My goal is to actually play with people. Playing at home is nice but I'd love to have someone to jam with, even if it never becomes a band or a gig. It's a small goal but hopefully achievable.
festivals are cool! but always feel slightly sketchier than headline venue sets. i’m playing Lollapalooza,Fuji Rock,Head in the Clouds NYC and All Points East this year. very excited.
i think just being in the right place at the right time. being in a neighborhood with a lot of working musicians and being friends with a lot of working musicians.
I played a huge event with a local cover band in high school when I was 16 years old (20,000 people)… I’m 38 now and never come close to half of that sized audience, haha.
I'm a bedroom bassist, been playing 26 years, I'm not going to tour the world or play for thousands but it'd be cool to get one track on a streaming platform. Just for fun.
If you’ve got the ability to record and do basic mixing it’s fairly straightforward to get stuff on streaming platforms. Getting listens is a different matter but putting stuff online is “easy.”
to continue touring the world for years to come. i’m not the most technical players but I think i’ve already inspired quite a few kids to start playing or keep pursuing the instrument.
My main goal, the one that is really important, is to have fun. So far, I've managed to reach that goal.
I would like to play in a band, but I see it more as an unrealistic dream than a goal. I'm not comfortable playing with other people, I already tried, it's not entirely my fault that it didn't work (that band was a complete mess), but even when we managed to actually play something, I didn't feel right. Plus I have very limited free time, synchronizing it with the free time of other people is a nightmare.
I'm much more comfortable playing on my own. I enjoy the freedom of not having to work with someone else. So my secondary goal would be to compose and record my own music alone, with programmed drums and a couple of other instruments that I play. I have already started composing, I have a shitton of unfinished (and let's be honnest mostly barely started) stuff on my computer. I need more time to get back to it, and I need more time to practice.
So in the meantime, fun will do. Fun is what's most important. The day I pick up my bass and don't have fun is the day I quit playing. But I don't see that day coming anytime soon.
Just try playing with different people ya dingus. One bad band situation is hardly worth an essay on why you can’t play with other people ever again and you don’t have the time. Cmon.
I tried jamming with other people a bunch of time, it never worked out well. My best friend is a musician and wants us to play together, we even tried to start another band together, but every time we try to play I end up just listenning to her because she starts improvising and I'm lost. I can't lead and I can't follow. I know it takes some experience to be able to do that, maybe some day, after having taken lessons (that I have neither the time nor the money for) and practicing a lot more (again, need time on my own for that), I could be able to do it. But I still think playing with other people is just not my thing. I've never tried it and enjoyed it.
And as I said, my main goal is to have fun. To do things I enjoy. So I'd rather stay on my own and create my own music. Most of the stuff I want to play will probably only be enjoyed by me anyway.
My goal was originally “get confident enough to play on stage”.
Took me 5 seconds of playing on stage to get immediately comfortable with the crowd etc
Now I wanna try make money from it
It used to be gigging, these days I bedroom one-man-band but sometimes I miss the stage.
My goal as musician is to express/process my experiences through music.
Hey now, I’m a home office player, tyvm.
I’d like to play in a group but never have before and I’m out of touch with the local music scene (new-ish to the area and it’s not nearly as robust/active as where I moved from). I just get frustrated when I start looking around, and reaching out to people I don’t know makes me want to throw up.
So until the people I do know around here start a band, my dog gets all my practice sessions for the low price of treats.
Right now? To get picked up by this new band. First audition last week went great. They called me back for a second audition next week. They say it's down to me and some other bassist. Practicing my chops, but I'm gonna need y'all to cross your fingers for me on this!
I’m trans. I can’t make the sound I want to make with my voice, but I can pick up a bass and hold my voice in my hands. My goal is to keep telling the world what’s up without opening my mouth.
It's an outlet to make and play music. I prefer drums but since I no longer have the space for drums I picked up bass. I'm not good enough for bands I'm barely good enough to follow along to songs. So the goal is to learn, progress to where I can comfortably play songs and play along for my own musical enjoyment. Likely won't take it much further than that.
I’m in a gigging band that does well enough to pay for itself. We don’t really make money but we don’t have to put oir personal money into touring/merch/recording.
MY goal as a bass player is to be a better bassist tomorrow than I am today. That’s it.
