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Best musical advice you ever got

#905
Dude, your timing sucks. You need to practice for a while with a metronome all the time before you play with me again. That was from my wife. She was right. My bass playing and rhythm guitar playing is much better now and I can actually play with other people! hahahah!

Also, to paraphrase Jimmy Vaughn, Learn to sing. There a million guitar and bass players who are better than you. Not everyone can sing. That is some truth. LOL!
 
#907
fretster said:
I think of it more simply as a cycling on 4ths, all in one scale:

4 - 7 - 3 - 6 - 2 - 5 - 1

It's different than your teacher is suggesting, but the Gm is the relative minor to Bb, and the scale is the same just with different starting positions.
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Shouldn't it be :

2 - 5 - 1 - 4 - 7 - 3 - 6 if you want to think in Bb major for the whole thing.

Otherwise it is clear you have a Bb major sound for until Ebmaj7 then you go in Gmin7 (the harmonic movement make it sound that way ).
 
#909
dtripoli said:
When I started out playin' many, many years ago, a patient and kindly musician
upon listening to me hammer and whack away on my cheap bass suggested;

*Play through your mistakes
*It's not how many notes you play but what you do with the few you do.
*If in doubt about what to play/fill in between changes, play nothing
*Embrace the space
*Meter is king

It took me 20 years to really "get" what he said.
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very Lao Tzu/Zen.

It is the clay we work with, but it is the space inside the pot we use, it is the.."

Im sure if the "man Lao Tzu" had been a real present day person he'd say "it is the guitar we work with, but the air inside the body we use".

HashbrownCOBM said:
This is kind of equing advise but "Mids are your friends. Just because you play "bass" doesn't mean you have to crank the bass." Also I'm a fan of "Don't stop if you mess up." and "Less is more."
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I have a hard time getting the lower sound of the G and D strings to show up in my bass. It's probably due to a cheap amp, but this sounds completely valid. The "bass" I need from my smaller strings is muted, while my "bass" from lower strings tends to overpower the higher freqs.Of course, it's probably all about gear.
 
#915
Every wrong note is only a 1/2 step away from being correct. Next time the note comes, play it up or down a 1/2 step.

And when you play a wrong note or make a mistake , give the guitarist a funny look. Everyone in the audience will think they screwed up.

Ashton Fletcher -- a monster on the bass
 
#917
Play with the metronome at high values; once or twice a bar, every other bar etc.

Youll find out about REAL sense of time- metronome set to 4onthefloor is a useful tool, but can be CRIPPLING instead of helpful if relied on. Using 1 to a bar or so will keep you honest while teaching you how to keep honest time on your own AT THE SAME TIME
 
#920
Upon auditioning for my current (soul and motown) band over a year ago, the keyboard player's first words to me were 'you can put that ****ing pick down and play with your fingers if you want to play with us'...........
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seems pretty closed minded. Seems like how you sound would be the important thing...
I play exclusively with fingers, but there are plenty of great pick players.
 

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