During the New Year holidays, our girls' cover band went on a concert tour.
We flew by plane and this time we didn't take musical instruments with us. We were traveling to the south of our country, we had to stay in a hotel for 4 days and play music there. Of course, we had our own technical rider, it included many items, the most important for me was of course a bass guitar.
It was a very exciting moment to meet a new and unfamiliar bass guitar, which I had to play on for 4 nights. What will it be like? What if it is uncomfortable? But they brought me a Fender Precision bass, a wonderful, so lovely instrument. And very beautiful, too.
This bass guitar is incredibly convenient to play and it sounds great. The sound is soft and dense. But it has one drawback: it is very heavy. It weighs about 7.5 kilograms. If you consider that you had to play it for two hours a day, then it's very difficult.My back and shoulders hurt terribly.
-''The next time you go on tour, write down a lighter instrument to rider'', - the sound engineer told us.
It's true. But we're girls, we made up the rider ourselves and for some reason we didn't think about it at all.
''Live for a century, learn for a century'' - that is a Russian saying. Now I'll know. Not only the beauty of the instrument is important, but also its weight.
Have a nice day everyone!