Recent content by Currens1

If there's any weight-lifting fanatics out there, the exact muscle was the supraspinatus muscle. :) Now here's a question - how many muscles do you use playing bass? :)

Hi all, While i'll direct my message to starting bassists, I guess it goes for all. Watch the location / how the strap lies on the shoulder. I was practicing last night for a hour and my right shoulder muscle started bothering when I stopped playing. I noticed that the strap was folded...

Hi All, Hope all is well :D I am practicing bass exercises and major and minor scales at this point and I really want to get this stuff down pat before I continue on with other things/songs/whaever. I currently start my metronome at 30 bpm (quarter notes 4/4) and increase it 1 at a time until...

Hi all, Thanks for the great feedback thus far on this site. I have decided to go down the route and take some music lessons. I received a gift certificate for 4 free lessons with a teacher who is formally trained and comes reccommended. I am familiar with notes on the fretboard, major...

Back! Thanks for your replies! I got to read them before I played! My first public performance as part of a 3-pc. group to a group of co-workers and their kids went very well. Everyone enjoyed themselves, adults were dancing and clapping and making remarks but the best audience was the...

Hi there, Tomorrow afternoon will be my first public performance for the co-workers. It is a Christmas sing-song or whatever and there is a guitarist, bassist and drummer performing. This is my first time playing with a drummer and it all got set up Thursday. They provided me a set list of...

Hi there, I'm sure this topic's been asked many times with respects to instructors and so on. I am starting to learn the bass now, have been dabbling with books, metronomes and jamming with others whenever I can for the past couple months. I am ready to take the next step and do some lessons...

Hello fellow bass players, I'll be half-silly first and say that the using middle finger is giving me problems :D I played piano as a boy and played guitar as a teenager. I have since become interested in playing bass and have been playing for a few months - listening to music, watching...

Hi all, I will introduce myself properly in the appropriate forum later today! I love Talk Bass and I find that the comments from others on this site are very insightful! Cheers! I have a quick question that's probably been repeated here already concerning keys, scales, and the makings of...