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[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1457182709' post='2996089'] [size=5]Just because they are for sale doesn't mean they are being sold. [/size] [/quote] Seconded!

Listen to her solos on Back in Black... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpVDafY6Z8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpVDafY6Z8[/url]

Bet it isn't as good as this young lady's... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOHjeI-Bns"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOHjeI-Bns[/url]

What it says. 1/2" square drive. Sized in 1/16ths from 3/8" to 1" (11 sizes). 5" + 10" extensions + adaptor. Too heavy to post at a reasonable cost so local pickup or at an agreed meeting point for a little bit of fuel money (I live in Redditch.) Established BCers only please. Your join date must precede this ad

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1456854602' post='2992926'] If I play an A minor, and use all of the natural notes, I am also playing the notes for a C major. When does it become a mode, as I think I understand that a mode is a scale just starting on a different note, but keeping within the notes of the scale. So if I start a G Major, but start it from F#. Am I playing a mode? [/quote] As Dad3353 suggested, it's more helpful to think about where the notes fall in the scale. Chords I, IV and V are the big chords in any sequence. You might find it useful to pick a scale sequence and try it out. For example, your choice of Aminor against a C major parent scale. In C major the I, IV, V chords are C, F, G respectively. In Am I, IV, V are Am, Dm and Em. It's been said before by myself and others in several threads recently, but it's best to treat each mode as a scale in it's own right: the modal thing is really just a historical convenience for describing how the scales in a modal set relate to each other. In medieval times (specifically, before the advent of Equal Temperament) it was important, but today it doesn't really mean much.

Upload to Photobucket (or some such) and link to it. There's a limit of 30Mb for direct uploads IIRC. A half-decent jpeg will be upwards of 5Mb so you don't get many...

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1456348633' post='2988217'] Mmmm Jeff Healey, his cover of 'while my guitar gently weeps'.....awesome! [/quote] Here ya go. Enjoy. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660a3z7r2_4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660a3z7r2_4[/url]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Hendrix yet (as such, for the benefit of the anal retentives ). Or AC/DC. Or Jeff Healey. And while I'm here, I can't help thinking Robben Ford is a bit of an ask at this level. Anybody mentioned Kenny Wayne Shepherd?

I take it you're talking old-school electric Blues (BB King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker et. al.)?

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1456247015' post='2987033'] Having read the rest of this thread, I'm suprised that no one has mentioned the elephant in the room that surely consigns her to the critical dustbin: SHE'S GOT A MUSIC STAND IN FRONT OF HER!!!! [/quote] On the other hand, it also means she can read music well enough to follow the dots at that speed...

Y'know, jealousy is such a terrible thing. Methinks I catch a whiff of inverted snobbery here and there too. What a shame.

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1456088330' post='2985321'] THanks, but why not learn slapping and tapping and what not? [/quote] Because it's trying to run before you can walk. Also it pigeonholes your playing technique at a very early stage - who knows what you may be interested in five years hence? If slap is your only technique then you'll be cutting yourself off from some great music that doesn't use it.

So... slow day at the office then, eh?

Hasn't this been up before? (No offence intended Bb5.) It is a bit disappointing to hear people being so judgemental towards a (clearly very skillful) 16-year old girl. Taste & feel develop with age. As does tone. In any case, tone is as much about personal taste as anything else she does, and it could be that this tone is the perfect vehicle for where she plans to go with her playing. Not to mention... (You get the idea. ) Just my opinion as always.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1456010179' post='2984576'] There is nothing 'basic' about learning on a four string. You just learn with what is available to you. Yours is an entirely legitimate starter instrument. [/quote] This ^. If you start on a 5 then to you it's normal. You just learn how to deal with what's in front of you.

Well if we're doing humble beginnings, my very first 'guitar' (I'm calling it a 'guitar' but it could just as easily been a 'bass') was a plank of wood roughly the size & shape of a neck with the body and headstock shapes cut from an old cornflakes packet, and with a piece of stretched rubber banding nailed in place at each end. The bridge was a pencil IIRC. Bingo! Fretless neckthrough bass. It worked but it was crap...

