Thank you
Welcome Yemi
Thank you
BTW, @yemiadeoye1 . . . you’re the only member from Africa so far!
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Cheers, Joe
Welcome @yemiadeoye1!
Howdy all! 52 year old native Texan living and working in Western New York. Always dug the bass and drums; going with the bass as it seems more practical with our current living situation (apartment). Played trombone for a year in middle school but remember nothing. Borrowed an acoustic guitar 20+ years ago and was learning chords and how to strum to some church songs I knew. Don’t own a bass yet, but I am picking up a used Ibanez this evening and got a new Squire Contemporary Jazz Bass coming late May (delayed due to Covid). Am starting Beginner to Badass tonight! Look forward to chatting with and learning from everyone.
Welcome Yemi @yemiadeoye1, good to have you!
Welcome @JDDaniel, just saw your comment on one of the lesson pages that you’re grabbing your bass tonight, congrats!
After a lifetime of playing woodwinds (flute, bassoon, alto sax), never particularly well, I suddenly wanted to try the bass. I’ve been watching your videos (and others) on Youtube while waiting forever for my bass to arrive. It’s finally here! I’m starting even though I won’t have an amp until next week. (Tuning a bass with no experience and no amp was…interesting.) Excited to get started!
True motivation!
Welcome to this mad, mad place.
You don’t have to be crazy to hang around here. We’ll take care of that!
Welcome @JDDaniel and @tamaraster! There are a great bunch of people here so don’t be shy.
Finally getting on here to introduce myself…
Hello,
Firstly, thank you, Josh, for being a stellar bass teacher. Your infectious enthusiasm coupled with so much solid skill and knowledge is currently rocking my world.
Funny enough, I began playing bass at age 13, but after two years I got caught up with playing violin which quickly took over my life. Four years later I went to college and five years after that I graduated with a degree in (get ready to laugh at me) music theory.
Fast forward 10 more years and I sit here, 32 years old, rediscovering my bass after far too long away. I am almost halfway through the course now and I love it! My bass clef reading definitely needed some practice and I love working through all the little details of developing clean technique. Now, if I could only stop looking at the strings and wanting to see everything in violin fifths!!!
I look forward to chatting with you all soon…
Welcome to the lower register, and to these quarters!
Welcome @Holly.S!
Welcome Holly. Lot’s of great people here. It’s nice to hear from someone who understands the importance of music theory!
Welcome @Holly.S!
Welcome aboard, @Holly.S . . .
Good luck with the rest of the course!
Welcome to the forum and the course Tamara @tamaraster! Hope your amp comes soon.
Welcome @Holly.S, glad you’re enjoying the course.
Hi all! I got my bass about 5 years ago off craigslist (a flawless Mexican P Bass for like $200. You can’t pass up a deal like that), and learned to play a few bass lines on it (Gorillaz Feel Good Inc. being about as complicated as I got). I never really learned How To Play though and fell out of it pretty quick. The bass had been living under my bed almost entirely undisturbed for the 3 or 4 years until the new Dua Lipa album came out with its sick sick bass lines and now I want to lean to play for real. The Algorithm™ suggested some of the BassBuzz YouTube lessons and I’ve been loving them.
Cheers!
Welcome, @Theron . . .
Hope you enjoy your time with us!
Welcome to the community @Theron!