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This is my personal account of a my journey to
learn to play Bass Guitar. My name is Susie and in
December of 2006 I picked up a bass, plugged it into a
small amp, and began the journey to learn to play
"serious" music. However, I dropped the
serious part and decided to have fun and enjoy
myself. I dedicate this site to anyone who has the
passion to play music, but have been told they
couldn't. That it would be too hard, that maybe even
they're the wrong "gender" or "age" to play a
certain type of instrument or just play music in
general. It's never too late to start, and if
music is your passion, by all means pursue it!
I have an illness called Lupus SLE which I was
diagnosed with in 2004. One of the symptoms is very
painful joints in my hands which would be progressively
getting worse. My fingers had already begun to lock up
on me in painful spasms, I knew I needed to exercise
them to keep mobility. You can learn more about
Lupus by clicking here My goal and pursuit of
learning bass was born out of my love of music. Music
that could be heard throughout my house as a child. My
dad cranked up the country music station on their little
radio. There was a time when the neighbors and our
family would get together on Saturday nights for
inpromptu jam sessions on the front porch! Yes, everyone
had some kind of instrument and our neighbors happened
to be excellent, natural musicians from the deep south
where "fiddles," banjos, guitars, drums and anything us
kids could grab that made noise helped to round out the
old country tunes by Hank Williams, Sons of the
Pioneers, and the many great Grand Ole Opry stars of
their decade come alive on those evenings.
It's now 2018 and I'm still playing today.
During the process I found that this would be harder
than I thought and would require adapting my playing
style to fit what my increasing pain was interfering
with, my ability to hold, play bass and keep timing. In
doing so, my playing style is pretty unorthodox and
garnered many comments informing me my technic, timing,
and overall bass theory was sadly lacking and so wrong.
However, what people didn't understand was I wasn't
playing a bass to be able to join a band, to gain
accolades or praise, it was to adapt a style I could use
that allowed me to reach goals I'd set and to record
that journey to share. If I could learn to play the
music I loved, and just one person stumbled across my
videos who had wanted to try new things, reach new
goals, but their situation, illness, or circumstance
caused intimdation, they may possibly learn from my
journey that it didn't matter what my technique looked
like, or that my timing was off, my tuning was bad, what
mattered then and still does today, I set out to try and
learned to put myself out there as an example of
learning new things, trying to work towards passions
once thought unattainable and especially now, with a
diagnosis that definately made even thinking that
pursuit would ever be an option, that the pursuit is
ALWAYS worth the try and possibly even attainable!
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