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Gospel Instruments => Bass Guitar => Topic started by: Torch7 on August 30, 2009, 01:20:01 AM
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Just finished practicing and was wondering. What are yalls strengths and weaknesses as bass players.
What are the areas that you would love to improve on or see added to your musical repertoire? If you could sit down with any player and have him, download into your brain, one of their strengths what would that be?
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Runs
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Weakness - perfect pitch
I would like to sit down with Andrew Gouche and Bernard Harris.
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Better technique with both my hands.
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Speed & soloing.
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Strength - My ear; I can hear the notes and changes pretty well.
Weakness - Technique; my fingers are slow. I cannot play everything I hear.
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my weakness- speed, also i want some crazy scales for runs this christmas.
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my ears are pretty good.
my weakness, i cant read music.
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Weakness= Forgetting Songs, Ear, Relaxing,undestanding that a bad note is not a bad note
Strengths= Clean playing,Slapping, Popping,
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Speed & soloing.
I should have said the above are my weaknesses. My strengths are that I have an excellent ear (almost perfect pitch) and can pretty pick up anything. I can also play most any style including most ethnic styles.
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Weaknesses:
At this point pretty much everything... :-\
Strengths:
I am persistent as heck!!! ;D
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Laziness, always waiting until the last minute to learn songs. I HATE WHEN I DO THAT!
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Strengths: I can hold the bass correctly, lol. Well, I have a good ear, clean player.
Weakness:Runs, Reading.
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I consider my strength to be locking in on a good groove. But my weaknesses are speed, dexterity, and knowing the fret board like the back on my hand. If I can get those three things locked down, I will be straight. If I can start playing out again more as a bassist instead of a drummer, I may get it back.
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Don't worry BigFoot, you just keep grooving like that dancing icon of yours and you'll be just fine! :D
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Everything. My bass has been in the closet for like 6 years since I had it.
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Smoothing out my ideas (and more ideas for that matter). That and focus. I'm pretty well rounded, but my focus is shot alot of times. I find it very difficult to concentrate.
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Smoothing out my ideas (and more ideas for that matter). That and focus. I'm pretty well rounded, but my focus is shot alot of times. I find it very difficult to concentrate.
Sweet.
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Strength - Willingness to practice EVERYDAY
Weakness - Needs to learn the "church way" of playing, not being about to play shouts for more than 15 minutes straight (you know these churches shout for an hour or two. LOL)
I would like to sit down with any seasoned church bass player that played from the 80's, 90's on up to today. Joel Smith, Reggie Parker, etc....
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Strengths: Able to listen to songs and figure them out. Able to get different feels by adjusting hands. Can put the sound in my head to the fingerboard.
Weaknesses: Ability to improv on the fly. (Often hear what I shoulda done after the song is over)
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Strengths- Eager to learn, love challenges and the ability to laugh at my mistakes.
Weakness- Ear(some songs can take me a day to learn...lol), can't read music and sometimes I lose focus and slapping and popping.
I would love to brainstorm with any bass players period.
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Strengths-Practicing everyday, able to read music, formal music training (Trombone, Vocal), willingness to learn from anyone(cause I'm hungry)
Weaknesses-Fills, runs, solos, you know all the good stuff.
But......I have asked the Lord to bless my playing, so I have already begun to bear fruit.
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Weakness: I tend to make some basslines too complicated. Also I can't seem to pop on my 5-string on all the strings yet.
If I could sit down with someone it would be Fred Hammond or Alan Snoop.
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....If you could sit down with any player and have him, download into your brain, one of their strengths what would that be?
Forgot to answer this part.
I would sit down with ANYONE I can learn from, but tops on my list would be Terrance Palmer. I'd really want to understand his approach to improv. Andrew Gouche would be a close second on my list, for the same learning.
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weakness:.. finding the key of a song..lazy.....oh..!! and when playing with others..I some time 4get everything..lol.. now that trips me out...from notes on the bass to progressions... I know its fear.
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weakness: retaining songs i learned and knowing my fretboard because i don't know my upper register.
strengths: i'm finding i have more weakness than my strenghts or maybe i'm just too hard on myself because i can't think of any, Well I guess that means i need to practice more. hey i guess that's a strenght. the ability to know my weakness ;D
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Weakness- advanced theory...dont know my theory like I should lol, I am working towards it.
