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Your musical goals for 2015?

#62
This year is all about releasing my album in whatever way gets it out there to the most people...

This is also the year I'm going to try to put together a band that can play the music I've released on the album...

Finally, This is the year that I start getting the tribute band booked into more diverse and appropriate venues and find a booking agent who will then take that job off my hands.
 
#64
I started playing in '84 and practiced a lot until about 1990, but since then it's been play for a few months, take a 5 year break, etc. So my goal now is to just continue practicing 2-3 hours a day for the whole year. I'm working on several instructional books, but they'll take as long as they'll take - I'm not in a hurry. I want to improve my technique of course but mostly improve my ability to express myself through music.

And I pledge to give in to GAS completely :laugh:
 
#68
In no particular order of priority/importance:

1. Start learning guitar. This is in the works...I have a subscription with JamPlay. Currently working on a "beginner electric guitar" course...

2. Become a better bass player. I have been playing bass since late '91; mostly self-taught. Haven't played in a band in years. Looking at improving all aspects of my playing...decided to go back to my roots and play along with recordings again (ZZ Top, Deep Purple, etc.) as a way to kick-start myself, working pretty good so far.

3. Get over technophobia and delve into recording and other software. I need to try my hand at learning recording sotware, drum software, etc. I have a lot of ideas (for bass at least) that I'd like to get recorded to see if they sound as good in playback as they do (or don't) when I am playing them.

4. Get a better grasp on all of the functions/capabilities of my gear. Instruments, effects units, amps, oh my...mainly instruments and amps though...I don't en own any effects for guitar, and probably won't for awhile...I'd like to have a reasonable grasp on the basics of guitar playing before even thinking of utilizinf effects...

5. Play in public for the first time since 1996. It's been eighteen frickin' years...if I decide to do this, it will be on bass (unless I turn out to be an "adult prodigy" on guitar, ha ha), most likely a solo/looping/bass-n-drums thing. I am not a really big fan of that, but bass is my primary instrument, so...
 
#71
Personal - consistent practice 5 hrs per week excluding band songs, sight reading, groove work, jazz theory, fretless 6 string comfort/intonation
Band - generate a bigger following, new songs, work on live energy
Gear - fix up '66 P bass (neck, refin), keep it at or under 12 or 13 basses (14 currently), buy a backup head
 
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Emanuel Apascaritei said:
I perfectly understand what you mean. I had to be very clear with everybody that when I play bass, I play bass and don't do sound. It's hard!
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While I've been where I think you're at more often than I'd like, I literally meant my main gig right now is running sound in a band with a separate bass player (whom I sometimes sub for)
 
#73
Done:

Finally put together a simple pedal board for my guitar effects so that the main things that I use in front of the amp are all in one place and ready to go. (Yes, that's an old piece of baseboard.)

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To Do:

1. Get back to playing guitar more often. I'm originally a guitar player who switched over to bass a year and a half ago.

2. Keep playing bass. Practice more.

3. Play blues harmonica more often. I used to be pretty good at it.

3. Avoid GAS.

4. Get back into my studio to write and record some original tunes.

5. Finally, just quit the band, and move on.

6. Make an effort to connect with new and old musician friends.

7. Take an electronics course so that I finally know what I'm doing rather than just follow diagrams when re-wiring guitars and basses.
 
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#75
gjohnson441496 said:
Learn to read music. I'm off to a good start. I just read the LC transcription on another post!
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+1

Learning to read is going to open up some new doors for me, I hope. I started working on it in 2014, but I need to progress from simple note recognition exercises to "playing what's on the page". Once you can read, there's a ton of pedagogy to work on for further improvement ...

In addition, I'll be...

Back to fundamentals.
Intonation, Time, Basic Theory.
 
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#78
* Rebuild my technique and arpegiatic fluency(I am making drastic changes in both left hand and right hand right now, this is going to take a while before it pays off in smoother technique etc)
* Complete my solo bass album (working title, with apologies to Walt Whitman: Songs By Myself)
* develop a project with an old music friend whom I caught up with in Dec last year after 25 years. As it happened, all we talked about was the here the now and where we're going, none of the "do you remember the old days blabla." Came away galvanised and emboldened => new project.
* Go out to more and different live musics
 

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