Thanks everyone! This was my 1st song where I was not thinking about the recording and just had fun.
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Odd enoufh… you play mych better when you have fun with it
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I hinestly couldnt tell it was a cover
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A couple of days ago I pulled out a sheet music book I bought a while back called “Rock Bass Bible” with 35 classic songs. The wife got a hold of it and asked if she could pick the next song for her birthday. Of all the songs, she goes picking a Police song, which I knew was going to have funky groove and timing.
I literally had a few hours yesterday to learn it, and a few today to record it in time. I was not sure I would be able to pull it off, but I think I gave it a solid try.
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Nice job @RuknRole ,
Love the reggae feel on the police songs and I think you did a pretty cool job,
I hope your wife liked your rendition
Cheers Brian 
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Well done,man! I’m a huge Police fan, and this was spot on.
I’m always amazed that Sting can pull off these bass lines while singing. But the man will not hit a One if you put a gun to his head 
. And Stewart Copeland moves his timekeeping around the kit in ways that baffle me. I find that, as a a mere mortal, the only way to reliably keep the pulse in a Police song is to concentrate on Andy Summers.
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Well played.
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Thanks everyone! She enjoyed it!
I just noticed I misspelled “World”. Dang Dyslexia! 
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There’s a song for that:
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Hi Folks, I’m a newbie to this but would like to do it, have enjoyed all the covers I’ve seen on here.
Pam, Eric, John, Brian and others have already given me some great advice on the software and hardware I need. My laptop is old and would take too much to upgrade so now am on the point of buying a new one, high-spec enough to do all the video and audio. But the choices from my local computer store are many and it’s all a bit confusing. So my question to you all is, which of these would you get if you could? $3,000 is probably way beyond the budget - possibly even $2,000 is, but I’ll get what I need, what do you all think I need to get the job done - which one would you buy?
Processor, GHz/Graphics card, Gb/RAM, Mb/Price $
AMD Ryzen 5-3580U, 2.10/AMD Radeon Vega 9, NK/16/1600
AMD Ryzen 7-5800H, 3.20/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 4Gb/16/1360
Intel Core i7-10870H, 2.20/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, NK/32/2450
Intel Core i7-11800H, 2.30/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, 6Gb/16/2320
Intel Core i7-11800H, 2.30/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, 4Gb/16/1520
Intel Core i5-10200H, 2.40/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 1650, 4Gb/8/990
Intel Core i7-11800H, 2.30/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, 8Gb/32/3300
AMD Ryzen 7-5800H, 3.00/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, 6Gb/16/1840
AMD Ryzen 7-4800HS, 2.90/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, NK/16/1520
I’m assuming 2Gb minimum on the graphics cards where the Gb is not mentioned, but I could find out.
The guy in the store said the memory slots on these models are full up, so if 16GB can’t be upgraded to 32, but not sure if that’s true, I just don’t know enough about these models.
All advice much welcomed!
Thanks (I’ve also posted this on the other thread for Reaper/using video)
Mike
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This is my response that I posted on your cross post in the Reaper Thread:
You’re going to want to get a computer with at least 4gb of VRAM and capability for at least 32 g of RAM if you’re going to do video editing. The one you described should be adequate for Reaper or any other DAW IMO.
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There are still computer stores?
I had no idea. 
You don’t need to spend $3000 for sure.
I use a Dell PC that I upgraded to about 2 years ago. Was ~$1800
I could be wrong but what I read was intel is better than other processors. Get the fastest one you can afford. SS hard drive with lots of storage and the most RAM you can cram. I’ve got an i9 with 32gig of RAM, not sure about the graphics card in it.
Most high we end music/video machines can be had for $2000
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@John_E there are still some, yeah! Ha ha. Budget would be $2000 or less ideally, I think the ones that get into the region of $3000 are the serious gaming machines.
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Yeah what I remeber is tou don’t need gaming power you want audio processing power. Very different how it uses the PC.
I was going to build my own but it priced out the same as dell and they had 2-yr interest free and I LOVE other people’s money.
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