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12-18-2010, 11:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Richmond, VA, USA | | | just had a smack in the face of a revelation...
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...i really suck at bass playing.
i've been kinda lax on a bunch of stuff for a while. the shoegazy band i was in broke up when our drummer went to college, and i've focused on avant-garde, noise stuff.
and today i picked my bass up, and played it, not to make noise, not to run glass sliders over the pickups to make sounds, but to play it as a bass. and i've...forgotten how.
i can't play the muse songs i knew anymore, my arm gets tired. cant' follow the jimmy eat world songs any more, my ears' slipping. tried to learn something compleely different, and couldn't follow the key.
gah! it's annoying, because i used to be able to. last summer if i had tried to learn these songs i would have picked the bass part out instantly, and had the songs down. now i'm listening and i readily hear the bass notes, and can follow the parts, but i can't relate them to my fingerboard any more. and so... it's back to the woodshed. it'll give me something to do during my sleepless nights.
anybody else going through a dry spell right now? please tell me i'm not alone! |
12-19-2010, 05:48 AM
|  | Gettin' medieval on yo' bass... | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: new hampshire | | | I remember something a friend of mine in college said about avant-garde music; it's easy to tell when it's really bad, but there's no way to tell if it's actually good. You have to keep up on the basics. Sounds like you know what to do, though, you'll get it back.
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12-19-2010, 05:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Deep East Texas Piney Woods | | Like any skill once you master it --- it's yours and no one can take it away --- except yourself from non use.
Rust develops very quickly. However, little effort and it comes back very quickly.
Carve out some time and go have fun with your bass. 
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12-19-2010, 05:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Missouri | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hrodbert696 I remember something a friend of mine in college said about avant-garde music; it's easy to tell when it's really bad, but there's no way to tell if it's actually good. You have to keep up on the basics. Sounds like you know what to do, though, you'll get it back. | What's avant garde?
"Avant garde a clue." --George Harrison |
12-19-2010, 06:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Iowa | | Get off yer butt and start "woodshedding"!!! |
12-19-2010, 07:45 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Bismarck | | | Get into metal man. Drone metal, doom metal, atmospheric metal. Not "post-metal" though. |
12-19-2010, 07:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nev375 What's avant garde?
"Avant garde a clue." --George Harrison | Lol that is hilarious.
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12-19-2010, 04:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Central Minnesota | | | I have been experiencing what you are going through for almost 40 years ... |
12-19-2010, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: South Jersey/Philadelphia | | | Finkel is Einhorn... Einhorn is Finkel!
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12-19-2010, 05:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle, Washington | | | man i'm ALWAYS in a dry spell
and i'll forever be in a dry spell till the day comes that i have become one with music itself and our beings collide and we become a SUPER being
so yeah, i'm in a dry spell
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12-19-2010, 05:09 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | When I listen to the stuff I played 10 years ago, I wonder how I achieved it.
I used to give lessons and got respect as a pretty decent teacher but today I'd be ridiculous.
Of course back then I played several hours a day, now it's often 5 minutes. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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