Cool! Never heard of those.
The first one I found looks super interesting - two P pickups 
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Great looking basses and welcome aboard, @Browndog . . . 
Hope you enjoy the course and wish you good luck!
Cheers, Joe
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Was a hazard to stumble on it… had time to kill and stopped in a shop. When I saw it… looks cool…tried it out and felt good…so I bought it. It’s a basic model $299 ca. and only has Yamaha on head. I think it’s TRBX17. Not too heavy also, I think it’s somewhere around 10 or 11 pounds. Does a great job for my level right now. Will be looking for a good deal on Fender short medium scale in the near futur.
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Sharp lookin !!!
Played a little harp in Younger days and had a Fender Jazz bass copy but amp and bass were stolen… Family life with three boys…ended up putting that aside until now.
Witn only three fingers (no index) on fret hand… have to concentrate a little more on muscle memory as need to move around and requires a little more than just micro moves sometimes.
I live in Mtl Qc. and we have a Rock’n Roll / Blues artist here, his name is Martin Deschamps with quite a handicap… had polio at Birth and plays with NO hand on his fret arm he is quite inspiring…so I should be able to mange to make some music with three fingers .
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Excuse my ignorance, but is that Montreal, Quebec?
There was a video shared in here somewhere recently of a guy with no hands (or one hand?) who played the most amazing shredding guitar. I guess he used a sort of slide guitar technique, but it goes to show the vast majority of us that we’re being wusses if we think our minor imperfections excuse us from trying. I’m no stranger to ‘excuses’, but very few things that come close to a ‘reason’.
I’m impressed that you played harp: that is such a complicated looking instrument - and a nightmare to get to band practice on the bus. 
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Was at a concert with a symphonic orchestra the other day… looked at the harp and thought: “Boy, I wouldn’t want to have to change the strings on this one… or tune them, for that matter!” 
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No. No you wouldn’t. I wonder how much a set costs. I may ask my sister-in-law - she plays in a duo with a harpist. She’s a flautist so they couldn’t be much further to either end of the scale. She can literally turn up with her instrument in her handbag - and I would bet she has more than once.
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Hi Howard, hey look at that. I’ve done a few searches recently and never come up with anything regarding a hayakawa company. They must have faded into obscurity.
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Thanks for the welcome Joe.
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Welcome Tony @Browndog! Happy New Bass
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Welcome to BassBuzz everybody!
We’re starting to get so many people I’m having a hard time keeping up with all the new posts. It’s great to see the BassBuzz forum growing like this.
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hi am warren chowace and just wanting to learn bass never played or tried so I would like to learn
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Welcome @wchowace ! You wont find a better set of lessons or a better community anywhere!
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I know! It’s awesome.
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@wchowace Welcome to BassBuzz! You’ve come to the right place. We encourage everybody to ask any questions they have. Chances are, if you have a question, then somebody else has the same question.
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Thanks Josh, it’s the Year of the Bass!
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Welcome to this weeks new arrivals and long-absent returners.
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I suppose I should introduce myself since I’ve been posting around the forums. I’m currently re-learning bass with the course here. I am not a true beginner, but am going through the course from start to finish in any case as I find it interesting. I dabbled in bass just after college about 20 years ago or so on an American Fender Deluxe Fretless Jazz Bass. Did some recordings and got played some on local radio. I say “dabbled” because my friend would just tell me the chord progression and I would just mess around on those notes.
I was trained as a child on classical piano and over the years I have played a multitude of different instruments (none particularly well!), with most of my time probably being on piano, violin, and bass (a long time ago). Have dabbled with guitar as well and tried to learn fingerstyle guitar a couple of years ago, but that didn’t go so well…
I live in the UK and have a lot of kids and a lot of pets. It is fair to say that I live in a mad house. This can make practicing challenging, but I’m currently between jobs, so just hammering out as much as I physical can before I have to go back to work in a few months.
I’m loving the course so far. I’ve done quite a few of these online courses on various subjects over the years, but this is the only one I’ve done that didn’t feel like a chore. I look forward to doing the next lesson each time. Josh has bags of charisma and his teaching style is really engaging and effective.
My main thing I’m trying to work on is to keep my fingers more parallel with the frets with my left hand. I’ve built up some bad habits on that over the years. I know it’s not that big of a deal for just casual playing, but I’m putting in some effort on it. My body doesn’t like the change though and my hands get quite sore doing it the correct way, but I know this will pass in time. I do particularly struggle on the headstock side, but noticed most people angle their fingers up there anyway, particularly if they have smaller hands (like me).
Anyway, glad to be around. Seems like a great community.
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