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I bought a bass yesterday, during our trip up to Modesto to pay rent and get groceries from Trader Joe's. It's an OLP MM2, a four-string knock off that seems to have gotten solid reviews online. I have limited bass experience, but I always felt I had an intuitive sense of what to do to play a bassline for the kind of music I'm interested in, so this seems like the right kind of instrument for the task. So soon I'll be posting tracks with basslines. Lauren got a tambourine for Christmas, so now we've got a percussion instrument as well. Now I've got to make this wacko German software work with all these tracks.