Your musical goals for 2015?

[hintz]

My goal is to get my playing back to where it was in 2011, and then improve on it from there....

 

[friendlybass]

Starting college. I'm in a jazz program so there's that but mostly more practice.
Start an old school funk band, brass and glittery backup singers and all.

 

[Big Hoss]

I am familiar with the website. It is quite good.

If his teaching is anything like that I would drive extra to study with him. I have also seen some folks say good things that have studied with him.

I studied with him back in '04 but had to quit when my ex got lawyers involved... I spent WAY too long getting back into the groove, too busy moving forward in other areas in my life you know... Anyway he really did help me learn a lot, I just need to get back at it and figure it out. My wife wants to take some Saturday classes close to his school, I might see if he has Saturday openings and get it done...

 

[Big Hoss]

1. Improve my overall technique.
2. Continue weekly jam sessions with current "band" and maybe get them to focus a bit more. They're kind of like herding cats now.
3. Resist the urge to suggest re-naming the band to "Herding Cats."
4. Gain enough confidence to play with more musicians.
5. Play, play, play without pissing off Mrs. frsbdg too much.

You originally from the south? I figured the phrase "Herding cats" didn't go much further north than Oklahoma...

 

[frsbdg]

You originally from the south? I figured the phrase "Herding cats" didn't go much further north than Oklahoma...

Nope. But I am married to a veterinarian, so there is that...

 

[JShogunE]

>Play with a guitarist
>Clean up right-hand finger technique
>Work on picking
>and finally, learn some slap.

 

[Bassic Playing]

I want to stop stagnating. I feel like plateaued for a while and id like to extend myself. Im going to take lessons, keep a practice journal and play more.

Im also going to take trumpet lessons, which ive been playing for a year, amd become a more varied player with both instruments.

And have fun!

 

[kenneffdupriest]

Put out a nearly finished 4 song EP by Feb
Finish my basement(Rock Ranch Studio B) by summer
Shirts ASAP
Open for someone credible at The Granada
Fix my cab issue

oh and sell some stuff and buy two more bass guitars, just two

 

[BassNoobSuomi]

Learn. To. Read.
Join a band again.

 

[Kevan Campbell]

1. Dive deeper into music theory so I can explain why something works in words other than "That sounds awesome!".

2. Get my own website up as an independent/hired gun bassist so as to not be constrained as just a "band bassist".

3. Develop my slap technique; my fingerstyle and pick technique are pretty good (I say humbly) but my slap is uneducated and lacking.

4. Make some headway in becoming a session bassist.

5. Be content with the gear that I have.

6. Start and complete a build/project bass that I'm currently hashing out the details.

I figure if I can make at least two of those come true I'll call 2015 a success!

 

[LukeMan970]

Oh man where to begin!

-I'm hopeful that my band will put out our full length album by March!
-I'm going to finish learning all of Cynic's "Focus" album by then as well
-I really want to get a lot better at playing around changes and soloing through changes
-Better learn my role as a bass player and how to lock in on tricky drum beats
-Be a better player than I was last year!

 

[bluesdogblues]

Your musical goals for 2015?

Be Happier

 

[Jughead6]

Continuation of my list...

6. Record some original songs. Band guitarist and I worked on a few original songs over the Christmas holidays, now we just need lyrics!
7. Learn how to write lyrics that don't sound really cheesy and contrived.

 

[Jughead6]

Be Happier

So ya don't want the blues no more, bluesdog?

 

[bluesdogblues]

Ahaha.. Blues is always a 'happy' way of attitude to anything, joy or sorrow

 

[slapfunk987]

1. Get through the entire Hal Leonard Complete Bass Method.

2. Learn all the notes on my bass. (Anthony Wellington style)

3. Go through as many lessons of Scottsbasslessons as I can.

4. Learn Jaco's Continuum, Portrait Of Tracy and Havona.

5. Buy a Hartke Hydrive 410 to complete my "Go Live" rig. (Already have Hartke LH1000)

6. Increase my theory knowledge using these books.
Edly's Music Theory For Practical People, Harmonics For Electric Bass, Bass Guitar For Dummies, Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies, Harmony & Theory, Bass Encyclomedia, Daily Grooves For Bass, Building Walking Basslines, Carol Kaye's Electric Bass Series

7. Learn all the Top R&B songs of the 60s, 70s, 80s so that I don't have to keep worrying about them and just focus on learning theory and jazz...

8. Learn to walk the bass and learn all the scales/modes and how to use them.

9. Use the app Tenuto consistently for Ear Training..

10. Stop playing the same songs every time I pick up the bass. ( Tired of slapping Teen Town, Marcus Miller's Detroit, GCS Hair.)

11. Stop being a bedroom bassist...

 

[jamersonburton]

#1 Learn to read music fluidly.
#2 try to relearn some keyboard/piano (understand modal scales, chord structure)
#3 get paid gigs with my band
#4 record and release debut album (folk rock/acoustic rock)
#5 learn to sing well enough to do backing vocals while playing guitar or bass


5 goals for 2015, I think that is good for now... Oh wait


# 6 don't have so much GAS

 

[cnltb]

Musical goals;
get at least some of the music recorded i have written over the years.
Finish off two projects I have been working on for too long now.

 

[Bigmuffdiver]

As I've been saying every year since 2005: sign up for musiclessons.


HA!

 

[Fliptrique]

Make and relase recordings of all the three bands I`m currently in.