Just reporting that my bass lesson with the new teacher went great! It's what a lesson should be because I went there one way, and left improved, motivated and ready to work on stuff. It's a thing all teachers should strive for... some very real improvement for their students ( Read more... )

Last night, I went with gracie_musica and our friend Tasha to a live solo bass show put on by my teacher and a guest bassist. As I was listening to everything, I thought how some songs, while I appreciated how they were played, I just didn't like. My teacher is a jazz fan, and I am not ( Read more... )

I don't know that I could explain it succinctly, but I've been grumpy today. And for several days I've had a boiling grump against my music teacher. These things happen. Music often makes me moody. But on my last lesson at the end of it he kept telling me to leave in this humorous under the breath kind of way. That just annoyed me ( Read more... )

Found at TalkBassA couple, whose relationship was on the rocks, went to a marriage counselor who could not get them to discuss anything. The communication block was so heavy that nothing he suggested could make them open up and talk ( Read more... )

So last week gracie_musica and I went to my bass teacher's gig on Thursday. I had a great time, and she said she did, too. It was the first time for me to see him perform since the gig of his I went to over a year and a half ago when I had just become his student. (It wasn't even 3 full weeks after I started lessons with him.) This particular show was with ( Read more... )

My church is doing an old time gospel tent revival for about 2 weeks. Unlike last summer, where I had to travel to go to it, this time the revival is in the town where I live. In fact, I'm the only church member who lives in this town, and I'm about a mile and a half away from the site. Easy as pie ( Read more... )

Just to be clear on all levels, I do not suffer stage fright. I never have. I love performing and the attention from it. I love making music. I've been told my diva behavior is at times not bass-ly. Whatever. I am a product off all my musical experiences, and besides bass that includes singing and oboe and percussion ( Read more... )

I got a call at work today from a salesman, and I am not much interested in him or his company. When he first came to sell me something, he totally rubbed me the wrong way. I explained it to a coworker (who also used to do my job in a paraprofessional capacity before I took it over) that the feeling was like being on a bad date. Doesn't make me ( Read more... )

..."Plays Guitar Like a Bassist ( Read more... )

At certain times in my life I have been fascinated with the mundane. When I first went to Greece two months before I turned 22, I was most interested in toilets and plumbing. My friend Joe who'd gone to Germany the Christmas season previous to that teased me greatly because I wasn't sharing the lofty things such as discussion of monuments and the ( Read more... )