Band practice last night had several things go wrong only to turn into (probably) our best practice yet. New vocalist wasn’t going to be able to make it, and there was a problem with our reservation of our usual practice space.
So we ended up practicing in the middle of my taproom (we’re closed Mondays), and I took over vocals for the evening. We joked that it was our “first bar gig”, there just wasn’t an audience.
First time doing a whole practice of me singing vocals while playing bass, and I ended up doing way better than I expected to with it. Simplified some of the bass lines a little but, but probably not noticeably to anyone but me. It was a really interesting experiment of just what my muscle-memory skills are on bass.
First time we’ve attempted this, and I’ve heard much worse:
“Anything Anything”:
“Big Neon Glitter”:
). I cut loose a little tonight and worked on Summertime Rolls by Jane’s addiction. That’s a riff I’ve noodled on almost since I picked up my first bass but it’s a PITA to play through. It’s just the one riff but it’s all played on the E and G string with quite a bit of 5 fret stretching and wrist contorting in other parts. No problem playing it at speed, just a bit of sore wrist after a few play throughs. I might end up recording that one, I didn’t think I was going to be able to get through it tbh. I’ll take the win for tonight.