Bassic Validation
Friday, July 21, 2006
I cracked out the bass for the first time in a while on Tuesday and it turned out to be a terrific idea! I was just playing along to some songs off my laptop through my bitchin stereo and was amazed that I picked up the basslines pretty well without the need for tabs. (Mind you, I had to give up on Red Hot Chili Peppers' Hump de Bump, I've really gotta learn the wicked little bassy bits on the bridge.) Even finding the basic chords is enough to join in with the real music, and it's wicked fun!
More than anything, it was good to know that I'm still improving. The same thing happened when I played Burnout 3 and FA Premier League Manager 2002 this year too - I found out I was much better at them than when I was a teenager. Some of it is due to more determination at the harder parts, but I can approach things a bit smarter, a bit more calculated than when I was in high school as well.
It's just a real great thing to get out of bed in the morning and know you haven't reached your full potential yet. It drives me sometimes. I know that in my football managing game experience that when a player doesn't seem to improve much more that it might be time for them to move on, so it's a fact that's really important to me. I was so supercharged that I had to write this blog to capture it!
Pat's mini setlist
Keane - Is It Any Wonder?
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
The Strokes - Juicebox
Youth Group - Catching And Killing
Eskimo Joe - New York
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hump de Bump
Muse - Starlight
6 comments to this post
FAPLM2002 is aweosme - great to see you still enjoy it.
nicks sending me money to buy the necasarry parts for my drum kit, i went to put it together the other week and it was missing to vital parts, there all locked down in storage
That made so little sense.
And Dean, it is truly one of the greatest games of all-time.
Thats great pat, you should start learning Highway Star for when Rhys and I are back
Sounds funky. I might need until you and Rhys get back to get on top of it though!
I recently played along to music for the first time, its good because you know you are getting the tune right, and if you arent, you probably cant hear it anyway..ahhhh hahaha. More likely the latter in my case!
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