Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
[quote=mrgeeze]
Right now I'm recording a catalog of 60s and 70s Pop and Rock favorites from my youth and having a blast trying to figure out how they sounded so good.
Practice for some may be fine and good, and if it works great!
But I picked up music late in life and want to record the most I can, knowing that none of it will be perfect, but it sure is fun smile
Yeah, I can go with that. I didn't start late but I didn't put any effort into it either so I was a poor student running along happily with what limited chords and minimal bass theory I knew from 76 until about 2000. After 2000 I took up cello and had a tutor for my lessons. I'm easily bored PLUS my tutor was young and adventurous so I turned by lesson sessions into recording sessions. I'd learn a bit, prac that for a week and then apply that to a song I was recording. I managed to get the tutor into it ...she sang and played cello on the tracks as well. We even wrote four or five songs along the way. Even now I learn new guitar or bass things to use in a new song I'm writing recording. Recently I wrote a song that pedaled chords and then varied those chords by inversions or one note changes like from A to A2 then Am etc. Learning the inversions, shell chords and how to play pedal bass without getting bored or boring was good too. Learning with a directly applicable purpose is what works for me as opposed to piling in the knowledge and then using it later.

Last edited by rayc; 10/01/24 10:33 PM.
Cheers
rayc
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