Bass goals for 2023

[ajkula66]

To get back to playing. I had 2 surgeries in the past year. Left wrist tendon then recently a right rotator cuff repair. I have not played in a year! I miss it.

May you get back to playing and become better than you've ever been ASAP.

Luck!

 

[HelpImaRock]

The easiest goal to achieve is always the one you've already set yourself up for. 2023 is about internalization and creating an identity on the instrument. My starting point is listening to my influences, intently focusing on the bass. Which isn't something I've really done before.

 

[RichterScale]

I’m not a big New Year resolution guy.

Neither am I.
I run about 5'10" and hover between 165-180. So, I'm an average NY resolution guy.

But I still believe the New Year is an opportune time to reflect and maybe set some goals.

My goals are to finish 2 instruments I started last year and start a 3rd. Build a 6 string and learn to play it. Build speaker cabs for my little Warwick gnome. Just generally get better at building basses and settle in to a general design that fits and plays well for me. Start noodling and playing again and learn how to use the little Behringer interface and Audacity program I downloaded so I can record and keep track of how the basses sound.
That's just bass stuff. I'm sure the 400 other things going on will impede progress. But it's good to have goals.

 

[Marko 1]

I'm quite enjoying my retirement, and happy to have a new (one old) great group of guys (all retired) to do the band thing.

My goals is simply to gig here and there, whatever they line up will be fine so long as it not toooo much (they're a bit more hyped than I am about it).

I suppose what I'd like to get better is the Sound using this different mixer. I'm mixing from stage and made a couple mistakes that I won't make again. I also have a wireless now and that'll help me get out there and listen better.

 

[cass misri]

Oh boy. I’m relatively new to bass (I started playing seriously in august) but I am very good at lots of techniques right now, (slap, double thumb, thump, and I’m ok at quick Fingerstyle)but not as much in a practical setting. I plan on learning to improvise beyond pentatonic scales. I also need to get better at fretting with my left hand in proper time and switching strings while plucking fast, so I can keep up with my friends. And, I’m currently in the process of making my own bass, which will definitely not take away from my work in school…

anyway, lots of plans.

Happy new year everyone!

 

[MikeBassPT]

My goal to 2023 is simple: start study bass correctly with a teacher (start from scratch).

 

[Tim Skinner]

If you live in a large metro area with a lot of potential good/quality gigs to shoot for, this could be hugely rewarding. I wish you the very best with it (and envy you a bit

You might be interested in John Patitucci's online jazz bass course. I'm currently working on it and have found it to be the best, bar none. He's a friendly but hard master; assumes complete commitment, lots of practice time, willingness to brush up reading and gives no spoon feeding. He covers the basic building blocks, of course, but then always insists "Now, run with it tonally and rhythmically, and make it into music". Some tracks provided for that.

Jazz Bass with John Patitucci

Thanks for the tip! I'll check that out for sure. I'm just outside Toronto so lots of chances to play. My local brewery occasionally has jazz open mics.

 

[skycruiser]

Learn more songs and continue learning to transcribe to and read standard notation.

 

[Space Pickle]

More seriously, my goals for this year are to take music making into my own hands. For years I've been taking the easy route and playing in other people's bands (which I still enjoy, to an extent), but this is the year I want to start doing my own music, releasing my own recordings, and playing my own gigs.