Bass Guitar...

So, a couple weeks ago I bought a bass guitar. The reason being, it seemed like a fun thing to learn, and I'm too retarded to learn chords on a regular guitar. I played with it for a bit when I got home, and I have fallen in love with the damn thing.

I don't play as often as I should, or as much as I like, but I've gotten to the point where I can get through a song reasonably well, if I practice enough. Here's a list of the songs I've been playing lately, or at least trying to play...

Nutshell - Alice in Chains.
Untitled - Lead by Jay, Bass by Travis, Rhythm by Jason.
Machine Head - Bush
Wonderwall - Oasis

Nutshell and the song we've been working on together have been the funnest to play by far. Nutshell has this part where I slide down on my first string from fret 1 to fret 12, then quickly play a 12, 11, step to the 2nd string, 12, 3rd string 12, then a quick 9/10 slide. It sounds so incredibly amazing that I ended up just playing that part for a good 15 minutes last time me and Jay jammed together.

Jay has really kind of been the one that gets me motivated to play, most of the time it's him wanting to play, I still feel like I'm not good enough to really play music, although Jay and Jason have been showing me different. I will admit that I have a hard time actually coming up with stuff for the song we've been writing, but Jason taught me a few handy hints that help me come up with stuff to play, that and I'm somewhat learning to play by ear. Nowhere near as good as a professional, but I'm slowly learning.

Our goal is to get the song recorded on Jays computer or something, and then maybe I'll upload it to myspace for fun. But first, we need to write lyrics for it. Jason seems to be the best at that, but I think I'm going to throw my hat in, and see if I can come up with something.