Recent content by sorefingers

well like the title says our first gig is gonna be on january 30th. our first practice (with somenew members that i played with at church) are gonna come over and practice the 3 songs. were really excited because none of us have ever been paid to play before. the band gets $100 for the night...

thanks man this is really gonna help!:bassist:

well i listen to everything from metal to smooth jazz and pretty consistently. so ill try to apply some jazz stuff into my curriculum.

i am playing everyday anywhere from 30min-2hours and im really stuck. I am in a basic band we do covers and are making some of our own stuff and i also am reading books about theory (bass clef) and learning how to site read and such. but im just stuck all my stuff is getting so repetitive and i...

ok, so today i tried and out for my churches worship team and i did horrible and wanted to puke when i was done.:(:bawl: so all this has done is made me wanna get better and practice more and focus more. maybe even try to find someone to practice with.

thats exactly what im looking for to improve my licks and stuff. like i wanna learn chord prgressions and stuff and what chords sound good used together and stuff like that.

im trying to expand my horizons in music and want to focus on more of jazz and theory of it. so i was wandering if anyone knew of any good studying material or books that can help me learn more about it.

Ok heres my situation. I have taken a few lessons and learned a few thing like some theory and scales. i kinda stopped taking them do to my school and football and stuff. but anyways im kinda of musically stuck. i dont know what to work on or what to do. i know this is such a newbie question but...

sorry if i sound childish but im a bassist and im 14, i havent ever done a gig or anything, but isnt a depression coming up pretty soon? its not like on the news but we all feel it, everything is going up in price people stay home way more and the economy's dropping like no other. Its seems to...

yah man i used to listen to that chariot alot. then i got into metal and stuff like that. but he was a good bassist (just ok actually) and was the real reason i bought a bass back in 5th grade lol.:bassist:

wow theres alot of that out there. i went one time to look for my first bass and this emo chick was with her dad and she asked to play a warwick also. i was like "***!?!" cause she plays it for like 3 minustes then tells her dad "yah i like it lets get it" and when im leaving i see her loading...

wow theres alot of that out there. i went one time to look for my first bass and this emo chick was with her dad and she asked to play a warwick also. i was like "***!?!" cause she plays it for like 3 minustes then tells her dad "yah i like it lets get it" and when im leaving i see her loading...

dude thats someof the best death metal out there. i love it man im gonna go show my drummer buddy right now.

i know that my bass is almost no where near as nice as yours but it used to do that, and it had these little filings on the pickups. after rubing them off it eliminated it. prolly not the same problem as yours but just a suggestion.

ok well ive been teaching myself music theory and bass lately and im haveing trouble playing chords. like high g scales i cant get my pinky to touch the top e string and its really hard to get the a string. did anyone else have this problem or am i just disabled:bawl: i think that i just have...