Book Club? 'The Music Lesson' by V. Wooten

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Would anyone like to start a virtual Book Club reading and discussing music and bass books?

I am methodically reading ‘The Music Lesson’ by Victor Wooten. Reading one chapter at a time and giving time to consider and practice what it’s talking about. Pacing at about 1 chapter per week.

Who all would like to join me in this? I’d love to discuss the bits chapter by chapter. We can start a thread for each chapter. Or possibly start a Discord server to discuss the book to not take up too much space in the forum here.

Please indicate which format(s) you would take part in:

  • Text discussion on this Forum
  • Text discussion on Discord
  • Audio discussion on Discord
  • Audio/Video discussion via Zoom
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That might be interesting, though I don’t do discord

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BassBuzz has a discord :slight_smile: I’m sure if anything was needed to make this happen over there @Morkai or @Megatronpt could make it happen. :slight_smile:

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This is doable in both Discord and here.

And I for sure not oppose in doing a BBC (Bass Book Club you dirty minded people!!) on Zoom or Discord (Discord does give some permanence which could be important for this.

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Like forum based channels based on title of book … etc. Rather than call over … everything goes poof :slight_smile:

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I was imagining a text-based book club so that discussions could be a-synchronous, ongoing, and recorded. I can see value in having both a text discussion and a live video chat.

I have put up a poll to see what people would be interested in.

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I ordered a pre-owned copy off the big A* and am looking forward to reading the book. I have Discord, but I haven’t joined the BB server – I tend to forget I have it (Discord).

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Looks like you and I are the only two really interested in doing this right now.

If you want to, I think we can start our chapter-by-chapter discussion in this thread when you get the book.

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Did you get the book yet?
Looks like we’ve only got you, me, and one other person (whose profile I can’t see) interested.

I say we just start discussing in this thread. No need to split it off.

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Sorry for the late reply, I’ve had an exhausting week.

I got the book a few days ago. I read through the preface, twice, but I haven’t gotten much further.

It’ll be interesting to read this from the perspective of a bass beginner.

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I’m in no hurry. I’ve been taking it slow. I’ve got other books I’ve been reading primarily. I’m reading ‘The Lesson’ in between, going a bit at a time to be able to consider and experiment with each concept before moving onto the next.

Just post here when you finish the first chapter.

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I’ve finished the first chapter, “The First Measure”.

I haven’t forgotten about this. I got a chest infection a few weeks back, and it’s taken some time until I felt like myself (aka had a brain).

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Really liked that book. Met Victor Wooten a couple months ago. Would be happy to read it again.
Can you please post a link to the Discord Channel? I’m not seeing BassBuzz in the server list.

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