{"id":120,"date":"2024-08-02T02:50:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T02:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2024-08-02T02:50:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T02:50:33","slug":"bass-playing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/?page_id=120","title":{"rendered":"Bassist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">I was born in India and from a very young age, had the desire to be a musician. As a teenager, I took music lessons, and played in a college band, while studying engineering. My focus during most of my adult life was on my career. In 2016, I attended a music camp and had so much fun there, that it rekindled my desire to make music with others. Since then I&#8217;ve played the electric bass in a number of bands in California and New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"981\" height=\"981\" src=\"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Raj-Album-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Raj-Album-Cover.jpg 981w, https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Raj-Album-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Raj-Album-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Raj-Album-Cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Raj-Album-Cover-960x960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 981px) 100vw, 981px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">I love my place in the rhythm section. I have played formally and jammed informally with a number of musicians and bands including Renegade, a classic rock band that played a mix of covers and original tunes, an uptempo blues band, Knucklebone, Argentine rock band, Morfina Espiritual and surf outfit, The Beach Cruzers. I have also played in Chinese and an Indie rock bands. While not playing the bass, I love to make monoprints and ride my bike all over town and across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">I invite you to listen to my bass playing on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/?page_id=31\">media page<\/a><\/strong> of this site, or on my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandmix.com\/raj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bandmix<\/a> <\/strong>profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in India and from a very young age, had the desire to be a musician. As a teenager, I took music lessons, and played in a college band, while studying engineering. My focus during most of my adult life was on my career. In 2016, I attended a music camp and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajhajela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}