Re: New Bass
  By: slew to Daemon on Mon Mar 28 2005 12:00 am

 > wow, you went the "inexpensive, not cheap" route with those choices! a frien
 > of mine had a samick, very good quality for the low price he paid. glad your

  Yeah...  I actually lucked-out on the Samick.  Though I really like the guy
that runs the guitar shop I bought it from, he was wrong about the
quality of construction and priced it accordingly.  This line of Samicks is
labeled their full-size "student" or "beginner" line, but theres no difference
in the quality of material or worksmanship between these and their
higher-priced ones - the difference is in complexity.

  Fortunately, I LIKE simple boxes so, for me, it's a decent-quality perfectly
ornate guitar.

 > back into it, and you're lucky to have a Woman who wants [and, probably,] is
 > able to learn. 

  She's doing alright...  I started her off getting acquainted with the
coordination, fingering, etc. with a simple tune I put together a few years ago
that she's always liked, and she's just about got the entire theme down pat
after 2 nights of sitting there mirroring her (not the turn-around or little
variations here and there that are the style, but I'm curious what her style -
whatever it'll be - will make of the theme, so I'm sticking with the basic
structure for a while).

  So she plays that and that's building up her callouses, training her ears and
her hands, and I'm explaining theory, construction, etc.  as we go along.

  It's really quite cool.

 > able to learn. i recently splurged and got a nice ibanez acoustic. one of
 > those 'quick start' packs that come with all you need. i had to restring it,

  Nice.  My father had a 12-string Ibanez.  It had a great sound, but we
bickered over which sounded better - his Ibanez or my 12-str. Washburn.  Some
idiot set it against the wall at a party, it slid down, and the neck broke.

  I think the idea of such a catastrophic wound being inflicted on it soured
him completely, because he never picked it up after it was repaired.  He just
abandoned it there, to my complete amazement.

 > i didnt like the .12's they had on there, but its got a great sound. very

  Are those the medium gauge?  I can't remember any more.  I always just ask
for Martin bronze-wound lights for the 6's and ultra-lights for 12's.

 > fun nonetheless. maybe we should all record some mp3s of us [you, jahmas, an
 > i] and trade them around, maybe make a song or something.

  *grin*  That'd be pretty cool.  



       [daemon]                 
       In the shuffling madness...      


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