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View Poll Results: Are bassist more prone to OCD? | |
Yes
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No
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No more than other musicians
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I like string cheese!!
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05-06-2010, 10:07 AM
|  | Bassman7654 | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: North Las Vegas NV | | | Are bass players more prone to OCD?
I've noticed that bass players seem to obsess over trivial crap that does NOT bother the other musicians. Take a look at some of the posts here on TB and you will see what I mean  . Some of the things we (myself included) obsess over are just plain stupid  So...... What gives? Are bass players more prone to OCD? Share some of the things you obsess over 
For me it's the action on my basses  I have to constantly fiddle with it, trying to go lower, and lower and lower. Then just when I find the sweat spot, I'll do something to mess it up and have to start all over again
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05-06-2010, 10:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | Sounds like projection to me...
Excuse me, I must go organize my to do list for the 7th time today. No time to spend here! |
05-06-2010, 10:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | OCD & CRS , not good....
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05-06-2010, 10:46 AM
| | Bassman7654 | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: North Las Vegas NV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tenma4  Sounds like projection to me...
Excuse me, I must go organize my to do list for the 7th time today. No time to spend here! | Yep, I'm guilty too.
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05-06-2010, 11:02 AM
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05-06-2010, 11:25 AM
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05-06-2010, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Princeton New Jersey | | I've been fighting it my whole life... 
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05-06-2010, 12:19 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | In my band the drummer is the one with OCD. I rather enjoy flying by the seat of my pants.
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05-06-2010, 12:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DougD I've noticed that bass players seem to obsess over trivial crap that does NOT bother the other musicians. | What? And where are the spaces between your text and those smilie things? |
05-06-2010, 12:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Texas | | | I am OCD (think of Monk that's me afraid of germs so I got a Purrell bottle on me 24/7 and I like things straight mainly papers in piles) but, not in anyway OCD when it comes to playing bass or anything with music at all.
Music for me is best left untamed I had my 1st bass just set up after buying it stock 3 years ago when I got my ATK I decided it needed one so I brung in my Yamaha too.
As far as OCD goes I tune my basses once a week and play them daily you do the math.
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05-06-2010, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Arkansas | | | I can only speak from my own experience...and that is a yes. I play in a trio so my parts are less complicated on the account of trying to create a good driving rhythym, so this gives me a chance to listen to the other parts that are being played and pick them apart. I find myself picking out things that I would do differently all the time, but keeping this information to myself - because who wants to be THAT guy.
Maybe this is not OCD at all...
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05-06-2010, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida | | | Maybe.... or this is simply a thread where OCD bassists feel compelled to leave a reply.
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05-06-2010, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Towson, Maryland | | | No, what fun is a forum where all you talk about is technique? |
05-06-2010, 03:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Lakewood, OH | | | I most certainly do NOT suffer from OCD. I suffer from CDO. It's similar to OCD but all the letters are in alphabetical order, just they way they should be.
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05-06-2010, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Lakewood, OH | | | And I LOVE string cheese.
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05-06-2010, 03:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Kent Island, Md. | | I'm ADD and do not have the attention span to be OCD.
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05-06-2010, 03:59 PM
| | Bassman7654 | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: North Las Vegas NV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gintaras I'm ADD and do not have the attention span to be OCD. |
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05-06-2010, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Oregon | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mikopita Maybe.... or this is simply a thread where OCD bassists feel compelled to leave a reply. | That was great!  |
05-06-2010, 04:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 53.0000° N / 71.0000° W | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DougD For me it's the action on my basses I have to constantly fiddle with it, trying to go lower, and lower and lower. Then just when I find the sweat spot, I'll do something to mess it up and have to start all over again | The sweat spot is usually under your arm pits. Just thought I'd save you the trouble of looking. |
05-06-2010, 04:25 PM
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