bass nattering.
Bored, bored, bored. Significant improvement over yesterday, when I was so overworked that I skipped lunch & barely left my desk all day.
Have found that I need to give my fingers & wrists a day to recover in between practicing the bass. Damn RSI. D: The good news is, I've found an instructional book that very much works for me-- Hal Leonard Bass Method. Lots and lots of practice drills, which feels very familiar to me because I learned how to read music & sing properly using Visual Solfège. The Hal Leonard book uses standard musical notation rather than tab, which is both good and bad-- good because I'm used to reading rhythms in standard notation, bad because it's a lot easier for me to actually find the notes on the frets using tab. I'm working on a bastardized standard notation + tab system-- we'll see how well that works.
Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun with the bass so far. It's almost as much fun as drumming, except that you don't get to hit anything with sticks. (Yes, I really dig the "hitting shit with sticks" aspect of drumming. *g*)
Most hilarious development out of this? Every time I see a picture of a bandom bassist, the first thing I look for is whether he or she is a pick player or a finger player. (Pete is a pick player, as is Mikey.) The Headstones' bassist, Tim White, was a finger player, which is where I think I picked up the impression that finger players are inherently cooler from in the first place. *g*
La la la. Still bored.
Have found that I need to give my fingers & wrists a day to recover in between practicing the bass. Damn RSI. D: The good news is, I've found an instructional book that very much works for me-- Hal Leonard Bass Method. Lots and lots of practice drills, which feels very familiar to me because I learned how to read music & sing properly using Visual Solfège. The Hal Leonard book uses standard musical notation rather than tab, which is both good and bad-- good because I'm used to reading rhythms in standard notation, bad because it's a lot easier for me to actually find the notes on the frets using tab. I'm working on a bastardized standard notation + tab system-- we'll see how well that works.
Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun with the bass so far. It's almost as much fun as drumming, except that you don't get to hit anything with sticks. (Yes, I really dig the "hitting shit with sticks" aspect of drumming. *g*)
Most hilarious development out of this? Every time I see a picture of a bandom bassist, the first thing I look for is whether he or she is a pick player or a finger player. (Pete is a pick player, as is Mikey.) The Headstones' bassist, Tim White, was a finger player, which is where I think I picked up the impression that finger players are inherently cooler from in the first place. *g*
La la la. Still bored.