Why You Suck at Bass: Learn the Top Ten Reasons Why You Don't Sound or Play Better
By Tommy Gordon
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Here's a book intended to challenge you. Here's a book meant to inspire you.
This book is a wake-up call to the global problems and roadblocks for you as a bass player. This book is meant to be a reality check. Even if bass playing is a hobby for you, your level of enjoyment and satisfaction will increase exponentially if you get better, start to like your playing and sound, and then continue to move forward. But if you aspire to be a part-time gigging and recording musician or full-time musician/bassist, this book is filled with the ten reasons that are seriously holding you back. (It might even give you enough clues to help you teach bass lessons for years to come!)
I want you to attack any or all of these problems that apply to you, and get your momentum back as a bass player. I've always believed that the expression "momentum builds motivation" is the key to developing as a musician. Once you're truly excited about your playing, your creativity, and your growth, amazing things can happen with your music.
If you're here reading a book called "Why You Suck at Bass" then it means that you're finally ready to deal with those issues that plague aspiring musicians everywhere. It means that you're brave. Brave enough to face the facts.
Get your copy today!
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Why You Suck at Bass - Tommy Gordon
Preface
why-you-suck-at-the-guitarHere's a book intended to challenge you. Here’s a book meant to inspire you. This book is a wake-up call to the global problems and roadblocks for you as a bass player. This book is meant to be a reality check. Even if bass playing is a hobby for you, your level of enjoyment and satisfaction will increase exponentially if you get better, start to like your playing and sound, and then continue to move forward. But if you aspire to be a part-time gigging and recording musician or full-time musician/bassist, this book is filled with the ten reasons that are seriously holding you back. (It might even give you enough clues to help you teach bass lessons for years to come!)
I want you to attack any or all of these problems that apply to you, and get your momentum back as a bass player. I’ve always believed that the expression "momentum builds motivation" is the key to developing as a musician. Once you’re truly excited about your playing, your creativity, and your growth, amazing things can happen with your music.
If you’re here reading a book called "Why You Suck at Bass" then it means that you’re finally ready to deal with those issues that plague aspiring musicians everywhere. It means that you’re brave. Brave enough to face the facts.
I wrote this to help you, and not to make you feel bad — or worse — about your music. This is your wake-up call — a musician-to-musician intervention — with the goal of helping you get back on the right path. Music should be fun, and it’s always fun to get better. I wrote this to help all musicians because I know that if we don’t like our sound, our abilities, or our playing, then music isn’t fun at all. It’s an annoying feeling.
By the way, if you’re just looking for a book of bass exercises, that’s not what you’ll find here. If you wanted to buy another book of riffs and lines that some random musician-author thinks every bass player in the world should know, that’s fine -- but maybe you don’t understand what being a real musician means.
What you need is clear. You need a personal sound — and that takes a very personal, grounded approach. That means that you need to deal with some big, global issues in your music-making and not worry about which new lick, riff, or bass line will suddenly transform your playing.
On the other hand, if you’ve already totally decided what you — as a bass player — need to do to get better, but you’re kind of pissy and stubborn about it, then may I suggest that you just go and do that thing. Don’t read this book to see if I can or will change your mind. Do what you want! Follow your musician instincts. If you pretty much know what you want as a musician, and you already have a sense about what you need to work on, seriously, just practice that!
But if you do need some more input, some more ideas, some feedback, and a dose of outside inspiration, then you are my ideal reader because:
1) You want to get better now and
2) You admit that you don’t have all the answers
3) You have enough of an open mind to check out what I’m going to say and work on removing those roadblocks that apply to you. I’m a guitarist first, but this stuff is global. These lessons apply to all of us!
4) You realize that by getting this, you’ve essentially bought me a cup of coffee (actually tea!), and that to spend an hour with me in a private lesson is a heck of a lot more. So even finding one very useful idea here is likely worth it to you.
(Number 4 is a shout out to those couple of guys who got my earlier book Shred
and freaked out because they