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08-01-2011, 07:17 AM
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This has been an ongoing thing with me for some time now. Years actually. I will sit and watch the news or surf the net all the while looking at my bass on its stand and not play for days. Then I will just sit and play for hours. I have so many unfinished songs that I have written, but just don't have the Umph, to play.
Ever happen to you?
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08-01-2011, 07:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Zaragoza, Spain | | | I heard it happens to most musicians sometime in their life. Apparently, the best thing is to just get another hobby and wait ītil you want to play again.
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08-01-2011, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Pollinator95 I heard it happens to most musicians sometime in their life. Apparently, the best thing is to just get another hobby and wait ītil you want to play again. | Yeah, I am writing a novel. Got about 150 pages so far. I am hoping the possibility of a new Ric will get me in the mood again.
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08-01-2011, 07:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Playing music? Sometimes. Listening to music? Never. Dealing with musicians? Frequently.  |
08-01-2011, 07:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Down in the middle somewhere. | | | I have the same thing!
I rarely practice on my own anymore and get little satisfaction from playing on my own!
The thing that i still enjoy is performing! I love being on a stage and i love seeing that what im playing is making everybody go mental!
Just thought i would add that i have been a bass player for 9 years, doing it full time for the past 4 years...
Regarding the hobby i think it is very true!
When bass playing started to be my job rather than my hobby i ended up in situations where i really didnt want to play but had to!
It does make it hard becasue the thing you used to love doing becomes something that you sometimes have to do even if you dont feel like it!
I just started getting a lot into MMA training and Photography, and having hobbies that are in no way related to music is something i should have done years ago!
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08-01-2011, 08:10 AM
|  | Drummer, percussionist and bassist. | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA | | | In a word, no.
I don't know why, but I still enjoy playing music after 40 years. Some of my focus has shifted as to what instruments that I play.
I've been a drummer forever, I fooled around with bass on and off since the early seventies. I still play drum kit, but I find that virtually all of my current gigs are performing as a hand percussionist. In the past six months I've gotten much more serious about the bass and I'm now taking lessons.
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08-01-2011, 08:17 AM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | Music related - this is still a miscellaneous topic 
And yes. I'm coming off a year hiatus from not gigging and a three year hiatus of never practicing. Music has finally become interesting again. |
08-01-2011, 09:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Milwaukee WI | | | I haven't been playing too much lately...The thing is, I work on instruments all day and tell you the truth, when I get home I don't want to dive right in to something that reminds me of being at work...even though my job is pretty sweet. I know I'll get my mojo back and I am searching for a band right now to make it more fun than just jamming at home.
I took a couple of my basses apart to fit them in my car to move them to Utah and 2+ weeks later I still haven't strung them up...Kinda sad.
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08-01-2011, 09:34 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | It happens. In those times, I don't force music on myself for a while, and it comes back. Usually, right after the tired phase, I find myself in a good mood for learning something new (technique, or brush up on my theoretical knowledge).
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08-01-2011, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by drummer5359 I don't know why, but I still enjoy playing music after 40 years. Some of my focus has shifted as to what instruments that I play. | This is how I am too. I started off on guitar, then gravitated to drums through high school jazz band and now a 23+ year run on bass guitar. I will never completely scratch that music-creating itch, but whenever I *bore* of making noise on one instrument, I shift. I have all of the above and more in my little den... I do this not out of any other need than to keep it interesting and to learn and appreciate the interplay. Also out of necessity as my humble little studio is not very big, and with the exception of times my musical friends come over and collaborate, I often find myself wanting to flesh out ideas that pop into my head at innoportune moments (my cell is filled with tidbits of me humming ideas into it while at work.) quick working-throughs when i get home are a must, I hate to forget ideas. In a decade or so, one of them may be a hit (for someone else, hahaha)
I couple all that with taking comfort in the fact that there will always be something new to learn and appreciate on ANY instrument, so I strive for that a lot more too.
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08-01-2011, 11:58 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I was going to reply "yes", but it's not the playing music part that gives me a strong urge to kill with growing regularity.
Playing music is a gas. Being part of a working band, and dealing with band politics often makes me want to throw up my hands and quit.
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08-01-2011, 12:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | I dont get tired of playing music in general, but I have had some moments where I was just overly busy with different music related projects to the point where I felt like a few days rest was really needed.
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08-01-2011, 12:41 PM
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do you ever get tired of TB???? 
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08-01-2011, 01:23 PM
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08-01-2011, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by pacojas i got a question for you Quickie....
do you ever get tired of TB???? | Nope. Too many "experts" here. Very entertaining site.
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08-01-2011, 02:06 PM
| | | | do I ever get tired of playing music? no. What I DO get tired of is asking hundreds of people that I know if they can go see a show I'm playing, hear 20 of them say yes, and then play to a bar full of about six people - two people from the band before us, two people being bartenders, and the last two being the guitarist's parents. But as for playing music, no, I never get tired of that.
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08-01-2011, 02:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by pie_man_25 do I ever get tired of playing music? no. What I DO get tired of is asking hundreds of people that I know if they can go see a show I'm playing, hear 20 of them say yes, and then play to a bar full of about six people - two people from the band before us, two people being bartenders, and the last two being the guitarist's parents. But as for playing music, no, I never get tired of that. | Genius post. I feel your pain  |
08-01-2011, 02:19 PM
| | | | /\ sorry for the whine post, I really do enjoy playing music, but sometimes it spoils the fun when nobody wants to hear it.
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08-01-2011, 02:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | Didn't read that as a whine at all.....i know exactly what you meant.
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08-01-2011, 02:57 PM
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