New tips for old dogs

[ILLINOX]

I saw the "best advice" forum and I got to thinking "hey, even us longtime players want something fresh sometimes. So I propose a forum where we can say "alright, so you've been everywhere and seen everything BUT along the way did you notice this? ... ..."

[ILLINOX]

Hmmm I wrote a reply to this last night, but it didn't register. Let's see if I can remember what I wrote:

How about fifths? Sure Mike Dirnt rode them all through the nineties, but that doesn't make them still a very usable tool for fills or even your initial riffs. I constantly forget them and then find them again.

Or tapping. Not that annoying guitar tapping "tweedle-ee tweedle-ee tweedle-ee" but some nice bass tapping "dum bunum bu num num num" hahaha. my teacher would tap low with his left hand and high with his right hand and play two-part Bach pieces. I don't know how the **** he did it, but watching it was... wow.

[ILLINOX]

nobody likes my thread... 97 people have read it and noone is writing.

boo...

[JimmyM]

I think we're all pretty confused.

[ILLINOX]

Oh alright. Thanks for the heads up!

What I meant in this topic was, we've all learned a bunch of stuff; whether we learned it by reading, by a teacher or by ourselves. But there's plenty of stuff, whether it's theory or just kinda cool, that we may have overlooked or missed (or just written off as stupid, but now our opinions might have changed.)

I'm at a plateau. I'm not learning anything new at the moment, and I'm reading and listening to plenty of music, but I haven't seen anything new yet that I want to learn and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Does that clarify?

[leftiebass]

Have you read "Effortless Mastery" by Kenny Werner - it is not a 'bass book' but he points out how to uplift your approach to music. I think it is worth the while.