Well I had my first bass lesson of 2008 yesterday. My instructor TJ (yes that is his real name) ran over his previous lesson by 10 minutes so we had to run over mine and I was worried he would be late because he has before, but it turns out that there is now a student before me. Anyway, I went in, we talked about our holidays for a bit and got right down to business. For 1.5 months of the 2 months of holidays I had I didn't really learn anything new. I might learn the intro to a song or two and thats it. It wasn't until 2 weeks before I went back that I decided to actually get somewhere. So I decided on one of my favourite songs of all time and a Metallica classic, Seek and Destroy. So for the past 2 weeks I've spent hours learning as much as I could. So yesterday I told him about what I've been doing and he asked me to show me what I've taught myself.

So I played as much as I could, which is the intro, the verses, the pre chorus, the chorus and some of the music before the solo. He was very impressed. He told me my technique was perfect and that I've improved a lot. He said that my hands are working perfectly in sync with each other, but he wants me to start using my left pinky. I've got the 'triple attack' happening and I'm excellent using just my three fingers, but it helps if I use four. So now I'm learning to use my pinky a lot more for complicated parts instead of stretching a lot. Apart from that he was overall very impressed with what I had taught myself.

Now onto some other business. I have nearly reached 1000 posts since joining GameSpot in mid-2007. So now I will reach the milestone tonight, and I will give a live update about every post. So here we go:

995 posts!

996 Posts!!

997 POsts!!!

998 POSts!!!!

999 POSTs!!!!!

1000 POSTS!!!!!!

Anyway thats all. See you space cowboy.