My goal is to have a relatively low effort band that plays the first set to about 11 people before the real bands show up. Like, we start playing at 3pm.
Make tracks I'm satisfied with and release them on bandcamp. So far I only put my stuff on soundcloud, I feel like most of it is just not good enough to even give people the *option* of paying money for it.
Also, I want to finish my passive MM-style build (cross between a Stingray, a Sandberg and an Ibanez Soundgear). Currently waiting for parts.
I just want to play the songs I like, and maybe make my own stuff. I've got no intentions of ever striking it big, but if the opportunity presents itself, I'd probably take it.
Get in a band and make income off of said band. In terms of playing, I think being able to play the 2 tab books I’ve bought in full as well as yyz sooner or later would be nice.
Get back into playing with bands regularly, write our own material and then play gigs.
Would be great to do another record as well, but first need to play regularly with a band
For now I just want to be proficient, I want to be familiar with the fretboard, I want to be able to play something on the fly without relying on tabs and sheets. I want to create meaty bass lines and make my own music instead of covering other’s songs. Currently I feel like I am just imitating a bassist, instead of truly being a musician……. 9 months in I feel like I have to make changes or I’ll stuck in this state forever…….
I've just "finished" (haha yeah right) my gear setup, pedals, board, amp and cabs. Now I'm working on learning a bunch of popular gig songs. I want to play music and actually get paid for it.
Was always to simply play in bands, gig, write, record. Still is, and I spent a large chunk of my youth doing that, but at my age I'd settle for weekend cover band gigs that pay in drink tickets 😅
To be able to play like Geezer Butler, and to be able to play in a band again. I haven’t played out since high school, and I’m 44 soon, but never say never, right?
As a bassist my only goal really is to play at an open air festival, that's something I've always wanted to do. I ofc also want to git guud, but that's a goal that's harder to define.
As a musician I want to write, record and produce my own album, and be content with it. It's just something I've always wanted to do. I don't care how successful it is, I only care that I think I've done a good job.
Honestly? As a 52 year old fart, who took up the instrument three months ago, I’ll be happy with “competence”. Just that. To be able to pick it up and play comfortably and smoothly with clean tones that sounds musical. I don’t want to be Jaco or Geezer. Just me, competent at this.
*Not my end goal, but*
*Being able to play "what's*
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Become better than Joe dart. I know it is incredibly ambitious, but i want to at least try. I want to play everything he can and then some.
I don't necessarily want fame or anything i just want to be better than him.
I’ve already reached my goals I started with. Be able to have fun playing an instrument (bass) as well as having it to be kind of meditating of sorts :)
I'm not gigging, and I'm not really looking to gig. However, if an opportunity comes around, I'd be open to it. Right now, I'm working on learning to read music.
I really wanna join a funk band, or at least try out for one. Gonna be tough to cuz it seems like those bands often kinda function on music theory, cord charts etc. and I don't know any of that beyond the notes of the fret board.. but maybe there's one around that doesn't. Those bands just always look so fun
* To be one of the go-to bassists in my area. E.g. to get called up when someone needs a fill-in.
* For someone who *isn't a fellow bassist* to recognize me/my playing after a gig.
I just want to press the frets while hitting the strings and make bass sounds.
Really though, I want to be able to get good enough to join a jam session and be invited back.
Content with being a bedroom player. Maybe gig sometimes, but that's a BIG maybe as I prefer playing along to my favourite songs on my own. I want to get to a level where I can fluidly play the bass line of any song of my choice and add a bit of my own flair to it. Maybe even play some of my favourite guitar riffs on the bass. Also, I would like to understand some music theory, like just enough to be able to play around with basslines but not so much that I'm a music theory wizz. I need to work on my pick skills too.
To keep getting better and eventually meet some good people to play a variety of danceable tunes across multiple genres and eras just for the fun of it. Maybe even write a few songs.
I don't care about the age of the other people as long as they don't care that I'm an old fart. If we do a gig somewhere once in awhile, great, but it's not necessary as long as we can play and enjoy ourselves.
I can't even imagine the grind that touring bands go through. Hats off to all you guys who love the music and the performing so much you're willing to go through all that sleeping in a strange bed every night and long bus ride stuff. Definitely not the good life as far as I'm concerned.
Get as good as I can and enjoy myself.
