Recent content by msaone

Yes. He's been taking private lessons for almost two years now.

I forgot I posted this (been busy). A lot of good advice here. My son is fifteen and currently plays guitar in marching band, drumline, and jazz band. He also holds first chair trombone seat. He mostly focuses on Paul Gilbert type music and has written a few pieces. He's also taking...

My son was testing out tube amps (he plays guitar) and the guy that Makes the amps he's looking at said he's taking to tubes well and it takes some guys a while to get used to it. Might be something to this.

Hope this is the place to put this. My son plays guitar and is doing really well. He's thinking about music school but I don't really know too many to look at. Where did you go? Was it worth it? We're in Michigan but I was thinking a place like berklee just for the networking possibilities...

Been using my chorus pedal a lot lately, octave pedal on some specific tunes, and an eq pedal that acts as a boost/lead. Borrowed my sons distortion pedal but I don't like distorted bass.

I used to break e and a strings every week. Quit playing so hard.

Funny.

I never knew if I liked michaels playing, he's buried in the mix.

I run a rumble 30 tilt back at church. Perfect for me. It doesn't have a di though so I just bought a cheap di box That little amp really sounds pretty good.

Used to always rest on my right. When I picked my bass back up after five years off, it naturally fell on my left.

That's awesome. I would've loved to have seen that

Not at all. This appealed to me until I checked it out. "Your custom" is what they want you to build. All I want is a j bass with no pick guard. Not even an option.

1984 My dad's checkmate guitar with two strings removed. 1985 Gibson epiphone. 1985 Returned the epiphone to the guy selling it to snag up his T-40 1991 fender power jazz bass special. 2014 hoping to snag a jazz bass and get my PJBS to the shop for a fret job.

How could you not stand out in a three piece. For me it changed my playing style. I became busy and melodic. No hiding there

While I play a lot of arpeggios i never really did the root third fifth thing. I play and practice scales along with chords. Passing tones are your friend. Keep what you have, but continue to fill your "tool box". When I started playing it was in a band with no rhythm guitar or keyboard...