My journey learning to play the bass guitar

I have had 4 lessons now and am making progress. I generally try to practice after meals for 15-20 minutes and then Craig and I will practice Me and Bobby Magee. He is VERY patient. I could actually keep up with the song better before I started trying to focus on better technique which was a bit frustrating for both of us. This week I am really focusing on right hand technique and learning the notes of the bottom (tonally) strings.

Last week I really needed to “study” like I am used to – with a paper and pencil so I wrote out Bobby Magee in the Key of G, where Craig sings, changing it from Kris Kristofferson’s Key of A version that I usually practice with. It felt really good. The next day Craig gave me a binder for my songs.

My left hand is no longer spastic with “flying fingers” between different notes but I think it will take a very long time to get to a sense of fluid movement between the notes.