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Ohhhhhhh we are going to have fun. 

I listened to that little jamm you did on your YouTube page with your Squier 51 and I had bass riffs running through my head.

Hey, you play guitar pretty good for a bass player.  :-)

Hey Detman, I'm so happy that you and Zurf might get together to jam.  That's awesome!  I feel like you too sometimes.  I started playing the guitar about 3 yrs ago, after a 25 yrs absence.  I was a very, very novice player at that time and my playing skills have drastically improved since I took it up again.  All those years ago I lived around many people who played.  Amateur mostly but quite a few professionally too.  There would always be a jam going on somewhere.  It was great.  My boyfriend, who was a musician, was also teaching me how to play bass.  When I broke up with him and moved away I stopped.  Partly because all the instruments were his and partly because I couldn't afford to buy my own.  Now that I'm playing again I have nobody where I live now to jam with either.  So a year into my new hobby I got my husband a small drum and then a Bass, so now we jam together.  I still wish I had another guitar player to play with and learn from though.  Maybe someday.  But maybe you could get your wife an instrument of some sort.  Even a tambourine!  It's been great for our relationship.  We're our own biggest fans!    Anyway, you guys have a great time when you get together.  All the best.  Happy Easter.

RavenLady

Detman101 wrote:

jerome.oneil wrote:

Where are you at, man?  I'll jam with you.

Frederick, Maryland.
Far from where you are, sadly.

Only 1/2 hour drive from me, though.  My resume is pretty freakin' weak.  A quick summary: I suck at singing (but do it anyway, often loudly).  I play out-of-practice blues bass poorly, out-of-practice-and-never-that-good-to-start-with country and folk harmonica, and sissified-70's-folk/pop acoustic strumming with a little fingerpick I make up on the spot (but without the neat little whiznits or any sort of recognizable melody that make the songs actually sound good).  Not too appealing.  But if you can put up with me, I'll put up with you.  At least for an hour or two until we're tired of each other.   I won't even charge you to teach me.  No need to thank me.  That's just the generous kind of guy I am.  And I'll probably bring beer.  It makes me sound better when you drink it.   

Sounds like we could at least have a good time telling stories. 

You can check out my songbooks on the public songbook section.  Search using "Zurf".  I can't play everything in them.  A lot of the songs are stretch songs.  But what the heck.  Let's stretch. 

As far as printouts, I've got the "Jesus Songs" and the "Not Jesus Songs" songbooks.  If you're into Christian music and don't mind getting into some Country Gospel, I've been working on a song a buddy of mine wrote.  He's got a fantastic deep and resounding bass that my reedy nasal voice does nothing for, but the words are powerful.  It's about generations and Jesus and demonstrations of faith.  I do a fingerpick rhythm treatment on it and it sure could use a few nice lead licks. 

- Zurf

Hey DM ,
   Boy , if you had any idea how much I've seen this and dealt with it myself in my forty five years of playing guitar ... I personally know several gifted players who just have no ambition or motivation and it drives me crazy , especially due to the fact that these people are also gifted singers and could easily make a living playing out ... I finally got tired of even trying with them and just quit inviting them to jams ... Still , every once in a while I'll hear one of them say " yeah , I gotta start playing more " , and I just shake my head , L O L .... Like Southpaw says , just go solo and keep on , you'll be happier in the long run ...

                   Jerry

Hey Detman.

Don't let them grind you down. I'm probably going to get slated for this but your average band member is narrow-minded, a wannabe-clone, cliquey or just not worth the time.

I'm a singer who took up the guitar 32 years ago to be able to accompany himself. At one stage I had my one and only guitar nicked and applied to lots of bands in the area who were looking for vocalists. With one the bass player liked what I did and after 5 or 6 rehursals broke it to me that the rest of the band didn't want me. Another band (who overtly wanted to be a clone of another band who's 15 minutes passed by and left them in obscurity) insited I buy mics and other kit and after I'd got it said they didn't want me after all. The worst thing that most bands do is assume that all a singer needs to do is start singing - yeah, just like you can take your stringed instrument out the case and without tuning or warming up make Steve Vai look like Mr Slowhand.

I gave up on bands and concentrated on doing my own thing and improving my guitar ability (when I finally got a replacement) - Now.... lots of people want to know me but if I don't like what they are saying I don't even think about it.

Your dedication and perseverance WILL pay off!!!!!! Remember: Talent instantly recognises genius but mediocrity knows nothing more than itself.

Keep playing and forget about anything outside of what you do and watch 'em come to you.

That is a sad story indeed.  How about your neighbors?  Play on your front porch and see if anyone approaches you.

I seem to have a lot of trouble with bar chords. My fingers always seem to bar at the joints/creases where the string snubs out.

Newplucker.