apparently when i get stressed i start sounding out basslines to songs that're on my mind
today: metric's "just the once" and "risk"
their music has been kind of. keeping me going lately in a number of ways, to the point where i feel like i'm getting annoying talking about it
it's also interesting how i don't know shit about music theory, but i have a good ear for pitch and some intuition that lets me predict notes via fret patterns despite not knowing key or note names on the fretboard
e.g. "just the once" has a recurring pattern of jumping up one or two strings and hammering on a full step up, such as
G|------------7h9-----------------|
D|---------------------------7h9--|
A|--7--7--7--------7--7--7--------|
E|--------------------------------|
in the chorus. then in the bridge that moves down the fretboard a bit (and adjusts for key) to A3 and G4h5. i just kinda figure out sharps/flats for whatever key is happening by ear.
i have no idea what notes these are without counting up frets from my current tuning (E standard so uhhhh.. A3 would be.. A plus 3 half-steps.. A->A#->B->C??) or how they're described in music terms (probably involves fifths or thirds or something but idfk what those mean exactly) BUT i can play them and that's pretty neat