More than 25 years ago I was trading lessons with one of the guys who worked for me in the USAF - he played bass guitar; I played mountain dulcimer. Spent about 6 months - about once a week - learning. Borrowed his bass, he borrowed one of my dulcimers. THen he got transfered to Japan and I got sent to Germany. Never had time to take up bass until this past year, so I'm now treating it like I'm starting from scratch, with more lessons and all. For one thing, there have been a fair number of changes in the 25+ years since I last did any real playing...Recently picked up an Ibanez SR400 to start out with (nice sound, and on sale - less than $300 at the local mom & pop music shop) Found the forum through Google, and lurked for a while before officially joining. I may not have a lot to contribute at first, but...
Also played (transverse) flute and piccolo in high school, as well as acoustic guitar; tried fiddle and banjo but didn't like them much, still have an autoharp somewhere - and still have my two dulcimers, although they don't get played much any more. Mostly play rock and jazz with a little country here and there.
I and my husband retired to the very southern tip of New Jersey in 'historic Cape May County' as the publicity has it. Also home of the twice a year Cape May Jazz Festival. I expect once I get good enough to play in public, I'll be doing more jazz than rock, even though I'd probably enjoy it the other way better. Still, a gig is a gig is a gig - and at least I'm a fair to middlin' jazz fan.
I'm lucky here in that the store I bought my bass from is run by a gentleman who is also a bass player; and one of his assistants also plays bass professionally; so they've been a big help getting me started; and that's who I'll at least initially be taking my lessons from. I've already been practicing my scales and what not, hopefully won't take too long to get back up to speed despite 25 years. Getting the fingers of both hands coordinated is going to be the hardest...
Pat (Lady Kayri) Munson-Siter
Also played (transverse) flute and piccolo in high school, as well as acoustic guitar; tried fiddle and banjo but didn't like them much, still have an autoharp somewhere - and still have my two dulcimers, although they don't get played much any more. Mostly play rock and jazz with a little country here and there.
I and my husband retired to the very southern tip of New Jersey in 'historic Cape May County' as the publicity has it. Also home of the twice a year Cape May Jazz Festival. I expect once I get good enough to play in public, I'll be doing more jazz than rock, even though I'd probably enjoy it the other way better. Still, a gig is a gig is a gig - and at least I'm a fair to middlin' jazz fan.
I'm lucky here in that the store I bought my bass from is run by a gentleman who is also a bass player; and one of his assistants also plays bass professionally; so they've been a big help getting me started; and that's who I'll at least initially be taking my lessons from. I've already been practicing my scales and what not, hopefully won't take too long to get back up to speed despite 25 years. Getting the fingers of both hands coordinated is going to be the hardest...
Pat (Lady Kayri) Munson-Siter