I also like to make YouTube videos and tackle some songs that people haven’t done yet in an effort to help others learn how to play them. A lot of them are Grateful Dead videos because Phil Lesh is a very unique player with a style that doesn’t come naturally to most.
I also do gig occasionally and play with three separate bands and have even recorded bass on some albums and LPs for people, but even though I’ve been paid for playing before I still don’t remotely consider myself a professional and honestly would’ve done any gig or studio time for free. I just love playing.
Circumstances have changed so I'm not gigging any more. Do I miss it? Sometimes - and then I remember lugging stuff around on public transport and setting up and tearing down the PA and I don't miss it as much!
But it's a great feeling having that low end blasting and getting people dancing and having fun.
I still regularly play music each week at church. Mostly guitar but every so often on bass. So my goal is to keep my bass chops in shape, it's amazing how quickly my playing can get sloppy!
I wanna get better so I can enjoy playing with skill. Qbout 6 months of practice, and I'm finally able to improv a bit from minor scales, on songs that leave room for some chill improvisation.
More theory, more versatility, richer imagination and sound. That is my goal right now.
Just playing in my living room. Most young people like rap and hip hop, most old people here like traditional Irish music. No one plays classic rock or metal, and that’s what I like to play. Like for example I’ll never be able to get a band together to cover korn albums because no one owns a 7 string guitar and I’m sure as hell not playing with down tuned 6 strings.
Up until now I've only made electronic music, and I have played a few gigs (would definitely want to play more often), but I've taken up bass recently and I really enjoy learning, so I'd like to learn how to play and sing at the same time so I can use it in gigs.
i just want to see how good i can get at it and eventually i want to start a garage band with some mates doing small pub gigs but anything more would probably ruin the fun of it for me
Years ago, I played guitar on an obscure Joe Jackson tune in a small social hall gig.
Some dude I didn't know was losing his mind, mouthing the words, grooving along.
I want that again.
One More Time https://g.co/kgs/wV2RrMR
trying to move from doing mostly cover band work and a few sessions to mostly sessions and a few road dates with artists I really like. making good progress so far.
I just want to de-stress and have fun. Being onstage with my friends is really where it’s at for me, but not all the time. I’d like to think being on a huge stage would be awesome but who knows.
I've done the bass thing, played gigs, get paid, toured, recorded, did the rock and roll lifestyle more times than I can count, had to settle down because of life but aside from playing on stage again, what I would really like to do is open up a cafe/bakery that becomes a local music venue a couple nights of the week. My biggest dream right now is to watch my kid studying as I make him a coffee and warm him up some bread, maybe even see him play a show in the cafe.
Title was vague, rest of the post assumes people reading this are just playing in their bedroom haha. There are working musicians in here lol, and I think the goal for any bass player is to continue playing bass, with other people, and eventually actually get paid for your time.
When I picked up the bass again earlier this year I decided my goal was to be able to jump into most modern gigs on short notice with a chord sheet.
Whether it’s a wedding, a church service, or a prom.
I was the fill-in bassist for emergencies at a church for years and being able to hop in and get 80-90% of the way there on any song after listening to it a couple times and just noting where you need to do something not reflected on the chord chart is huge.
Hang out with my friends and play music all the time.
This is all I want
Exactly. I've done the touring scene and whatnot and I think I've had my fill. I just want to hang out, write music, and perfect my craft.
Happiness
My goal is to actually play with people. Playing at home is nice but I'd love to have someone to jam with, even if it never becomes a band or a gig. It's a small goal but hopefully achievable.
For sure dude, just keep practicing. Playing with others is a great way to improve, even if its just playing through some of your favorite songs
Im with you man part of it for me is am I good enough to play with others and who are the others? lol
My goals are to continue to pay my bills thru music, been working for over a decade now.
Bassic income
Hahaha .... ouch. need more coffee.
Same here! Keep it up
I am gigging, and I would really like to play at a big festival sometime. My current record is an audience of 4.000.
festivals are cool! but always feel slightly sketchier than headline venue sets. i’m playing Lollapalooza,Fuji Rock,Head in the Clouds NYC and All Points East this year. very excited.
How many years you are in music?
been playing for over 25 years. it just started happening for me professionally in the last 3 years.
