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Just curious about styles of music bassists would like to learn to play. I think we all have them. After watching a group called Nova Era, for example, I got this desire to learn classical -- a genre I didn't care much about until then. Pick all that apply. If you have an "other" style, feel...

I've always noted a similarity between comedy and music. In order for both to work there needs to be three essential elements. Set up, payoff, and timing. How a musician/composer uses chords to setup tension and release, when they do it, how they throw in little unexpected twists rhythmically...

But don't agree on what they want to play or don't share a unanimous goal. Does it matter or is it a sign to stop while you're ahead? Or is it a sign of great things that can come? My history says it's the former. Just wanted to make a quickie.

I don't want to get too into how I think it could happen set up wise because I may be completely wrong but I would like to know your thoughts, Basically I got offered a duet gig for a guy that does solo performances at weddings. I would like to play bass transitions into guitar chords and have...

Listen and learn. Observe the late Dave Carpenter with the late Allan Holdsworth. See how Dave plays low bass notes AND executes chords while Allan solos. This is one ability of six string bass. This is one way that I aspire to play it.

My vocalist just bought a used school bus... but here's where I explain why it would have been more appropriate to buy a short bus. Months ago, he talked us into doing a show in Akron OH (where he's from; his old band is putting on a fundraiser show), which is just short of 900 miles away. We...

A friend posted a picture of himself on Facebook playing barefoot. I told him that was dangerous and he replied very negatively to me. I have seen a few amateur performers perform barefoot and it scares me. Another guy I know plays through a tube amp and he always plays barefoot. If you know...

I've been playing for about 37 years. Right hand alternates index and middle finger, index finger on downbeats. Or at least it did... In September, I broke my right index finger, and it was in a splint for six weeks. During that time, I used 99% middle finger (mixed in a little bit of ring...

Might seem like a dumb question but does anyone have or know where I can get, a CD or audio download for the exercises in this book? I'd like to have a way of cross checking myself. I've programed a drum machine for several but thats REALLY time consuming. Thank you!

so wondering if this is possible. In my lifting room I have a great hifi system. vintage receiver, turntable, cassette and some awesome speakers and a sub attached to it. wondering if there is something I can use to play my bass thru it. It does have a 1/4" mic input which may work but I...

pics or it didn't happen, right? sorry there aren't better pics of the bass itself. It belongs to the studio owner who told me that he met Stanley Clarke at a jazz fest. He asked Stanley to sign the front of the bass but he didn't want to "ruin" the look of the bass, so he signed on back...

I have a big 200w amp that's a pain in the ass to carry around, but I also have a small Alto TX8 speaker that I just discovered I can plug my bass in to. Is it safe to use if I don't need my 200w amp? Btw, by safe I mean it won't damage the speaker

I find that when I play on the D and G, I can’t mute the E and my hand moves into an uncomfortable position. Anyone else experience this?

WOW! Two reasons why he is an all-time great!

I'd love to hear who it was that made you want to be a bass player. For me it was David Ellefson's playing on Peace Sells, Jason Newsted on the Black Album and Duff McKagan on Appetite.

some real 4 string RnR history right here ...it's Heaven And Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been playing passive basses for the past year or so. Took my Bongo to my last gig - a wedding. Hated the experience (and my Bongo was my #1 for many years). I've gotten too used to passive basses and felt like I was playing a entirely different instrument - had to dramatically re-adjust my...

The thread about cancelling the gig due to the hurricane got me thinking. What's the worst gig you didn't play? You know, the one where you dodged the bullet? For me, it was in 2010, when Nashville got 13 inches of rain in less than two days. There was massive flooding, street closures, and...

Not much to say, but if you know you know, and if you don't know, I don't know what to tell you! :);)

ROY MITCHELL-CARDENAS: Armistice Bassline i cant get the video to play. id like to hear him talk about this tune. anybody have any luck? anybody seen it before? any help is appreciated thanks

A little background. We are in Houston Metro area, have family in Florida, Puerto Rico, and just north of Mexico City. To say those that I care about have been hit by the recent natural disasters, and I've been busy is a massive understatement I finally got some time to myself after mucking out...

The "wedding-cake case" now before the Supreme Court raises the issue of the responsibilities of a public business in accommodating customers that the business doesn't necessarily like. This leads me to think about situations where a band, which is certainly a public business offering a service...

This is a Black Tie event and the organizers asked if we could perform during the dinner and after for the dancing. We are an average multi genre cover band, not a jazzy ensemble or a deep soul groove R&B group, which would have been perfect for the dining hour. Obviously folks will be talking...

Just came up with a ditty practicing, plan to use it as a loop track for guitar lead practice, actually. But chords and fingerpicking seem to work just fine for me (if you spread them out a bit). Chords ripped off from Mountains "Nantucket Sleighride", which is about whaling, just to explain...

Frank Zappa Hologram to Perform With Steve Vai, Ex-Mothers of Invention Thoughts?

It's become a truism in the music world that in order to be successful today, you need to work the social sites such as Facebook to get your name and music out there. The two top arguments for doing it are that: (a) it boosts you fan's engagement, and (b) it costs nothing to do it. It's free...

I basically started on a five. Six months after beginning I moved from a four to accommodate the drop D tunings my guitarist sometimes used. I also used the four for learning to slap but now a day I'm forcing myself to learn slap riffs on the five since that's what I gig on (I'm already...

I guess this would be the appropriate sub-forum(?) :cautious: Let's just say I prefer to get the opinions of folks who understand both sides of the rhythm equation. I have some beginner questions. Just starting to play drums, self-taught (I know. I know. I am considering lessons, but I...

Hello all! I haven't posted here in a while but to give you some background. I'm a recycled newbie bass player who recently picked it back up a few months back. After much practice most of it has come back to me and i'm at a place where I want to be! I'm ready to play some gigs! Mostly small...

Happy playing! Jacob

Hello all! I'm fairly new to the world of bass, but i thrust myself into it after finding I wanted more challenge than just being a vocalist. Recently I came into a sizeable amount of money for a guy like me ($1600) and i would like to spend it on a rig so that I can stop using the loaner amp...

Hi all, Does anybody own John Patitucci's 'Ultimate Play Along for Bass Vol. 2'? The book is out of print and practically impossible to find, hence I'm looking for someone who could send me a copy including the play along tunes (maybe as mp3). I realize this would be a bit time-consuming so a...

In the above image, you see an environment in which the sound is distributed and the sound waves are visible. The exact location of the table relative to the monitors and the panel (the console) is clearly in the picture. Ultimately, the sound waves go to the stressor. If the location of the...

I belong to a 4 string banjo club/band. Once a year we have a picnic and any instrument is welcome. So many of the members will bring something other or in addition to their banjo. The band has 2 electric bass guitar players and one tuba. We also have horn section and singers. As with most...

Hedgehog. I know one Big Thing.

Apparently I do! I have a 5ver actually 2 at the moment, though most material I play don't go below low E! The scattered song I use low D, though I have a D tuner on my jazz for such occasions :whistle: I find that when I play a 5ver I could very easily have gotten by with the 4, and the B...

As someone getting back into playing bass, and primarily being a guitar player I've been searching out baselines that are fairly simple, yet tasteful and classic. Can't help but use "Cissy Strut" by The Meters as an example. Simple baseline, but to get the full effect it's all about timing and...

i wish to learn to play like him,awesome! how kind arrangiament he do use? thanxx