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10-10-2008, 08:44 AM
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10-10-2008, 08:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | Good Thread!
Yeah, bass guitar is definitely not an instrument to bring along to the campfire and impress your friends (Yes, I know there is such a thing as an acoustic bass).
People expect an acoustic guitar and a guitar sounding melody.
Imagine hauling all your gear plus a generator, setting up, you're solo by the way, then all of a sudden it's Boom-Ba-Doom-Ba-Doom-Ba-Doom. 
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10-10-2008, 08:53 AM
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Mainly children's songs.
For The Love of Money - O'Jays
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10-10-2008, 09:14 AM
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10-10-2008, 09:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: OC California | | | Wow I had no Idea that this happens to so many of us, I thought it was just me. My grandpa - who got me into music is always like " Let's hear a tune" so I will start playing
some oldies, and after a min. he will say "well can you play the whole thing"? I am like I just did... - Oh???... He says - like what the hell was that? So I just break out my acoustic Guitar and play the same song - and he is like hey thats great - I love the Beatles...
He doesn't really understand why bass is so dif. from Guitar.
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10-11-2008, 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by WyrdoBass Smoke on the Water !!!! | I was thinking that! But they might ask you to please stop... |
10-11-2008, 06:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Nova Scotia | | The melody from the Final Countdown is the right answer. Jeesh people 
As someone mentioned already I like doing the Night Court theme. |
10-11-2008, 07:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kingston, Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GassieBall Oh, I forgot, the bass "solo" to Sweet Child 'o Mine gets some cool responses. Brown Eye'd Girl, too. | I was gonna say Brown Eye'd Girl. That song is really built on the bass lines and around here if you are at a pub with a band playing, theres a high percentage it will be played, so most people young and old know it. |
10-13-2008, 05:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kirkland, WA | | | I used to play the theme song for "The Andy Griffith Show". I doubt very many people would recognize that one now though.
The theme from Law & Order gets notice. |
10-13-2008, 05:51 PM
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10-13-2008, 10:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Rochester, NY | | | I always play Runnin' With The Devil, it goes over great. |
10-13-2008, 11:04 PM
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'nuff said.
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10-13-2008, 11:55 PM
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Ibanez Freakazoid | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto | | I usually have similar problems during gig/reh after parties when the the rest of the band has either left or passed out (bass players are always the last men standing lol) - to entertain the dregs of the night by myself...so i learnt the following melodies; Money - already mentioned She Sells Sanctuary the Cult - play the ambient guitar melody with a bit of delay and its sweet! Welcome to the jungle/ its so easy GnR - these are pretty easy to pic (pun intended) if your guests have ever used a pub jukebox... Looks that kill Motley Crue - need i say any more???
...oh yeah and yes i am stuck in the 80's... 
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10-15-2008, 10:54 AM
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10-15-2008, 11:03 AM
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