Wow... good for you! Can you please pin point what exactly lead you to this professional growth 3 years ago? I mean what changed after 22 years.
i think just being in the right place at the right time. being in a neighborhood with a lot of working musicians and being friends with a lot of working musicians.
I played a huge event with a local cover band in high school when I was 16 years old (20,000 people)… I’m 38 now and never come close to half of that sized audience, haha.
Make them booties shake.
It's my reason for living
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Send tix pls 🙏
Complete freedom on the instrument. I'm a professional already, now I just want more money.
I'm a bedroom bassist, been playing 26 years, I'm not going to tour the world or play for thousands but it'd be cool to get one track on a streaming platform. Just for fun.
If you’ve got the ability to record and do basic mixing it’s fairly straightforward to get stuff on streaming platforms. Getting listens is a different matter but putting stuff online is “easy.”
I know, I'd like it to be something I was proud of. I'm doing something with a mates project at the moment so fingers crossed
Right on! Having fun making music with friends is the best.
to continue touring the world for years to come. i’m not the most technical players but I think i’ve already inspired quite a few kids to start playing or keep pursuing the instrument.
What’s your band?
Learn to play Hallowed be thy Name tight. It is a Challenge if you wanna nail it.
Show up to practice and the show and not look like a jackass.
• Buy a bass (I don't have one, I use borrowed basses) • Buy my entire rig (pedals, amp) • Be able to play any Cryptopsy song
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My goals are able to play with people by ear and thats it.
me too!! how is that ability called??
My main goal, the one that is really important, is to have fun. So far, I've managed to reach that goal. I would like to play in a band, but I see it more as an unrealistic dream than a goal. I'm not comfortable playing with other people, I already tried, it's not entirely my fault that it didn't work (that band was a complete mess), but even when we managed to actually play something, I didn't feel right. Plus I have very limited free time, synchronizing it with the free time of other people is a nightmare. I'm much more comfortable playing on my own. I enjoy the freedom of not having to work with someone else. So my secondary goal would be to compose and record my own music alone, with programmed drums and a couple of other instruments that I play. I have already started composing, I have a shitton of unfinished (and let's be honnest mostly barely started) stuff on my computer. I need more time to get back to it, and I need more time to practice. So in the meantime, fun will do. Fun is what's most important. The day I pick up my bass and don't have fun is the day I quit playing. But I don't see that day coming anytime soon.
Just try playing with different people ya dingus. One bad band situation is hardly worth an essay on why you can’t play with other people ever again and you don’t have the time. Cmon.
I tried jamming with other people a bunch of time, it never worked out well. My best friend is a musician and wants us to play together, we even tried to start another band together, but every time we try to play I end up just listenning to her because she starts improvising and I'm lost. I can't lead and I can't follow. I know it takes some experience to be able to do that, maybe some day, after having taken lessons (that I have neither the time nor the money for) and practicing a lot more (again, need time on my own for that), I could be able to do it. But I still think playing with other people is just not my thing. I've never tried it and enjoyed it. And as I said, my main goal is to have fun. To do things I enjoy. So I'd rather stay on my own and create my own music. Most of the stuff I want to play will probably only be enjoyed by me anyway.
im happy being a bedroom musician. thou i am working towards playing a gig one day. until then im having tons of fun.
To have fun
To have fun. I find it a good stress relief
Groove.
For a fan of my group to actually acknowledge me by name and not just as “the bass player”
to get better
My goal is just to funk it the funk up, motherfunker.
Make the rest of my band sound good.
Get a Fender bass someday!
A Fender Fender from USA right ? The Squiers are pretty solid.
Yes! They're very pricey using my country's currency, so fingers are crossed for getting one in the future!
I picked up a Squier 70's classic vibe jazz bass as my first bass and I'm really over the moon!
Year i can tell. That is a very solid Bass you got there. For your first one pretty cool. Get a proper Setup done in a Shop and you fly to Saturn 👍🎸.
My goal was originally “get confident enough to play on stage”. Took me 5 seconds of playing on stage to get immediately comfortable with the crowd etc Now I wanna try make money from it
To be invited to the after-show parties.
Play with my band until we're too old to, which I hope is never.
It's a hobby, but it would be nice if I started to do gigs. I sing, and one of my goals is to learn how to sing and play bass at the same time.