One thing a lot of people who've heard me play say as one of my
Strengths - Solid Pocket & groove, Runs & Licks, Humility as a musician
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strengths: theory and good pattern recognition, routine oriented so i have no problem sitting for an hour or more doing the same thing over and over
weaknesses: limited speed, take too long to find notes further up the neck, clueless when chord progressions move outside of the key signature (like an A chord in the key of Db, i dont know what to play besides the root), have to set up like 20 minutes in advance to change a patterns position elsewhere on the fretboard during a song, limited right hand speed when moving across many strings very often, playing sounds to melodic when i need to be funky, not melodic enough when i need to be melodic (strange huh)
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Strengths-The ability to lock into a groove
Weaknesses-Fills, runs, solos, you know all the good stuff
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Strength - My ear; I can hear the notes and changes pretty well.
Weakness - Technique; my fingers are slow. I cannot play everything I hear.
I Second that! LOL
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Ear and runs.
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Weakness: technique (self taught) runs & dexterity...
Strenghts: ear (ability to hear the music) & my openess to learn my craft - COMPLETELY.
ENHANCE my gift GOD...
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Strengths: perseverance to continue to practice daily in spite of my dwindling confidence of elevating to Intermediate status; playing the major scale and minor pentatonic.
Weakness: Looking to hard at my left hand while playing. Worrying to much about making a mistake when playing
I love to site down with Alex Sampson
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Strengths-Ear, persistence, thick skin, reliable (If I say I will be there I'll be there and on time.. 9.6 times out of 10), don't mind simplicity..
Weaknesses-Can't read (Working on that one), technique, solos
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other than my ongoing struggle to master HTML code like Torch7...LOL.
Stregnth= acknowledging that I have weaknesses (keeps me practicing)
Weakness= sometimes forgetting to acknowledge my weaknesses (this leads to neglecting practice time)
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I need to add a weakness. I can kill anything contemporary but when it comes to old school hymns and songs like that I all of a sudden revert back to being a begginner.
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I need to add a weakness. I can kill anything contemporary but when it comes to old school hymns and songs like that I all of a sudden revert back to being a begginner.
u too? its like when i gotta play them old songs with what i call the "COGIC/Baptist bounce" (lol) i dont know what to play and anything i play beyond root/5th seems to not fit at all.
didnt realize there was a second question that i forgot to answer. so if i could download from anyone a strength at this moment it'll probably be Sharay Reed's sense of rhythm. Not that i particularly want to play exactly like him, but from what i observed, he plays closely to how I want to play.
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I need to add a weakness. I can kill anything contemporary but when it comes to old school hymns and songs like that I all of a sudden revert back to being a begginner.
I think I need to tack that one up on my board, too. Listening to some tapes of our services, I notice that when we're playing the congregational songs (ie - old standards) my basslines seem to follow one of the same three basic grooves. Either its walking in and out, a lot of 3-6-2-5-1, or a lot of 1-4-1-5-1. I need to work on how to flavor those lines without geting too busy.
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I feel like I need to re-post:
Strengths: an innate sense of timing, a quick and effective memory (once I learn a song that's pretty much it and I can play it without having to go back to my notes or charts or the sheet music), a spirit of collaboration and cooperation, the ability to hear progressions accurately.
Weaknesses: I am too rigid in my playing (I need to just let go and play what I feel without worrying so much about progressions and chords), my technique (I could play faster if I had better, and I need to learn to slap and pop). I don't want to run all over the neck but I would like to do more between chords than just chromatic fills.
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Strength- theory and timing
weakness- imagination and improv
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Practice time
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Strength: Groove and technique.
Weakness: Speed and soloing
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I need to improve on everything: riffs, runs, scales, modes,site reading, dexterity, speed, arpeggios, ear trainig, slapping, tapping, and most of all progressions, especially with gospel music. I would like someone to download all known gospel progressions into brain. The keyboard player will not share all his progressions, HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Strengths: I can hold the bass correctly, lol. Well, I have a good ear, clean player.
Weakness:Runs, Reading.
I've always said that I play bass,but I'm not a bass player lol,but I have to say that my weaknes is staying interested in the music, regardless of the genre,so therefore I wait until almost a couple of days before the gig to practice (because I just don't have that "raw enthusiasm to practice like I use to when I was younger),as far as reading I have a weds night gig that requires that I read,but I've always felt no matter how good your technique is overhand,slapping tapping ( some call it noodling) the player can always improve their craft.....you just have to want to do it.
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weakness- can't create a melody
I would sit with Stanley Clarke
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Practice Habits. I practice almost everyday for several hours but, I don't always practice smart. I know that if I exercised discipline in my practice, I could be so much further along.
If I could sit down with anybody it would be Terrance Palmer. I would've loved to sit down with Wayman Tisdale.
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Weakness: Laziness. Sometimes i'm just held doing doing many things at once and not achieving much.Now that i see that typed out maybe it'll help me focus more.
I also dont know the fretboard as well as i want to.
Strengths: I've got great ears (Thanks you Jesus!)and i play with three right-hand fingers.