Difficulty playing material you wrote yourself?

[Psycho]

Just out of curiosity, who else thinks up a bass line, but has trouble actually playing it?

After listening to lots of technically complex music, sometimes my mind seems to out perform my hands.

 

[Russell L]

Sure, happens all the time when I come up with something cool. Gotta learn it just like anything else. It happens on guitar and piano, too. Sometimes when I write something down and come back the next day, I might find it hard to read. Nothing weird about it, IMO.

 

[icecycle66]

It happens all the time to me.
That's the only reason i ever get any better.

Also, it hardly ever comes out the speakers the same way it played out in my brain.

 

[monkeyking]

Keep in mind that you're far less likely, or at least I am, to cruise around listening to your own songs. There are a ton of songs that I've heard a million times but never played. When someone calls it on a fill-in gig, it's there in my head. With your own songs, they aren't nearly as ingrained from repetitive listening.

If it makes you feel better, I filled in at the last moment for my buddy's band a month or so ago. They had a song in the set that was familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. I asked about it later only to find out that I wrote it about twenty years ago. Had I not asked I never would have guessed.