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Drummer picking up the bass - don't kill me over here!

#21
OK, so here's my first full (fool?) playing along to an actual song:




The recording wasn't so great - hmmmm, on second thought, maybe it was, you can't hear much of my bass :D - and the cam was compressing / limiting the audio pretty hard.
Anyway, cool song to play along to and I'll do a better split video / audio recording with proper editing when I get to a decent level.
So in about 2/3 decades.
 
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It wasn't bad at all, far from it.

Your timing seemed pretty much spot on (but it should be if you are also a drummer) and I like you very economical right hand technique, something that I have never been good at.

I would have liked to have seen what angle your right wrist was at because I suspect it may have been bent too much (I could be wrong of course, I frequently am!). It is best to try and keep both wrists as straight as possible.

Because you didn't have many response to your original post there will probably be very few people watching it so only those that see it in the new posts list and are interested will look at it. I have found that if you want plenty of responses it is good to stir up a bit of controversy, but not so much that you anger every one and get banned.
 
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delta7fred said:
It wasn't bad at all, far from it.

Your timing seemed pretty much spot on (but it should be if you are also a drummer) and I like you very economical right hand technique, something that I have never been good at.

I would have liked to have seen what angle your right wrist was at because I suspect it may have been bent too much (I could be wrong of course, I frequently am!). It is best to try and keep both wrists as straight as possible.

Because you didn't have many response to your original post there will probably be very few people watching it so only those that see it in the new posts list and are interested will look at it. I have found that if you want plenty of responses it is good to stir up a bit of controversy, but not so much that you anger every one and get banned.
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Hey thanks, I was just hoping to get some feedback so I could improve myself.
Right wrist angle? OK, I'll do another recording with a better and meanwhile keep paying attention to it.

BTW: are you also a lefty?

OK, so about controversy: so why did Australia get to join the Eurovision 2015? :D
 
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I'm a lefty but play righty. When I started playing it never occurred to me to that there were lefty guitars even though Paul McCartney famously played one at the time. A couple of kids at school had right handed guitars and I started playing them. I know a couple of lefty guitarists who wish they had done the same.
 
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You also have to remember that the majority of TB members are in the USA/Canada so are time shifted to us. Add to that they probably haven't a clue what Eurovision is so you are unlikely to get many responses.

Now if you posted "Is this Ebay/CL Fender P a fake" and you would get hundreds of hits. :D
 
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Getting a teacher need not be a long time commitment. Three months will set you back $300 +/- and should be long enough to get you started on the right foot. Yes you can do it on your own, but, if you do your teacher does not know what he is doing.....

Ed Friedland writes good stuff, and all of his books have value, but, he is in Austin, Texas. Knee to knee right at first will be time well spent. How to hold the beast, how to get sound from it and things like that are best done with someone looking at what you are doing, i.e instant feedback.

Of course IMO.
 
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