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07-13-2006, 08:23 PM
| | | | Today I got PWNED by an acoustic bass!
It my first post here in this part of TB and I will tell about my first date with an acoustic bass...
So i study journalism in the federal university of my state. My course is in the Center of Arts and Communication and music is included on "Arts". Then, i thought "hey, its my chance to make my dream of touch an acoustic bass reality". I searched for the bass teacher there who is a veeery nice guy that let me play the bass on his room...then i was lost in such fretless big scale!!! but the hardest was the high action, it was unplayable to me!! 
So i asked to the teacher do something and the muthafocker played some wicked lines!! 
oh well, i didnt give up yet!!
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07-14-2006, 01:49 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | This is the kind of thing that prompted some of the 'regulars', to talk about "real bass" vs. "toy bass" ..... 
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07-14-2006, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield This is the kind of thing that prompted some of the 'regulars', to talk about "real bass" vs. "toy bass" ..... |  |
07-14-2006, 04:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Human, that "first date" is a great way to phrase it, since it implies that you have an interest in a second date. It's great that you have access to a double bass teacher, so you don't have to navigate your way through a bunch of self-taught errors, maybe injuring yourself in the process. The big scale and higher string height seems daunting at first, but you learn how to play on the big field, and how to pull a big acoustic sound out of the bass, and pretty soon, it all starts to make sense. And then you're hooked.
Good luck, and check in with your progress. Most players feel like they've been "owned" by the bass for the first few times. Stick with a teacher if possible. |
07-14-2006, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield This is the kind of thing that prompted some of the 'regulars', to talk about "real bass"
vs. "toy bass" ..... | Nice! -Rattman
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07-15-2006, 04:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | What's an ERB? |
07-15-2006, 04:57 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | ERB = extended range bass. |
07-15-2006, 06:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Congratulations on your date.
Please fill out your Profile....where you are, etc. This helps us help you on your way.
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07-15-2006, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson What's an ERB? | Oregano, Parsley, or if you're Jamaican - ganja!!
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07-15-2006, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Human Bass So i study journalism in the federal university of my state. | Is this like a prison school? |
07-15-2006, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM ERB = extended range bass. | Aha... I played a 7-string slab once. Kinda fun, like a guitar on steroids. |
07-15-2006, 01:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Rattman Yes. And don't make the same mistake I did by foolishly deriding ERB's when I should
have been asking questions about them. (sigh) live and learn.. At least now after playing
a Carvin Icon5 I know I won't instantly die or even get sick from playing an ERB   | How is a five string bass guitar a ERB when there have been five string Double Basses for over a century? |
07-15-2006, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Aaron Noguer How is a five string bass guitar a ERB when there have been five string Double Basses
for over a century? |
Comments pulled off -Rattman
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07-15-2006, 04:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | Fender did not invent the electric bass-guitar.
Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
1930s: Fretted basses
Paul Tutmarc developed a guitar-style electric bass instrument that was fretted and designed to be held and played horizontally. Audiovox's sales catalogue of 1935-6 listed what is probably the world’s first fretted, solid body electric bass that is designed to be played horizontally - the Model #736 Electric Bass Fiddle. The change to a "guitar" form made the instrument easier to hold and transport; the addition of guitar-style frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily (which also made the new electric bass easier to learn). |
07-15-2006, 05:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | "Fender did not invent the electric bass.."
Comments pulled voluntarily -Rattman
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07-15-2006, 09:03 PM
| | | | I am usually a reader not a poster, but I am wondering what an argument over the history of the bass guitar is doing in human bass' post about his first experience with upright? |
07-15-2006, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Baird I am usually a reader not a poster, but I am wondering what an argument over the history of the bass guitar is doing in human bass' post about his first experience with upright? | kool -Rattman
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07-15-2006, 10:46 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Rattman Good point. We got off-track for sure here. | You could say that. 
We now return to the story of Humanbass' PWNING... |
07-16-2006, 04:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Sorry, my fault....I got kicked to the curb by the "ERB" blurb, Herb... |
07-18-2006, 09:37 PM
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