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06-27-2005, 08:38 PM
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Look at that, that is absoutly insane. Felix Pastorius. What a stretch...  |
06-27-2005, 08:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | I hope that's a short-scale bass!  I can only pull off 1-5 on my Jazz. |
06-28-2005, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Orlando/Coral Springs, Fl | | | ouch
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06-28-2005, 07:40 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | The D would buzz all the way if he played that 7th fret, he only reaches it by a few millimeters. If that's a fretless he's out of tune 
For the record, I can stretch 5 frets.. |
06-28-2005, 09:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Montreal, Canada | | I just checked, I can do it. It hurt my finger a litthe though!!
I'll try to post a picture. I can't do it and take a picture at the same time! 
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06-29-2005, 01:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Newcastle, Australia | | | Stretching a perfect fourth interval from about the 7th fret onwards is my comfortable limit. Also it can come in pretty handy in developing some cool contemporary sounds in the higher regions of the neck. |
06-29-2005, 04:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Austria , Villach | | | I can do that, but i use my Thumb instead of my Index Finger. |
06-29-2005, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | I can't do more than 1-6 with my index and middle. Thumb will put me right on top of 7. Good grief; that guy can reach almost an inch farther than me. Now those are bassist hands.
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06-29-2005, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | | I don't get it, He is stretchin 1-6, his pinky is on the 6th fretline, no? Anway, I believe it might be a 35", since he has got really big hands, I can vouch for that. |
06-29-2005, 03:35 PM
| | All-Things-Claypool Enthusiast | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Newington, CT | | | I'd like to be able to stretch that far. The best I can pull off is a sloppy 1-5, but my bass is a long scale, 35" i think?
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07-06-2005, 05:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Georgia | | | I could do that with a 6-string with ONE finger. Pshhh..
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07-06-2005, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Georgia | | | Wait... that doesn't make sense, nevermind.
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07-06-2005, 06:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Geddy_Lee
Look at that, that is absoutly insane. Felix Pastorius. What a stretch... | That is insane, i swear ive seen jaco do that before.. or in a picture.. it must be in the joints.. |
07-06-2005, 09:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | I can do 1-5, nothing special here. |
07-06-2005, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Redhotbassist That is insane, i swear ive seen jaco do that before.. or in a picture.. it must be in the joints.. | Youve seen jaco do that (effortlesly) in Portrait of Tracy. Although thats a 2-6, The pic is a 1-6 which is even more insane.
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07-06-2005, 10:32 PM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Vorago The D would buzz all the way if he played that 7th fret, he only reaches it by a few millimeters. If that's a fretless he's out of tune
For the record, I can stretch 5 frets.. | He is most likely grabbing an artificial harmonic with his pinky.
He is looking more like his dad every day!
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07-06-2005, 10:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | I've heard that Stanley Clarke has a tremendous reach. |
07-20-2005, 04:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England | | Found another pic of him doing the same thing but 5-12th fret.. 
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07-20-2005, 10:38 AM
| | Dumbing My Process Down | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Michigan | | Pffft. Jaco only needed FOUR strings to grab those harmonics.
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07-21-2005, 02:21 AM
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I can only do a buzzy 1-5
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