Hello everyone! My name is Megan (you can call me bender if you like), I'm seventeen years olf and I'm pretty much brand new, but still addicted, to bass!
I play didgeridoo, drums, hammered dulcimer, piano, and i own and can play ocarina and panpipes. I have always loved guitars, but i'm not very good with string instruments. Once, a friend of mine showed me how to play a few songs on her bass guitar at a sleepover, and I noticed how fun it was and how easily it came to me. Recently, I've been going into Guitar Center to get drumsticks or something, and I see basses and heard them and absolutely fell for them.
I decided in October to save up for my own bass guitar--my original plan was to save $700 by graduation in June and buy myself a Fender P-Bass and 15-watt amp by using spare change and any dollars i saw sticking out in my bedroom. I made it up to $60.07 in about a month or so.
On Thanksgiving, after my dad saw how much i had saved in so little time and could tell i was totally serious, completely surprised me. When I went to my grandma's house (he lives in mississippi and i live in ohio, so we stay there when he comes to visit) I see on the piano bench this beautiful black-and-white guitar on top of an amp.
She is an Ibanez SRX-505, my very first bass, and is absolutely beautiful. While I am without a teacher, I have DVDs, exercises, and I figured out all by myself how to read tabs the day after I got her. I can now play a whole song, and parts and peices of four others.
Unfortunately, my mother will not allow me to have her at my house...she says I have too many other instruments already and won't negotiate.
My grandma will allow me to come over to practice as much as i like, though.
So, uh, lol, that's my story! I hope to learn a lot from the forums here, and look forward to spending my down time talking with y'all!
