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Fodera Club Part XXV

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My random Fodera thought of the evening... I'm watching the opening ceremonies and mindlessly grooving on some scalar type stuff and I think to myself that if I were not a bass player, but,rather, someone who just happened to be in the room and I happened to hear the tones coming from this amazing instrument, I'd absolutely, without a doubt, want to learn to play the bass. Sometimes the sound of this Monarch, to me, is both beautiful and hypnotic.
 
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Hey doc, I think this is your bass that I was playing. Killer bass man.
 

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It's funny, I remember back when I was a kid and first "discovered" the bass guitar. I had been a struggling guitarist (i.e. I thought I wanted to play guitar but just never felt quite "right" on the instrument). My teacher said to me one day, "why don't you try the bass...you approach music with such a blend of melody and rhythm and that is what bass is all about."

That made me really start listening to music differently and I realized that I was constantly walking around humming the BASS lines of all of my favorite music without having ever realized it. I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. Once I made the switch to bass music became incredibly fun and exciting to me. It was like the language of the bass was pre-wired in my brain but I had never realized it.

Docbass1218 said:
My random Fodera thought of the evening... I'm watching the opening ceremonies and mindlessly grooving on some scalar type stuff and I think to myself that if I were not a bass player, but,rather, someone who just happened to be in the room and I happened to hear the tones coming from this amazing instrument, I'd absolutely, without a doubt, want to learn to play the bass. Sometimes the sound of this Monarch, to me, is both beautiful and hypnotic.
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Just Thumpin' said:
It's funny, I remember back when I was a kid and first "discovered" the bass guitar. I had been a struggling guitarist (i.e. I thought I wanted to play guitar but just never felt quite "right" on the instrument). My teacher said to me one day, "why don't you try the bass...you approach music with such a blend of melody and rhythm and that is what bass is all about."



That made me really start listening to music differently and I realized that I was constantly walking around humming the BASS lines of all of my favorite music without having ever realized it. I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. Once I made the switch to bass music became incredibly fun and exciting to me. It was like the language of the bass was pre-wired in my brain but I had never realized it.
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Neat story! Mine is similar, I started on sax and guitar very briefly neither felt right and that in common with instant boredom made me put them down. How I started on bass was that my father had a band that would practice at the house and the bass player was a baker, worked some crazy hours and was often missing practices. So my father hands me his old jazz bass during one of the practices the bass player missed and says "here, play it" I just kinda figured out what sounded right and what didn't. I was hooked and started playing gigs shortly after. It was something about the sound of the bass, I could feel it in my body. The formalities of theory and technique came much much later.
 
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nuwavedc said:
Neat story! Mine is similar, I started on sax and guitar very briefly neither felt right and that in common with instant boredom made me put them down. How I started on bass was that my father had a band that would practice at the house and the bass player was a baker, worked some crazy hours and was often missing practices. So my father hands me his old jazz bass during one of the practices the bass player missed and says "here, play it" I just kinda figured out what sounded right and what didn't. I was hooked and started playing gigs shortly after. It was something about the sound of the bass, I could feel it in my body. The formalities of theory and technique came much much later.
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These are cool posts. I played clarinet for a couple of years in high school and got kicked out of the band because I could not read on my mid term test. As a third chair I listened to the band and played what seemed to fit although not what was written on the music charts. Went to do the mid term audition and when the band director asked why I could not play the piece, I told him what I was doing for the last semester. It was either learn to read or do something else, so I had to quit. It taught me a valuable lesson about harmonizing and coming up with a part that fits in. Fast forward to college and I started noodling around on a guitar, but I could not get the knack for it, but the lower 4 strings were tuned in 4ths and the pattern seemed logical. Then I tuned it down and started playing bass lines. Man, I really like this bass playing stuff. Finally bought a Hondo p bass copy and really started having fun with it. The I happened to buy this Lee Ritenour album "On The Line" featuring this guy playing what appeared to be a bass with 6 strings on it as depicted on the album liner. The intriguing harmonizing and counter melodies while holding down the bottom made me more interested in finding out who this player was. Anthony Jackson. I was hooked on the bass guitar and had to find out more about extended range bass guitars. Listening to any track that AJ plays on, whatever he plays fits so well in the context of the music without calling attention to it. What I've learned is playing what contributes to the music. Today, I'm going back though a lot of his older tracks with Chaka Khan, Paul Simon, and Jorge Dalto, man that stuff just grooves.
 
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For those of you AJ fans, check out an older CD if you can find it, Jorge Dalto, Rendevouz. AJ, Jorge Dalto, George Benson, Steve Gadd and a host of others that fail me right now. Yeah, an old recording, but still relevant.
 
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