| OK. Like I say, there's no music police. I do hope that you understand that what me and Laurence and Ray and Johnoh et al are trying to get at is - putting in only the amount of time you have to put in you CAN do this. It's not impossible, every single jazz bassist that CAN do this (at whatever level) started RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE. I wasn't born knowing how to walk 4, I had to learn.
Man, I only have about an hour a day to practice. I got a day job, I got a girlfriend, friends, family, interests, chores - the whole thing that's called a life. Everybody does. You say you have to concern yourself with intonation, well by working on playing a note as a result of aural stimulus, your ear is going to work your intonation. Much more than trying to match a spot on a page to a geographic location on the fingerboard. Having that "expectation of pitch" by mentally hearing the note you want to play before you play, having your EAR lead your hand, rather than constantly pushing yourself out of the moment by relating eye to hand and then finally to ear (hopefully) is going to put you more in the driver's seat.
Why not try it? You can always stop anytime you want to.
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