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10-13-2007, 12:51 PM
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I have an audition on Monday, but I was more focussed on needing to know if I'd need any specific technique. This style of music isn't my first choice to play in, but I'll take what I can get. Is it easier to play 'with a pick' (in quotes because I don't use a pick ever; if I'm picking, it's just my fingers pretending to hold one and doing it themselves) or with fingers? Are there any specific songs I could check out that are a typical hardcore/punk/screamo/whatever song, which would give me a headsup as to what my playing is going to be like? My assumption with the vast majority of punk music is that the bassists aren't spectacular (there are a few, I know), and mostly just pumping root notes.
So really anything worth knowing about playing bass in a fast-paced non-metal band would be appreciated.
Cheers
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10-13-2007, 01:05 PM
| | | | i think this genre demands you to attack the root note with a pick ...like your life depends on it....and to do the cheesy one semitone below and up warble...sort of rockerbilly style.
this may well get u thro..good luck. |
10-13-2007, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | It's not really my type of music. I just wanted to point out that I use the same technique as you if I want a pick sound. I shape my fingers like I'm holding a pick and strike the strings with my nail. |
10-13-2007, 01:13 PM
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10-13-2007, 01:18 PM
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10-13-2007, 01:21 PM
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10-13-2007, 01:30 PM
| | | Sid Vicious was the greatest bass player ever 
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10-13-2007, 01:33 PM
| | | | HE WAS THE GREATEST.......PUNK |
10-14-2007, 12:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Wilmington, N.C. | | | Play like you would at home, don't put on a fake show for this band because when you're actually in and start writing music with the band your real style will come out. So they're enevitably going to see the real you, why shock them and risk later getting removed, give them the real deal from the get go.
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10-14-2007, 01:37 PM
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That's what I was doing back in '77
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10-15-2007, 05:10 AM
| | | | depend on the style. Actually i believed their is no limit in music. I'm actually in a punk/alternative rock band, but one song the bassline compose was a slap and pop funk stuff, and another was a hip-hop/groovy/korn-ish bassline.
so don't put a limit, just play the style you like but at the same time learn the style of your band and so you can be a more versatile player as a whole. |
10-15-2007, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Riverside | | Hardcore slash punk?
there is quite a bit of difference there...
but i guess the bass playing style would be around the same
but the fact of the matter is they are still musicians
and still appreciate a GOOD bass player
show them you can play fast with a pick, but also you can play a good groove
my 4 cents 
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10-15-2007, 09:57 AM
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10-15-2007, 11:30 AM
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10-15-2007, 11:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas | | do you mean normal hardcore??? or some odd sub-genre
im educated in that realm, seeing as im in 3 hardcore bands 
nooo..... you dont need a pick i never use picks,
one way actually it really livens up the music, is play complex, fast bass lines, like
like metal bass lines, but under harcore guitars, it really sounds amazing,
cause once you get into that groove, guitars and basses doin real fast,
man, its so tight and together.
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