I am at work, I just want to be at home and play my basses.
Is that so wrong?
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Get back to work, before I forward this link to your boss.
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I told my boss we need a band room.
One of the offices I work at we are talking about doing some tunes for the kidsā Xmas party this year (I work in Child Protection) so looking forward to that.
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I donāt work anymore, and I still struggle with wanting to be at home playing my bass.
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My office is at home. And my music room is next door. I pop in and strap on, as necessary, even for a few minutes at a time. Helps with work/life sanity.
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I was a better player in some ways when I worked from home
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A bad day playing bass is still better than a good day at work.
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Travelling for work slows me down.
Soon though, I will have an apartment in the city I am doing significant work in, and a whole setup there as well, so should fix that issue.
Lugging things in/out of hotels is a drag.
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Oh sweet. Iāve always wanted a pied-Ć -terre.
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I asked my department head if i could have an acoustic in the back of the shop for down time. He said it wouldnāt be so bad, but then heās gotta find a way to justify my 2-3 hours a day of down timeā¦
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Some, but my work space is also my practice space so I can reach over and grab my UBass any time I feel like it.
It really does help.
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headphone amp my brother.
Youāre a good man!
Perhaps you can combine your job and your hobby?
In Germany I know of some music projects for children from āunderprivilegedā families. Maybe start one yourself??!
There are lots of programs that do that sort of thing already.
But I did combine the two when I was playing with AI the other day
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If I had a bass at work and practiced during all my down time, I could help Josh teach the next iteration of B2B. 
Instead, I practice only a little bit a few nights a week and am not nearly where Iād like to be. But something is better than nothing, right??
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Is that you singing?!
I wish,
No the whole thing is AI with small input from me.
I prompted ChatGPT for the lyrics-gave it key words and phrases I wanted and a style, told it to make the 2nd version darker etc and it did all this-I got a few versions of lyrics from it, I even had it put in chords in one version.
Then about a week ago I found udio.com which can make whole songs.
I put in my lyrics and gave it prompts, slow blues, male vocals in style of Albert King, style of Born Under a Bad Sign, guitar and driving bass.
It said it was unable to emulate a specific singer though.
It then produced a 30 second draft and I worked with it to expand it.
Several versions and about an hour later and it produced this (plus several other versions).
I asked for an Instrumental outro but it just added really bad pentatonic noodling which didnāt fit with the rest.
Oh, I put it through Moises later and played with key changes.
Changing it from Am to C gives a really authentic female voice version
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God Damnit!
Even Soundcloud is populated by sexy women who send random emails wanting to meet me and share my āmasterpieceā with the world!
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Thatās what I hear. Soundcloud is where the ladies are.
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