New Years Resolutions (2007 Edition)

[HaVIC5]

Last year we came up with songs we resolved to learn in 2006, so might as well make this a Bass Forum tradition. What are you working towards for 2007?

Clarification: What songs in specific are you working towards for 2007?

[Left Shoe]

become a fluent jazz bass player. work on walking changes. correct some of my slap technique. beat fretless intonation

[o b s]

get my fretless intonation down and learn to sight read fluently

[bottlerocket]

Learn more theory
Find an instrument I like and can actually play

I have my theory class for second semester all lined up and I may drop some cash on a crappy Casio keyboard I can mess around on.

[trumpeter]

get my slapping down.

[trumpeter]

Learn more theory
Find an instrument I like and can actually play

I have my theory class for second semester all lined up and I may drop some cash on a crappy Casio keyboard I can mess around on.

take up trumpet and join a ska band.

[BassVirtuoso]

Prelude in C Minor-Rachmaninoff

[Radiobass81]

Make good lines for the band?

[Linkinbassist]

Find a way to make this loop pedal an asset for band work. Work on theory etc...

[Akira]

I would like to start a serious band and get my singing to a level of near-decency.

[o b s]

Find a way to make this loop pedal an asset for band work. Work on theory etc...

loop pedals are addictive as hell.. i use one when jamming with my brother (drummer) and just general messing about, wicked fun

[Manticore Guy]

become a fluent jazz bass player. work on walking changes.

These two mainly, also improve my bowing and my intonation in thumb position on upright very much as well.

[Linkinbassist]

loop pedals are addictive as hell.. i use one when jamming with my brother (drummer) and just general messing about, wicked fun

hehe, i have the RC-2 Loop station, and i love playing into it, getting my modal soloing/lines up to standard. I am gonna set up a DnB band so i can properly throw it around...I can't wait!

[naut]

FINISH MY ****ING ALBUM.

sorry, had to say it like that so i'd believe it.

[Son of Magni]

Shreading in a free jazz format, that is all...

Oh, well maybe being creative too :p

[The JoZ]

Getting the band signed.

I keep saying I'm going to learn songs and then not doing it, so I don't think I will try and kid myself anymore.

I'll learn The Glass Prison in like 10 years when it's no longer cool or something.

[One Groovin Clown]

Play more bass. :D

Nice and simple.

[Specialsauce]

Learn Tommy The Cat
Learn Portrait of Tracy
Improve fingerstyle chops
Get a decent fretless
Master the fretless fingerboard
Theory, as always
Get a band started

[PERFECTXDARK]

become a fluent jazz bass player. work on walking changes. correct some of my slap technique. beat fretless intonation

^ 123,Also learn more about major and minor chords and more complex type chords.

Also learn some weird Time Signatures,and to double thumb better.

Keep a Journal of stuff I have done and stuff I found out that day/learned.

Learn more upright and fretless bass to get better intonation.

SAVE UP MONEY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO PURCHASE MY OWN UPRIGHT OR DIGITAL PIANO!

[Foxfire]

become a fluent jazz bass player. work on walking changes. correct some of my slap technique. beat fretless intonation

+1

And I want to be a decent guitar player.

[PERFECTXDARK]

+1

And I want to be a decent guitar player.

I would liek to play a bit more guitar for chord purposes to play them then learn to walk over them.

[Foxfire]

I would liek to play a bit more guitar for chord purposes to play them then learn to walk over them.

Mos def.

I already tend to think of theory in terms of a fretboard (kinda bad habit, I guess), so I figure it can only help.

[BassVirtuoso]

1. Read music every day (but not always new music).

2. Study out of time to learn the music, play in time once you have learned it.

3. Give yourself permission to make mistakes.

4. Practice every day.

5. Separate academia from art. They do not relate.

6. Find a teacher who teaches musical content, not rock, slap, tap, two-handed excersizes, etc.

7. Listen to records and imitate what you hear.

8. Jam and gig. But gig more because the musical requirements are higher.

9. Learn academic jazz even if you don't want to play it.

10. Don't practice with a metronome.

[Foxfire]

1. Read music every day (but not always new music).

2. Study out of time to learn the music, play in time once you have learned it.

3. Give yourself permission to make mistakes.

4. Practice every day.

5. Separate academia from art. They do not relate.

6. Find a teacher who teaches musical content, not rock, slap, tap, two-handed excersizes, etc.

7. Listen to records and imitate what you hear.

8. Jam and gig. But gig more because the musical requirements are higher.

9. Learn academic jazz even if you don't want to play it.

10. Don't practice with a metronome.

Steve Bailey could beat up Jeff Berlin in a fight.

