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12-03-2005, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Towson, MD/Seattle, WA | | | Playing fast (metal) fingerstyle on an 8-string?
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I mean OCTAVED 8-string 
I've been thinking about saving for a Dean Edge 8. They play quite nice, and I like fingerpicking on the one I played.
Besides Tony Senatore, I don't see too many players playing octave basses fingerstyle- especially not in metal. Heck, ARE there any 8-stringers in metal? None come to mind.
Basically, can anyone give advice as to fingerpicking technique on 8-string? I get the sense it might be differrent....
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12-03-2005, 04:28 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sweden | | | Why not just buy an octave pedal? |
12-03-2005, 05:05 PM
| | | | I think most people use a pick for those things. |
12-03-2005, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Towson, MD/Seattle, WA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Suckbird Why not just buy an octave pedal? | It would feel like cheating. I dunno, I just dig 8 strings.
Plus, the Edge 8 I'm looking at costs only a little more than a Electro-Harmonix POG. |
12-03-2005, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by WillBuckingham I think most people use a pick for those things. | Yes, but I don't really plan on it.  |
12-03-2005, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | I'm thinking it would sound pretty badass. Go for it, and post some recordings while you're at it. 
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12-03-2005, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by lemur821 I'm thinking it would sound pretty badass. Go for it, and post some recordings while you're at it. | Thank you, sir. I want to do a slow, dirgy-but-melodic doom metal band (doom metal=Black Sabbath-influenced) with my buddy who I do a tongue-in-cheek horror/funk/metal band with, via my bass and Sansamp BDDI and his FruityLoops drum stuff over the internet. You can check out our stuff at www.myspace.com/doublebarrelboomstick - it's simple stuff I'm playing, and "JSMBS" is a bunch of distorted bass overdubs. |
12-04-2005, 03:05 AM
| | | | Metallica used a 12 string octaved bass on 'Wherever I May Roam'
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12-04-2005, 03:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Yuma, Az | | | dUG from King's X regularly plays 8 and 12 stringers, with and without a pick. I believe the strings are set up slightly differently on some models to accomodate this. I know Hamer used to put the primary string on top, for picking, or below the octave string, for plucking, on different models. Either way, go for it and post a clip. I was eyeballing the Edge 8 as well, let us know how it works out.
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12-04-2005, 06:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Finland, Jakobstad | | | Joey Demaio from Manowar sometimes use an 8-string octaved bass. I think he use it on the song "Bride Of Death". | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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