Here's a topic...

[Stewie]

Depends, what is the difference between a duck?

 

[PWRL]

No. I need to be able to play to stay sane. Anyway, I'm too old to be cool now, anyway, so it wouldn't even do me any good.

 

[SunByrne]

Heh, easy. (1) I'm not that good, so not that much to be gained, and (2) I'm 51 years old. No way I'm taking five years off. Besides, the journey itself is important. I really value the hour a day I get to practice, it's a nice break where I get to not think about anything else, and it's great fun.

 

[Rev. Cornelius]

I might be dead in 5 years so no.

 

[kmon]

at twice as good I'd still basically suck. So no.

 

[Yango]

Insanity.

 

[micguy]

I’m 62, and the way I practice, I will be twice as good in 5 years. So no way in hell are you taking 5 years worth of gigs away from me.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

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What's twice as good as sux?

 

[BarfanyShart]

oh man this is a hard one. twice as good? I could be pretty freaking good. if you would have asked 6 years ago when i just had kids maybe but now not a chance.

Exactly, if you asked me when I had four kids all under five years old, and I had basically stopped playing anything, that would have been a great deal. Now that I'm back into playing, no, cuz I kind of feel like I'm getting better at a faster rate than that, and it's my main form of stress relief.

 

[Rum Ham]

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Hell and no. I like being a noise maker. Random noises is my art. I will always suck but it’s a suck I enjoy. Full disclosure, I’m a living room only player, no gigs.

 

[Davbassdude]

When it comes to playing, I primarily do it for my own pleasure. I COULDN'T stay away from playing for more than a week. So....NO!!!

 

[mexicanyella]

What are some of the things I could touch for the next five years? That might help me decide...

 

[Samatza]

No... I think by the time I got back to it would I perceive that I'm twice as good or would I have forgotten what I sounded like?
To be totally honest over the years I've learned to play less so it's actually easier to sound twice as good if you leave out half of the junk that you think you need to throw in you know, because you can.

 

[CJAZ]

If you couldn't touch a bass for five years would you really be twice as good of a player?

I think not.

 

[JC Nelson]

My last record deal got shelved after a year and found myself unemployed on Christmas 1992. Grunge overtook the hollywood scene. The cds were being sold at goodwill for a dollar.

Bitter with the music business, I put the bass away and spent the next several years working for and building internet companies. Moving to Oregon to get away from it all.

11 years ago I was offered an orchestra gig for a musical and jumped at the chance. I couldn't read music so I spent 100 hours to memorize the score for the Wizard of Oz. I would do page turns with the cello player so I appeared to know how to read music.

Now I can read and until corona I was doing three musicals a year. Have done all the great Broadway classics including Le Mis.

The time off made me fall in love with the music journey again. Playing with amazing classically trained musicians has made me better than I ever dreamed.

 

[BishopHastur]

Depends on if by "...you couldn't even touch an instrument for 5 years..." they mean just the bass or all instruments. Cause if it's just the bass I'm in, and I'll putter on my banjo till the time is up.

 

[Bassic_desires]

As a beginner, I'm loving the journey. The destination will come in its own time.

 

[chaak]

no in 5 years i'd be 5 times as good as i spend time on a daily basis working and playing my instrument plus i am not one for easy gains, i enjoy the process and the hard work that makes the end result worth while

 

[Flamingo21]

If I keep practicing the way I'm now, in five years I'll be three times as good.

 

[TreySonagras]

Or...... I could practice for 5 years and be TEN times better than I am now.