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11-10-2006, 10:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | I'm not fond of that tone for myself, but I can see it being great for rock playing. Doing that on a fretless sure gives that sound a different flavor. Plus, that guy is a monster player to begin with.
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11-10-2006, 11:30 AM
| | | | I would like some personal experiances. I think most fretless players must have did it once or twice? |
11-10-2006, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | AcidShred,
I see that you're a recent member of TB. Welcome! You're gonna' love it here!
I encourage you to check out bassist Michael Manring. Do a YouTube search. He doesn't play with a pick, but he's an amazing fretless bassist that can do what we can't even imagine.
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11-10-2006, 11:53 AM
|  | Forever in debt to your priceless advice | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Methuen, MA USA | | | I have used a pick often on fretless. It's not much different than picking on a fretted, as Tony shows in the clip. I use it when I need a more agressive attack or am playing a bunch of doublestops or chords. |
11-10-2006, 07:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Alabama | | | Recently I've been working with the Wedgie 5mm soft rubber pick. The good news is, it has NO pick noise, and an attack that sounds exactly like the soft part of a finger. The bad news is, these picks only last me about 2 weeks max before the tip is worn away too far to use anymore. |
11-11-2006, 03:56 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Hmm...I'm not really digging that tone there...though I must commend him for doing something that you certainly wouldn't expect to hear coming from a fretless.
I mean, the fact that it's a fretless bass aside, it just doesn't sound good to me, it's so "out of control" almost. Give me a nice jazz bridge tone with some fingerstyle any day! |
11-11-2006, 04:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I've done it in the past, and it works. Different strokes for different folks. I'm not a huge fan of it, but I'll do it where needed.
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11-12-2006, 12:29 AM
| | | | I do it all the time. It sounds like exactly what it is, playing a fretless bass with a pick. There's really no good way to describe it. |
11-12-2006, 12:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | wow
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Originally Posted by Bassist4Life AcidShred,
I see that you're a recent member of TB. Welcome! You're gonna' love it here!
I encourage you to check out bassist Michael Manring. Do a YouTube search. He doesn't play with a pick, but he's an amazing fretless bassist that can do what we can't even imagine.
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11-12-2006, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by AcidShred | That's quite an impressive performance, but there's nothing in that riffage that won't sound just as good with a fretted bass.
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11-12-2006, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | | True, doesnt sound very different from a fretted when used like a pick for that, but i might be wrong since it was long ago i played a fretted. I like that clip tho, heard it before. Sounds good for rock and would prolly work w metal^^ |
11-12-2006, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by El-Bob im speachless |  What's up?
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11-12-2006, 05:56 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Montreal,Canada | | | next will be using a pick on a big double bass. |
11-13-2006, 05:47 AM
| | Forever in debt to your priceless advice | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Methuen, MA USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by peaveyuser next will be using a pick on a big double bass. | No, they have bows for that.
Who cares how the bass is played as long as the resulting sound fits with the music. |
11-13-2006, 08:44 AM
| | | | one word: BEAUTIFUL |
11-13-2006, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY. By JFK. | | | Download the songs Rosetta Stoned and Intension by Tool. The bassist Justin Chancellor used a fretless Wal with a pick on both those songs.
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11-13-2006, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fern Park, Florida | | I use a pick most of the time, and I thought that clip was tasteless..way too much..something?..
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11-13-2006, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Christopher That's quite an impressive performance, but there's nothing in that riffage that won't sound just as good with a fretted bass. | But it would probably sound more in tune. |
11-13-2006, 09:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Raleigh NC | | Sting played most of the early Police stuff on a fretless P-bass with a pick. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ccc8_5leR50 | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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