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Practice Unplugged

#22
Am I missing something? You have an entire week surrounding this one day? By the time you go to the 'middle of nowhere' you could well have them in memory and it's just a matter of practice then?

I may be misunderstanding, so apologies if that's the case. I would suggest rather than coming up with excuses ('no javascript on iPhone'), you at least say thank you to the people offering suggestions :)
 
#24
aidan784 said:
Am I missing something? You have an entire week surrounding this one day? By the time you go to the 'middle of nowhere' you could well have them in memory and it's just a matter of practice then?

I may be misunderstanding, so apologies if that's the case. I would suggest rather than coming up with excuses ('no javascript on iPhone'), you at least say thank you to the people offering suggestions :)
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When I do go, I stay a week. The camp is on Wednesday. I leave thursday, get back Tuesday. That week, I can't practice songs I am expected to know. Not being too lazy to learn the songs in a week before I go, which is what I think you are saying. Sorry for any confusing wording.

The JavaScript thing was about me not being able to see the ******, as I am on my phone, which doesn't support JavaScript. Not an excuse. Just can't see it.
 
#27
JakeAndAirwaves said:
No JavaScript on iPhone.
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I find it amazing how young folks these days do not take advantage of the technology laid at their feet. Musicians actually managed to learn to play before smart phones and computers...hell even before electricity.

Young ones, ask away, there are answers for your questions, but did you ever hear the phrase, "Physician, heal thyself!" You can look it up too. You can teach yourself. And when someone says something, or leads you in the right direction, or tells you where to find it, go do it! Don't argue and still expect it to be handed to you.

Life is not a free ride and you do not get the rewards without the effort.

BTW, I try never to practice unplugged because I find myself hammering the strings to try to hear what I am playing. If I do practice it is scales and exercising my hands to be more fluid on the fretboard and try to get those hard to reach hand positions down, or a complicated part of a song etc...
 
#29
If you have a phone with phone applications. Such as the place where you down load angry birds. In the bar for you to type in the name of the apps that you want you can type in the word mp3 . If you do this you will get several apps for free music download sites. Welcome to the 21 century its a great place to be
 
#32
Russell L said:
Get a stethoscope and some tape. Don't believe me? Try it.
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Tape a stethoscope to my phone to get better service? Or to my bass to hear it. I'm sure the latter would work.

And I'm not trying to make excuses. If I wanted to, why the hell would I do it on the Internet to some people that don't even care. I already said I would deal with it, you don't have to come back and rant about excuses and how people didn't have the luxury of smartphones and Internet and electricity. I have that, and I'm going to take advantage of that.
 
#33
Savage_Dreams said:
just what i was thinking. i would think a band camp would supply you with the sheet music of something you are supposed to play. honestly, if youre at a band camp being able to read standard sheet music should sort of be a requirement.
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I'm not going to try to put two quotes into one reply on my phone. So this will be a separate reply.

It's not like a normal band camp. As a group of 15-20 people, we are assigned songs to learn. Not every person is on every song. We come in, play the setlist however many times, then at the end of the day we get new songs. Repeated every week. It's called School of Rock. Google it, find where it says stuff about live performance if you want more.
 
#35
I was forced at my first apartment to play through a pair of cheap sound blaster speakers on my PC.

It actually worked quite well for being two 3" speakers

I think it really helped me pickup on important bass parts due to the lack of low frequency content,

Anyways I said all of that to say this:

Take your laptop with everything saved on it, use the aux in to plug your bass in and jam along with your favorite music player, you can pull up your tabs and practice all at the same time. A set of headphones would be sweet too.
 
#38
stingraysvt said:
Anyways I said all of that to say this:

Take your laptop with everything saved on it, use the aux in to plug your bass in and jam along with your favorite music player, you can pull up your tabs and practice all at the same time. A set of headphones would be sweet too.
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Where do I get a cable for that?
 
#39
Jake I want to help.

Do you have your own personal email account gmail, yahoo, etc? If YES ... send me a personal message on the board and I'll help.
What are the songs you need to learn?

Answer each of these ... and we can move foward on getting you what you need!

heck i'll put the tabs in pdf and email them to you so you can view them on your phone ... How about some guitar pro tabs that have notation and the tabs?
 
#40
stingraysvt said:
Wow, how does it sound?

Wonder if you can DI a stethoscope?
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You wouldn't believe it, but because I didn't have the end of the stethoscope good and flat against the bass body it actually sounded like distortion! LOL, no electricity, no nothin', and I got effects!

Really, normally, it sounds like when you lean over and put your ear onto the bass body and play. That sound. Really nice. The bad thing is that the ear peices in mine were too tight against my ears, so I had to take it off soon. Gonna work on it.
 

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