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Could jam: Guitar Bass Upright bass (pizzicato proficiently, bow less so) Trombone Baritone Keys Drums Less proficient but passable (can play but don't understand their transposing well enough to hang in a jam): Sax Trumpet

"Your freedom stops at the next person's nose." - his way of explaining both being a good person when I was little and his own political views. He means you can and should have the right to do whatever you want until it affects the people around you.

Birds With Broken Wings - Ben Caplan

I worked hard on this song for a long time when first starting out. I felt so cool when I finally got it. Our have and finger anatomies are likely different so maybe this advice will be inapplicable, but I always played this part by smoothly "rolling" my fretting pressure under my pointer from...

I didn't think about this originally, but actually this might be another simply solution or method. Just listen to music without bass guitar is the sense that you play. Maybe that means no string bass, or maybe just not electric bass, but if you're listening to a symphonic band or a choir then...

Reading and planning writing.

Try other instruments and try to learn deeper appreciation of those other musical parts.

It sounds like you were there odd one out in the disagreement. Out of however many members (sounded like 4) you had two of the other three against you with the third ambivalent. It sucks, but I wouldn't say you were "bulldozed" or that they were being dumb and unfair. There was majority...

My introduction to string instruments was an old Appalachian Dulcimer (with only one string) that my parents had. I was really just messing around with it as a joke with some friends, but I realized really quickly that figuring out melodies and the tactile way string instruments work came...

Just finally finished Solaris and I'm starting Stanisław Lem's many misadventures of Iljon Tichy in The Star Diaries. I need to get copies of Cyberiad and His Master's Voice as well.

The Volsunga Saga was a fascinating read. I'm reading Lampedusa's The Leopard currently. The content is not really my taste, but the writing is superb stylistically.

I'm not sure who would come to listen to a set list like that, but I bet there's tons of people who would dig a sound inspired by those influences! A jazzy, bluesy, Latin-Americana sound would be awesome.

I played a little with a group for my last semester of college. Even though I knew it wouldn't go far it still felt worthwhile. I was the oldest/most experienced member so perhaps that helped; I felt never like a weak-link which would need time to improve. In general though I'd say go for...

Everyone's stories are really fascinating to me. It does seem like family often holds a big sway, and it makes sense and is a big consideration for us as well (Michigan would be the same comfortable mix as where we are now of close enough to easily visit but far enough to guarantee no...

I can't believe I forgot this aspect or didn't consider it. I used to hate sampling (during my early, particularly closed-minded days) because I felt like it was cheap copying of someone else's original work. And that essentially meant hip-hop as a genre was out since it's such a staple of the...