Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

+ I can play whole-step bends on the bass guitar at the third fret and hit the pitches I was aiming for (including the pre-bends), but ...

- Yow, is that rough on the fingertips when I haven't done it in a while! (Time to get the digits in shape.) Still ...

+ It sounds wicked cool in the tune I was doing it in, even though ...

- It was recently pointed out to me that a tendency to play legato on bass may be the reason my bass parts don't sound loud enough despite how loudly I play them -- not enough definition -- so in performance adding a bunch of bends might not produce a clear enough line. Therefore:

+ I'll just write out what I was doing in detail and see whether the guitarist on that tune likes it.:-)

As a side effect, I know a smidgen more Postscript than I did the day before yesterday, since my notation software doesn't support guitar bends but does allow user-defined custom Postscript decorations.

syntonic_comma and anniemal should be arriving any minute to drive up to Baitcon, so the promised footnote to yesterda's electronica post will probably have to wait until I return.