#33

Reckon my Mastermind specialist subject would be “bassists who are actually guitarists playing bass”. You can always tell.

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#34

Any of the Oasis bassists (rhymes)
The bassist from U2

#35

Paul McCartney was pretty good

#37

went to an Irish session in a pub in Kilburn once and these three scrawny hipsters turned up with ukuleles (in hard cases lol) and as they were sitting down one of the old boys said “sorry lads this is where the musicians sit”.

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#39

Altogether now:

#41

Drums: fucking great
Guitar: yeah totally can play a guitar
Bass: see above, same but easier.
Vocals: sad!
Piano: I do not understand this instrument

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#42

Forgot I can play sloppy drums, can only really do moderate pace 4/4 stuff where as everything else I do is slow 6/4 so it doesn’t rally work

#43

I’d forgotten quite how bad it was! And I can’t even go back to blur/spoiler it.

#44

Absolutely nothing. Proper wish I could tbh

#46

Just want give @elthamsmateowen a :smiley: for still managing to get this bite after that.

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#47

it’s a fair cop to be honest

#48

I can sing pretty well.
I can play guitar okay
I can play drums pretty badly
I understand enough about music and keyboards to use them but I can’t do much more than Neil Codling in Suede level.

#49

Despite how bad I am at drums, I’ve played drums live in at least 5 different bands and a few times on record. I really don’t know how this has happened.

This is me playing drums on a track my dad wrote:

I actually recorded my part in 2003ish when the only other instrument was him on acoustic and vocals, which is why they’re so busy. If I’d known he was going to layer so much other stuff on top I might have rolled it back a bit…but then I’m shit at drums :smiley:

#50

Yeah this one took me by surprise. I thought that impersonating early-era Slow Club had stopped being a thing about five years ago, but no! Some cunts still think that folk instruments are an effective means of selling things. (See also: poetry)

#51

And banjos.

#52

what music things would people most like to be able to do? I would love to be able to do this mandolin ‘duo style’ tremolo picking and chord arpeggios at the same time, seems impossible, actual magic

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#53

Average guitarist reporting in!

#54

I’m good at guitar despite being self taught and trying to sound like Johnny Marr in everything I write, but that’s basically all I want, and I’m good at theory and improvising. Also in the last few years become a lot better at speed being in hardcore bands. So ‘good’.
I have a lot of fun playing bass but probably sub average. This is solved with fuzz and delay.

Can’t do anything else

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#55

This is a weird answer but I’ve never wanted to play like anyone or anything else. I’m perfectly happy to play bass like only I can and if other people appreciate that then that’s cool.

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#56

That is a good approach, I am sort of similar but more through not really putting in the effort to learn (can’t play any covers all the way through) rather than setting out to do my own thing, kind of stumbled on my own thing which I don’t mind but it doesn’t seem to work playing with anyone else which is a shame

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