{"id":9031,"date":"2023-09-11T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=9031"},"modified":"2023-09-12T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:16:53","slug":"closer-to-fine-the-new-musical-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=9031","title":{"rendered":"Closer To Fine &#8211; The New Musical Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Closer%20To%20Fine%20-%20The%20New%20Musical%20Challenge\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m a bass player, I also play guitar. Bass is home, I&#8217;ve been playing bass for 30 plus years. It&#8217;s almost second nature. I have some skill on guitar, but it&#8217;s not on the same level as the other. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shiva.umesh.50?__cft__[0]=AZXy4JYwgICdiruAIdKzUWvD7XIR_ahxvgQ7nyi23bQSU_ZjzR6Kd5Soy9_eG9kXcd5JtDiCtCAJjOcQSKmdSFXCMDNKO6yK2zUTtImEq7xefa2rFkycgqZv1J8VMna05XY&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">Shiva Umesh<\/a>, a drummer I&#8217;ve played with in the past, recently invited me to join the Indigo Girls inspired Close To Fine band he&#8217;s in, but as a guitar player instead of bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am always trying to push boundaries, play and do things in music that I haven&#8217;t done before. It&#8217;s one of the reasons I&#8217;ve not been in a ton of cover bands. I could be like many of my musician friends and gig every weekend playing in three bands that play the same basic set list, but that&#8217;s not my way, at least, not at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know a couple of the songs in the two sets we are working on, but most are new to me. And as I delved into those songs I realized had set myself up with a much greater challenge than I knew. The songwriting and musicianship of &#8220;The Girls&#8221; is amazing!!! Again, I&#8217;ve never been a guitarist in a band before. I\u2019m not gonna lie, there are times when I was tempted to say, \u201chey, I\u2019ll move back to bass\u201d, because I hear what to play evertime we\u2019re playing \/ practicing, but I won\u2019t give in to taking that easier route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really REALLY am gonna have to up my game here. I wanted a challenge&#8230; I got it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Closer%20To%20Fine%20-%20The%20New%20Musical%20Challenge\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Though I&#8217;m a bass player, I also play guitar. Bass is home, I&#8217;ve been playing bass for 30 plus years. It&#8217;s almost second nature. I have some skill on guitar, but it&#8217;s not on the same level as the other. Shiva Umesh, a drummer I&#8217;ve played with in the past, recently invited me to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9033,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions\/9033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}