Dude, your more than welcome.
I just wanted to clarify something. (And chances are that 99.9% of you bassist can more than likely play me under the table
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Myself, like the majority here i'm supposing (or shall i say those that may not have a natural predisposition to pick up the instrument and can use there ears and figure things out for a little while by themselves) have ran from pillar to post in pursuit of what i'd figured to be the best bass instruction or experiences.
I've taken the music theory clasess from the local community college, i've frequented the nightclubs where live music was played to study other bassists. I was notorius for running up on guys/girls in a guitar center/sam ash etc etc grilling them with questions as to how to play this thing, or info into what they were doing asking them where'd they get their instruction from, almost always to here 'I've come up playing through the church'.
I've studied several theoritical music publications on my own. (and still do a little bit, i have more instructional books and videos that i care to admit too owning)
I've had a piano teacher, with piano lessons. (in order to understand harmony. I never really got the fingering thing down and chilled with that.)
I've had the privlege of being in 2 bass institutions/ensemble settings where the instructions and atmosphere seemed to breed the students into the typical 'paint by numbers-mechanical sounding bass player'.
I have driven an hour each way for private bass instruction at a 'maturer bassist' house, only to have my lessons erode into why my teacher has'nt made it in the business and how he is better than so and so who's endorsed/on t.v. and to hear his demeaning experiences or encounters with A list bassists.
I can go on and on and on.
Never did i think that i would ever find an instructor like Anthony. I mean, do people/teachers like him really still exist?!?! This is'nt the 70's ya know, where it appeared that the baddest bassist were keen on taking someone with a burning desire to learn the instrument under their wings. It almost seems to come to how much cash a teacher can get from you.
When i considered 'Hot Lick Guitar Shop', i too, thought to myself, how cheesy. Just another place to learn a few Wooten/Marcus Miller licks.
I know i've rambled extensively here and may have come across incoherent in my thoughts but i just did'nt want to leave Anthony hanging out there to dry. If you go in front of him for lessons, trust, it's definitely not about any 'pentatonic soloing, or slapping and tapping'.
