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#10,782
I haven’t even plugged it in yet. It’s just gorgeous.

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#10,784
I’ve never been at the stage you guys are with theory... I stopped doing music in year 10 and only did 3 years of bass lessons when I was 20 which mainly focused on learning songs by progressive metal bands I wanted to play like cynic etc.
Joined a thrash band then groove metal band not long after and think I have forgotten more theory than I’ve ever learnt :)
I was always of the rules are made to be broken club but also usually play it safe playing root fifth or octave lol
 
#10,785
theunknowndude said:
I’ve never been at the stage you guys are with theory... I stopped doing music in year 10 and only did 3 years of bass lessons when I was 20 which mainly focused on learning songs by progressive metal bands I wanted to play like cynic etc.
Joined a thrash band then groove metal band not long after and think I have forgotten more theory than I’ve ever learnt :)
I was always of the rules are made to be broken club but also usually play it safe playing root fifth or octave lol
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wouldn’t let me edit... and yeah all my noise pieces I’ve done over the years have been free time and on the spot. Never done anything to drums / beat so my noise stuff has always been different to a lot of others I’ve heard...
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
I can remember very vividly the concious decision to quit/ stop soloing (or practice soloing) on a jazz standards, rhythm change etc...ever again. Was close to when I quit music school, big surprise.

Figured everyone is soloing bebop at 300bpm, so I'll go vamp this for 3 hours and listen to the bomb squad basically reinvent music.

Oh yes, I'm that weird, screwed up, whatever you want to call me.
Never looked back.
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See, what's happening to me is, as I'm getting away from looking at charts and just trusting my ear, I am suddenly able to solo on those jazz standards in ways I couldn't, before, bebop not withstanding.

Everyone requires a different set of tools. It's up to us to figure out what they are, and how to use them.
 
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lordradish said:
See, what's happening to me is, as I'm getting away from looking at charts and just trusting my ear, I am suddenly able to solo on those jazz standards in ways I couldn't, before, bebop not withstanding.

Everyone requires a different set of tools. It's up to us to figure out what they are, and how to use them.
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I was always a “limited talent” that put in a ridiculous amount of practice.
I very consciously decided that my time in the woodshed would be better invested in ways that would help me “express myself” better on bass, and soloing was not on my radar. (I have a hard time putting into words the way I felt)

I was practicing in a cubicle a university and thought “when the ^&*% am I ever going to solo and walk on rhythm changes that change tonality in the circle of 5ths every chorus at 200 bpm...??? Yep, never ever ever never. Practicing the first 4 bars of Stella by starlight for a month, I’ll leave that to other people.

Thus the decision to drop soloing.

I still kept up the harmony, arrangement and theory knowledge (exercise those on bass as well, chords, modes, inversions, subs, polytonal harmony......and so on) That is a must imo. Building blocks to the musical language.


Makes sense?? No, yes, maybe??

Edit: I still like digging out the Omnibook from time to time. Just to get my ass kicked. I think it would be my desert island music book.
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
I was always a “limited talent” that put in a ridiculous amount of practice.
I very consciously decided that my time in the woodshed would be better invested in ways that would help me “express myself” better on bass, and soloing was not on my radar. (I have a hard time putting into words the way I felt)

I was practicing in a cubicle a university and thought “when the ^&*% am I ever going to solo and walk on rhythm changes that change tonality in the circle of 5ths every chorus at 200 bpm...??? Yep, never ever ever never. Practicing the first 4 bars of Stella by starlight for a month, I’ll leave that to other people.

Thus the decision to drop soloing.

I still kept up the harmony, arrangement and theory knowledge (exercise those on bass as well, chords, modes, inversions, subs, polytonal harmony......and so on) That is a must imo. Building blocks to the musical language.


Makes sense?? No, yes, maybe??

Edit: I still like digging out the Omnibook from time to time. Just to get my ass kicked. I think it would be my desert island music book.
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Of course it makes sense. Whatever works.
 
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#10,791
Here's the link to Tijuana Synth Con. I'm scheduled to stream at 4pm Pacific time, but I've heard that I should expect delays. The good news is that Trevor and I are streaming early in the day, so the delays should be minimal. Feel free to tune in (I won't be offended if you don't, and the streams will be recorded and posted later). I've tuned into a few streams (which are still posted) and some are in english, some are in spanish, and some are just music.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdi4jVXG0cDbZ5rVr9ehXw
 
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Well, that streaming performance was weird. Fun but weird. I committed the cardinal sin of performing in shorts. I was safe for most of the performance, but there were a few times when my legs got on camera, as I tried to angle the camera to show my board and synths.

We’ll see and hear how things go after our bit gets archived and posted.

Now I can plug in the Erica!
 
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Not at all (intended to be) ambient plugin sale was too much to resist. I've been considering this for a while, so 50% off was too tempting. I'm hoping the sounds will blend with the new Erica rig.
TRK-01


I still haven't plugged in the Erica. That's happening soon, but I have some RTFM work to do.
 

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