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Why do you play what you play?

Back when I started playing I just wanted to make music with the band... I enjoyed playing simple and just held the groove. Then I went about 10 years w/out a bass, only playing now and then when I would jam with my dad and brother. Recently I found myself spending(wasting) WAY too much time playing a silly internet spaceship game and realised that all that wasted time could have gone to focusing a talent that I have been neglecting for WAY too long! So I ditched the imaginary spaceships and have been spending that 3-4 hours a day with my bass instead. Since I have picked the bass back up I have been spending most of my time working on all the basics I had neglected back when I was initially learning (Almost everything I knew I learned from my dad showing me, I never learned to read music or learned the fretboard etc). What I want to be able to do is free improvisation and do it well. I have been inspired lately by some of the really talented soloists and want to have that ability. As for why? The challenge. (And I guess to impress my dad a bit :D. The last few times we have got together he likes to show off on the bass, and me not being in practice, it made me feel like I have been slacking off majorly.)