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Playing the same grooves?

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gai113

Apr 25, 2008
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#1
Ever feel like you always play the same grooves and progressions?

Dont get me wrong i know alot of stuff but i feel like; i always play the same stuff; it never gets boring cause i switch around alot but i was wondering if anyone ever felt this way..

i also play hours everday// ;/

I been listening to lots of music but maybe i need to listen more and play less if i feel like my playings repetitve
 
#2
Ah, I absolutely feel you. I have an accoustic bass that sits at my house and I'm constantly putting miles on it. Il usually find my self stuck in a rut so to speak. It's always a fun rut but I do notice it. But it will often change after a while and il find a new rut or remember an old rut and combine. I dunno. I think it's just learning and getting things out your system. You'll always know what a certain groove feels like. Anyway painters have their blue and still life phases. We have our groove phases lol
 
#3
Yeah, I sure feel the same way.

I think it is quite natural to do so, since once you find out that some line/groove/progression suits that song, it will become a pattern in your head and it takes less effort to repeat that pattern every time you play the song than to constantly rethink the whole situation.

And that's the challenge too. I struggle with that all the time. For example, when I'm learning a cover song, I try to think the bass line again so that I'm not just repeating what's on the original track, if possible. Some lines and songs are such that the original line just works best and in that case you should respect that. But if there's room for variation or a completely new arrangement, then it is a different case.

And I've noticed that the same patterns and progressions subconsciously repeat themselves in my playing. But as long as you realise this it's not such a big problem since you can practice that and deliberately approach the songs with very different ideas, even if all of them don't work. But then you might have learned something.
 

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