Glad you are here @jdDeal
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Haha! I am hitting the Billy Jean lesson today! Should be fun!
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Work that pinky!
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We don’t exactly know what his age is; he only said “old guy”. My sister has been saying she’s old since she was 30, and now she’s 73 so she must be a fossil LOL.
Check out the average age of our forum members in this demographics poll that @Jazzbass19 created some time back.
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@PamPurrs he said he was over 50 so yes it could be 51 or 97. Most forums I join I am the oldest so it’s refreshing to see an older demographic
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Oh, I missed that 
PamPurrs <--------- dementia
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I am a young whipper snapper on the sax forum.
Some of those dudes are as old as my vintage saxes
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I’m in the same boat at 58. I’ve always loved the bass but never took the time to learn it. I learned how to read sheet music as a kid, so I have a base to go off of, but now I want to finally learn how to play bass at my ripe age.
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Hello my name is Eduardo. I’m a 18 year old mexican. Most of the day I’m a university student stuyding digital design, but on on sunsets en the week and weekends I pick up to practice the bass because it is the only time I have available to practice, but no matter how much timeI have to practice, I’ll always have fun while picking the bass : D
My influences: Davie504, Charles Berthoud, Cliff Burton, Steve Harris and Geddy Lee.
My goals on bass: shred like cliff burton since he is the biggest influenc for me in bass
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Welcome! Your cover of Hysteria was great. Do you have a guitar background? You had really excellent fretting hand technique, better than mine at about two years in to playing bass.
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If that’s a genuine cover after 6 months of playing bass and I truly hope it is you sir and most certainly a prodigy
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Thank you @howard
Also I don’t have a guitar background, I think what really helped me with my fretting technique was the 5 levels of bass fingers excercise from bass buzz, I’m currently right now on lv4 and a speed and accuracy excercise from Talking bass
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You’re progressing really quickly and doing very well.
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Welcome @Eduardo
Cliff is great, we lost him too soon.
Do you also Like Robert Trujillo? I actually prefer his older stuff with Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves, but I still love him as a player.
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Yes I also like robert trujillo @T_dub , but I haven’t heard his older stuff with Suicidal Tendecies and Infectious Grooves, since before I began to play bass, I didn’t heard a lot of music, so I’m trying to hear more music to get more in tune with the classics.
(Pardon me if my english is bad)
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