Had more guitars, basses and amps than I can possibly list here (including a fair sprinkling of high end stuff on all counts) - not to mention a pretty well-equipped project studio and an awful lot of PA gear for different purposes. I did start listing it a while ago but it was rapidly turning into a novel so here's the reworked (and somewhat shorter) version: In financial terms my most profitable instruments were a MIJ '72 RI Tele that was my main teaching guitar for a number of years (and which I then sold for not to far off what I paid for it), a Takamine EN10 acoustic that I still have, a Takamine EG something-or-other electro classical and the Seibass Original that I taught and gigged with quite extensively for some years. All these instruments paid for themselves many times over. I've had a number of instruments that were for specific tasks - still made money from them but not as much as the others (e.g. a Heritage H575 for Jazz gigs of various kinds). One or two were indulgence purchases that I couldn't possibly justify from a business perspective but which I didn't feel the need to justify to myself (if that makes sense). I also have a banjo that was bought for a project that never materialised, and which will be sold on at some point (probably at a considerable loss ). The Wal will wind up making me money, but as a sort of accidental investment rather than as a working instrument - not my original intention in case anybody's wondering... Amps is a more difficult one: the early Marshalls got a lot of work between them and will have been well into positive territory, the Cornford was a teaching amp so that made money too. The Mesa Boogies (Studio .22+ and a Mark III) less easy to quantify financially (Studio got a lot of stage and studio time, Mark III not so much) but I just loved the sound they helped me make so financial justification is probably a bit moot. I had a Polytone for the Jazz work too. I wasn't that fond of it in truth but it did a job, I only paid around £300 for it so it paid for itself and then some. Bass amps is a different story - spent a while finding one that I liked, with both PJB and TCE in and out of the house at various stages before settling on the GB St600 and Vanderkley EXT112 I now have. I don't gig or teach any more so these are technically indulgence items that are unlikely ever make me any money. Thankfully we now have a degree of financial security so I don't need to justify them in business terms. In general terms, justifying this kind of stuff can be thought of different ways. I had a business to run so I had to think in terms of using equipment to help me make a living. If it did that then it didn't need further justification. If it didn't then I had to accept the loss in financial terms and justify it to myself on the grounds that it was something I loved doing and was prepared to bite the bullet on from time to time. Having said all that, because they were all items that I ostensibly used for business purposes, they were all tax-deductable. And when I closed the business down in late 2010, everything I still had ( including all the studio and PA gear) reverted to my personal ownership to dispose of or keep as I pleased. Could be worse...

I've seen guitars with frets just at 5, 7 and 12 before now. Having said that, most of those were firewood posing as something more interesting. Classical guitars don't have them at all of course, and neither does my Takamine acoustic. (They generally have little side markers though.)

[quote name='ednaplate' timestamp='1455461467' post='2979266'] It would appear that the dots are only relevant for open string keys rather than for any other key... [/quote] Not really. The dots are placed relative to the open strings yes, but if you're going to have them at all then it's the obvious way to do it. They're just waypoint markers though and are probably best thought of as simply telling you which fret you're on at any given time. You may be overthinking it a bit, and you certainly shouldn't be relying on them as much as you seem to be - ask any double bass player!

Dunno about specialist cases for headless basses, but FWIW I used to put my Sei and Shuker headless basses into standard Ritter gig bags with no problems at all.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1455317137' post='2978224'] Back in the 70s I think the old Eko Ranger acoustics had dots at the 10th fret rather than the 9th. [/quote] My first electric (a noname from the Freeman catalogue of the time - late 1960s) had a marker at the 10th fret as well. I don't doubt many variations exist, but I'd be surprised to find any that didn't have markings at 12, 7 and 5 for the reason I gave in my previous post. Octave, fifth and fourth are historically the three most important intervals in the scale: to have any marking system that doesn't use them strikes me as simply perverse, and of extremely dubious value given what they're there for in the first place.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1455287169' post='2977835'] Ah yes. I'd seen a clip before, but it doesn't get less disturbing. [/quote] Well yes, I suppose an 8-string bass isn't everybody's cuppa.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1455282376' post='2977754'] That disturbs me in so many ways. [/quote] Quite well known around these parts - he's a friend of Discreet's I think...

Have you thought about getting a tutor to get you started on the right track? Just a thought...

Does this count? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWUYMWlEyo"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWUYMWlEyo[/url]