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11-09-2009, 06:53 PM
| | | | does anyone play 2 or more notes simultaneously on bass?
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I don't personally know anybody besides myself who likes to play 2 notes at the same time on bass. I do it a lot when I'm just jamming with myself. I think it adds a lot of new options to solo music but I've only seen people pop chords. I just finger pick them with one finger, or if I want to do staccato I'll use two fingers then mute. Anyone else ever do it? |
11-09-2009, 06:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | 2 notes at the same time! This kid might be onto something!
What's next? 5 string basses? |
11-09-2009, 07:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Florida. | | | People do play chords on bass. |
11-09-2009, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | That there's whatchew call one of them there doublestops.
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11-09-2009, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Lesfunk 2 notes at the same time! This kid might be onto something!
What's next? 5 string basses? | wow you are a funny guy. The irony is I play a 5 string bass. |
11-09-2009, 07:54 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | It can be done on a 2 or more string bass- see post #4. 
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11-09-2009, 08:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Sure, I do it all the time.
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11-09-2009, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by lifeless gamer wow you are a funny guy. The irony is I play a 5 string bass. | Thanks!  |
11-09-2009, 10:30 PM
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11-09-2009, 10:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Red Hook, New York | | | I play chords all the time. Bar chords, power chords, open chords, etc. Sometimes with a dissonant accidental and loads of overdrive, just for fun. |
11-09-2009, 10:31 PM
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11-09-2009, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | I do this all the time. It's a hangover from playing keyboards.
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11-09-2009, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Illinois | | | Wait...Bassists are only supposed to play one note at a time?
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11-09-2009, 10:53 PM
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try this one:
root+5th slide to 2nd+6th. You will be king of the garage band people!
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11-09-2009, 11:07 PM
| | | | YES, and everyone here are clones. I think it's a good question. If you play out or watch lots of bassists, you see more traditional playing of single notes. I don't see all these bassists playing chords/doublestops/whatever. I was forced to play guitar first before my parents would let me have a bass, and it def rubbed off on my style. I LOVE adding thickness and tension with chording. I like muting, pick scrapes, etc, that I don't hear many bassists in bands doing. I say "in bands" because so many people here are bedroom players. That's great, but it seems most bassists out playing locally are either traditional root players, slappers, or ego tapping shredders. I think chords are really under used to my ears. |
11-09-2009, 11:19 PM
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11-09-2009, 11:25 PM
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11-10-2009, 12:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Depends on the song - I play a lot of doublestops in one of the songs in my bands repertoire. I read somewhere that Jonesy played "monster" power chords in Heartbreaker. E.g.:
g 9
d 7
a x
e 5
My fingers aren't big enough to pull that off.
Oh but I do play power chords in another one of my band's songs, near the end for the climax. I lose a lot of the pulse of the song when I do that, but it creates a dynamic difference from the other parts & it's fun to do (and I hope fun to watch - part of why I do it is because it's the first song we do & I want to look like I'm rocking out, to give the audience "permission" to have a good time.)
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11-16-2009, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Germany (org. Preston, UK) | | My first thought was Les Claypool, as he was the first bassist I saw doing this and well, monkey see monkey do I often play fourths on the D and G string and I love 7er chords (for example D7, root+Maj3rd+min7th) not sure what the propper term is, feel free to fill me in) minus the root now and again Quote:
Originally Posted by NKUSigEp Wasn't there a band named after an insect a while back that had a bass player that did this? | hmm, the beatles?^^ I can't figure it out 
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11-16-2009, 08:20 PM
| | | | I do lots of that stuff. Lots of players do it cos they want to play major sevenths and all sort of jazz chords and stuff, which I don't tend to use it for. I use it mostly for fifths and fourths, for a kind of thickening effect whilst keeping the low end nice and strong. I especially got into inverted power chords recently (sounds like an accordian if you switch from inverted to root position power chords).
I also have a new bassline which I'm dying to unleash which uses a clave with my thumb with a mozambique with my other two fingers, and it sounds pounding and menacing and like a huge groove. You don't see many bass players doing that let me tell you, but it sounds awesome. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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