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I plan to buy two more Fender Telecaster Thinline guitars in natural finish. One is call a Jim Atkins P-90 because it is similar to a guitar Jim Atkins plays and has two P-90 single coil pickups. The other is an Elite Mahogany Fender Thinline. These are both on layaway at a national chain music store's local shop.

I am making a New Year's resolution to do music study every day of the new year. One lesson and/or one practice and/or one reading or study. This could even include just listening to some music as part of a study plan.

I tired just now plugging in my Fender Jazz bass into the Moog Sub 37 but this did not result in much. I need to read the manual of the Sub 37 some more before getting this working. I think the audio in also just adds feedback or acts as a colour rather than a full control signal. I think full control would only come from a MIDI input. I know there are also Voltage Control Oscillators possible as inputs on the side panel of the Sub 37.

I purchased a Moog Sub37 from the local music chain store. It is too much fun with electricity and is amazing through my small bass amplifier.

I am seriously lucky to have been able to get to know more about Carol Kaye and her music. Also luckily I bought some of her books and lessons from her web site and have been gradually studying her tips for playing the bass. I have also been hearing her music and of course who has not heard "Mission Impossible" and now having studied a bit of her techniques, I can now manage this riff in "Mission Impossible" much better.

I bought last winter a new short scale bass. It is a Fender Classic Player Rascal bass. It was fairly expensive given the currency conversion to Canadian dollars from US dollars.

I am managing to continue to practice with all four fingers for rhythm. I have always used all four fret board fingers although my pinky is not the best and will not fret properly or will bend a note around the 12th fret area. I tend to not have learned rhythm and have little developed rhythm knowledge even in common era theory which has held me back as a bassist.

I can manage to play the rhythm part of my song "Sweet Romance". This is a song I wrote in the late 1980's and performed once at an open mic at Rasputin's a folk club in Ottawa. It was played many times in the bands the Mechanic City Psychos and Flynche where I played the bass and sang the vocals. Yesterday I played it on my Les Paul Jr. into my Fender Hotrod Deluxe amplifier.

I am updating a mental health blog daily again. I did one anonymously from 2003 to 2007. Now I am doing another one.

I am building this web site more today. I added some tabs to organize audio and video content.