Losing interest...

[Rumblin' Man]

My teenage son is in the midst of a musical whirlwind right now.

He takes guitar, upright , and violin lessions. He plays electric guitar with his HS marching band (in the rhythm section on a bandstand), violin with the HS Orchestra and the state youth philharmonic, Upright with his HS wind ensemble, and is learning some mandolin to play with the roots/country/blues band his dad plays bass for.

He's also takes AP music class, took voice at the HS and was in the Choir there, and has a garage band with friends.

My older son had similar musical involvement when he was in HS and is currently in college for music/communications and is continuing his upright lessons.

I always told them to try a bunch of stuff and see what they like. And I guess that's the moral of the story, try whatever you are interested in.

Fortunately their HS program offered them many opportunities I can only wish I had.

 

[ggunn]

I think I am losing interest in playing bass.

I've been 'playing' for about two and a bit months. And I don't really know how much I've improved. I can play songs, I mean I'm not useless. But...nothing that makes me go 'hell yeah I love bass!'.

I find myself wanting to play 6 string...or singing.

Do I just need lessons or...no hope?

Are you playing with people or just going it alone? You've gotta work with an ensemble to make any real progress.

 

[DaveDeVille]

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.. i think we can guess what has happened .
too bad ...

 

[hands5]

I get this way alot,but I'm also a drummer so I have and outlet when feel like I'm tired of the bass,but I can relate

 

[Baird6869]

A frequent thought is that I am on a fool's errand when I listen to all the bass mastery in the world. There are so many areas that I need to spend thousands of hours on.

The general rule is 20,000 hours of study is required to be an authority/expert on almost any subject. Wine tasting, bass playing, sword dancing, chess, etc.

40 hrs per week x 52 weeks in a year = 2080 hours.

Basically 9 years of complete 9am-5pm study. This is from one of those expensive government studies, so I'm sure it is dead on.

 

[Tom Howland]

Give yourself a plan.

Practice for at least, one hour a day.
Do this for say a year.

Also, take lessions from a good teacher. (If you can)

Then access, your progress after one year.

if you feel you don't like it.
Or have not progressed?

Try something else.

You must give it time.
Also, if you don't love it, you won't stick with it.

 

[MirageBass]

Stop playing. I'm serious. Take a break. If you force yourself to play, you'll develop a hatred for the instrument, and the best music is born of affection for your craft. Wait until you hear something that makes you wanna take it up again.

If you absolutely must get a six string, try Rondomusic.net. Great basses at ridiculously cheap prices.

 

[jaff]

There is a great - and deep book called 'This Is Your Brain On Music' - Daniel Levinson. A great landscape view of music: scientific, intuitional, analytical, historical and autobiographical. Can give any aspiring or professional musician some value.

 

[Fealach]

.. i think we can guess what has happened .
too bad ...

That was my thought. I suppose it could be helpful to someone else to post advice in this thread, but people need to realize the OP they are addressing was only on Talkbass for one day in April.