Recent content by pomegranesis

:roflmao: I know, I know, and I'd include a social post or have a word with a supervisor about my awful experience -- tipping is just engrained in me because I'm uncontrollably sympathetic about dealing with customers, and minimum wage is trash. I haven't encountered anything that bad at all...

I generally just tip 20% at bars and restaurants. 15% only for extraordinarily bad behaviour (racist, sexist, etc.) and for expensive services (medium/large tattoos). The industry is thankless, the servers do not get paid enough and if I can't afford at least 20%, I shouldn't be buying the services.

The insult! The injury! The inability to amend votes!

+100000 to all the responses telling you to go slow over the passage several times (~10 times) without making a mistake. Then, go back a bar and play through the passage several more times; after that, add a bar after the passage; after that, play it faster; etc. It's not easy to unlearn and...

Dunno about popular, but I've always just used longscale Fender flats and never worried about winding the non-silk bit of the string. Didn't realise it was an issue until TalkBass, honestly. Edit: Also, congrats on the new purchase! I hope your shortscale experience is better this time around.

Hello! May I please have a number? This is my favourite place on TalkBass :)

I say it so often that it's become a running joke with my friends, but I aspire to become Jenny Lee Lindberg.

For the past few months, Fender's redirected me to the generic international site (I used to be able to click on the US site without being redirected). The Mustang PJ seems to be on the country-specific sites (I checked the U.K., France and Luxembourg) but not the 'international' one, and Canada...

You're right, no other Mustang basses are on the international Fender site. Long & McQuade still has them in stock though, and there's no indication that they're being discontinued.

Good value for money.

Agitatrice? Or a less fun alternative, simply a « joueuse de shaker pomme ». Boop-boop-be-doop boys and girls, I'm une agitatrice. Nice.

All hail the new List Keeper!

Sarah McLachlan, specifically her first three albums, comes to mind. No one in my current music circles really "gets" how she was my first songwriter role model, now that I play in completely disparate genres. And, no matter where I am on my musical journey, as soon as I re-listen to Touch...

The word 'unlearn' nearly made me panic. Don't unlearn anything! You have a huge advantage, i.e. knowing theory, that allows you to know how to break it. Otherwise, I agree with the above. Since you've been studying music for a while, I assume you know how to listen... so listen a lot and...

About 75% of the songs I play in one of my bands are in open D7 and I still refuse to detune... so one song wouldn't be a problem (IME, FWIW, YMMV, etc.)