cedricvandermeulen

Hi, How do you know that your 50th anniversary Jazz bass is the 244th out of 500 ? I have one too and I might just as well try to find out ...

Hi, I'm not only new to Basschat (which is not just .UK hopefully), but also new to playing bass - well, since a year now. My work brought me and my family to Bangkok, where, after spending the last 20 years on the African continent, I am finally in a town where I can learn to play music. When my wife told me "do something else than just working" I grabbed, at the tender age of 44, my first bass guitar and subscribed at the Mahidol University - college of music for individual lessons in learning on how to play the bass guitar. Counting rhytm. Learning strings. Learning notes. Realised I had to follow a course in reading music. Had to buy a metronome. Bangkok is a great place to be. Every self-respecting bar has at least one live band playing - every evening. Some bars even three bands. There are bars for hairy heavy metal freaks, classic rock, jazz - whatever you want. And sometimes even an artist comes to Bangkok for concerts. In a year, I've seen Sting, Megadeth, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Sheehan (with Mike Portnoy etc). Great ! Let me know when you're in the area ! Cedric