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Also: Awesome.
Haven't played with Ableton much at all but I know the lite version I had was unacceptably inhibited. Recently I've been trying out Reaper, and I highly recommend you check it out. http://www.reaper.fm/
Keep us posted! I'd love to hear and see what you make with your renewed interest in music.
Another coincidence: I also played percussion in the school band. I was first chair for as little as that means in the percussion section.
I played stand-up bass in elementary school. I really should have kept with it. I tried picking up a bass a few years ago, but I just didn't have the passion for it.
YOU WILL FIND ZE BASS
If you're interested, I'm blogging about my own learning process (link in my comment name). It's nice to know I'm not alone. :)
My best friend and former roommate Rod has a Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray. It's black with subtle metal flake underneath.. Beautiful looking bass, and without question my favorite sounding bass. My young adult life was rolling around with him to shows and such, hearing him jam and play the crap out of it. Such a great instrument.
He also bought a Bongo 5 string (colored nearly identical to the picture you put in the post). Awesome, awesome bass, delicious dual humbuckers. He only had it for about three months though. He sold it to get married. :/
I'm also still finding my voice and confidence.
The new house has a lot more room. There's a space in the basement I've been eyeballing. I desperately need music back in my life. :-/
Do eet! Take the bass-ment (hehe), do your thing and give those girls the attention they crave!
A MM fan, huh? Sweet sexy basses that are just instrumental beauty! :D
It was crap. I won't go into much detail, but suffice it to say their manufacturing quality has seriously taken a backseat. I know it's their budget model, but my GSR200 was worlds above it and it was only two or three years older.
So I got a lefty Fender J cause I decided I wanted something a bit smoother with passive pickups (there's a rant here about left-handed bass availability, but I'll pass for now). And then I sent it back and got another cause the pots and pickups were fuxed. And now I've got a bass that, after all that, I haven't had much energy to pick up and do anything with. But dammit I want to.
My biggest problem has always been developing a practice routine. I've been to some good websites, and I've looked at some decent scale and fingering (giggity) exercises, but my hangup is which to do when for how long, and how to work that into a session that fits my schedule. Of course the obvious answer is to get lessons, but that's money I'd rather avoid spending.
So, Prime: any advice on this? I know it's been ages since you were first learning, and you had hours every day you could devote to it, so you didn't learn it with my constraints, but if you have any suggestions for compiling a beginner's routine (preferably something I can squeeze into 30 min to an hour per day) I'd love you for it. It's depressing to have it sitting right there next to my chair, but when I pick it up I just poke at the strings and stare at the youtubes or studybass.com and feel like I'm getting absolutely nowhere...
Not tryin to steal your thunder Prime, just offering a few more outlets for a fellow low-ender. Hope these help a bit!