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07-11-2008, 12:44 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EADG mx  You've got 2 ears, one is for you, one is for the rest of the band. | Even though learning your instrument, practicing, and growing your skills are an individual processes, playing in a band is a team sport. There is no "I" in band.
Learning is a long process, don't get wrapped up in what you did today.
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07-11-2008, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by GeoffB "If yer thinkin', yer stinkin'" | Same one I got....
"Callie stop thinking so much about it and just play"
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07-11-2008, 06:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: SF Bay Area | | | "Concentrate on the perfection of each note."
this from Michael Wilcox when I asked him how to play music I didn't particularly find interesting.
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07-11-2008, 06:35 PM
|  | Bassman7654 | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: North Las Vegas NV | | 1. Everyone makes mistakes- how you recover from them is what's important- Kai Ekhardt bass player mag.
2. Listen- Just about every pro i've ever met 
3. Volume does not equal tone- me
4. Learn how to get a good mix with your band mates- producers and promoters
5. If you can't hear what everyone in the band is doing, you are too loud-me
6. If you just want to be heard and don't care how the rest sounds, go solo-me again
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07-11-2008, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by CallieBum73 Same one I got....
"Callie stop thinking so much about it and just play" | You should save that quote for a thread entitled "Worst Advice You Have Ever Received." |
07-11-2008, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Winston Salem, NC | | | Easy
When I went to study music my bass teacher began by asking me a question that I still ask myself: "do you want to be a bass player or a musician?" I chose the latter and am a much better bassist because of it. |
07-12-2008, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Stumbo Even though learning your instrument, practicing, and growing your skills are an individual processes, playing in a band is a team sport. There is no "I" in team. | ... but there IS an 'M' and an 'E'! 
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07-12-2008, 07:25 AM
|  | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Don't play all over the lyrics- it's a song.
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07-12-2008, 07:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: bronx, nyc | | | put up a wall of sound, and never let it drop.....
one of my music instructors....
---kinda translates to keep pumpin' the groove, and dont stop, for whatever reason---
do you job
one of my other bass teachers...
---this was for auditions, just go in , play and dont expect anything....even if you play your best, you might not get called....but if you played your best, and nailed the music, you "did your job"---
those two helped me alot...
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07-12-2008, 07:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Delhi, India | | | this one i told my self: screw the tabs and never look back at them. learn to play everything by ear
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07-12-2008, 07:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Manchester(ish) | | | The Mighty Nik Harrison once told me, and I regard it as the greatest advice I've ever gotten,
'In theory, practice and theory are the same, in practice, they never are.'
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07-12-2008, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Martin Bormann You should save that quote for a thread entitled "Worst Advice You Have Ever Received." | possibly....but I do tend to get really nervous and think way too much...which makes it worse
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07-12-2008, 09:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: bronx, nyc | | | you dont have to play perfect--or be a perfect player...
but you do have to PRACTICE perfect....
a drummer told me that...
that helped me focus when I practice, instead of just "noodle noodle around"
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07-12-2008, 09:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: bronx, nyc | | | you dont have to play perfect--or be a perfect player...
but you do have to PRACTICE perfect....(always with a metronome of course)
a drummer told me that...to improve my timing....
that helped me focus when I practice, instead of just "noodle noodle around"
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07-12-2008, 09:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Manchester(ish) | | | My momma always used to say, 'Life's like a box of chocolates...'
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07-12-2008, 09:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Israel | | | 'When trying to make a bassline, first sing it out loud and then apply it to the bass."
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07-12-2008, 10:21 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars, DR Strings Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | I can't believe I haven't posted this before.
When I was at school, my bass instructor picked up a drumstick and turned to show me the butt end. You know that little black dot in the middle of the butt end of a drumstick? He told me "Get in there."
Years later, I'm still working on it. But the advice has done well by me. |
07-12-2008, 11:40 AM
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07-12-2008, 03:42 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | "No I in team" Quote:
Originally Posted by daffy ... but there IS an 'M' and an 'E'! | What I should have posed is: "There's no 'I' in band".
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07-12-2008, 06:20 PM
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