Proof that there IS hope for the future of music!! LOL. You have some very nice influences there. Sounds like you have a lot of natural talent also. Keep rockin'!
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When did you get into bass playing and why?
- Thread starter powmetalbassist
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Hey thanks man!
Yeah I really got thrown in the deep end (bass puns) but a band is the best way to learn it seems. A lot of people have already commented on how much I've improved in so little time, even my mum commented and she doesn't even really know what a bass is.
Yeah I really got thrown in the deep end (bass puns) but a band is the best way to learn it seems. A lot of people have already commented on how much I've improved in so little time, even my mum commented and she doesn't even really know what a bass is.
Been playing since I was about 11, I am 25 now. Bass player at a local church I went to with my parents back then was leaving to Japan for the Air Force and there was no backup bassist. My dad asked him if he would teach me the basics like two weeks before he was leaving and he taught me the first week and said that I was playing the following Sunday. No pressure. Ever since then its been a love story hahah. I play other instruments too but I just think its funny how everywhere I've gone there is always a drummer and everything else except a bassist. It follows me
well, i'm a guitar player primarily - started that about 12 years ago when my mom gave up on lessons and her guitars were sitting around the house gathering dust.
ever since i joined my first band, there has always been a bass around...borrowed an old Cort bass from the bassist in the first band for a while. bought a an epi tbird while i was in my second band and partially owned the bass rig. came close to taking on the role a few times.
the itch has been there for a long time. only just recently started to really scratch it!
ever since i joined my first band, there has always been a bass around...borrowed an old Cort bass from the bassist in the first band for a while. bought a an epi tbird while i was in my second band and partially owned the bass rig. came close to taking on the role a few times.
the itch has been there for a long time. only just recently started to really scratch it!
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19 yo, March-April, exams approaching, I knew it was gonna be bad, so I thought "what the hell I wanna do some music".
Bought my first bass (picked bass because of j-rock, great great basslines in there), and played the $ù@# out of it for several hours a day every day after school.
Exams were fine in the end
Bought my first bass (picked bass because of j-rock, great great basslines in there), and played the $ù@# out of it for several hours a day every day after school.
Exams were fine in the end
I started in music by playing trombone in school band when I was 11. I did very well, but realized in high school, there is more work for rock band instrumentalists, than band/orchestra instrumentalists. I decided on electric bass, since it was the same clef as trombone, and I didn't need to learn a new clef to read the music.
For the first 10 years, I was bad to mediocre on bass, but eventually I started getting better jobs on it, and took some lessons from a well respected jazz teacher. Eventually I gave up trombone altogether, and just dedicated myself to bass.
I have been playing bass for 35 years.
For the first 10 years, I was bad to mediocre on bass, but eventually I started getting better jobs on it, and took some lessons from a well respected jazz teacher. Eventually I gave up trombone altogether, and just dedicated myself to bass.
I have been playing bass for 35 years.
