Bad, Bass, Bad!

Remember all those entries about how good I think I play?

Well it was bound to happen.

I normally go down to the studio after work and practice for a while. It's almost a nessecity when playing the upright bass. That instrument is NOT like riding a bike. If you don't play it for a week, all is lost. Especially when you are (relatively) new to the instrument.

So this week I practiced drums instead. Why? Because I have a gig tomorrow night playing drums in a mediocre funk band. I absolutely love playing the drums. I tell people it was my first instrument, cause I would bang on anything around that produced a tone as a child before I had any guitars around.

So, being all excited about playing drums saturday night, I've spent all my practice time on the kit. Well guess what? I sucked ass on the upright bass tonight at my regular Friday Jazz gig.

And I played worse than I have in a long, long, long time. It was so frustrating. I could tell everyone else in the band was noticing.

Funny part was I took a few solos that came off well and got good response. But those were only good because I played as hard as I could out of pure anger at my crappy playing. Weird how that works.

Lame. Tomorrow should be fun though.....