gear shopping - it's a sickness

[Jeff Scott]

Just listen to songs and figure the lines out by ear. You will get much better this way. Take your time and enjoy the time doing so. I use a program called Transcribe! that does a great job of adjusting speed/tempo while keeping the song sound good, and you can easily adjust the pitch to where you need it to match your tuned bass instead of retuning the bass to match the particular song. This is especially important on old songs ('60s-'70s) where the recording/tape speeds were all over the map (sometimes intentionally).

 

[Killed_by_Death]

By ear is something I could never do.
It's like taking a blind person to the shooting range.

 

[catcauphonic]

By ear is something I could never do.
It's like taking a blind person to the shooting range.

It's so so hard for me, too ... but I'm not giving up!

 

[5544]

I received a 15% off coupon the other day and couldn't find anything from the shop that I wanted. After reading some thread on here about guitars, I thought to myself "it would be cool to own a guitar." Found something I like and applied the coupon just to see the price.

While it makes it a great price and I can use my change collection (I have 1 and 2 euro coins in a jar that I cash in once a year) to pay for the guitar, at the end of the day I have to remind myself that I have other things I wanted longer than a random guitar.

 

[ZenG]

By ear is something I could never do.
It's like taking a blind person to the shooting range.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

The sickness is still there with me.
Even though I already realized I can't play a long scale bass w/o developing issues in my hand/arm, and decided to regale myself with a extra short scale u-bass. I found myself still wanting to go check out some stuff in the local pawn shop.
At least I didn't buy anything, still waiting for my u-bass to arrive Monday

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[Clef_de_fa]

I think it is more a personnality than anything ...

Some people are hoarders and just can't help but accumulate stuff.

Some need to buy but at least get rid of something else in the process

Then there is some who buy every blue moon like me.

 

[ZenG]

The thing is to know when you're in denial. Not that it really helps.

GC clerk:- "May I help you?"

TB member:- " No thanks I'm just looking today.....looking at that Sterling actually"

GC clerk:- "That's fine. Feel free to browse.."

TB member:- " Thanks...but really I have to go....as soon as I've played that Sterling "

GC clerk:- " No worries sir...we keep those here all the time. There'll still be one for you to play next time you come in.."

TB member:- " I don't think you understand.....I'm not here to buy a bass today but would you please get an instrument cable so I can try it out?"

GC clerk:- " Certainly sir.....there you are... plug it in and you're good".

TB member:- " Did I not just say I won't be buying a bass today? I don't appreciate being harassed. This sounds awesome. I'll take it."

 

[Michael Schreiber]

At least I didn't buy anything, still waiting for my u-bass to arrive Monday

Hope it arrived well, and it turns out great for you. Wish you much fun - and that playing it becomes so much fun, that you don't need to even look at other basses and forget about shopping

 

[drummer5359]

I have great drum, hand percussion and bass gear, all of which gets used. I already had a couple of nice guitars (an American Strat, an American Tele and a Martin) in my rehearsal room for rehearsal purposes. My bandmates can show up without carrying anything, it makes life easier for all. These are instruments that I got through constantly flipping gear and upgrading.

So now I'm starting to get serious with guitar playing. So far I'm gas free. My guitarist brother, laughed and says that it is just a matter of time before I have a basement full of Strats, Teles and Les Pauls.

 

[Spidey2112]

You know you're screwed when you tell the wife, 'Last pedal, honey... I swear.', and she asks, with a smirk... 'Don't you have to buy a 'house' for all of them, or something? You just can't let them walk the streets, right?'.

'Yes, dear...'

 

[Spidey2112]

The sickness is still there with me.
Even though I already realized I can't play a long scale bass w/o developing issues in my hand/arm, and decided to regale myself with a extra short scale u-bass. I found myself still wanting to go check out some stuff in the local pawn shop.
At least I didn't buy anything, still waiting for my u-bass to arrive Monday

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Adapt and improvise, KBD... Enjoy it!

 

[Spidey2112]

Just listen to songs and figure the lines out by ear. You will get much better this way. Take your time and enjoy the time doing so. I use a program called Transcribe! that does a great job of adjusting speed/tempo while keeping the song sound good, and you can easily adjust the pitch to where you need it to match your tuned bass instead of retuning the bass to match the particular song. This is especially important on old songs ('60s-'70s) where the recording/tape speeds were all over the map (sometimes intentionally).

I was working on a couple of songs, recently, trying to get up to speed fast for an upcoming 'project'... nothing hard, IMO, but first checked out a few tabs online... they truly were horrible, as if the poster himself was in a hurry to upload them... got the headphones out, YouTube'd the songs, and both picked out the bass lines and transcribed them myself, using Guitar Pro, mainly as a reference, for later... by doing it myself, I think it's a great way to learn the songs.

 

[gjohnson441496]

Gear Shopping Today

The sickness is still there with me.
Even though I already realized I can't play a long scale bass w/o developing issues in my hand/arm, and decided to regale myself with a extra short scale u-bass. I found myself still wanting to go check out some stuff in the local pawn shop.
At least I didn't buy anything, still waiting for my u-bass to arrive Monday

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I thought about you as I played the Rickenbacker. It's beefy!
Gruhn has the most Bongo basses I've seen in one place.
I didn't touch the Fenders. No GAS for me there. I just stood and stared.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Those 4004 models do have a beefy timbre!

It happened to me again today. The new bass ukulele doesn't really need an amp, but that didn't stop me driving an hour to go see what it sounded like through a Rumble 40.

 

[gjohnson441496]

Those 4004 models do have a beefy timbre!

It happened to me again today. The new bass ukulele doesn't really need an amp, but that didn't stop me driving an hour to go see what it sounded like through a Rumble 40.

lol. You got it bad man!

 

[catcauphonic]

 

[Killed_by_Death]

So elated now after a day of gear shopping, hope it doesn't wear off too quickly.

 

[catcauphonic]

So elated now after a day of gear shopping, hope it doesn't wear off too quickly.

What'd u gettt???

 

[Killed_by_Death]

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