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My daughter bested me!

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous [BG]' started by Depth_Charge, Dec 12, 2007.

  1. Dec 12, 2007 #1
    Depth_Charge

    Depth_Charge

    Sep 13, 2006
    Perth, Western Australia
    The other day I'm driving my 8yo home from school, and she keeps repeating notes - "GA, GA, GAAC. GAAC BBB BC".

    After a while, I ask her what that is...and she says it's "her notes" she made up in music that day.

    While I was practicing bass that night she comes into the room and starts reciting "her notes". So I ask her to show them to me, and I play them on the bass. Starting on the low G-A, I play the notes while she laughs at me for struggling with the triplet feel on the B's.

    I finally get it right so I crank up the speed, move up an octave and hammer onto the A's from the G's and my oh my is that a cool little bass ditty we came up with.

    I've been trying to write my own lines for a while now and I have to say her line is probably better than most anything I've come up with. Darn her :) :)
     
  2. Dec 12, 2007 #2
    bimmerfan99

    bimmerfan99 Guest

    Jul 15, 2007
    Um... if she doesn't have a bass already, why not?
     
  3. Dec 13, 2007 #3
    Stuggi

    Stuggi Guest

    May 7, 2006
    Pietarsaari, Finland
    Get the girl a bass pronto.
     
  4. Dec 13, 2007 #4
    Aged_Clayman

    Aged_Clayman

    Jul 18, 2007
    Sochi, Russia
    ...or at least post the resulting line:)
     
  5. Dec 13, 2007 #5
    smperry

    smperry Administrator Staff Member Administrator Gold Supporting Member

    Nov 3, 2003
    Bay Area, CA
    I'll be a proud dad when my daughter is a better musician than me. Since she's only two, I think I'm safe for another year at least. ;)

    Marshall
     
  6. Dec 14, 2007 #6
    dave64o

    dave64o Talkbass Top 10 all time lowest talent/gear ratio! Gold Supporting Member

    Jun 15, 2000
    Southern NJ (Philly area)
    So get her a bass! Rondo has a cheap short scale models. :D

    My son doesn't practice his trumpet as much as he should, but he's already a much better sight reader that I ever was and probably ever will be.

    He also enjoys watching me struggle with exercises in the books I'm using. That drove me crazy at first, but then I grew to appreciate what it was teaching him. For one thing, it shows him that it simply takes work to get better. It also shows him that if you love it you WILL work through it and you'll come out better because of your persistence. I just hope he's paying attention. ;)

    I've found it to be kind of fun being bested by my kid because it fills me with pride twice. First, I'm proud simply because my kid has accomplished something - and probably learned far more from the experience of working hard on something in order to achieve it. And second, that you can see and feel your kid's pride in himself for having accomplished something. Parenting is tough, but joys like that make it worthwhile.
     
  7. Dec 14, 2007 #7
    Valerus

    Valerus

    Aug 4, 2005
    Yeah man, bass her up! Sounds like a natural!