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05-11-2003, 11:33 PM
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how many notes can you play going down and up with your right hand?
i saw victor wootens 98 bass day, and he explains some stuffs on getting most notes out of one stroke... how many can people play?^^ just curious
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05-11-2003, 11:43 PM
|  | You don't want to do that. Trust me. Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: atlanta ga | | i can chord across all 8 strings on my (non-doubled) 8 string basses and play 8 notes at a time. i find i get more mileage, however, when i play fewer that have more meaning. 
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05-12-2003, 12:19 AM
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05-12-2003, 02:06 AM
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JT...you're a man!
no wait...you're a dragon!!
no, you're a dragon-man!!!
and the dragon comes in the NIIIIGHHT! | hee hee. is that a dio song?
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05-12-2003, 08:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: near New Orleans, Louisiana | | | Yo john,
Theoretically you can do hammer-ons from open strings on your 8 stringer for up to 40 notes in one strum and sound like garbage.
I think Mr. Wooten assumed that it would be used with taste, not so much for extremeness. But I 'm guilty of liking extreme (which is why I covet John's basses).
On a side note John, I took up my classical guitar again to relearn treble clef, while I relearn my bass clef. This is to help prepare me for when I get my "Turneresque" 7 or 8 string bass. (I want to be able to read both clef on that bad boy) I haven't been pumped to practice sight reading in years.
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05-12-2003, 05:38 PM
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05-12-2003, 06:43 PM
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05-13-2003, 07:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: near New Orleans, Louisiana | | | Ah! You're talking scales. The original post refered to notes not scales. So I still say 40 notes possible (though highly unlikely, and unmusical) on an 8 string.
But I think Vics original intention was not to get as many possible notes from a single sweep of a thumb, instead he probably meant to use economy of motion in a tasteful way (or at least musical way). He is well known to use open string plucks to reduce the burden of the left hand, and hammer-ons to reduce the burden of the right; dividing the work of a busy bass line between hands in a fashion.
So yes, my theory of the 40 notes is ridiculous; but it does address Claypools thread (the way he worded it, concerning John's basses).
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05-13-2003, 01:25 PM
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05-13-2003, 01:43 PM
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05-13-2003, 01:58 PM
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Four on a 4-string bass, five on a 5-stringer, six on a 6-stringer, seven on a 7-stringer, etc... |
05-13-2003, 03:13 PM
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Ah! You're talking scales. The original post refered to notes not scales. So I still say 40 notes possible (though highly unlikely, and unmusical) on an 8 string.
| A scale, melody, chord consists of notes arranged in a particular order i.e. intervals between them. |
05-13-2003, 11:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Seoul Korea | | | okay now how about slapping?
how many notes can every one play at one up and down motion in slapping?...
i use 4fingers for plucking, and if i count the hammered note, i get about 8.. on a 4 string..
very sloppy, but gettin there
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05-14-2003, 01:27 AM
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05-14-2003, 03:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK, Essex | | | I think the techniqute you're reffering to is a guitar one, called sweep picking. This consists of (normally) single position scale playing. Pick a note on the first string, hammer on a 1 or 2 notes, then pick the next string, hammer, next string etc. But all done in one relatively quick strum. You can then pull off really fast runs.
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05-14-2003, 09:53 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by jazzbo
0 | Is that an open string JB?
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05-14-2003, 12:46 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by ConU
Is that an open string JB? | This is to say that I can't slap. |
05-14-2003, 02:56 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by jazzbo
This is to say that I can't slap. | It was my weak attempt at humor.Sorry. 
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