Thanks, John!
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Good lord, you could spend the rest of your life just playing in Amplitube with guitar tones.
What a rabbit hole.
Such a good package for exploring pretty much any/every guitar sound ever, thanks @howard for the reco.
Now that I have it, have to play with the bass side too.
I am going to need two more lifetimes to do everything I want to do.
BTW, the guitar sounds fine (for my uses) in the Boss Waza Air Bass headphones, and sounds really good on my Phil Jones bass amp! Next test (too tired) on the big system with all my goofy pedals. The Gamechanger Bigsby just got really interesting to me with the tele.
Woot!
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Yup
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Any idea when the “sale” price ends, the site mentions this months specials so assume it’s all of March?
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It’s the 23rd or 26th. Saw it somewhere but can’t remember the exact date.
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Speaking of strings, my Revstar strings are dead dead dead. Time to change them.
Those elixirs were nice. Going back to EXL’s now though
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I bought a few different options. Awaiting for them to arrive to do a setup ans start experimenting.
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The Elixirs are great but you would expect that from $10 strings. They cost as much as NYXL’s.
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So you’re saying its currently strung with poor man’s flats! 
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Oh hey, the MIJ Tele Hybrid II’s have contours 
Must try. It would exactly match my Hybrid II P-Bass 
Love the P-Bass, suspect these Hybrid II’s are made by FujiGen, based on S/N search and overall features.
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So my current guitar challenge: I am not letting myself suck and being OK with it.
I am getting frustrated recently because there’s songs I can easily nail on bass that have similarly leveled guitar parts that I simply cannot play. And I mean duh, of course I can’t. I’ve been playing bass for going on five years now and guitar is still super new to me (plus I haven’t really put the time in it requires yet).
Buying the Revstar was great because it’s adorable and motivated me to pick it up. Weirdly this might be one of those very rare problem that gear CAN fix; new and shiny leading to desire to jam out on fun new instruments and motivating more playtime.
But really the fundamental issue is I simply need to let myself not feel bad about sucking. Embrace the suck. Enjoy it until I progress. Because bottom line is there’s nothing more destructive to motivation than letting yourself not be OK with sucking as a beginner.
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This sounds familiar. I had moments where I thought that I was on fire and after that playing has been terrible… Every day a little bit of practice helps but breaks can help too. Try focussing on a different song if you are really stuck.
There is much more difference with guitars in terms of feel and playability IMHO. I switch often between my modern Jackson and my tele. At this point I am most comfortable playing most songs on the Tele.
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I think you mentioned before that you were using Justins course.
If so, have you had a look at the accompanying Nitsuj videos where he follows his own course material trying to learn to play the guitar left handed?
He goes through the same coordination, dexterity and endurance issues that the rest of us mere mortals go through as we learn these new skills and our bodies and brains start to adjust.
I found the videos very reassuring as he invariably encountered the same struggles I was dealing with when trying to learn.
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Oh absolutely. That was a great series on his part. And intellectually I know that it is fine to be bad at this stage (or really any stage). It’s just I need to listen to my own advice here 
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One thing I’m figuring out (finally) is that it takes a lifetime commitment to learn an instrument, not suck, and maintain proficiency. IMO, unless you are a prodigy, for normal folk like me, If you want to be good at something, you have to devote yourself to it almost exclusively. This trying to learn 3 instruments at once for me, is counter productive. I need to pick one and stick with it.
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caveat - prodigies normally don’t start mid-life, rules me out, lol
I 100% agree, however, this also depends on your goals. One of my goals in life was always to be able to play a bunch of instruments. Of course, at a high level would be great but came to grips at not being amazing at one instrument a long time ago. I actually got really really good at trumpet, and got really really bored. I wanted to explore. Sax and bass is way too much alone, for sure, but I love going back and forth. I know guitar and drums are both ‘wet dreams’ but if I can do a few simple things on both I am happy. I was actually ok on piano but that has all vanished, and, I don’t really have any desire to go back, at least today.
When I was all in on sax it was really really depressing, as it is really really hard to get really really good. Bass helped me there as it was much easier for me. I can almost play at the level I care to in bass, for now, so I am gravitating elsewhere. I like the randomness, if not the expertise. I don’t ever think I can pick just one ever again. I am ok with being meh on a lot of things.
I see amazing progression here with folks that put in the work, and it really shows.
#goals
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Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
On a serious note, thanks for sharing your life goals
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Yeah. I mean, I would never have gotten to bass in the first place if I hadn’t wanted to be a multi-instrumentalist. My goal isn’t to become Victor Wooten; I am actually ok with my current level of bass for my goals (provided I put in some time leading up to recording it’s been fine so far). Improving would be awesome but no longer top priority.
Also, I find guitar practice is actually effective at keeping bass skills up. A lot of the finger dexterity, pick work, and fretboard thinking directly translates over. Not all obviously (i.e. the muscle memory) but a good chunk.
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