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11-07-2012, 06:46 PM
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What is the one piece of advice you wish you could have given yourself... when you first started to play bass?? |
11-12-2012, 07:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Mansfield, TX | | | I would tell myself to take a few lessons instead of self-teaching.
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11-12-2012, 08:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | Buy less gear and practice more.
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11-12-2012, 08:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Las Cruces, NM | | Quote:
Originally Posted by two fingers  Buy less gear and practice more. | +1
Less gear, more practice, and don't stop taking lessons.
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11-12-2012, 08:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | Learn basic major and minor chord formation, and jam with skilled musicians as often as possible. There's no more effective way to learn than jamming with more skilled musicians than yourself, it seems.
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11-12-2012, 08:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Bellevue, NE | | | Just take it easy, both technique wise and with not trying to over think things musically or being to worried about things being perfect. |
11-13-2012, 08:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Buckley AFB, CO. | | | She's crazy, wrap it up.
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11-13-2012, 08:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ireland | | Wear hearing protection if/when playing in a band ! 
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11-13-2012, 08:31 AM
| | | | Have the loosest most, "ready" fingers on both hands possible, I mean right against the fretboard, muting the BOTTOM string with those nice loose effortless fingers, keeping your fret hand in a cluster to whatever extent possible, so all of them are ready to do something, not full of tension and hangin in space. Practice string crossing forever, alternating fingers. |
11-15-2012, 07:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arcadia, CA | | | Go ahead and join that band.
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11-15-2012, 09:48 AM
|  | Tuxedo Bass® - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The Bitterroot Mounts, Montana | | | Clothing is not optional. (I played a lot of topless bars in SoCal)
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11-15-2012, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Brunswick, NJ | | | Don't be afraid to outgrow a band.
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11-15-2012, 06:44 PM
|  | Non Serviam | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Schenectady NY | | | Stop playing so many damn notes!
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11-15-2012, 06:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Seaford , DE | | | advice
Stay with it..never stop playing and play with as many musicians as possible.
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11-15-2012, 08:24 PM
| | | | pay attention to tension, posture, technique while playing
you can really cause bad habits and injury early
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If I keep practicing one day I might be good
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11-15-2012, 08:35 PM
|  | Short Scale Addict | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NE CT | | Spend less time "talking" about it and more time "doing" it  .
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11-15-2012, 08:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Listen to the whole band sound, not just bass and drums.
OWN the harmony- know the chords of every song and how they relate to the melody.
Have fun!
That redhead with the big... well, never mind...
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