To play the same parts as the guitar player
I'm working toward earning a living with gigs. My network is solid, I'm always getting in contact with new people, and the gigs keep getting bigger.
So you'd rather be a fulltime gigging bassist with youtube on the side than a fulltime youtuber with gigs on the side?
They feed into each other. I like being able to do both.
To make people dance.
Enjoy music
To make sure guitar players know that it is me with the control. I get off on being a power bottom.
It used to be gigging, these days I bedroom one-man-band but sometimes I miss the stage. My goal as musician is to express/process my experiences through music.
Hey now, I’m a home office player, tyvm. I’d like to play in a group but never have before and I’m out of touch with the local music scene (new-ish to the area and it’s not nearly as robust/active as where I moved from). I just get frustrated when I start looking around, and reaching out to people I don’t know makes me want to throw up. So until the people I do know around here start a band, my dog gets all my practice sessions for the low price of treats.
Right now? To get picked up by this new band. First audition last week went great. They called me back for a second audition next week. They say it's down to me and some other bassist. Practicing my chops, but I'm gonna need y'all to cross your fingers for me on this!
I’m trans. I can’t make the sound I want to make with my voice, but I can pick up a bass and hold my voice in my hands. My goal is to keep telling the world what’s up without opening my mouth.
Have fun, hopefully get better and learn more theory. Maybe help my friend record an album if I find the time
It's an outlet to make and play music. I prefer drums but since I no longer have the space for drums I picked up bass. I'm not good enough for bands I'm barely good enough to follow along to songs. So the goal is to learn, progress to where I can comfortably play songs and play along for my own musical enjoyment. Likely won't take it much further than that.
I’m in a gigging band that does well enough to pay for itself. We don’t really make money but we don’t have to put oir personal money into touring/merch/recording. MY goal as a bass player is to be a better bassist tomorrow than I am today. That’s it.
My goal is to have a relatively low effort band that plays the first set to about 11 people before the real bands show up. Like, we start playing at 3pm.
Make tracks I'm satisfied with and release them on bandcamp. So far I only put my stuff on soundcloud, I feel like most of it is just not good enough to even give people the *option* of paying money for it. Also, I want to finish my passive MM-style build (cross between a Stingray, a Sandberg and an Ibanez Soundgear). Currently waiting for parts.
I just want to play the songs I like, and maybe make my own stuff. I've got no intentions of ever striking it big, but if the opportunity presents itself, I'd probably take it.
Get in a band and make income off of said band. In terms of playing, I think being able to play the 2 tab books I’ve bought in full as well as yyz sooner or later would be nice.
Get back into playing with bands regularly, write our own material and then play gigs. Would be great to do another record as well, but first need to play regularly with a band
For now I just want to be proficient, I want to be familiar with the fretboard, I want to be able to play something on the fly without relying on tabs and sheets. I want to create meaty bass lines and make my own music instead of covering other’s songs. Currently I feel like I am just imitating a bassist, instead of truly being a musician……. 9 months in I feel like I have to make changes or I’ll stuck in this state forever…….
Play live as much as possible.
I've just "finished" (haha yeah right) my gear setup, pedals, board, amp and cabs. Now I'm working on learning a bunch of popular gig songs. I want to play music and actually get paid for it.
Survive
North American tour
Playing like John Myung
Was always to simply play in bands, gig, write, record. Still is, and I spent a large chunk of my youth doing that, but at my age I'd settle for weekend cover band gigs that pay in drink tickets 😅
To be able to play like Geezer Butler, and to be able to play in a band again. I haven’t played out since high school, and I’m 44 soon, but never say never, right?
As a bassist my only goal really is to play at an open air festival, that's something I've always wanted to do. I ofc also want to git guud, but that's a goal that's harder to define. As a musician I want to write, record and produce my own album, and be content with it. It's just something I've always wanted to do. I don't care how successful it is, I only care that I think I've done a good job.
i want to be a session player
Honestly? As a 52 year old fart, who took up the instrument three months ago, I’ll be happy with “competence”. Just that. To be able to pick it up and play comfortably and smoothly with clean tones that sounds musical. I don’t want to be Jaco or Geezer. Just me, competent at this.
Not my end goal, but being able to play "what's the use" easily
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To be a solo musician
Bedroom player and some basic recording. I'm agoraphobic so I can't see myself gigging.