[Radiobass81]

Deja vu.

[sheephead]

This would be for post June, but:
Learn how to record more professionally,
Begin work on solo album.

[Soulfly666]

I'm definitely going to get my walking bass and sight reading chops up. I find that I walk in a very scalar fashion, and it can get boring after a while, and my sight reading could always use some work.

As for songs, I'm gonna learn Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, and Jaco's Teen Town. I always start Teen Town and just stop for some reason. I'm gonna learn it the whole way through!

[Pluperfect_Arson]

Actually pick up my bass and start playing, again.

[Polyamarous]

Get better gear!

[Az_Holl]

Um... learn to play with a pick better.

Thats about it.

[ebe9]

- Learn to read sheet music (for real this time)
- Put more time into my playing
- Put more effort into my playing
- Do exercises and things that will make me a better bassist even though they might not be enjoyable from time to time.


In short, take bass playing a lot more seriously, but still enjoy it.

[rh15951]

Get a new band off the ground and play loadsa gigs. And buy a jazz at some point.

[Criss Frantic]

Get a double bass and teach myself to make noise on it.

[peeted]

become a fluent jazz bass player. work on walking changes. correct some of my slap technique.
^^^^^
I aim to become fluent at jazz and fussion, this includes walking, reading music and learning chords/coresponding modes. And my slap technique needs work ever since i was in my wrist caste.

As far as songs are concerned i realy wana learn got a match and wouldnt mind doing cromatic fantisy.

[Polyamarous]

Get a new band off the ground and play loadsa gigs. And buy a jazz at some point.

A rapture jazz? :naughty:

[GoodCat]

Be able to sing and play
Learn to read sheet music
make some good riffs for my band

[rh15951]

A rapture jazz? :naughty:

That too :naughty:

[DBoons Ghost]

My carpal tunnel has made me question whether or not I can keep playing.

So my goal for this year is to take treatment for it serious, as well as learn to play with a pick, simply to keep playing.

[irishslappop]

get my double thumping down.
get proactive about a good, non-joke band.

[Duncster]

Well I would like to learn Overjoyed. I learned most of it last year but I lost the tab Could anyone pleaseee post the tab?
As for more serious goals, I have to learn to a lot more jazz theory and write some good songs with a couple bands.
Edit: aha! after a good half hour of searching I found a tab so nevermind.

[museic]

learn to be able to do more challenging vocal melodies to my basslines..

other that its all band stuff really.. i always try to improve my speed and accuracy but its taking a back seat for a while.

[SixnStones]

practice

[BenJammin]

I want to actually get a gig, and get people to start taking my music seriously.

I'd like to sell 50 albums, too, by this time next year (sold all of 7 so far, lawl).

[moghes69]

~Learn a majority of Amputecture (or at least one song that is 15+ minutes long)
~start gigging regularly
~work on improvising at faster tempos.

Edit:
Not related to bass:
~be more confident with myself
~stop being such a pacifist
~get some poon

[Jody LeCompte]

Life
-I quit smoking
-I quit drinking
-I quit doing various drugs
-Get a new job with higher pay or a promotion at current job

Bass
-Improve tapping
-Work on walking
-Making passing tones more subtle, powerful, and smoother.

Guitar
-pretty much still just learning everything

[Akira]

I thought of another one. I want to record an album where every song is a single track of bass, so overdubbing or other instruments.

[gregulus]

Completely unrealistic, but learn to play "Arthur McBride" by Andy Irvine and Paul Brady. My friends step dad has been playing Irish folk music for 15+ years and can't play it...

edit: on guitar and/or mandolin.

[rage f*****g rule]

spend even more time playing, but more specifically in a band environment. no one around here seems interested in playing music seriously. i also want to start doing more with theory, which at the moment is pretty basic. I never studied theory or made any point of reading into it and i think i'm at a point now where i have to do something about it or stay stuck at the same level of skill for a few more years...

[Keepitcoolidge]

I want to become more educated in Jazz theory- it would also be nice to learn some more keyboards for theory reasons....

[Rollo47]

Practice with my band more. Simple as that.

[User Name]

I want to figure out what I'm trying to do, in life and music. Oh yeah, and find a piano at school so I can play it instead of going to class. I really want to get good at piano.

