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03-22-2011, 04:08 PM
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Have any of you experienced bass guitar interfering with upright? I recently purchased a bass guitar and I originally play upright, do you think thats a problem for either instrument?
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03-22-2011, 05:30 PM
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03-22-2011, 06:09 PM
| | Bangin' out the bottom end for 44 years! | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut | | | I go back and forth all the time. Sometimes in the same show. Not a problem. They are VERY different instruments, and need to be approached as such.
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03-22-2011, 06:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA | | | My friend and my son both play both.
My friend, a self tought musician, started on electric and then took up double bass. He's never said anything to me about one effecting the other and he's a well respected jazz bassist in Cleveland. My son started double bass at the age of five and at the age of ten started on electric bass, (fretless), and he's never had a problem with going back and forth. |
03-22-2011, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by BassMaster65  Have any of you experienced bass guitar interfering with upright? | Only if you forget to unstrap it! 
Seriously: the only problem is when one assumes BG technique transfers to DB. It doesn't. Think of them as two different instruments that happen to have the same tuning (which happens to be the truth), and you'll be fine. |
03-22-2011, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Jsn
Only if you forget to unstrap it!
Seriously: the only problem is when one assumes BG technique transfers to DB. It doesn't. Think of them as two different instruments that happen to have the same tuning (which happens to be the truth), and you'll be fine. | My thoughts exactly.
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03-25-2011, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by RustyAxe I go back and forth all the time. Sometimes in the same show. Not a problem. They are VERY different instruments, and need to be approached as such. | + 1
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03-25-2011, 05:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Cody, Wyoming | | | I play a lot of gigs where im playing upright and electric. The only issue I've ever had is being disoriented by the string texture particularity on my right hand. As long as you have you have good technique on both instruments you shouldn't run into any major problems. If you are playing both at one gig make sure they are both mixed very well and as similarly as possible without detracting from the tone you are playing the instrument for in the first place. . |
03-25-2011, 06:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | I dont know whether this has any effect, but I do come from opposing sides of the musical spectrum. I play classical double bass and metal electric bass. XD
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03-25-2011, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by BassMaster65 Have any of you experienced bass guitar interfering with upright? | Just keep them in separate rooms. And lock the doors. If you're not careful, you might end up with ............. an EUB!!!!!
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03-25-2011, 07:40 PM
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03-25-2011, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Lighthouse Point, FL | | | I sometimes approach electric bass with a Simadl like left hand (1-2-4 instead of finger per fret) and pound a little too hard with my right; but only because I only play 2-3 electric gig per year and I haven't practiced on electric lately. Other than that no real problems. I used to be a sax player before I became obsessed with the bass. As a sax player, I had to double on other instruments as well, such as clarinet and flute. While many of the fingerings between all the woodwinds were identical, they were separate instruments with completely different approaches and technique. EB and DB are about as similar as bari sax and flute. You finger d, g, c and almost everything else just about the same (aside from transposing due to the instruments key), but completely different embouchures and tactile feel; it's really easy to overblow a lot of other horns after playing hardbop sax all night. |
03-25-2011, 09:09 PM
| | | | You've heard the comparison, "The USA and the UK: two great countries separated by a common language," well, between EB & DB: "Two great instruments separated by a common tuning." |
03-25-2011, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by GrowlerBox
Just keep them in separate rooms. And lock the doors. If you're not careful, you might end up with ............. an EUB!!!!!
| Wow, that's hilarious!
When I read that all I heard was, dun dunn duhhhhh
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