I have been a confident, yet reasonably average bass player since around 1996, but it's only this year where I have really pushed myself to learn getting around the fretboard by learning my scales, the modal positions and arpeggios and now I'm starting to feel unstoppable. It's a breeze now to play an arpeggio from the first fret up to around the top string on the G string and come back down through my scales by knowing that if I say play a G major arpeggio through 2 octaves up to the 12th fret on the G string, then to come back through the major scale I come down with the lydian position starting on my pinkie the using the Aeolian fingering scale method as I explained in the 'Need help with scales' thread, right back to the root.
I did get told by a musician I was playing with a couple of years ago that I wasn't gelling with him so I've never played with him since! This has only driven me to be more aggresive with my learning and playing.
But I suppose this has made me more determined to prove him wrong, now I won't ever play with him!
So I would say studying the freboard and it's scales has pushed me forward but I don't understand it when young players seem to just pick up the guitar and play it like it's grown out of them
So what has been people defining moments in peoples bass playing here which has pushed you forward, be it learning a special technique, basic scale practice, an influence on your life such as a piece of music, a musician or that you are simply blessed with angelic musicianship without having to learn a thing?
I get inspired by good musicians and their experiences, so maybe we could inspired each other.
