One of only two or three Fender guitar models I really dig. Nice score!
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Thanks! I thought I would be lying in wait for years. Instead, one popped up at the worst possible time (right as I'm settling on a car to buy)
Gotta get it while you can!Thanks! I thought I would be lying in wait for years. Instead, one popped up at the worst possible time (right as I'm settling on a car to buy)
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So, back to music.
One thing I'm trying to come to grips with is what I'm going to do with music with very modest skills. I put X hours/years into bass playing, and I got okay, but not great. I probably won't even reach that level on keys, and even less on guitar.
For now the name of the game is just to increase my knowledge of music and my vocabulary for expression. But if I ever perform, record, or even jam, technical skills are gonna matter.
How far will I be able to take this?
One thing I'm trying to come to grips with is what I'm going to do with music with very modest skills. I put X hours/years into bass playing, and I got okay, but not great. I probably won't even reach that level on keys, and even less on guitar.
For now the name of the game is just to increase my knowledge of music and my vocabulary for expression. But if I ever perform, record, or even jam, technical skills are gonna matter.
How far will I be able to take this?
Playing out with other people is how many of us get better, for the most part. No need to put the cart before the horse. Get good enough that other players will at least tolerate you, and get to it!
I'm going through this very thing right now with my banjo/dobro hybrid. With guitar I just kept it punk-ish and didn't GAF if I could actually play, but eventually I kinda could play my own material OK in spite of my initial attitude. I may never get there with the dojo, but there's always bass, which of course is among the easiest of all instruments to play well enough to find a place onstage...or is it?
ponchonlefty
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playing an instrument is as hard as you make it. start with having fun then build on it. learn the different styles of playing, chicken picking or strumming. try playing slide guitar. now if i could follow my own advise, i would be good by now.
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All the way to theremin!!!
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Angelo from Fishbone used to rock one of those back in the day (maybe he still does). So I'm among a small group of people who've seen one performed live.
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...Is the goal. Or at least playing with other people, even if only for ourselves.
I enjoy the process of practicing and learning music for what it is. The real joy in life, for me at least, is working with others to achieve a goal. But I'm just too busy these days to commit to a regular meet up. I am chatting with a singer about doing a Christmas jam when we get closer to the holidays, though.
YourGraceBass
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Say whut?
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They won't make it in lefty no matter how nicely you ask.
ficelles
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I'd be interested to hear how those pickups sound, they look like P-bass split pickups under a single cover.
Jim C
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One of my favorite drummers retired and then his wife wanted to live in Florida.
He doesn't like it all that much and tried the local music scene but it was all I IV V blues bands.
Now he stays in and records his own tunes which makes him pretty happy.
And pretty soon, AI will right the tune, you add some misc. parts and it's your song!
YourGraceBass
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Phenomenal. Noiseless split single-coils, a bit more modern than vintage. With 7-way switching there's a huge range of tones. Same as the Comanche but that one has the PTB system I wish mine had. But I love Teles. I have a swirl-finish ASAT Special with large single coils which is the guitar version of the 1st gen SB bass pickups. HUGE tone there but no where near the palette of the Z3. Lots of uTube vids.
ponchonlefty
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what strings do you prefer? i like the hybrid slinky.
YourGraceBass
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Four.
But for guitar, various Slinky's. Don't have a real fave as my three guitars are all very different from one another.
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ponchonlefty
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yeah, i guess your right. it depends. im thinking of trying a lighter string as my hands are not as strong as they use to be. something easier to play.
YourGraceBass
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A bit of arthritis creeped up in my left palm last year and I've gone a gauge lighter on both guitar and bass.
ponchonlefty
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sorry to hear. my problem is weakness. i could break bones with a hand shake ,now not so much. i refuse to let anything stop me though.