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06-29-2010, 11:51 AM
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someone can start playing an instrument without having a single influence?.I know some guys who are like this way.I keep telling em you better DON'T |
06-29-2010, 11:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Well, surely there would be SOME reason they picked up the bass (over the guitar or any other instrument) so there will always be an influence, maybe not always a musical influence. I started playing bass cuz everyone else played guitar.
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06-29-2010, 11:59 AM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | I picked up saxophone without really ever hearing one solo`d just because my brother did it before me and I wanted to be involved with a school program outside of soccer and honors society. But even then you can say my brother influenced me so I dunno. It`d be tricky to think of a situation where someone isn`t influenced at all. |
06-29-2010, 12:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: cliffbass | | | I know people who like to buy instruments cuz of their shape.No interest in sound etc.
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06-29-2010, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Canada | | | I learned the violin with no influence.
I thought it looked cool to play it.
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06-29-2010, 12:45 PM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | | The only way you're going to pick up an instrument without any influences is if you live on Alpha Centauri! Otherwise there will always be influences, even if it's only your mother singing lullabies to you when you're a baby.
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06-29-2010, 02:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Plano, TX | | | I'm under the influence lots of times when I'm playing. Especially on the last set.
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06-30-2010, 03:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Birmingham, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by stratovani  The only way you're going to pick up an instrument without any influences is if you live on Alpha Centauri! | No no no...if you live on Alpha Centuri you just have different influences. 
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06-30-2010, 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by cliffbass I keep telling em you better DON'T | What does this mean? |
06-30-2010, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by ggunn What does this mean? | That you'll suck at it, I guess.
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06-30-2010, 06:45 AM
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One thing though- there are "inspirations" and there are "influences".
I've been inspired by far more than I've been influenced.
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06-30-2010, 01:51 PM
| | | | I think if you've listened to music at all, you've been influenced. The difference is whether or not you have any specific influences.
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AFAIK, IIRC, IMO, JMO, IME, FWIW, YMMV, to each his own, it's all subjective, apples and oranges, etc., etc., etc.
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