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09-30-2012, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Fredericton, NB, Canada | | | "get a b3k".
Best advice ever!
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09-30-2012, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | "Shut up and play yer guitar."
- Frank Zappa
OK, not to me personally, but still ... 
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09-30-2012, 03:57 PM
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10-10-2012, 01:51 PM
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"Forget that you're left handed and just play this guitar."
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10-19-2012, 12:58 PM
| | | | Dude, your timing sucks. You need to practice for a while with a metronome all the time before you play with me again. That was from my wife. She was right. My bass playing and rhythm guitar playing is much better now and I can actually play with other people! hahahah!
Also, to paraphrase Jimmy Vaughn, Learn to sing. There a million guitar and bass players who are better than you. Not everyone can sing. That is some truth. LOL!
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10-19-2012, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | | When I first started my teacher told me "there's no money above the 7th fret". It taught me to keep my pocket tight, grooving and how to vary tempo within the signature.
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10-19-2012, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by fretster  I think of it more simply as a cycling on 4ths, all in one scale:
4 - 7 - 3 - 6 - 2 - 5 - 1
It's different than your teacher is suggesting, but the Gm is the relative minor to Bb, and the scale is the same just with different starting positions. | Shouldn't it be :
2 - 5 - 1 - 4 - 7 - 3 - 6 if you want to think in Bb major for the whole thing.
Otherwise it is clear you have a Bb major sound for until Ebmaj7 then you go in Gmin7 (the harmonic movement make it sound that way ).
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10-19-2012, 01:37 PM
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10-30-2012, 01:34 AM
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Originally Posted by dtripoli When I started out playin' many, many years ago, a patient and kindly musician
upon listening to me hammer and whack away on my cheap bass suggested;
*Play through your mistakes
*It's not how many notes you play but what you do with the few you do.
*If in doubt about what to play/fill in between changes, play nothing
*Embrace the space
*Meter is king
It took me 20 years to really "get" what he said. | very Lao Tzu/Zen.
It is the clay we work with, but it is the space inside the pot we use, it is the.."
Im sure if the "man Lao Tzu" had been a real present day person he'd say "it is the guitar we work with, but the air inside the body we use". Quote:
Originally Posted by HashbrownCOBM This is kind of equing advise but "Mids are your friends. Just because you play "bass" doesn't mean you have to crank the bass." Also I'm a fan of "Don't stop if you mess up." and "Less is more." | I have a hard time getting the lower sound of the G and D strings to show up in my bass. It's probably due to a cheap amp, but this sounds completely valid. The "bass" I need from my smaller strings is muted, while my "bass" from lower strings tends to overpower the higher freqs.Of course, it's probably all about gear. |
10-30-2012, 03:19 AM
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10-30-2012, 03:23 AM
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10-30-2012, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by davec What is the best musical advice that you have ever got?, and who gave it to you? | Practice. Patience. Perseverance.
Words passed along to me by my teacher who learned them from his teacher.
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11-03-2012, 02:58 AM
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11-12-2012, 07:28 PM
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11-12-2012, 08:02 PM
| | | | Every wrong note is only a 1/2 step away from being correct. Next time the note comes, play it up or down a 1/2 step.
And when you play a wrong note or make a mistake , give the guitarist a funny look. Everyone in the audience will think they screwed up.
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11-14-2012, 09:10 AM
| | | | i just started playing. best advise so far is root note and fifth. you can't go wrong. |
11-14-2012, 01:00 PM
|  | some guy user | | | | | Play with the metronome at high values; once or twice a bar, every other bar etc.
Youll find out about REAL sense of time- metronome set to 4onthefloor is a useful tool, but can be CRIPPLING instead of helpful if relied on. Using 1 to a bar or so will keep you honest while teaching you how to keep honest time on your own AT THE SAME TIME |
11-14-2012, 01:25 PM
| | | | "Stop playing that Scott LaFaro s**t."
--my bass teacher at Berklee, the late John Neves |
11-14-2012, 02:20 PM
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11-14-2012, 03:46 PM
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Upon auditioning for my current (soul and motown) band over a year ago, the keyboard player's first words to me were 'you can put that ****ing pick down and play with your fingers if you want to play with us'...........
| seems pretty closed minded. Seems like how you sound would be the important thing...
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