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The SBL Podcast

148 - The 10 Commandments to Getting the Gig with Scott & Ian

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

For any aspiring bass player, playing live is one of the best ways to really level up. But isn't getting a gig really hard? Getting your first gig needn't be difficult if you follow the ten commandments laid out in this episode. With these ten tips you’ll have the knowledge and resources to take the stage in no time!

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0:00.0

Do you get the countdown on your side?

0:09.5

Yeah, I get the countdown.

0:10.5

Yeah.

0:11.5

Also, you got a new, this is new computer, Scott.

0:15.0

This is, new computers are great and awful.

0:18.5

Oh yeah.

0:19.5

So if anybody's listening, my sounds crap, it's because I haven't got a mic because I haven't got a USB port in my blooming new map. Damn you, Apple. Never mind. Oh, I know. I know. Yeah, it's insane. Do you kind of dread when you get like a new piece of gear, specifically, you know, like a new laptop or something

0:38.3

like that, because you have to update everything, right? And you've got, I'm not sure, do you use

0:42.4

Pro Tools or what do you use? Oh, man. So I was a Pro Tools user for a long time, and then I switched

0:48.8

to Ableton. And then I wanted it to be simple and all integrated. And so I have no logic. So I kind of, I still use all three of those, but typically, mostly for the recording stuff that I do, just the simple overdub stuff, I'm using logic.

1:02.0

I think, man, like buying a new computer is, it's like $3,000 or whatever it is, like if you're in the Apple ecosystem,

1:12.6

right?

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.6

And it's the most unfun $3,000 you'll ever spend.

1:17.6

You know what I mean?

1:19.6

Because it doesn't do anything new.

1:21.6

It's not like, oh, the computer, now the computer is going to make me an omelette.

1:26.6

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like yeah

1:29.0

it just does the same thing but but maybe a little faster or like but it is like one of the most

1:36.5

unfun purchases to make what have you got what what what computer have you got have you got a

1:41.2

2000 it's a laptop yeah it's a 2018 MacBook.

1:46.0

Dude, I limped along.

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