Recent content by Nagchampa

Read "Effortless Mastery" by Kenny Werner.

JimmyM has the best answer. He beat me to it!!

I don't like the snark. It is slow to read the E string, especially if you ever tune down at all. Also, with loud rock and roll guitars in the room , forget it, the vibrations from them render my Snark useless. They also look silly live on stage, IMHO, and diminish a rock and roll aesthetic...

Murders in the Rue Morgue

MAP is "minimum advertised price". Meaning a retailer cannot legally advertise a product for less than that. Once face to face a retailer can sell you the product for whatever they want. In my retail sales experience I have had to report other retailers for violating this. Sorry. Just couldn't...

I stopped drinking 3 months ago but before that it was Uinta Hop Notch IPA 7.3% ABV, nightly, excessively. Stopping has been the best thing to happen to my playing in a long time!! My taste buds are sad but oh we'll, life is a series if trade offs is it not?

I switched to these recently and like them a lot. I came from EB Super Slinky and I think the cobalt stay brighter longer as well.

Free Will

just don't ever stop playing. even if you don't feel like practicing, pick up your axe anyway and play something, ANYTHING, even if only for a minute or two. You might find you all of the sudden feel like it. Oh yeah, and it's not the bass you play, it's what you play on the bass that counts, IMO.

Howdy bass brothers, I have been lurking around TB for a few weeks and finally decided to jump in. Been playing since 1981 and just came out of a 10 year hiatus of not playing at all, which is subsequently my only regret so far in life. So my only advice is to never stop playing. Even if...