What is the day of your inner-self “bass-birthday” (BBD.)
If, for argument sake a bass-birthday is defined as the day one first takes ownership of a bass guitar, then I was born in the last week of December 2023.
What was your BBD and how do you define that day?
Here today, I am some six months older in “calendar time” but have barely opened my eyes into the world of bass guitar even though the thought of playing bass has been in my psyche for decades.
The time difference between my actual birthed day and BBD is about 59 years. If I have only 22,000 days, then I need to up my bass skills if I am to feel reasonable satisfaction in this instrument. I have done very little in this journey (other than set up a reasonably dedicated practice space.)
I still need to learn how to roll over let alone crawl and then walk.
But what are the years that are the bookends of my life, of my Bass Life?
…and, more importantly, what is keeping me back from living a bassic life?
With whom am I in competition, is it myself or some other stranger? Why am I not getting more into this crazy little thing called Bass Guitar… Is it because I am afraid that I will fail at it? Or am I fearing that I will succeed.
This is a groovy idea.
I don’t remember the day, but I know it was 1992.
The first time I played a bass was at my friend Nat’s house.
He let me take it home so I could practice (for our band).
That was the beginning.
I was hanging out with a friend on April 16, 2024 after a great set. He’s a touring bassist who inspired me to get my first bass in 2005. I never learned much at that time and sold it after a few years of seeing it sit in a corner.
I bought my current bass on May 15, 2024… but I think I became a bassist that night talking to him. It took me a month to build up the courage to commit to yet another hobby.
Bought my first bass on 27th May '23 but didn’t really get serious about it for a couple of months. I started learning with Mark and Talking Bass but didn’t join this forum until November after finding the most useful answers to my online queries here on these pages.
In 1987 I was going to be the bass player in my school band…didn’t happen, somebody beat me to it so I became the drummer.
May 2023 the inevitable happened, got my first bass and started b2b
So, I am another year older plus 2 months since I purchased the Squire P-bass… but it was not until the end of November 2024 that I finally upped and purchased the B2B program.
I have been going through the course and am up to only module 2, but am enjoying it very much! I am taking my time at my own pace and perhaps taking it a little slower than the Average White bear Band. Josh cracks me up with some of the corny jokes and comments (I mean that in a good way!)
I feel that I am just only now Learning to Crawl in my bass-life and I feel that I will be leaning to walk it very soon. I am just starting to stand up and gain a sense of Balance if I am comparing my bass-life to an actual infant.
I was a little intimidated by the bass when I first got it and I will admit I was kinda’ fearing it. Now that I have started the process I am kicking myself a bit for not starting the course sooner. But it is all good. I was hanging around the forum in the mean time to get a gist of it.
From only being 2-weeks into actual training, I am sensing a little more Balance overall in my personal realm- I am still taking my work profession seriously (it can be very stressful and demanding at times), but I don’t let it rule my life as it once did in past years. Looking forward to my bass-time in the evening gives me something to look forward to at the end of the day to help keep it all in perspective.
I am still a Child in (bass) Time, but I no longer have bass fear because Josh helps me take those baby steps. I am looking forward to the Walk of (bass) Life.
Bought my first Bass in 1987. I still have the second one I bought that same year. (The first one was a budget p.o.s.) Back then the only good tabs to be had were from guitar rags and that’s if they included the basslines.
Anyway so I’ve been noodling on a Bass for a while but there have been spans of years where I didn’t touch it at all. Life, family, career, etc. I consider myself a mediocre/intermediate level player but have recently decided to get serious about practicing and playing. I’ve been watching Josh’s BB YT channel for a bit and finally decided to take B2B and that I could learn from it and I have. I just started it Jan. 3rd of this year and I’m currently on Module 8 already. The beginning stuff was obviously real rudimentary and gear towards newbies but that’s completely understandable. I’m enjoying the music theory stuff now…
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