Lockdown is tough for a bass player- I've really missed being able to lock in with a drummer in the same room.
During the hard lockdown I started learning Vic Wooten's arrangement of Amazing Grace and can kind of get through the first half or so -
(it gets increasingly impossible from 1:10 onwards). I'd like to get this piece worked out better. I like that although it uses flashy techniques, it still grooves really hard

Given that it's not clear when I'll be playing with a band again, I'm keen to work more on electric guitar, and my new Tele is hanging on the wall in my home office. I need to find a decent plan for learning electric rhythm playing- which probably means getting away from cowboy chords and playing voicings up the neck. Any suggestions for resources?

As promised, rudimentary guitar playing skills through a clean-ish Voxy type amp in GarageBand.
first riff is bridge, next one is middle position, last one is neck only- I think it gives a fair idea of the clean tones possible:

guidothepimmp That will probably tell you more about my rudimentary guitar skills than the quality of the instrument, but I'll have a go...

This is a birthday present, courtesy of my wife and a decent SARS refund this year - Butterscotch Player Series Tele. Haven’t had a chance to dig in and play properly yet because I’m working today, but very happy with it. Action is low, neck is more substantial than the Squier Classic Vibe I sold a few years ago, and the pickups are Alnico. I will probably add some switching options (series,out of phase) when I can find a reasonably priced four or five way switch.

There was a big discount on it because of a chip in the finish on the back of the body, but a local tech patched it for me at a very reasonable price so I ended paying used MIM price for a new guitar.

Sorted

I'm clearing out space at home to make way for a new arrival in November
This set of 50 Bass Player mags from the late 90s through to around 2012 is going free to a good home in Gauteng- we can figure out how to make delivery once you get in touch with me.

Let me now if you're interested

Some noodling during quarantine that I recorded last week:

The backing vocalists on this are awesome. There's some fun in here, and I don't know how I missed that they did a whole album together!

Tuckstir What timber are you looking at?

RodneyVikens Hi, thanks! One of the things about fretless is that the note attack isn't as sudden as a fretted instrument- the notes 'bloom' rather than 'jumping' in, so they sound a little bit like they are reversed or have some kind of effect on them.

V8 Thanks! Appreciate the kind words.

Tuckstir
Pretty good, thanks- it has great sustain, I think partly because the neck is quite thick, and partly because the neck joint is a tight fit.

It's pretty comfortable to play but I noticed that I was working quite hard to 'fret' the strings- it could probably do with having the action lowered now that it's working. I brought it to rehearsal on Sunday afternoon and ended up playing it in the service, so it has been a fairly natural transition - I think keeping the same body shape and scale length as my fretted bass might have helped

Finally got some audio- please excuse the intonation:

So I heard from my local guitar tech today that he has re-wired the bass and solved the earthing problem, so I’ll be picking it up from him tomorrow morning, audio clips to follow this weekend ?

RodneyVikens
thanks! I'm trying to sort out an electronics problem (lots of hissing, popping and dropouts) that makes it pretty unpleasant to play plugged in at the moment- looking forward to being able to record it.