And my fretless intonation is coming along, I think I'll get it down pretty good by the end of the year.

And find a drummer to jam with, maybe record some stuff.

[E_man]

+ Get a singer for the band
+ Make the band practice/perform regularly
+ Save for a bass...of some kind I have GAS for about 13 different machines atm but the Stiletto will suffice :)

[thelowsoundofbass]

-Get good at guitar
-move the guitar player in my band over to bass (he is also a good bassist)
-take over the guitar part of my band
-buy and learn how to play the keytar.

lowsound

[HaVIC5]

-Learn Donna Lee in 1st and 2nd positions on the 7-string
-Learn Freedom Jazz Dance in 1st and 2nd positions on the 7-string
-Learn Anthropology in 1st and 2nd positions on the 7-string
-Learn Bach's Two-Part Invention number 4 in D minor tapped

[Peterwgw]

Learn to double thump,
Join/form a band

[mastrrbasser]

Line up more gigs, get signed, tour (by bus,by van, by packing **** out of a camry, whatever)

meaning we need- more band photos, a bio, finish our EP (almost done), etc. We basically need to play a lot more shows and have a press pack.

I see it happening, we really treat the band like a second job. Practice 3+ nights a week for about 5 hours a night. On nights we're not doing the full band thing, my guitarist and key player come over and we work on new stuff, and tighten some loose ends. So by the end of 07, i hope to be traveling and playing.

[eaton1012]

Get in a band, again

Pratice a hour a day on bass stuff

Learn some better dance moves

:thumb:

[Akira]

-Learn Donna Lee in 1st and 2nd positions on the 7-string
-Learn Freedom Jazz Dance in 1st and 2nd positions on the 7-string
-Learn Anthropology in 1st and 2nd positions on the 7-string
-Learn Bach's Two-Part Invention number 4 in D minor tapped

I got a book of Bach for Bass for Christmas with the Two-Part Invention Number 4 in it. What is the tempo like?

[BenJammin]

-Get good at guitar
-move the guitar player in my band over to bass (he is also a good bassist)
-take over the guitar part of my band
-buy and learn how to play the keytar.

lowsound

WHY!?

[Specialsauce]

WHY!?

keytar is second only to the theramin in terms of coolness.



























bass is third.

[Akira]

keytar is second only to the theramin in terms of coolness.

Watch out, Ben will slap you.
:p :thumb:

[BenJammin]

keytar is second only to the theramin in terms of coolness.

bass is third.

Keytar is the epitome of all that is evil in musical instruments.

They sound so terrible and look the same.

/convulsions

[Akira]

Keytar is the epitome of all that is evil in musical instruments.

They sound so terrible and look the same.

/convulsions

You should meet my electronic music teacher. He thinks that the keytar like, single-handedly destroyed music.

[Specialsauce]

Tubax* is the epitome of all that is evil in musical instruments.

They sound so terrible and look the same.

/convulsions

*fix'd..... wow this is getting off topic, and people probably don't even know what a tubax is. I should shut up.

EDIT: FYI: A tubax is a sontrabass or subcontrabass saxophone.
http://www.saxshop.nl/images/tubax.gif

[BenJammin]

OMGWTF

Seriously. :|

[Akira]

*fix'd..... wow this is getting off topic, and people probably don't even know what a tubax is. I should shut up.

EDIT: FYI: A tubax is a sontrabass or subcontrabass saxophone.
http://www.saxshop.nl/images/tubax.gif

Man, talk about lung capacity, that thing must be a bitch to play.

[Jimbobntnr]

OMGWTF

Seriously. :|

I know, man. It's overkill - like having >6 strings on a bass...

[Specialsauce]

Man, talk about lung capacity, that thing must be a bitch to play.

i think the one in the pic is a Eb contra, the Bb subcontra is bigger and sounds even more like ****. It's a whole octave below the bass sax.

[BenJammin]

I know, man. It's overkill - like having >6 strings on a bass...

ya rly, eh?

[Akira]

i think the one in the pic is a Eb contra, the Bb subcontra is bigger and sounds even more like ****. It's a whole octave below the bass sax.

o.o

He just wants attention. Anything more than an alto is just ridiculous. That's so impractical. And it costs too much.

Wait...

[Akira]

I know, man. It's overkill - like having >1 strings on a bass...

Fixed. Bassists don't deserve more than an E.