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01-30-2010, 03:30 PM
|  | Real Basses Have 5 Strings! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | | Fretless.
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This song makes me want to play a fretless bass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjRtJN0Czk
I have never played fretless much at all but that is some nice fretless playing. |
01-30-2010, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | Paul Chambers playing So What did it for me.
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01-30-2010, 03:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bloomingdale,IL | | I started playing fretless because I wanted to be more versatile. And have that freaking awesome "mwah" thing going on. 
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01-30-2010, 04:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | For me it was Freebo on Bonnie Raitt's early albums. "Too Long At The Fair" and "Love Has No Pride" STILL get to me...
This is a great version of "Love Has No Pride" with just Bonnie & Freebo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbqXMQCq59U
This is a good version of "Too Long At The Fair"... well, it's a really good version except Freebo's bass isn't recorded as well, so I suggest you get the album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Kf-...om=PL&index=15
John
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01-30-2010, 05:03 PM
| | | I started with a fretless instrument..the Cello. But the first song to make me want to play a fretless bass was The Philosopher, by Death.
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01-30-2010, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: East Lyme, CT | | | wow seriously after watching that it really made me feel the same way, its just so milky smooth and buttery I love it!
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I went to the Bass Pro Shop at the mall and all they had was fishing and hunting stuff. I'm so confused...
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01-30-2010, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Seattle | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ric5  | Anyone know what bass he is playing ? |
01-30-2010, 05:53 PM
|  | Forever in debt to your priceless advice | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Methuen, MA USA | | | Carvin LB |
01-30-2010, 05:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Seattle | | Quote:
Originally Posted by KPJ Carvin LB | Thanks |
01-30-2010, 06:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Charlotte NC | | That was great!
This is the one that did it for me in 1971. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ02i8elJu8
It would be David on bass
Not the greatest all time fretless playing but in 71 was cool.
Hey JTE you notice Freebo tuned the fretless during the tune? Puts a lot of myths to rest huh? It does matter, in spite of what the guitarist says.
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01-30-2010, 06:38 PM
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A&R, Soulless Corporation Records | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Round Rock, TX | | | I learned vibrato in orchestra. Problem is the technique doesn't work with a fretted bass. Plus the glissinado and tone would be great. |
01-30-2010, 07:17 PM
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Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | My greatest compliments have been when someone hears me play fretless and thinks I'm on a fretted bass. Then I know I'm nailing the intonation and not drifting into too many slurs and glissandos.
This song wouldn't have been the same with fretted bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41zDpASSzn8
This one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbAeTywPiP4 |
01-30-2010, 07:23 PM
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01-30-2010, 07:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth | | | "Jelly Roll" from Blue Murder, or "Radioactive" from The Firm. Yeah, I'm a Tony Franklin kinda guy.
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01-30-2010, 10:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Missoula, MT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nostatic drifting into too many slurs and glissandos. | No such thing.
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01-31-2010, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by jibreel Anyone know what bass he is playing ? | Carvin. So much for that "Carvins all sound so 'sterile'" myth! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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