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Hi guys. If anyone has experience with running a business, can someone please tell me how to go about business politics? This is my first company with a guy I know. He has the connections and therefore is able to get gigs. He knows this and tries to overpower me in every small decision. I'm...

TL DR: Cat has ringworm, cat has been everywhere(beds, clothes, couches, tables). How can I be sure I and the family don’t have it and how do I prevent it. Dear TB community, Our cat has contracted ringworm along with intestinal parasites. I see a lot of cat threads here so surely some of...

My fellow TBers, has anyone here had joint problems? I first started cracking my fingers when I was about 12-13. I later started to routinely crack not only my fingers, but also my toe joints. At 14-15 my jaw started to get stuck shut. If I keep my mouth shut for a while, when I want to open it...

In the "iconic cars" thread, a fellow TBer mentioned the Pontiac Aztec (There's always that ONE troll :D , though it is quite iconic in how much people hate it). I then thought of the Prius and which one is the more hated out of the two. What do you think are the most universally hated products...

I just woke up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep. I feel doomed. I feel frustrated and angry. I feel misunderstood and tired of life. I could elaborate, but it's way too much to write. Let's just say I've got the blues... If anybody is having a hard time, needs to get...

Wasn't sure where to post this, but since TB members spend a good chunk of their time lurking in the OT section, I decided to post it here. Check this out:

Hey fellow TBers, I'm 18 years old and have been shaving since 13.5. With an electric shaver until 16.5, with a cartridge razor until this summer, and with disposable plastic bic(70s style) single blades ever since. Since I started to shave with a razor, AKA "wet shave", I get at least a...

Dear fellow TBers, This is my first job. I am an intern at a local IT company. I work half time as a graphic designer. This was my first week. The first job they gave me was to create a 3D model for a game. I did. Had to fix a bunch of issues, but for someone who has relatively little...

How many fellow TBers wear jewelry? If you do, what kind? Are you male or female? I'm interested what the majority of people these days wear. Your input will be greatly appreciated. Keep rockin :D

Hey fellows, So I posted in the celebrity crush thread and thought why not list the awesome lookin dudes? Post'em! My list goes like this: Brad Pitt Jeff Bridges Hugh Jackman Jay Leno Sam Eliott Steven Tyler James Hetfield Pierce Brosnan Shaun White (Snowboard dude) Bradley Cooper Jared...

Hey people, as of late, I sing all the time. Having been playing bass for quite some time now, my musical hearing and relative pitch are pretty good. I learn all bass lines by ear, I can hum any melody, and whistle in the mid octaves. Sometimes I'm a little off, but it's okay, nothing's perfect...

Hey people of TalkBass, I'm just eighteen yet I have I'd say about 12-15 lb of extra fat. I'm getting really tired of the extra weight, especially now in the summer heat. I have kinda let myself go for the last couple years suffering from depression, I have been drinking heavily for a while now...

Hi all, I'm currently 18 years of age. I started drinking(properly) last year when I was 17. So far, as far as drinking goes, I've been doing great. I'm far more tolerant than most of my friends and can outdrink most of them remaining more sober after half a bottle than most of them are...

I know, I know... People(even myself) tend to hate this type of threads, but I honestly don't know who else to ask. Okay, so I'm a college freshman (18) and I have zero, yes, ZERO experience with girls. So there is that really nice girl in my class that I have really been digging lately, and...

Yeah so I have recorded a bass track in garageband. I need to record another one on top of it. When I click the first track, I can hear whatever I play in real time as well as what I have recorded. However, when I create a new track, or duplicate the original, there is no input at all, moreover...

Last weekend I bought me a brand new Yamaha TRBX174. I walked into the store and there it was: 24 frets, PJ setup and a nice fat neck. I hate thin necks and I have been wishing a 24 fret bass with a chunky neck for a while now. I tried it and fell in love. I saw the bass of my dreams hanging on...

I play a Chinese simplest basic single pickup Squire P-bass, my first and only bass for 3 years now. Quite often it makes that annoying random static noise. It won't go away unless I touch the strings (grounding issue?). I was thinking about getting another instrument which would be less...

Being relatively new to bass(about 2 years now) I realize I have been doing it wrong. I mean not really but I have some huge obvious flaws I want to get rid of. One of these things is my fretting. I learn songs almost exclusively by ear and most of what I play is classic rock/blues, hard rock...

Recently I noticed that the bridge saddle of my E string is slanted. Is it supposed to be like this? Here are some pics. Thanks for help.

