Marco Rodi

I think it’s really important. You have to completely love your stuff if you wan’t people to love it back. I just listened this jam I did December 24th and I really love it. I even did the tabs for you

Have fun!

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Man, I was practicing bass, but at first I wasn’t THAT much in the mood. I just played some slap bass lines. The practice was getting nowhere. I was just messing around with no productive stuff whatsoever. But after 30 minutes of messing around, messing, slapping, tapping anything, I came in THE ZONE.

The zone is the most productive peek a musician can ever have. Something cough me and I was completely into my bass playing. So I stayed in this zone for about 1 hour and a half practicing my solo bass sets, coming up with crazy ideas, improving my solo bass set list. Man I was happy. After I quit the zone, I stopped playing because in the one hour and a half, I felt like I did 10 hours of intense bass practice.

I always try to get that “zone”. I don’t know how to get it. It’s mysterious. Sometimes I have it before I start playing. Sometimes I get it after 2 hours of practicing, bope. It’s weird. It’s something I can’t control.

Haha I found this. My first artistic competition ever. I was so stressed, I was puking, shaking, all my family and friends were there, 2000 people in the audience, I had 10 minutes to proove them what I could do on bass.

I was 19 year’s old. I was practicing 8 hours per day to built up this bass solo. Divided in 3 parts.

Damn. Determination, practice, passion made me win the first prize.

I just finished reading The Power of Less by Leo Babauta.

Here are the stuff I noted:

• Doing a huge number of things dosen’t mean you’re getting anything done.
• By Setting limitations, we must chose the essential
• By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal ressources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.
• Reduce non-essential commitment
• Focus on less to become more effective
• Small tasks are always better than large ones
• Clean desk allows you to focus on the task at harf, which is the key to being effective in whatever you’re trying to do

So this can really apply in any instrument practice. I’m going to try alot of these tecnics from now on. Here are some stuff practice tips I reccomment based on this book:

• When you practice your instrument, never get distracted by anything. No cpu, no TV, no phone, nothing. Just you and your instrument.
• Always give yourself some short-therm goals. To take something out of your practice. Exemple: Learn a full song, Learn any scales, Learn how to play all the “g” notes in all your instrument’s neck, Build a beautiful solo on top of any music line etc etc.
• Set up your own goals: Example: This month, I want to improve slapping. So Day 1: Doing some research on some pretty groovy song that contains slap bass lines. Day 2: Pick any of those songs and learn it. Day 3: Pick and learn another song. Day 4: Improvise something based on the 2 songs you learned… etc etc etc
• Try to practice some stuff you really are passionate about. If you hate jazz, don’t practice it. Maybe one day you will be in the urge to play jazz. So wait for that day. In the meantime, play what your hearth and soul is telling you.
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