new bass...

[RamboPreacher]

For the last year or so, I have had a secret desire for an 8-string bass. Been looking for websites, watching video's and really just fell in love with the sound. what I call the harmonic groovifunk.

Turns out to get one is not very inexpensive and costs about the same as a really nice large screen LCD or Plasma TV.

I have taken all kinds of music lessons in my lifetime, from violin and viola, to cello, and french horn to trumpet, then later in life took jazz-guitar lessons from a friend that is a local celebrity Jazz player.

I was never any good as a child - i never really applied myself. so when I was taking Guitar lessons, I really tried. unfortunately about the time I was actually starting to remember some of the chords (can't remember a "lick" now), my teacher, well, uhm decided to stop giving me lessons. a story for another time.

But instead of just dropping a load for an 8 string and then looking for lessons/teachers, I decided that I would just get a regular, inexpensive 4-string beginners kit:


knowing that if I was able to become proficient, I could modify my style and switch to the 8-string with practice time.

so, here I am, now remembering what I went through with my left hand and having sore fingertips before I had built up calluses. It hurts, especially switching to typing on the computer, tapping away with my left hand, finger tips that are sore from fret-position runs.

wish I could actually play. but I knew that I would be here. just gotta keep it up. all you bass and other guitar players, am I crazy for starting at 48? think I can learn sumthin? I may start going to sleep with a metronome.

[Dr. Ron]

Some of the best musicians I know started late in life....they had the will and desire to practice and learn.

Give it all you got.

[Mike Vande]

To quote some old freinds of mine, "Ain't nothing to it but to do it!"IF you really want to be able to play, just keep on picking it up and playing it. Eventually you'll get to where you can play. People who start late in life make up for what they lack in youthful dexterity and ease of learning with not being vulnerable to as many distractions and a much longer attention span.
I would advise getting a teacher and paying for lessons. It's not as cheap as tteaching yourself, but it will save you from wasting a lot of time going over & over the same old stuff and not making any progress, and/or having to reinvent the wheel...er, bass to get anywhere on it.

[Gerald Creasy]

Git it, RP!!!

(Although when I think about the bass, I think standup.)

[Pastor Gary]

Bass?

[Susie Hamilton]

Try using crazy glue on your fingertips, it eases the pain a little.

[MacUser]

Try using crazy glue on your fingertips, it eases the pain a little.

Just wait a few minutes before you use the keyboard

[RamboPreacher]

Try using crazy glue on your fingertips, it eases the pain a little.

Just wait a few minutes before you use the keyboard

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