I'm a novice player of 2 years, and I don't have an amp. Yes, 2 years and still without an amp. Up to this point I thought I was doing fine playing through garage band, which pretty much gives me the tone I like through a wide range of effects. However, while messing around with a p bass at a...

Once again, thanks to @GKon and a bunch of other guys who kindly helped me achieve better speed and accuracy by suggesting grabbing the pick like a guitarist. The downside of this approach is that when I play I naturally sag my hand in a relaxed position and the pick ends up being almost...

Okay, so a while ago I asked how to play fast with a pick. Thanks to GKon, who told me to hold it like a guitar player, I now am super fast(relatively, haha). But my index finger joints hurt after a couple minutes of playing no matter how loose I hold the pick. I have watched a ton of guitar...

So I am a two years' bassist being primarily a pick player. And since I'm the complete opposite of a pocket player I always tend to stuff extra notes everywhere I can, be it 4th 8th and sometimes even 16th's. To succeed at this I have to play fast enough. For some reason descending comes easier...

Yeah so I just banged my instrument on a sharp corner and there is a tiny ( I mean really tiny, almost microscopic) crack on the top of the headstock. I'm okay with it, just wondering if I really should do anything with it, like you tell me, take it to someone? Shortly, would a barely visible...

Right now, I'm learning Fade to Black by /METALLICA\. I play fine, however, I feel that I'm doing something wrong because I only use the E string, occasionally filling in some higher notes on the A, playing the same notes round and round, something like -E-3-7-5-3-5-7-. How can I determine if I...

About two months ago I learned Hysteria by Muse. I practice almost every day but I see no results. Fretting is easy on this one. The thing about this song is that it's very fast. My picking hand goes totally nuts. Sorry, "plucking hand". I play fingerstyle.

Sorry for posting this like the fourth time, but... I don't get it. Why can't I play by ear? I mean, I can clearly hear the note and sing it. But I just can't play it no matter how hard I try? What do others do? Do they just keep wandering around the fretboard until they find the pitch they...

I'm currently learning some new songs and playing them with fingers and then with a pick, to see which suits the song better. What I've noticed is, when I play fingerstyle, I hear horrible buzz in between the notes(playing those descending fills of smoke on the water), but when I use a pick...

Hi TBers, I've noticed this huge MTB thread and since there are so many bike addicts, I hope to get some help. HORRIBLE DISC BRAKE SQUEAL! I ride a 2012 Scott Aspect 10, brand new from the shop. It has Shimano Deore Hydraulic Disc Brakes. After not riding it for some time now, those almost...

I don't know how to explain it. When I hear a song, I automatically make up a nice bass line with all those fills and everything, along with the imaginary drum beat. But when I pick up the bass, every note I try to match to the sounds in my head sounds wrong to me. Is it because I don't know the...

I've been playing bass for some time now. I just learn the songs I like, the very easy ones by ear, more advanced stuff from tabs or videos. Completely self taught, I don't know any theory at all. Of course, it won't make me a good player on it's own, but I've got to this point where I think I...

Am I the only one? Sometimes I can't play even those songs I can play with my eyes closed.

As a teenage instrumentalist(not a musician yet) and artist, this is the biggest problem I am facing. I just can't get over this horrible wound. I can't fairly judge my work. I constantly keep underrating myself, especially while comparing myself to others, which I shouldn't ever do, as the only...

I'm a newbie, and I'm not buying anything. I'm just curious. What is gain? What is distortion? What is overdrive? What is fuzz? What is love?

Is barely touching the strings while turning up the amp the key to smooth tone? I have observed this in Christopher Wolstelnholme's playing a lot, especially in "time is running out".

As a bass player, I'm looking for some headphones with some low end. What do you use? What would you recommend? I was thinking about skullcandy. Please don't tell me to get beats by dre. They are ridiculously overpriced. They have some really good sound, but you can get the same out of ones...

I've been playing bass for 3 months now. Some good bass players (Either famous band members or professional level hobbyists(like the ones on youtube/talkbass)) I've heard play so smoothly that the bass line kind of flows like water, has that soft touch kind of feel to it. I can't do it. I sound...

Hi everyone! I turned 15 last december. I have always made fun of teens who always keep bitchin about "love" and how "their life sucks", writing these terribly annoying emo statuses on facebook and everything. Whenever I talk to my buddies i'm all like "Teenage love? Pff... You kidding me? Total...

I play a P-Bass. When I got it (3 months ago), the salesman told me that a cheap strap won't handle a bass. What should I get.

I am a newbie and I have the simplest single pickup passive P-Bass. I don't really feel much of a difference when I turn the tone knob. Maybe I am doing something wrong... I saw a similar question on TB a while ago.