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I don't want the lyrics Toots.  I want to hear it!  PLEASE play that on one of the Skype calls. 

- Zurf

If you are using Windows, their photo utilities can adjust size.  I don't remember exactly how, but if you diddle around you may be able to find it.  I think I used Windows Live Gallery.  My current avatar I mocked up in Paint.

Well sure, if you want to use English. 

- Zurf

Memomskid would have been cool too. 

I have a fretless electric bass.  I have not heard of a fretless guitar.  It's all muscle memory and very, very carefully listening to yourself play.  The nice thing about it is that if your string goes out of tune while you're playing, all you have to do to correct it is to adjust where your finger is a slight bit.  That's one of the reasons I rarely ever play open notes on the bass.  The other reason is that it made transposing a whole lot simpler.  The not nice thing is that it requires precision of where you put your finger down.  You can not put it down anywhere kind of close to the fret and get the right note.  However, because no one is that tremendously precise, fretless basses have a distinctive groovy sound when played at or above the seventh fret.  The further up the neck, the groovier it is because the little bit less precise the tone is (because there's smaller spaces between notes - any deviation has a larger effect).  To enhance the 'fretless sound', I put flatwound strings on mine.  Sooooo smooooooth.  It's like playing strings made out of butter. 

All electric basses used to be fretless just like double basses used in orchestras.  It was Fender that first put frets on an electric bass to add precision to the tone that was played.  Thus the name "Fender Precision Bass."

Wish I could.  I will be somewhere around the Great Valley of Virginia on my way to the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania at that time. 

- Zurf

I heard that from an old girlfriend's mother, who was a beekeeper.  She kept me well-stocked in honey and it didn't work, but there is the strong likelihood that she poisoned it. 

- Zurf

There's another weird one you can use for fingerpicking, but it's as much or worse of a bear as the barre version.  I like bass enough that the barre was worth the effort for me.  It's not as clean sounding as an open chord, but it's good enough if you pick quick enough that you don't have time to hear the blung instead of plunk.

There is no difference. 

Congratulations on the Bm.  That will open a lot of horizons for you.  Or at least some songs. 

- Zurf

Well here's the thing.  You can play blues like John Lee Hooker or Lightning Hopkins who each played from the heart and made up his own timing for each song and you can play blues like Robert Clay or Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown whose songs are each note perfect and well-rehearsed, or the thousands of artists in between.  Do what you can, and play what you feel.  It doesn't have to be riffed out on the spot and free-flowing to be blues.  It just has to be real.   Best part, is YOU get to decide what 'real' means. 

- Zurf

It's not the lowest.  The lowest is the F310, which I have.  I have done the following to my F310 to make it sound better, which is quite a lot better. 

First, change the strings to .11s or .12s.  It comes with .10s, which always sound tinny and weak on an acoustic, I think.  When you change, if you choose .11s, try some Silk and Steels.  If that doesn't work, try some Phosphor Bronze.  Replace the bridge with a Tusq or bone bridge.  It will mean some sanding for you, but it will make a big difference.  Replace the plastic bridge pins with Tusq, dense wood, or bronze.  I haven't tried replacing the nut with Tusq or bone (that would take paying someone to do the work), but I have heard that it makes a big difference.  For $8 for strings and $12 for a Tusq nut and however much for bridge pins that you care to spend, you can have a radically different and much better sounding guitar. 

- Zurf

I think I could make do with one Guild, one Martin, one Yamaha, and one Taylor.  You know, acoustics.  And maybe a Gretsch or a Larrivee. 

- Zurf