Controlling your mental state.

[craig.p]

Do a Ramones (per)version of it. That'll teach 'em.

"You-ou muh-muh-my brown eyed gur-url."

There should be a baseball bat on stage for the song.

[derrico1]

Originally Posted by bluewine

What is with the obsession with brown eyed girl with TBers.

I have never played it it a band and never will.

I'm out enough and I don't hear any cover bands that play that sort of thing.

Blue

So I guess you don't get called for many wedding/event-band gigs?

[hardtwister]

Originally Posted by Piggy8692

I've always kinda felt the same way. Like the perfect blend between pure focus and total relaxation. It's nice when it comes without trying to control it.

I can think of playing live and knowing what parts or songs I need to relax on so I can feel the coming changes, whereas other parts i really need to be focused so I don't miss them. It really is a good topic I think.

For me, for the most part I play metal and on the parts that are a little more intricate, I could care less who's in the crowd or what side of the stage I'm on etc. I'm completely enveloped in the music. But when it opens up a little bit I can feel free to move around the stage and head bang with friends in the crowd.

For recording, It's a lot more focus on my part. It needs to be perfect, or at least my version of perfect... So I use my 'bass tunnel vision' I tend to write with feeling so it will come out on the recording.


Great topic. btw

Like this and can relate.

[Stewie26]

Originally Posted by RedMoses

Overthinking is what makes me miss parts, when you think too much about one thing, you loose your focus and you are not inticipating the next change. Chances are you have practiced enough where you will feel the change coming (if you dont then you havnt practiced enough), so all you need to do is relax and NOT think, allow your training and conditioning from playing those songs over and over to do thier thing.

Turning off the "Thinking" can be very difficult, its much like meditation and takes practice, but its muscle memory, the more you do it the better you get at it.

Stop thinking and just "Be" the Bass player that you are.

For me, I pretty much do the above.
Once the song has started I switch my brain to the "auto-pilot mode" and my fingers seem to move to the correct positions without thinking about it.
If I over think it I am asking for a mistake.