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BLOB_CASTLE · 3683 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hubski, what's something that you're bad at but you love doing anyway?
It's only since I've graduated that I'v been paying more attention to HOW I play be bass. When I was in school (getting a jazz studies degree on upright bass) I focused so much on harmony and not so much the other elements of music (to get a good grasp of them, I HIGHLY recommend The Music Lesson. Bass is a lot of fun. One of my favorite ways to conceptualize playing bass is as follows:
You don't walk into a building and say "my what a nice foundation this building has." But if the foundation is off, everyone notices. Bass playing is setting up that foundations. Really getting into that groove. As quoted in Dance to the Music, "I'm gunna add some bottom so there's a dancer that just can't hide."