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    Advice for Beginning Musician (Bassist/Vocalist)

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    Ok, I heard back from him about the bass. It's one of these: http://backstreetmusicshop.com/prodD...php?id_prd=329

    Standard notation, at least I remember a bit of that from those required choir classes a couple years back, lol. Although...I'm not sure it'd help much for the vocals I'd be doing...haha. Still would probably help for the bass though.

    Endurance, be wary of open strings/tabs. Got it. I've been doing that curling 1&3 then 2&4 all day today. It's already getting semi-subconscious. I'm just waiting for someone to think I flipped them off and me have no clue what's going on, lol.

    Advice for Beginning Musician (Bassist/Vocalist)

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    not even kidding - the book 'guitar for dummies' is an excellent way to get into guitar. the same guy wrote a bass book, too - i'd look into that.

    Haha, seems obvious now, but that never occurred to me.

    (And I fixed the sig links, thanks)

    Basic music theory is an absolute MUST. It's boring when you start out, but believe you me, to ignore it is to cement your feet in the "I'm ok, but can't really play" zone for a good deal longer than you need to be.

    Ah, ok. That's probably going to be the worst part for me...I know next to nothing of music theory as it is. I'll definitely try to look into it.

    Also, make sure you don't develop bad playing habits in the beginning.

    Any forewarnings from anyone about potential bad playing habits?

    there's a lot of good stretches you can do to help your reach and hand strength. one that i do all the time is to curl in your first and third finger as far as you can, then uncurl them and curl in your second and fourth fingers...rinse and repeat. it's surprisingly tiring, and it really helps reach a four-fret gap when you're playing low =)

    Something I can do all day during class, yay! lol. Although curling my 2nd and 4th fingers is difficult on either hand right now...they don't want to go at the same time, or w/o taking the other fingers down with them.

    Firsts in video games

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    I might be wrong in this, but I'm pretty sure that The Guardian Legend was the first game to incorporate both scrolling shooter and Zelda-like adventure elements, and on top of that it had somewhat of level-up system, where if you got enough points, your health bar would grow. Honestly, I've never really seen any other game do anything like this, well, except for Starfox Adventures, but even then, there wasn't really an even balance between the flying and adventure portions.

    Holy crap. So I'm sitting here reading this topic just to see what's mentioned, and I skim through this post, then thinking about what was said about it, I go reread it, and look up that game on Wikipedia. I've been trying to find out that name of that thing for a couple years now, and never could. Running on very vague memories from playing it when I was young didn't get me very far.

    Pull 11 sequels out of a title that by definition should not have sequels.
    Quoted for truth and loll-ness.
    Megaman X II or III, I don't recall which, has the "Damn" at the end. Megaman goes, "Damn, it's a dead end."

    That was Megaman X3, but either way earlier games have been mentioned that had swearing.

    Chrono Trigger DS

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    I'm stoked for this thing, I've wanted to play CT for a while, but never have been willing to dish out the cash for a SNES cartridge of it, and just never got around the the PS1 version. So I'll probably be picking this up.

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