I sometimes teach beginner music lessons (guitar, piano ect) for extra money and I got an actual honest to god bass student!!!! YAY!!! An adult, somebody who actually seems interested in learning more then a kick ass riff to get chicks with...good god...
I took over his lessons last week, found out where he was at and sent him home asking him to learn to play the major and minor scales, no arpeggios, open or two octave scales (although any adult with a function brain should have no trouble picking up all of that in a week with minimal practice) just major and minor...its the same finger placement for EVERY note of the scale. Anyway he shows up this evening, I ask him to run through a few scales and its pretty obvious he didn't practice so I ask him how much time he put in.
"An hour a day"
"Really?"
"Yeah I just can't seem to get it"
I mean c'mon, I expect that from kids and teens but from a grown man? Just tell me you either didn't or couldn't practice, I'll go easy on you...no ruler to the knuckles or anything. I mean I don't really care, its his money we can practice scales for the next two years if he wants to pay...just a pet peeve I guess.