When I was 16, I took lessons from the bassist of a friend’s band. I never really learned to read sheet music fluently or got much into music theory, but my technique wasn’t too bad. I then played in the school band for the graduation party. The drummer of that band also asked me to play the Pink Panther theme with her percussion ensemble for a concert of the local musical association. A few months later, I performed a Blue Man Group inspired piece with some of them on a wedding. Then, I played with another drummer for a while and he started to bring in more people, but before this could go anywhere, I had to leave town to go to university. I didn’t have too much time since then, so I’m a bit out of practice.

I also bought a guitar at a point when I was somewhat happy with my bass skills, but never took lessons. I can do basically the same things I can do on my bass, but I always struggled with playing chords.