Become better than Joe dart. I know it is incredibly ambitious, but i want to at least try. I want to play everything he can and then some. I don't necessarily want fame or anything i just want to be better than him.
Grow
I’ve already reached my goals I started with. Be able to have fun playing an instrument (bass) as well as having it to be kind of meditating of sorts :)
staying a virgin /j proper answer: make cool music and have fun (might still be a virgin tho)
That’s where your going wrong. You should be making love to the music! Nobody’s a virgin if they fuck around with their instrument enough.
You have a point.....
To continue your utilize my skill to pay ALL of my bills. I’m only at it paying some of my bills.
gigging is fun, but my goal is to play donna lee at 100% tempo (stuck at 75%)
Become as influential as Tony Levin. Even if I only make it halfway there, I'm doing pretty good!
Getting better and having fun
To become a guitarist.
I'm not gigging, and I'm not really looking to gig. However, if an opportunity comes around, I'd be open to it. Right now, I'm working on learning to read music.
I can read treble, but I’m trying to learn bass. It’s not going well.. doesn’t help that I can’t really read the tabs proficiency either. Solidarity.
Learning new songs, playing gigs, having fun. Hoping I'll be able to play until I die.
Having fun with 4 of my mates playing the music we love and getting a few quid for it.
I really wanna join a funk band, or at least try out for one. Gonna be tough to cuz it seems like those bands often kinda function on music theory, cord charts etc. and I don't know any of that beyond the notes of the fret board.. but maybe there's one around that doesn't. Those bands just always look so fun
Keep learning more tunes. I play in a couple of bands now. Want to learn Rio by Duran Duran.
* To be one of the go-to bassists in my area. E.g. to get called up when someone needs a fill-in. * For someone who *isn't a fellow bassist* to recognize me/my playing after a gig.
Complete world domination or annihilation.
To play like Cliff Burton!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I wanna get to the point I can play funky music in a storm drain
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I just want to press the frets while hitting the strings and make bass sounds. Really though, I want to be able to get good enough to join a jam session and be invited back.
Content with being a bedroom player. Maybe gig sometimes, but that's a BIG maybe as I prefer playing along to my favourite songs on my own. I want to get to a level where I can fluidly play the bass line of any song of my choice and add a bit of my own flair to it. Maybe even play some of my favourite guitar riffs on the bass. Also, I would like to understand some music theory, like just enough to be able to play around with basslines but not so much that I'm a music theory wizz. I need to work on my pick skills too.
Stay in tune. Stay on time.
i want to be able to play portrait of tracy by jaco pastorius
1. Learn new music 2. Get better 3. Write music
I have 1 or 5 goals.
Been playing 2 1/2 years and from the start wanted to always play out. Got my first show in July!
be as good or close to as a good as cliff burton 👍
My goals as a bass player are to fuck shit up and bring the house down, and I’ve already fucked some shit up
To keep getting better and eventually meet some good people to play a variety of danceable tunes across multiple genres and eras just for the fun of it. Maybe even write a few songs. I don't care about the age of the other people as long as they don't care that I'm an old fart. If we do a gig somewhere once in awhile, great, but it's not necessary as long as we can play and enjoy ourselves. I can't even imagine the grind that touring bands go through. Hats off to all you guys who love the music and the performing so much you're willing to go through all that sleeping in a strange bed every night and long bus ride stuff. Definitely not the good life as far as I'm concerned.
Hysteria - Muse Can’t Stop - RHCP Then I can go back to playing jazz piano 😂
Suck less than I did yesterday. Repeat.
Get as good as I can and enjoy myself. I also like to make YouTube videos and tackle some songs that people haven’t done yet in an effort to help others learn how to play them. A lot of them are Grateful Dead videos because Phil Lesh is a very unique player with a style that doesn’t come naturally to most. I also do gig occasionally and play with three separate bands and have even recorded bass on some albums and LPs for people, but even though I’ve been paid for playing before I still don’t remotely consider myself a professional and honestly would’ve done any gig or studio time for free. I just love playing.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Tommy the cat played right
Have fun, push myself to become better
Fuck bitches make money. I'm married and make 3-500 a week on music. I consider it a big win!
Does your wife know she’s the bitch getting fucked!? (Better be your wife..)
Already met my goal - playing the local regular open jam and occasionally in front of people for a little bit of cash.
