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02-04-2013, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by backup  i absolutely hate the sound of solo bass guitar. those six string bass players playing melodies like guitarists. it sounds awful to me 
but if youre talking about playing regular bass parts but as the sole instrument. well thats better.
however, bass is an instrument designed to be played in a collective. | Bass is whatever I decide it will be when I'm playing it.
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02-05-2013, 04:59 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Bass is whatever I decide it will be when I'm playing it. | And that is for every bass player 
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02-05-2013, 05:09 AM
| | | I really am not convinced if this particular one 'works ' for me...but here it is anyways... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zPyauaJpWQ
Not electric, but great I think...is Dave Holland's Ones All album
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02-05-2013, 05:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N.H. | | | An old Jazz standard comes to mind.
FEVER, has been done really well with DB and female vocalist. |
02-05-2013, 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by MrLenny1 An old Jazz standard comes to mind.
FEVER, has been done really well with DB and female vocalist. | It has indeed!
+1.
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02-05-2013, 05:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Grand Rapids, MI | | Bass player "Lydia on Bass", does it all the time on YouTube. Here is just the first video I pulled as an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Ma...e_gdata_player
Edit: realized this one has a drum track on it, but you get the point. She is pretty cool!!
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02-05-2013, 05:52 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Central Ca | | Suprised this guy wasn't mentioned. He's surely a Monster player and sings (though I don't care for the vocals) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU7GwahuVVg
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02-05-2013, 07:14 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Nashville,TN | | Seriously, it's been 37 years since Portrait of Tracy and School Days, 50 years since The Village Vanguard Sessions, 70+ years since Jimmy Blanton and 200 years since Dragonetti and we're still worried about bass as a solo instrument? Next we'll be wondering whether Rock and Roll is here to stay!
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02-11-2013, 11:30 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Brubaker Guitars | | | | | Listen to any song where James Jamerson is playing. He played solo bass all the time but within context of the song. Pure Genious IMO.
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02-11-2013, 11:57 AM
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02-11-2013, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Play Less Cool Do you know any solo musician who does this? | I do ... and don't much care for his stuff.
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02-12-2013, 07:35 PM
|  | Greetings from Madison, WI | | | | | Christian McBride plays a great accompaniment to a singer named Dana Lauren playing "On the Sunny Side of the Street." I heard this on the radio then had to buy it on iTunes. I accompany my young daughters when they sing this song. Very fun to play. |
02-12-2013, 09:48 PM
| | | | Lydia on bass 7 ...on YouTube ......reallllllll nice! |
02-14-2013, 03:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | I've never been big on the solo 6 stringers I've seen but then I'm not a modern jazz guy which is what it sounds like to me.
Anyway, I know this isn't exactly what you had in mind but I've been tempted to get the Fishman Powerchord pedal just to jam with only a drummer and cover bands like the Black Keys and White Stripes. Stupid non-bass-player-having bands.
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02-14-2013, 03:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | | | Jeff Schmidt.
Go check him out. His album Outré is absolutely outstanding.
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02-14-2013, 03:35 PM
|  | mi la ré sol | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Electric bass isn't very convenient to use as a solo instrument.
It is thought to be monophonic, it has that huge phat tone and is so far away from the human voice that it can provide a fundation but no real layer of sound to back up your voice.
It can be done and with talent it can be done well.
I just find it unpractical for such use. |
02-14-2013, 06:26 PM
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