Hey all
Finally made the jump and signed up to join in with the banter! Long time reader and must say you have a great forum here, kudos to the site owners and mods
A little bit on me...
Long time guitar player! on and off from school days really. I also run a small PA hire company and engineer a few local bands. This is how I first picked up a bass guitar. Three years ago or so, one of the bands I worked for lost their bass player and had a host of gigs coming up, after several failed attempts at advertising for one, I volunteered to step in....Not looked back since, fully hooked and am now in two cover bands and playing hard....
Feel very confident on the bass (more so than I ever have done on guitar) and am enjoying playing in the covers bands. However, I am really keen to break away from covers and start doing originals, I want to become more creative and adlib with ease when jamming up the pub......something i'm struggling with at the mo. Quite tempted to get lessons to learn new tricks and learn the theory side of the bass, I think this will help greatly. Any tips or pointers from people who seemed to be stuck at a level would be great!
Cheers
Jim