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04-30-2010, 06:54 PM
| | | | The song that, once you learned, you knew you could play bass
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I've asked other bass players what was the song that, when they started out, they never thought they could play. And then one day they finally figured out how to play well and then knew they could actually play bass.
For me it was Old Brown Shoe by the Beatles. I learned exclusively on Beatles songs and that one always seemed like a Holy Grail of bass songs. I figured I would never learn it or be able to play it.
I did finally learn it and now it seems so easy to me. It opened my eyes to the fact that I could learn any bass song.
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04-30-2010, 07:21 PM
| | | | cant think of anything in particular but i love going back to songs that i used to play and find difficult
its cool to be able to check your progress against something constant |
04-30-2010, 07:56 PM
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04-30-2010, 08:03 PM
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04-30-2010, 08:11 PM
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04-30-2010, 08:17 PM
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04-30-2010, 08:19 PM
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04-30-2010, 08:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Las Vegas, Nv | | | composure by August Burns Red. Took me forever but once I learned that I realized I can could learn anything.
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04-30-2010, 08:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Galveston,TX/St.Pete,FL | | | This exact thing just happened to me yesterday. The song that really made me want to play bass was YYZ i figured id learn it somewhere around my 10th year or some other crazy length but i actually played through it perfectly yesterday and i know i can pretty much play anything if i try hard enough at it.
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04-30-2010, 08:29 PM
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04-30-2010, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by basstotheface This exact thing just happened to me yesterday. The song that really made me want to play bass was YYZ i figured id learn it somewhere around my 10th year or some other crazy length but i actually played through it perfectly yesterday and i know i can pretty much play anything if i try hard enough at it. | I was told to play analog kid for a gig about 25 years ago
they said if I could play that, I am in !
yah, still cant do it! hehehehe
but I can play bass, so frig you!
oh, I lost my playing ability a long time ago....
I practiced, and took lessons, to get back in the groove, and didnt have couldnt find the music in me.
then one day.... I played a song, and then called my girlfriend...and said ---
"I found it! I found the music! listen to this!"
I played fascination street by the cure.....I had the groove back |
04-30-2010, 09:09 PM
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04-30-2010, 09:12 PM
| | | | anything by James Jamerson...
"Aint Nothing Like the Real Thing" |
04-30-2010, 09:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: North Carolina | | | Dazed and Confused, Led Zeplin
Higher Ground, RHCP version
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04-30-2010, 09:19 PM
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John The Fisherman by Primus
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04-30-2010, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM black diamond by kiss. | Heh, I'd say mine was Detroit Rock City... |
04-30-2010, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBasicBassist Soul to Squeeze by RHCP | this is my favorite song to play, and one of flea's best IMO, but it's pretty easy to play.
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04-30-2010, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: SW Iowa | | | Young Lust by Pink Floyd. Listening to it I thought it was a monster of a song. Then I sat down with it. Either it's easier than I thought or I have just gotten better. Let's hope for the latter. Either way, it gave me a lot of confidence for learning other songs.
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04-30-2010, 09:53 PM
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