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12-24-2009, 06:45 PM
| | | | Fretless with a pick?
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I have a rock gig that requires some pick playing and my only current bass is fretless, will that sound good in a rock setting?
Is the Fretless/Pick combo blasphemy? Does it sound good with a full band?
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12-24-2009, 06:47 PM
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12-24-2009, 06:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Eastern Wisconsin | | | Go play with a full band, and then you will know.
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Originally Posted by SurferJoe46 Bass tone isn't rocket surgery anyway. | |
12-24-2009, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | If you rock it like you own it, it'll sound good.
Sincerity will overshadow anything unconventional about your rig or your technique.
Sure, fretless with a pick is an odd combination, but why shouldn't it work? Just play your heart out. No one will question anything! |
12-24-2009, 06:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Eastern Wisconsin | | | Then again, maybe if your rock gig "requires" pick playing, it "requires" frets, too.
No. Play how you want. Play what you've got. And play what sounds good.
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Originally Posted by SurferJoe46 Bass tone isn't rocket surgery anyway. | |
12-24-2009, 06:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | looks like you have no choice. just do it... how bad can it be?  |
12-24-2009, 06:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | Try it, you may find that fretless isn't just for jazz players. I get some great sound doing it, add some fuzz and the growl goes up!!
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12-24-2009, 06:55 PM
| | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVLOJDX-fM
Watch this video, all your doubts about playing fretless with a pick will be flushed away. (NB: he doesn't actually whip out the pick till about a quarter of the way in ) |
12-24-2009, 10:33 PM
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12-24-2009, 10:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Nelson, B.C., Canada | | | IMO, it's sometimes better, depends on the bass
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12-24-2009, 10:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: boonville,new york...and proud | | | i have done it...was in your exact situation and i made it work well for me |
12-24-2009, 10:54 PM
| | | | I think it sounds really cool!!
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12-25-2009, 03:31 PM
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12-25-2009, 03:35 PM
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12-26-2009, 01:50 AM
| | | | cool sound man! how did you get that tone? what overdrive are you using? |
12-26-2009, 02:10 AM
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12-27-2009, 12:27 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Clovis, CA | | | those vids were badass. i love that tone, especially with the pick, cos i dont usually like the sound of pickbass. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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