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11-26-2007, 03:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | what's a mediocre bass player?
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what does mediocrity sound like?
i sometimes tell people that i'm an excellent mediocre player - especially when i'm around berklee folk  ...but i'm curious as to how others (a.k.a. y'all) would define a mediocre bass player.
no name calling, please.
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11-26-2007, 04:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Loughborough | | | mediocre means middle of the road, not band, intermediate ect..
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11-26-2007, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | | I was a mediocre bass player, for a year.
I played well enough, to impress people; but at the time, I didn't fully understand the role of the instrument. It's one thing to say "Chordal foundation, rhythm, etc", but it's an entirely different thing to really internalize them. |
11-26-2007, 04:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Mediocre is my first AND last name: Mediocre Matt Till Mediocre.
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11-27-2007, 04:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Me, thats what mediocre is |
11-27-2007, 06:16 AM
| | | | If you call yourself mediocre, you're good and are just being modest.
Or you're bad and being immodest.
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11-27-2007, 06:30 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I'd say I'm mediocre. Other people say different, but my lack of knowledge would indicate that I can not be stellar. Personally, I think a group of mediocre players all doing what they are supposed to do is a lot better than a group of prodigies all wanking away and trying to show you how good they are.
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11-27-2007, 06:41 AM
| | | | A mediocre bass player is one that thinks mediocre describes his skills well. Modesty is good but if you think you suck at bass and never will be good, then you indeed will never be. |
11-27-2007, 09:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Israel | | | Well, I consider myself pretty mediocre... I can keep the groove going, play in correct time, know bits of theory, even throw fast licks in here and there, but far from pro level.
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11-27-2007, 10:54 AM
|  | On the TB leaderboard for low talent/gear ratios! | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: NJ | | | Me, eventually, if I keep practicing.
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Yeah, I suck, I know that. But at least I suck a little less than I did yesterday.
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11-27-2007, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: St. Louis,MO | | | The difference between mediocre and good/great is soul.
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11-27-2007, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | Mah mama always used ta say,
"Mediocre is as mediocre does."
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11-27-2007, 11:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Houston | | My musical skills are best defined by the classic quote...
"Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one."
I just like playing too many different instruments.  |
11-27-2007, 11:12 AM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | | Just remember . . whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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11-27-2007, 12:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by eedre The difference between mediocre and good/great is soul. | it's all about the soul, and having your heart in the right place, when it comes to music. |
11-27-2007, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by eedre The difference between mediocre and good/great is soul. | Many mediocre players can and do have soul. It's essential to sound good. A player that doesn't sound good is not a good player.
To me, (and I define myself as mediocre), mediocre means you can sound like the best bass player in the world at certain times while playing certain things, but you are in some way limited and cannot really play everything you would like to. Or then your theory knowledge/musical ear/technique/reading abilities/something else isn't the best. If you know a few professional musicians and don't think you're quite on the same level but anyway good enough among good amateurs and not a beginner still struggling with the basics, you're a mediocre player.
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11-27-2007, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New York | | | I don't really know what mediocre or whether I am mediocre or not. I would define mediocre as a player who is past beginner but not quite good yet. What kind of piece in your opinions is one that separates mediocre from good players?
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11-27-2007, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete C What kind of piece in your opinions is one that separates mediocre from good players? | My yardstick for measuring competency at bass, are rhythm, phrasing, clean playing technique.
When one of my fellow bass players (younger than me), ask me how good they are, these are the things I look at the most.
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11-27-2007, 09:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by morf A mediocre bass player is one that thinks mediocre describes his skills well. Modesty is good but if you think you suck at bass and never will be good, then you indeed will never be. |
Why can't mediocre be a phase? Something we in the mediocre community are working on?
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11-27-2007, 10:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | | I started playing "seriously" at 40, have very little natural talent, and even less time to practice. As a result, I feel destined to remain in the seething morass of mediocrity, and never experience the rarefied air of the accomplished musician. I am cover band material and nothing more. However, I'm OK with that, since I love to play the bass, and the rest of my band thinks I'm at least good enough to perform with them.
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