So I’m (still) learning bass. I’m sort of on the “one year on, one year off” program (currently in year 2).
This is not though a post about how much I <3 bass (I do), or how it’s perfectly suited to my personality (it is), or even the glee I take from listening to the EH work and practice and sweat over guitar, while I just get to sound cool by going “buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-DUH-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-DUH…” on two notes (<-that’s the intro of “Enter Sandman” in case you were wondering).
This is about the incongruity of keyword searching.
There are now a few songs that I can play along to if I cue them in my iTunes, get the bass tab open in Firefox, and crank it all up (to 11).
But I haven’t yet made a dedicated playlist of those songs (turns out there is such a thing as /that/ busy). So I just go to the general “Music” category, and start typing in the name of the song in the search bar.
Which leads to some pretty messed up set lists if I don’t get back to the computer in time to hit pause.
Take, for instance, when I play along to the Chili Peppers “Snow (Hey Oh)”. And I often end up hearing the first few bars of Harry Connick singing “Let It Snow”.
Costello’s version of “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” (aka “Cathy’s song”), merges into Nina Simone worrying about being misunderstood.
Or, the previously mentioned Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”. Which is chased down with Tony Bennett singing “Smile”. Or, if it wasn’t deselected, Dido’s “Sand In My Shoes”.
It’s surprisingly jarring.
I guess in the time it takes to write a post about it, I could have made a playlist and put an end to this weirdness.
But I do love me some weirdness…