First bass lesson tonight!

[Fat Nermil]

I've been noodling my way through some online materials (thanks for the links in the stickies) and working with some cool books. All that is great, but I finally got the chance to dedicate time to actual lessons, and I'm looking forward to my first one tonight. My instructor seems to have a good reputation, and I've watched some of her training materials online and she has a training style that appears to mesh with my learning style.

I haven't studied music in decades, and never studied a string instrument, so I'm really starting from the beginning. It feels great to have a new challenge and to get back into music.

 

[B-Lo]

Best of luck on your new journey!

 

[RichardW]

That was me 15 years ago. No music experience (besides listening) and no bass experience. I'm in a gigging band now.

Enjoy the ride!

 

[saabfender]

That's hugely exciting. Now you need to make sure you practice at least a little bit almost every day. It's the fuel that makes private lessons work.

Lots of us have done that kid thing where you go a whole week without even looking back through the lesson until the night before the next. All kinds of kid emotions just writing about it.

Committing to lessons is committing to work on the materials presented by the instructor.

 

[Fat Nermil]

That's hugely exciting. Now you need to make sure you practice at least a little bit almost every day. It's the fuel that makes private lessons work.

Lots of us have done that kid thing where you go a whole week without even looking back through the lesson until the night before the next. All kinds of kid emotions just writing about it.

Committing to lessons is committing to work on the materials presented by the instructor.

Agreed 100%. I actually enjoy practicing, at least a bit, every day (most days) because it's a way for me to disconnect from everything else.

 

[LBS-bass]

Should be fun and hopefully you will learn a lot. Be sure you come back and let us know how it goes.

 

[Fat Nermil]

First lesson in the books, and it was really good. The instructor and I gel, and I've got a good deal of homework to work on over the next week. It was really cool to get immediate feedback and guidance as we worked on exercises and she noticed things here or there that I could tweak to make it all work better.

 

[SharkSandwich]

If your teacher's name happens to be Britanny and has fire red hair... she is a good teacher. That is who I started with last year. I learned a lot from her in a short amount of time. If it's someone else, then right on glad to hear things are working well.

 

[Fat Nermil]

If your teacher's name happens to be Britanny and has fire red hair... she is a good teacher. That is who I started with last year. I learned a lot from her in a short amount of time. If it's someone else, then right on glad to hear things are working well.

Yes, that's her.

 

[ronin614]

So, are you still taking lessons, and if so, how are they going?