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01-29-2003, 03:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Braintree, Massachusetts, USA | | | Re: Re: Re: Which song(s) do you play to sound cool?
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Quote: Originally posted by moley
RHCP's Higher Ground? Puh-lease. | you know what i mean...everyone here always talks about how kids get all worked up about playing higher ground (which a lot do) and they (the kids) don't really think of it as a stevie wonder song.
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01-29-2003, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Lee's Summit, MO | | | the melody of Feels So Good by Chuck Mangione.
and, I wish, Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder. Can anyone here play the "the" riff (bass, horns, keys, all playing in unison)? |
01-29-2003, 11:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | I usually don't sound cool... but pretty much any kind of percussive groove will make any non bassist think you are great. To a bassist, I'm sure, I never sound cool.
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01-29-2003, 11:22 PM
| | ****** | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Shreveport, LA | | Where i live ,if you even pick up a bass in a store, everyone stops and goes. "Whoa,,,,a bassplayer" i then play one single note "OH MY GOD THATS AWESOME!!! You in a band?"
To sound cool, I (most of the time) play bass. that or my recorder.  |
01-29-2003, 11:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Dallas, TX | | i'm not cool either. but i just learned Grand Funk R.R. - I'm Your Captain and that's got a fun bass line...but it only sounds cool with drums and guitar.  |
01-30-2003, 12:09 PM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | "If I play these songs we do right,..."
...I just say to myself; "cool".
Whether it really is(or not), that's someone else's problem.
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01-30-2003, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Harleysville, PA | | | whats wrong with playing higher ground? |
01-30-2003, 01:37 PM
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01-30-2003, 03:33 PM
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mary had a little lamb | OMG YOU CAN PLAY THAT!?  |
01-30-2003, 03:58 PM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | Quote: Originally posted by Warwick0239
whats wrong with playing higher ground? | The RHCP version is the biggest cliche among new players with no knowledge of theory or playing in the pocket. That's one of the most played riffs at Guitar Center.
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01-30-2003, 04:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Harleysville, PA | | | so is higher ground like the stairway to heaven for bass? remember in waynes world when wayne trys to play stairway at the guitar store and the guy who works there points to the sign that says no stairway to heaven .....lol |
01-30-2003, 04:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Little Rock, AR | | i laugh at all the kids trying they're damndest to sound cool. then i ask them if they have a gig. they say no and i laugh again. BAM instant coolness  |
01-30-2003, 04:41 PM
| | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | Quote: Originally posted by Warwick0239
so is higher ground like the stairway to heaven for bass? remember in waynes world when wayne trys to play stairway at the guitar store and the guy who works there points to the sign that says no stairway to heaven .....lol | 
Pretty much. Although really any slap riff played over and over at high volume=Stairway.
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01-30-2003, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Quote: Originally posted by Warwick0239
whats wrong with playing higher ground? |
Also a lot of people were addressing it like RHCP wrote it... it was orignially a Stevie Wonder tune.
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01-30-2003, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Irving, TX | | Quote: Originally posted by Garrett Mireles
OMG YOU CAN PLAY THAT!? | Why yes, yes I can! In fact, I can also play it on my telephone!
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01-30-2003, 10:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | Quote: Originally posted by StupidMatt
Also a lot of people were addressing it like RHCP wrote it... it was orignially a Stevie Wonder tune. | Matt...you're so full of it, man. Yeah right...like Stevie even has an ounce of the musicianship of RHCP.
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