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I wish I could remember some of those cool bass lines I come up with sometimes.
I am the same but different lol
I can be learning a song for 2 weeks and screw it up at practice but leave it alone for a month or two and I got it!
I am not a musician...
...I am a Bass Player!
He may have been but he doesn't remember. 'Cause if he did, he wasn't.
Fear not KBD, it's the excersize in trying that helps, not the outcome. Therefore, you are a musician. The only question is to what degree.
But you must be good, 'cause you have that fine looking Ibby.I cant remember a note after a wreck were a guy ran a red light and wok up in the hospital with a concussion.
Cant read music anymore, cant remember were any note is on the neck, cant remember which string is which.
Cant remember a song until someone starts to play it then i am ok. For months had to check my work at my job 3 to 5 times for for mistakes. Might even start to plat a song havent hears since the early 70s and remember it and dosent take long to nail it. Once i do go off and do my own thing but stick with the beat. Just cant control what happens but usual comes out good.
Now this year at 68 having trouble hitting notes properly though. To soft one pluck correct the next them to hard the next. Hands hurt some fingers numb. Awake in the morning they feel swollen.
Cant read music anymore, cant remember were any note is on the neck, cant remember which string is which.
Cant remember a song until someone starts to play it then i am ok. For months had to check my work at my job 3 to 5 times for for mistakes. Might even start to plat a song havent hears since the early 70s and remember it and dosent take long to nail it. Once i do go off and do my own thing but stick with the beat. Just cant control what happens but usual comes out good.
Now this year at 68 having trouble hitting notes properly though. To soft one pluck correct the next them to hard the next. Hands hurt some fingers numb. Awake in the morning they feel swollen.
That's exactly the way I am. I can play most anything... but, I don't remember it unless I'm constantly playing it. Thank God for transcriptions and the Nashville number system. The guitarist in a band I was in could literally play anything he's ever HEARD, let alone played, since he was old enough to understand music. Didn't even matter how complex it was. It was just filed away in his head ready to be recalled note for note, chord for chord. I was always green with envy.
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The thing with names is that most of them are ordinary and not descriptive. Now, suppose one were named something as simple as "Mighty Zarblax, Slayer of the Unjust and Gatekeeper of Oblivion." It would be a lot easier than Joel from Sector 7C.
Back on topic, I'm not surprised musicians have good memory. It is a pattern and memory based activity, and it attracts people who want to do something besides watch TV as a pastime.
Back on topic, I'm not surprised musicians have good memory. It is a pattern and memory based activity, and it attracts people who want to do something besides watch TV as a pastime.
I remember 2043 songs.
A million notes.
Thousands of accents, shots, stops, modulations, and outros.
I can't EVER remember that Thursday is garbage day.
A million notes.
Thousands of accents, shots, stops, modulations, and outros.
I can't EVER remember that Thursday is garbage day.
Uh-Oh, I'm in trouble
Ruh Roh. Turn off the tuuuuubbbbbe maaaaannn. That's how they control you!
I have known a guitar player for at least two years and have to reintroduce myself every time I see him. He knows I play bass, but never remembers my name. I only see him once a month if that, so maybe that's why.
Keep Scooby Doo out of this!
Well now I know how I can remember a 100 song setlist, but forget where my keys were 10 seconds after I put them down.
I worked at my local GC for 10 years... had the most difficult time remembering customers names. But tell the gear I sold you? Oh yeah! I sold you that Martin D-28 for your grandfather last year. And you bought that Ibanez SR506 two months ago.
Right on brother. I LOVE that 'ablum' and it's truly one of my 'faves'.I remember how to play Yes' "Close to the Edge"... the album.
I like playing Close To Edge on bass as if Earth Wind and Fire did it!
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I'll go with what's important. I seem to do good with music (even songs i havent played in thirty years), and the vast and completely useless knowledge of reading Tolkien like 20 times when i was younger. But people's names, forget about it. I tried the rhyming trick once, but forgot the rhymes. Although i like jokes, but always forget them, so go figure.