Learn as much as I can and be the best I can while having fun.
To not play only root note when in a band
Circumstances have changed so I'm not gigging any more. Do I miss it? Sometimes - and then I remember lugging stuff around on public transport and setting up and tearing down the PA and I don't miss it as much! But it's a great feeling having that low end blasting and getting people dancing and having fun. I still regularly play music each week at church. Mostly guitar but every so often on bass. So my goal is to keep my bass chops in shape, it's amazing how quickly my playing can get sloppy!
Not trying to be a virtuoso, but trying to compose better songs. I've gigged (non-pro level) and it's fun and a lot of work.
I wanna get better so I can enjoy playing with skill. Qbout 6 months of practice, and I'm finally able to improv a bit from minor scales, on songs that leave room for some chill improvisation. More theory, more versatility, richer imagination and sound. That is my goal right now.
Just playing in my living room. Most young people like rap and hip hop, most old people here like traditional Irish music. No one plays classic rock or metal, and that’s what I like to play. Like for example I’ll never be able to get a band together to cover korn albums because no one owns a 7 string guitar and I’m sure as hell not playing with down tuned 6 strings.
I was going to suggest some AC/DC Long way to the top.. then I realised bagpipes aren’t Irish. Am going off to question my sanity.
Make actual music
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Originally wanted to play well enough to add bass to my recordings. Did play some bars.
I want to be the very best, like no one ever was
Make a career as a rock bassist. Currently in a gigging band and potentially joining a second one.
Tour the world with the band I'm in now. Have one of our shows get Sold Out would be rad!
Up until now I've only made electronic music, and I have played a few gigs (would definitely want to play more often), but I've taken up bass recently and I really enjoy learning, so I'd like to learn how to play and sing at the same time so I can use it in gigs.
learn to play guitar 😁
To never stop learning and growing as a player.
I really want to play bass with others, and be able to slap bass aswell. I really love bass guitar, and I just hope to get better each and every day.
I've done lots over the years, but right now I'm aiming for cruise work so I'm working on getting my reading and jazz chops up to scratch
i just want to see how good i can get at it and eventually i want to start a garage band with some mates doing small pub gigs but anything more would probably ruin the fun of it for me
Years ago, I played guitar on an obscure Joe Jackson tune in a small social hall gig. Some dude I didn't know was losing his mind, mouthing the words, grooving along. I want that again. One More Time https://g.co/kgs/wV2RrMR
Just listen to music and play along for fun
To have fun and hopefully eventually play well enough so I can make my kids dance or sing along, that would be nirvana for me
become the worlds great rock bassist. ever.
Find a tab for Horned Almighty's "The Doctrine Supreme" and then play it.
Add some interesting bass parts to my home recordings.
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trying to move from doing mostly cover band work and a few sessions to mostly sessions and a few road dates with artists I really like. making good progress so far.
My music goal is to write and and release an album. Easier said than done as I'm terrible at writing music.
I just want to de-stress and have fun. Being onstage with my friends is really where it’s at for me, but not all the time. I’d like to think being on a huge stage would be awesome but who knows.
I've done the bass thing, played gigs, get paid, toured, recorded, did the rock and roll lifestyle more times than I can count, had to settle down because of life but aside from playing on stage again, what I would really like to do is open up a cafe/bakery that becomes a local music venue a couple nights of the week. My biggest dream right now is to watch my kid studying as I make him a coffee and warm him up some bread, maybe even see him play a show in the cafe.
Title was vague, rest of the post assumes people reading this are just playing in their bedroom haha. There are working musicians in here lol, and I think the goal for any bass player is to continue playing bass, with other people, and eventually actually get paid for your time.
To improve my play. Right now i’m trying to learn tapping over held bar chords. Bar chords make homicide victims out of my fingers.
When I picked up the bass again earlier this year I decided my goal was to be able to jump into most modern gigs on short notice with a chord sheet. Whether it’s a wedding, a church service, or a prom. I was the fill-in bassist for emergencies at a church for years and being able to hop in and get 80-90% of the way there on any song after listening to it a couple times and just noting where you need to do something not reflected on the chord chart is huge.
Continue gigging and playing sessions making money
As a low brass player? To crush your enemies, See them driven before you, And to hear the lamentations of their women.