The problem with most New Year's resolutions if that many are unsustainable - by mid January, you've realized that, and given up. This one, I feel you may be able to sustain. As long as it's not A LOT more beer.
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Bass resolutions for the New Year?
- Thread starter Peter - Oregon
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The problem with most New Year's resolutions if that many are unsustainable - by mid January, you've realized that, and given up. This one, I feel you may be able to sustain. As long as it's not A LOT more beer.
I have a 3 prong attack:
1. Resist GAS - I really DO have more than I NEED, even with #2...
2. Get rid of excess gear (may finally have to get a supporting membership!)
3. Practice more and learn songs
1. Resist GAS - I really DO have more than I NEED, even with #2...
2. Get rid of excess gear (may finally have to get a supporting membership!)
3. Practice more and learn songs
Thin the herd.
(For the record, I've never been able to keep a new years resolution)
(For the record, I've never been able to keep a new years resolution)
For me it’s just to play more. I can pretty much get what’s in my head to come out of my fingers. I just need to make more opportunities to do it.
I’m also expanding my piano skills. Piano has always been my happy place.
I’m also expanding my piano skills. Piano has always been my happy place.
My resolution is to acquire 2 more basses:
1. G&L BTO jazz bass
2. Fender Highway One JB (white, original)
1. G&L BTO jazz bass
2. Fender Highway One JB (white, original)
I took about a twenty year hiatus from bands and chased Striped Bass. I miss the sand snd rocks of the coast just about as much as I missed gigging. Both are sleep depriving hobbies
Gonna try to do both this Summer
I think I'm going to order a Sandberg and my goal will be for it to ARRIVE in 2024.
This will be mine too. Practice a few times a week, any GAS, one has to go before another comes in.
Going deeper into GarageBand and digital. I’m trying the limited free issue of Amplitube. Just getting into it, but I’m super excited about the sound quality available. I added a Scarlett, super nice headphones, and a mini keyboard/controller, plus an extra screen to the set up. Found a great step by step Gargeband tutorial. Super fun.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsXJmmXYr9BEWEOE96Hzuzu7sRhiHRHYZ&feature=shared
This year will be all about guitar. I picked up a guitar last January, and I’ve been really enjoying the change. It’s opened up all kinds of new ideas on bass, a cool side effect.
I’ve got tons of digital capabilities with the Zoom multi fx and the line 6 pod hd500x, plus amplitube and the GarageBand stable of amps and effects. I figured retirement plus the crappy Pacific NW winters is perfect for woodshedding.
Resolutions, avoid the news, do lots of yoga, kite foil, hike in the woods and play music. Try to dodge any job offers. Escape to Baja next winter. Next NYE in Baja, on the sea of Cortez, that’s the goal.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsXJmmXYr9BEWEOE96Hzuzu7sRhiHRHYZ&feature=shared
This year will be all about guitar. I picked up a guitar last January, and I’ve been really enjoying the change. It’s opened up all kinds of new ideas on bass, a cool side effect.
I’ve got tons of digital capabilities with the Zoom multi fx and the line 6 pod hd500x, plus amplitube and the GarageBand stable of amps and effects. I figured retirement plus the crappy Pacific NW winters is perfect for woodshedding.
Resolutions, avoid the news, do lots of yoga, kite foil, hike in the woods and play music. Try to dodge any job offers. Escape to Baja next winter. Next NYE in Baja, on the sea of Cortez, that’s the goal.
I'll tie my NY resolutions in with a personal project that started a couple of month before the end of the year...me: Actively working on my lifelong major depression via keeping careful tabs on my eating, sleeping, health and exercise. I made some significant changes when I started, including restarting therapy in my new home location to help support my goal of harm reduction/life improvement, eating mindfully, and exercising regularly. It took about a month of the changes before I started feeling inclined to play bass for pleasure or grab any other instruments for that matter. I dropped about 20lbs as a free side bonus before the year changeover.
When I don't treat myself like my own personal high-maintenance pet, I suffer and don't exactly make life more pleasant for those around me. It makes it a bit easier that I am my mom's home hospice caretaker and her rapidly deteriorating condition is directly related to her spending her life actively avoiding all of things that I am purposefully doing for myself. It was a revelation for me when speaking to my parent's doctors that the lion's share of their chronic health concerns were directly linked to willful personal neglect over decades and not genetics as they had been telling her over the years. It turns out that doctors do listen to you, especially when they can just code you as someone with genetic predisposition after you spend years consistently lying to them about all of the things that you haven't actually changed in your diet and health regimen. I always thought I was just doomed from the get-go. Nope. It turns out, other than Dupuytren's disease (not a fun condition and pretty persistent...mine affects a good bit more than my hands) and a disposition inclined towards addiction (already addressed years ago), I am fairly good candidate to live a generally healthy life for a couple/few more decades. I like that.
When I don't treat myself like my own personal high-maintenance pet, I suffer and don't exactly make life more pleasant for those around me. It makes it a bit easier that I am my mom's home hospice caretaker and her rapidly deteriorating condition is directly related to her spending her life actively avoiding all of things that I am purposefully doing for myself. It was a revelation for me when speaking to my parent's doctors that the lion's share of their chronic health concerns were directly linked to willful personal neglect over decades and not genetics as they had been telling her over the years. It turns out that doctors do listen to you, especially when they can just code you as someone with genetic predisposition after you spend years consistently lying to them about all of the things that you haven't actually changed in your diet and health regimen. I always thought I was just doomed from the get-go. Nope. It turns out, other than Dupuytren's disease (not a fun condition and pretty persistent...mine affects a good bit more than my hands) and a disposition inclined towards addiction (already addressed years ago), I am fairly good candidate to live a generally healthy life for a couple/few more decades. I like that.
Continue to read bass clef. My teacher got me going
on The Real Book in bass clef. Reading melodies helps
for theory & improve.
on The Real Book in bass clef. Reading melodies helps
for theory & improve.
Stick to new techniques
1. Four fingerstyle with pinky.
2. Abe Laboriel all pluck technique with ring finger added.
1. Four fingerstyle with pinky.
2. Abe Laboriel all pluck technique with ring finger added.
To have a bigger pedal board than the guitarist.
To finish several parts bass projects that have been perpetually on hold.
To (finally) record some of my own music.
To do some collaborative music projects with new people.
To learn how to use many of the pedals and gizmos I have bought over the years.
To (finally) record some of my own music.
To do some collaborative music projects with new people.
To learn how to use many of the pedals and gizmos I have bought over the years.
I'm gonna be buying and tackling a 6 string. Gonna learn me some chord theory and then use it all to play the same few GD riffs and stoner doom noodling I usually do 
JazznFunk
Supporting Member
To get back into my local scene more. I pulled back a bunch from burnout, life changes, and social anxiety over the last few years and, except for my own gigs, haven't been getting out the way I did 10 years or so ago to jams, etc.
My resolution is to play some of my bases that don't get any attention anymore. Like the heavy as hell fretless.
Downsize. Big time. Incorporate one muti-effects pedal into my signal chain. Play more right notes.
The Bar Band Bassman
The Bar Band Bassman
Some good goals, and Baja sounds nice! Living in Portland I relate to gloomy winters comment, although becoming less and less so.
