Recent content by Garmonbozia

How much is too much?

You can write a poem without being able to read. But if you can read you have more to draw from in terms of influence. Imagine this statement, "Learning to read is a waste of time. It takes away the magic of poetry. Poetry should come from the heart and reading just gets in the way of that...

I totally agree with the op. Personally, when ever there's tabs I can't take my eye off it. I find it kind of distracting. It's easy to take the short cut and just read the tabs. To me, I think the tabs encourage people not to ever learn to read. I mean it's hard to see the point in doing it...

I like classical music better then I like jazz. If I could turn back the clock I would have learned upright bass or cello instead of the electric bass and studied baroque music. I also love electronic music and spend almost as much time with sound design that I do studying bass. I'm currently...

I freaking love my fretless carvin. Best bass I've ever owned and I will NEVER sell it. I got a great deal on it. The tone is fantastic and the overall feel is just as the others said, it's butter.

lol Nice! Keep it going! I tried for quite a while to come up with an appropriate punch line.

A bassline walks into a bar.

Okay, so I don't always have the luxury of playing with a good drummer, and recording one with the gear I have is next to impossible. So I'm stuck with beat programming. I own Battery 3, which I'm very happy with in terms of it's sample library. I also have Kontakt 4. Here's the problem, I...

I LOVE MY CARVIN! My carvin Fretless is the best bass I've ever owned. I do understand your love of the Ibanez, since I like them a lot as well, but I can guarantee you, you will not be disappointed with a Carvin.

Scott La Faro and JS Bach inspire me the most these days.

At the time I had no interest at all in being a bass player. I wanted to be a keyboardist. I was really into Industrial music, Pig, Skinny Puppy, stuff like that. Then one day, a friend of mine showed my Mr. Bungle. I listened to the whole record. Through the entire album I was just fixated on...

Hey everyone! Again, thanks for more replies, keep these coming they help a lot! I'm not sure I was clear in my initial post, but this is mostly a technical issue. I'm willing to concede that my ears are a part of it, but this is something that I notice regardless of whether or not I'm...

I think the idea of technical is sort of ambiguous. What I mean is, there's physical technique, and there's mental technique. To have complete control of your instrument you need to be confident in both. And each of these have varying degrees as well. For example, something as simple as the...

Hey everyone thanks for the replies! I actually do have a copy of the cello suites because I used to play cello! I play those things religiously since I'm a huge Bach nerd! I'm currently working on the 3rd Prelude. I've decided to skip the G Major for the moment, but I plan to come back to it...

I am a self taught bassist, however I took two years of Cello lessons in my mid 20's as well as theory classes and such.