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When yours fingers stops taking order.

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Nojja

Jul 15, 2006
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#1
Sometimes, it happens.
You just cant play the songs you maybe played av week ago.
Its all in you head, but it feels like you gone back in time about 4 years of playing.
And your bass skills have decresed.
Maybe 4 days later it all back to normal.
But i still just hate it, its when i thinks about how i play to much.
Its like, you should just do it.
It always happens when im gonna show some friends some new **** i have learned or something.

Dont you also gets that?
 
#2
Yeah. Practise makes perfect, but sometimes, the odd 'brain fart' happens and cramps on my style. And I'm not used to play with an audience. Probably stress is a big factor. Concentrate!

But I'm quite a newbie anyway... I guess as you get more experienced, playing becomes second nature, and that stuff don't happen anymore.
 
#3
For me, my fingers stop taking orders when they have been playing for hours, I'm getting water blisters forming, and my thumb muscle is getting tired from holding a pick. Sometimes I have to play "pick" songs with my fingers or "finger" songs with a pick depending on what is hurting the most. Then you go back again the next night with already bruised fingers. Happens sometimes. All in a day's work I guess. Beats digging ditches though.
 
#5
SurrenderMonkey said:
Yeah. Practise makes perfect, but sometimes, the odd 'brain fart' happens and cramps on my style. And I'm not used to play with an audience. Probably stress is a big factor. Concentrate!

But I'm quite a newbie anyway... I guess as you get more experienced, playing becomes second nature, and that stuff don't happen anymore.
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IMHO, practice makes bored. :bawl:

Effective practice makes perfect. :smug: :smug:
 
#7
Wouldn't it be easier to just report a bad post using the "report bad post button " and let the mods handle it than to keep using up space and system resources here on talk bass.

Think of it as an easy button.
 
#9
Nojja said:
Sometimes, it happens.
You just cant play the songs you maybe played av week ago.
Its all in you head, but it feels like you gone back in time about 4 years of playing.
And your bass skills have decresed.
Maybe 4 days later it all back to normal.
But i still just hate it, its when i thinks about how i play to much.
Its like, you should just do it.
It always happens when im gonna show some friends some new **** i have learned or something.

Dont you also gets that?
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No, actually I don't. I can play what I can play, and I can't play what I can't play. As long as I warm up first, I'm pretty consistent with what I can and can't play.
 
#12
Nojja said:
well its like, this is the forum with most viewers.
So if i post it in some other forum, like the performance it wouldnt gete enough attention.
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How about the better "performance" you'd get by posting it in the correct forum? This way, people who really know how to help you will be able to make suggestions. It doesn't matter how many replies you get if they're all people who want to talk about Fender J pickup position or 9-layer laminate bodies.

If you get one good reply in the correct forum, that's more "performance" than 100 replies in the wrong forum.

So, you put in the time to think about where to put this so it would get the most replies, but you didn't make the extra, like, step.

It also helps to use coherant sentences.
 
#16
Ok, I don't know if this will help, or if this is even the problem that you have, but it worked for me.

I think like a lot of people when I first started playing string instruments I played with my eyes. You look at your left hand and think "that middle should press that 5th fret, the one you're looking at" or "that thumb should slap that 2nd string down". That isn't the way the body works best. Think of any familier action, lighting a cigarette or cutting a steak. Your mind gives the simple command "do this" and then your body plays out a well rehersed set of actions. That's the way to play an instrument as well.

The best way I've found is to look at somthing else, usually out the window but it's up to you, while I play. That way your hands learn where they should be in relation to each other, and the bass, rather than relying on your eyes. I imagine when you get really good you just think "play a G" and your hands know what to do. I'm not quite there yet.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
 
#17
well, are you meaning just to play a simple G note?
Cause i mean most people can easily cordinate around the first 7 frets after just some few months of bass playing? am i right? duuuuuuuuuuuude
 
#18
bassybill said:
Is this an attempt to keep the mods busy or something? Or is it too hard to find the appropriate forum to start your thread?

Come on, it's not exactly difficult to get it right, is it?

:rolleyes:
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Nothing like constructive help for a relative newbie on how and where to post..:scowl: instead of pointing him in the right direction. Doesn't reflect well on the overall friendlly helpfulness of the TalkBass family now does it?
 
#19
Exerpted from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War":

"Ho Lu (the King) questioned the efficiency of the strategies presented and asked that Sun Tzu's theory on managing soldiers be tested on 180 women who worked for the King. The women were divided into two groups that were each led by two of the King's favorite concubines. The women did not respond to any of Sun Tzu's commands as they were accustomed to taking orders solely by the King. After a few attempts to train the women with no support from the two group leaders, Sun Tzu ordered the two concubines to be beheaded. Accordingly, the leaders were beheaded and the next two women were put in charge. This time when the drill began, all of the women, without hesitation, followed and executed every command given."

So, you know what has to be done to first two digits...
 
#20
yeah I know the feeling , it happend to me yesterday I couldn't eq properly , couldn't hear myself , missed notes . Anyways I sucked luckly it was a rehearsal and my drummer thougt we rocked .. :D

I haven't been getting enough sleep (lab reports and such) but I recommend eating well and getting a good night sleep . Don't over-practice , take it slow ,relax , bass playing should be fun . ;)
 

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