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Noodling teacher

#41
50/50 on that one.. Once had a teacher who everytime I walked in decided to play a seven minute solo! Funny how it only took me 30 seconds to have my bass out, plugged in and in tune! Just to sit there and hear go thru a series of riffs and what not.. The extra notes can just be to accent the lick or to get you to think about making it into a line.. But alas you're the paying customer period.. Either ask why the extra accents or why the noodling? If the answer is satisfactory then continue. If not then it's time to move on!
Side note some players don't always make good teachers it's just a way to supplement the income.
 
#42
I have been teaching private lessons for 26 years and noodling is usually to show the student what you can do with the exercise, or progression, or improved bass line or solo. By showing the student a visual, and have then pick up on some musicality is very important.

However, if a teacher is spending a great deal of time "showing you he has some chops" or is playing riffs, through out the lesson to show he can play may be the time to have a pow-wow or find another true teacher.

In teaching there are those who;

Can play but can't teach
Can teach but are not the best players
Can't play or teach well
Can play and teach well

Fortunately I always had great teachers who were great players (David Hyde, Roy Vogt, Victor Wooten, Ernest Szugyi, Roche Pontbriand, and all my SLU and MTSU Music professors.)
 
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Eric Swaim said:
Fortunately I always had great teachers who were great players (David Hyde, Roy Vogt, Victor Wooten, Ernest Szugyi, Roche Pontbriand, and all my SLU and MTSU Music professors.)
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Likewise, I was lottery lucky to have Mike Daniels for my first teacher (at the music store around the corner!) and later, Dave Holland.
 
#44
Why not ask him to focus more on the bass face?
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I agree there's a difference between a little extra embellishing (just to show what could be done), and a "teacher" who is basically having you pay him/her to show you how good he/she is as a player while giving you very little to work with yourself.

I also have seen this at some of the musicians clinics I have attended. Some of them are really no more than recitals with the featured presenters just replicating things they've done on records without verbalizing a lot of context or providing any real instructional content. I walk away from those things thinking I might as well have stayed home. Other accomplished players are much more natural "teachers" and those clinics are time well spent.

Bottom line, the teacher should be serving you more than him/herself and if you ever get the vibe that is not the case, stay away.
 
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Slevage said:
Sale ended--------not sure if it sold- probably a fake
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The story with the original posting was that it was being sold by the bass player from Puddle of Mud who said that he bought it from Zamora himself. From what I remember reading back in the day his main bass was one that he built himself and Fender made him two with the intent of producing them as a signature model. That part of the deal fell through as it probably wasn't "Cost Effective". Zamora himself has recently been pictured with Fender Precisions, and an Alembic 6:

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I also learned while searching for that picture that Zamora has been diagnosed with cancer.

C/S,
Rev J
 

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