It's false guilt, because you've been lied to about it being wrong. We're made right. But we're taught to be ashamed of ourselves, and others. And that makes things worse. Western society is based around shaming us, to make us buy stuff we don't need, so we can "feel better". Except it doesn't work, because we already have what we need.

@@MartinCliffe I wonder how much anger, violence, and dysfunction body shame creates in the world.

@@ts214121 It's frightening. And there are whole industries based on promoting it

Sounds just about perfect! For me personally, 4 is the perfect number (3 fretted and a fretless), but each of us has different needs

They're generally around the £1400 / €1500 area. I got this for a great deal in Hong Kong, so paid maybe 60% of that.

If you've got no sentimental attachment to it, why keep it around? I've owned maybe 25 basses over the years; I've kept the 4 that I use.

Enjoy!

@@MartinCliffe thanks friend 🙏🏼

Hoo, long while ago now. I think I had a 32, then a set of 55-110. Could be mistaken though.

Thanks so much! I'll try to, might be doing another couple of these events in the coming year

No idea, never played one. Taylor make very nice guitars, so you Yamaha. YMMV

It's not the loudest guitar in the world, but projects reasonably well IMO.

Yes I found that out later, thanks

For sure. But serious $$ and I'm kinda attached to my Suhrs

Thanks! It's a Mike Lull P5, but with a Bartolini 58CBP pickup

Good choice

Except that the tone was what I was wanting, there's no fret buzz anywhere here, and it was a clip of some improvising. But of course it's easy to talk down on someone from an account with no content.

Nonconstructive feedback is just that. It is difficult to evaluate tone quality without the context of other instruments. A solo instrumentalist has the right to use any tone they feel fit because fitting in a mix is not necessary. Tone becomes an opinion. I didn’t hear the fret buzz this person was speaking of, and I found your bass lines to be appropriate for many types of music. It wasn’t overly complex, maybe some would say “uninteresting,” but if bass players played the most interesting lines, we wouldn’t be providing the foundation most musics call for. Overall, your performance is clean. If I were to give a piece of constructive feedback, I’d say it’s worth working with a metronome for sometime each day to help tighten up some of your rhythms, but keep up the great work. I say we should always be building each other up. The world has enough negativity. I also don’t have any content on my account, but I do have a PhD in music education and a masters in bass performance so I know when a person has talent and potential. You have both Mr. Cliffe, so please keep up the great work.

Thanks! I've played for 30 years or so, but I wouldn't say it's 30 years of continuous progress! Most technical learning happens in the first 2-3 years IMO. After that, some people broaden their scope, others just stay in that place!

@MartinCliffe I want to become proficient in playing bass, I am only 16 years old, do you think I can become proficient within a period of 3 years or less?

@@nibiru_official If you work hard at it, practice regularly, then sure. Finding a good teacher can help, as can getting out and playing with other musicians who are better than you.

I'll check it out!

No, this is the P5 I've had for 4 years. But it's got some grunt!

Thanks so much, you too!

Sounds like a great collection!

In 2010 I think I paid about €750

No, it's a Standard Elite 2758AX-NEB. Still made in (South) Korea though.

Huh? Not last I checked...

@@MartinCliffe

Thanks so much. Lovely looking and sounding guitar

no they should be the same

According to “sweet water” the nut width of the natural colour is 1.692 on the other hand, the black one is 1.6875. Their scale length is a bit different too. The natural coloured one’s scale length is 25.5 whereas the black coloured one’s is 25.6 inches

​@@masudmahmud3123 That contradicts what Yamaha themselves say. Nut width is 43mm (1 11/16" - 1.6875") and scale length is 650mm (25 9/16" - 25.5625") for both. They're just bad conversions from metric on Sweetwater.

I've honestly not tried the 1000, but I believe the main difference is in wood used - the 1200 is rosewood back and sides while the 1000 is maple, so should acoustically be a little brighter sounding. Probably no real difference plugged in. As long as you're buying from a legit dealer, buying in Guangzhou should be fine... or pop over the border to HK and get one in Tom Lee Music if you're in doubt. That's where I bought my natural finish one.

I have one APX700ii and I like it a lot. Once I tryed the APX1000 on a store and I didn't like one thing, the neck finish is GLOSSY instead of natural. So it's a different feeling. The 1200 for sure is a better guitar with better woods.

Gracios compadre…. I am now buying a CPX 1000, brown sand burst @@arquivo225

Single coils from 8:30 in, but you clearly didn't watch much of the video.

It is a lovely sound. But hard work to play

Well spotted. But that only affects power-up state, it has no impact on sound.