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04-14-2003, 07:34 PM
| | formerly James Hetfield | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | | I (think I ) developed a new technique!
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I think i made up a new technique!
Play the bass normally (with fingers) then turn your hand 90 degrees to the right (away from the pickups [so your hands are parallel with the strings and your fingers are moving towards the bridge] ) and play, but use your finger nails. it creates a scratchy sound, but the notes are still auditable! (sp?)
I dunno if this can be classed as a new technique, but i think it sounds cool. even better with a moderate amount of chorus effect on it. 
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04-17-2003, 12:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Arvada, Colorado | | It can be called the kirby scratch
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04-17-2003, 12:28 AM
| | | | on my acoustic bass it sounds like a sitar almost...neat!
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04-17-2003, 10:44 AM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | When using a pick, I do the same thing as a fill,
a 'pick scrape' by holding the pick 90 degrees to the string, and scrathing the string, or strings.
One gets a different sound depending on what string, where it is scraped and the frequency of the
scrape. I use a roundwound string. Started using this technique about 17 years ago.
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04-17-2003, 03:01 PM
| | | I hate to break it to you, but I know of one bassist who has already done this.
Brace yourself
Fieldy (I believe he does this during Freak on a Lesh) 
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04-26-2003, 06:28 PM
| | formerly James Hetfield | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | Quote: Originally posted by LiquidMidnight
I hate to break it to you, but I know of one bassist who has already done this.
Brace yourself
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Fieldy (I believe he does this during Freak on a Lesh)
| When? What time in the song?
I know Traa from P.O.D does a similar thing during alive, but not the same as mine. 
No...of all the people to make me look like an idiot..it had to be fieldy didnt it 
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04-28-2003, 09:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: England, N.Yorks. | | | Does that not screw up your wrist out of interest? |
04-28-2003, 01:39 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | I think Percy Jones also does it. He also pulls his G string off the fretboard and plays behind the nut, at the headstock, too. |
04-28-2003, 10:19 PM
| | formerly James Hetfield | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | Quote: Originally posted by yoshi
Does that not screw up your wrist out of interest? | not really, because you cant really do it standing, sitting only and when you do do it sitting, you tend to bend at the elbow more
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04-30-2003, 07:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC | | | Add Gary Willis to the list of people who do it. He makes it sound pretty damn cool.... |
05-01-2003, 01:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jasper County, Texas | | | I've done something similar to that with my distortion on, it makes a pretty cool sound.
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05-01-2003, 09:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | It's pretty much a pick scrape without a pick. I've done this before... I've never written anything with it, but, meh.
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05-01-2003, 09:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Seattle | | Quote: Originally posted by LiquidMidnight
Freak on a Lesh
| They got somethin' against Phil? 
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05-01-2003, 11:56 PM
| | formerly James Hetfield | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | |
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05-02-2003, 01:38 AM
| | | | sorry to bust your cap, but i'm almost 100% sure les does this dude, _-soto-_ |
05-02-2003, 01:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hertfordshire U.K! | | Tried it....... didn't work very well on my flatwounds 
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05-02-2003, 12:33 PM
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05-02-2003, 03:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Braintree, Massachusetts, USA | | Quote: Originally posted by Brad Johnson
I think Percy Jones also does it. He also pulls his G string off the fretboard ... | i used to do that. i'd pull the G WAY off the fretboard, and downward (towards the bass' body) until the string hit the body, and add or relieve pressure to change the pitch. i do it on the pickups too.
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