I learned you can play a walking bass line on a theremin:
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What did you learn today?
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I re-educated myself that it's best to get your housework done in the morning, before it gets hot & makes you all sweaty.
I have learned pretty convincingly, Michael Jackson's Rock With You on bass for a cover band I sometimes sit in with.
A far cry from Country.
I manage to learn about 15 to 20 (pop-rock) songs a month even though I don't have to.
By "learn" I mean, have them called out on stage and I could play them unrehearsed with any band.
A far cry from Country.
I manage to learn about 15 to 20 (pop-rock) songs a month even though I don't have to.
By "learn" I mean, have them called out on stage and I could play them unrehearsed with any band.
I just had a nice jolt of reminiscence, after seeing this woman's tee - #9167. So, I trundled off for some hopeful revisionism - to see if my muffled memory wasn't serving. Didn't take more than a second to find this juicy morsel: The myth of premenstrual moodiness.
So armed, and having donned the white coat, I'm gleefully shoring up the man cave and digging in - more ready than ever to absorb my beloved's next bellicose barrage and fire off a shot or two myself, in defence, across her bounteous but belligerent bow.
Who knows. I may just get a new amp or two out of this
So armed, and having donned the white coat, I'm gleefully shoring up the man cave and digging in - more ready than ever to absorb my beloved's next bellicose barrage and fire off a shot or two myself, in defence, across her bounteous but belligerent bow.
Who knows. I may just get a new amp or two out of this
I learned that the shock I felt at the first £1 000 000 football transfer means nothing to Neymar.
I don't want to sound like a third-rate Arsene Wenger but surely this lunacy cannot continue.
I don't want to sound like a third-rate Arsene Wenger but surely this lunacy cannot continue.
I just had a nice jolt of reminiscence, after seeing this woman's tee - #9167. So, I trundled off for some hopeful revisionism - to see if my muffled memory wasn't serving. Didn't take more than a second to find this juicy morsel: The myth of premenstrual moodiness.
So armed, and having donned the white coat, I'm gleefully shoring up the man cave and digging in - more ready than ever to absorb my beloved's next bellicose barrage and fire off a shot or two myself, in defence, across her bounteous but belligerent bow.
Who knows. I may just get a new amp or two out of this
Get divorced and you can buy anything you want.
I just had a nice jolt of reminiscence, after seeing this woman's tee - #9167. So, I trundled off for some hopeful revisionism - to see if my muffled memory wasn't serving. Didn't take more than a second to find this juicy morsel: The myth of premenstrual moodiness.
So armed, and having donned the white coat, I'm gleefully shoring up the man cave and digging in - more ready than ever to absorb my beloved's next bellicose barrage and fire off a shot or two myself, in defence, across her bounteous but belligerent bow.
Who knows. I may just get a new amp or two out of this
I like the way you write...
I learned today that no matter how high a priority I assign to a task that needs my attention, my supervisor will justify degrading it, pretty much to the point of ignoring it...
... which is why, nothing... I repeat, nothing... gets done these days...
... which is why, nothing... I repeat, nothing... gets done these days...
In other words, beating your head against a wall just gets you a sore head. I've had several lessons in this at my work place...
Company XYZ Handbook, revision 0.0.a
- Promote unqualified personnel to manage.
- Operate on autopilot for several years.
- Change management 'philosophy', now holding unqualified personnel in management position accountable, stressing micro-management of all things tiny.
- Quickly learn that the 'blame finger' is not only a great tool, displaying both extensive education and experiential background, but when used in turbo mode, acts quite nicely as a seat warmer.
I could write a book on the subject but don't want to depress everyone. 
I learned that the intonation of the E string on my BTB is sharp, but there's sod all I can do about it, because the spring is already fully compressed.
I learned that buying digital music on Amazon is easy, fast, and fun. I resisted this type of thing until today.
Better, don't intonate your E string then claim to others "NO! YOUR INTONATION IS WRONG!" You need to yell this and empahsize Wrong. It helps as well if you can have a crazy look in your eyes when you do it.
Or a 5 string bass then even if the E string doesn't intonate, you have 80% of your strings still working.
You might possibly, besides getting a shorter spring, be able to put a little fat washer in front of the string ball to give it a bit of distance. Some people have taken a ball off an old string and slid that down there in front of the new ball to accomplish the same thing.
Edit:- if you have the type of bridge that will allow that.
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