Members zachoff Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 DON'T MARRY HER!!!! Oooooo.... +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 82Daion Posted August 9, 2007 Author Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Dude, don't bother. You'll never do much with it, and you'll end up joining this internet forum that will totally waste your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RSBro Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Get real lessons and learn to read lead sheets/charts, etc.. Otherwise I'm fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flod Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Well, first of I would have told me I would become a gear whore of great magnitude, and that that is a bad idea that needs to be avoided. Just get one good four string bass and pratice your ass of. And use your fingers, you'll get it. And oh, when you find a cheap mesa 400+, buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i_wanna_les_paul Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Honestly, I'd tell myself nothing. I actually started playing bass because there was one in our house (my mom's). I started playing guitar because I wanted a black, shiny Takamine dreadnought. I really had no inclination to be any better than a chord strummer. I'm much better at both bass and guitar than I originally intended, so I'd just keep my mouth shut and let things run their course. Yeah, I wish I had started sooner, but I'm glad I started when I did. Dustin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkee1 Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 +1I would have said " Sure it's whack, but go ahead and audition for Up With People!" and I would have said "Bands come and go. Throw yourself into this college thing" and, lastly, I would have said "Forget moving to LA to make it! Keep your job, and buy some recording gear, and get a website!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 1. Drop playing guitar. You're a Bass player all the way2. Buy stock in Micro Soft. It's this new startup company that may do well.... Although I still enjoy playing guitar, and am still halfway decent at it - I "wasted" about 15 years by being an average guitarist, while the next 15 as a bassist have opened ALOT more doors for me... Had I picked up bass earlier on, I *might* have landed some pretty lucrative gigs during the "guitar years"... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Dude, don't bother. You'll never do much with it, and you'll end up joining this internet forum that will totally waste your time. That's funny right there... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 2manband Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Present self to 19 year old college student who plays in a band at frat parties self: Dude, get rid of your girlfriend - it's never going to last after graduation, and you have an opportunity that you will never have again to get astronomical amounts of tang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SB900LE Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 If you want to be really rich in the years to come, start collecting 60's and 70's Fenders, Rickenbackers, red line Hot Wheels, etc. while they can be had cheap, and sell them next century. If you don't think you'll need to be really rich, buy some stock in new companes called Microsoft, and Apple Computers . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkee1 Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 If you want to be really rich in the years to come, start collecting 60's and 70's Fenders, Rickenbackers, red line Hot Wheels, etc. while they can be had cheap, and sell them next century. If you don't think you'll need to be really rich, buy some stock in new companes called Microsoft, and Apple Computers . . . Along those same lines: "Go get back all those GI Joes your Mom just gave to the private School, especially the Black guy with Kung Fu grip. There's gonna be this thing called Ebay........" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lokidecat Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 practicing bass > video games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boogiebassbill Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Playing other songs than just the ones I liked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted August 9, 2007 Moderators Share Posted August 9, 2007 Playing other songs than just the ones I liked. Good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chris-dax Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Learn your damn fingerboard, forwards, backwards, upside down and inside out... Learn how to sing melodies and then transfer them to the figerboard Learn what intervals sound like and what they look like on paper and on the fingerboard Practice every day, even if it's only for 10 minutes Learn how to read rhythm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members groutt Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 You know that goofy bass you bought when you were out looking for old synths? PICK IT UP AND LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT! No, not just those same 2 notes with as much distortion, filter, delay, and everything as possible. And there's more than one string on it, there's 4. DO NOT take it apart so you can make "improvements". It will sit in pieces for 15 years. Fix the wires and cover them up with something and PLAY IT. And make that guy a reasonable offer for his hot-rodded ARP 2600. Otherwise you'll never get one and you'll be sorry. EDIT:When you're at music stores, buy some of those cheap little dusty Roland TB-303 things that nobody likes. Some day people will start using them wrong for dance music and everyone will be all nuts for 'em. 1000% profit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super_Donut_Man Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Go ahead and do it some more, it won't really fall off. Water is now all over my screen. That made my day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hotblack Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Trust your first impressions about musicians you may start a serious band with. If they seem like flakes, they will be. They will not change. Buy that Wavedrum. {censored} that 9 to 5. Just play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Death Hands Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Something like... No, NO! STOP WASTING MONEY ON THAT GAMING {censored}!!! STOP!!! I know you're not so interested, but pick up that bass and learn how to read tabalature. Learn as many songs as you can, from as many artists as you can. Stop slapping so furiously, you'll wear out our Fender Jazz and its frets, which will be procured about a year and a half from now right before Christmas, in six months' time doing that. Get into lessons after you've figured out that tab thing, master some tracks, techniques, style-bases, etc, and get known. Have fun, and don't go to those jam sessions with Matt, Corey, and the occasional "other guitarist". You'll strain our practice amp. Get up on stage when Teach offers to pay you twenty bucks for it, play the cakewalk song and take a solo. D O N O T defret our Lyon when you pick it up. That bass is so mean, and I did it a disservice. And other stuff, likely. Women are bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members no-logic Posted August 9, 2007 Members Share Posted August 9, 2007 Learn to read music and stay with it. I took about 25 years off and I always regret it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BB5000 Posted August 10, 2007 Members Share Posted August 10, 2007 H A V E M O R E F U N . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassman1964 Posted August 10, 2007 Members Share Posted August 10, 2007 I'd say, just get the 75 jazz and the ampeg rig, and thats all you need. I would probably have saved enough to retire on if I had just done it back then. Also, drop the pick! Watch out for the women, "They're the Devil!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RIC N BACKER Posted August 10, 2007 Members Share Posted August 10, 2007 If you could go back in time to when you started playing, and give your younger self some tips? I'd tell myself to split more time between different styles of playing instead of concentrating so hard on my fingerstyle technique. You? I would tell the younger me to learn to Play the Bass not songs..... I would also tell me to buy a {censored} load of 70's Ric 4001's and sell them in the year 2001 and make a {censored} load of money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members playdrums Posted August 11, 2007 Members Share Posted August 11, 2007 H A V E M O R E F U N . . . Yep. I'd tell myself to "Stop being such a goddamn perfectionist, and start learning the instrument instead of always bitching about how much you suck." Well I still suck, but I've come to terms with it and I'm having a lot of fun working on sucking less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members justinbass Posted August 11, 2007 Members Share Posted August 11, 2007 Trust your first impressions about musicians you may start a serious band with. If they seem like flakes, they will be. They will not change. So true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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