any new techniques

[nate 0 jt]

i play:
finger style(all five fingers)
slap/pop
tap
strum chords
pick(sometimes)

anyone know any differant techniques to get some differant sounds?

[BassDude24]

It is a cross between finger style and strumming with a pick for chords, it is similar to what guitar players call hybrid picking. I will strum a chord with the fleshy part of my ring finger and "pluck" individual notes with my thumb and index finger, it creates a cool affect and it doesn't get the "fake" bass sound like a pick will.

[Yvon]

ever heard of the houm papa?
I have no idea how to write that...
it's a thecnique Abraham Laboriel worked out.
He talk about it in an old bass player issue, or you might be able to see him doing a clinic. It's quite hard to explain.

[gruffpuppy]

hey nate like yvon said Abraham Laboriel.
if you can find his tape beginning funk bass and have a little cash i would pick that up. he doesn't necessarily show you how to do the things he does but its a good tape and with some practice its pretty easy to pick up most of it. lots of right hand screen shots.
he also has another tape i forget the name but its a little much for me. real long and it wears you out just watching it.

[Boplicity]

Nate O jt, you mentioned things you do with your hands. But how about trying some electronic tricks, such as using a wah pedal, a volume pedal, distortion, chorus, etc. or any one of various "effects" to add a new dimension to your sound?

JO

[rickbass]

Ever try slide bass??? I have. The glass slides/Coricidin bottles guitarists use don't sound too hot, but a piece of copper tubing sounds okay with flatwounds.

[Phat Ham]

how about false harmonics.

[Niels Keijzer]

Eh, Phat,

Don't want to sound annoying at all, but it is spelled: Nietzsche.




Gawd, I'm annoying.


Oh, by the way:
If you play fretless, you can try to slide your harmonics. That's cool.
Too bad I can't use all these techniques in real life, without a guitarist asking me to stop f*cking around and play what I should play.
Which isn't much.

[The Mock Turtle Regulator]

slide bass with distortion sounds great (as used by Morphine's Mark Sandman)- I'm using a steel slide, and I can get a surprisingly good version of the slide guitar in Pink Floyd's "One Of These Days" (the regular bass line slapped with delay from my Zoom 506 sounds good too).

[Boplicity]

Nate O jt, in General Instruction, there is a current thread by Patrick Roberts called " Bass Chords." It even has a response by our esteemed Michael Dimin. The technique of playing chords, not arpeggiated, but several notes at a time would be one you don't mention having explored. It might open up an entirely new dimension to your playing. Just a thought. Anyway, check it out if you are interested.

JO