Rihanna[/url] is listed as "co-writer" (her name's Robyn Fenty) on a number of her songs. How much she actually wrote of each song is a different matter entirely! [/quote] In actual fact, I know nothing about Rhianna and have never knowingly heard her. It was more Jessie J and the others mentioned that I was thinking of.

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1364570035' post='2028324'] ... Rihanna? Beyonce? Do Katy Perry, Jessie J and Justin Timberlake have longevity? I doubt it. They don't write their own music, so how are they going to keep the music going in the future? ... [/quote] Most, if not all, of those people write their own music. I bet you a quid that Jessie J will be around a long time as writer, producer and performer.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1364570428' post='2028333'] Led zep have always been known as metal by people I've taled to from 70s ... [/quote] I was there in the 70s (and 60s for that matter), and I have no recollection of LZ being known as metal. That's why I was so surprised to hear it now. EDIT: But perhaps being there is the reason I don't remember it.

BB King

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1364544655' post='2027850'] Liquid paper, not Tippex [url="http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/liquid_paper.htm"]http://inventors.abo...iquid_paper.htm[/url] [/quote] Already done - see post #16: [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1362850936' post='2005380'] [pedant alert] Nesmith's mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, invented what became known as Liquid Paper in the early 1950s. Tipp-Ex is a German company dating from 1959 and originally made correction paper not correction liquid. The fortune part is correct. [/pedant alert] [/quote]

Elton John Leonard Cohen Dr John Eric Clapton etc etc etc etc, there are loads. You may not like them or listen to them but ....

[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1364544222' post='2027841'] Music is getting fragmented into genres. There was a time you could have played Fleetwood Mac, Steeleye Span and Led Zeppelin's latest without being ironic or eclectic. Now they are locked down as Blues, Folk and Metal. [/quote] Music always was fragmented in the minds of the blinkered. Nothing has changed there. As a teenager in the 60s, I was often berated for liking different genres. I specifically recall being made fun of for having both the first Hendrix album and the Club Ska '67 reggae compilation under my arm at the same time. And when did Led Zeppelin get locked down as metal? When they are nowhere near being a metal band.

You must be joking? There's loads of 'living legends', as you call them, still making music. Maybe you don't like them or listen to them.