|  | 
09-27-2001, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | Stu Hamm "Country Music"
Sign in to disble this ad
Does any one know how to make your bass sound like a banjo like stu hamm does in that one part of Country music?
I know how to play it, but it sounds like a bass playing it when i do it but when he does it it sounds awesome, like a banjo or some thing. Any one know some eq or something that will fix it? |
09-28-2001, 06:37 AM
|  | Leveraging Zymurgy | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: AL/GA | | | Are you playing it in the correct register? And what part are you referring to? The opening root-V vamp is hammered with the left hand up at the 3rd position, and the off-beat "chops" are hammered by the right hand down past the 12th fret on the D and G strings. After that, the banjo roll lick is simply a slapped hammer-on from F# to G on the D string, 4 to 5th fret, followed immediately by a plucked open G. Everything else is all over the board, so you're on your own there.... |
09-28-2001, 08:17 AM
|  | Layin' Down Time
Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | I think you might be talking about the main melody.
1. slap the F# on the D string
2. hammer up to the G on the D string
3. then pop the open G
That's the technique he uses to do the main melody of the song. After that, you just have to be really good.
__________________ Groove is Everything
Jon Packard
Roscoe #6181/#6259/#D010/#D049 Bunch of EFX for sale my photography website Quote:
Originally Posted by KeithBMI  Pacman. He serves out nice warm portions of kickass. | |
09-28-2001, 10:38 AM
|  | Obsessed with Overdrive | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Ventura, CA | | | Practice, my son. Use the force, Skywalker...
But they are right. The open G gives it that droning, doubling feel and sound that a banjo produces. |
09-28-2001, 11:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Sweden | | | Hamm has such a cool tone on that one. Does anyone know what bass he was playing back then?
__________________
"Bass is very easy to play.
There are only 12 notes."
- Joe Pacciano, C.G.P.
Those who can do, do
Those who can't do, teach
Those who can't teach, do research |
09-28-2001, 11:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | Quote: Originally posted by Oysterman
Hamm has such a cool tone on that one. Does anyone know what bass he was playing back then? | A pre-Fender Kubicki X Factor, I believe. Never my cup of tea. |
09-28-2001, 12:03 PM
| | Obsessed with Overdrive | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Ventura, CA | | Quote: Originally posted by Oysterman
Hamm has such a cool tone on that one. Does anyone know what bass he was playing back then? | They were pre Fender Kubicki's. I/ve played a few, loved the tone, Met Stu at the Bass Center in LA when it was there some 10 yrs ago or so. He was cool as hell. |
09-28-2001, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | While on the topic of Stu Hamm...
When/where did he play Linus & Lucy, and why can I not seem to find any recordings with him playing it?
__________________
"Aaah"...a sigh of pleasure escapes my lips as I run my fingers over her body. Her perfect, round curves leave me wondering, "How did I end up with her? Why me?"
But that thought becomes but a whisper, as I bring my fingers to gently caress her neck. Her beautiful, slim neck.
Then, without saying a word, I ease my hands down the length of her body, and slowly remove her G string... |
09-28-2001, 03:24 PM
| | Vorsprung durch Technik | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Cologne, Germany | | Quote: Originally posted by Sheep Man
While on the topic of Stu Hamm...
When/where did he play Linus & Lucy, and why can I not seem to find any recordings with him playing it? | It's part of <big><b>Quahogs anyone? (119,120 Whatever it Takes)</big></b>, a live solo.
It's on his <b><big>The Urge</big></b> album from 1991.
And contrary to some other opinions in this thread, I think his sound with the Kubicki is great, but I don't like his Fender sound at all.
__________________
"El sueno de la razon produce monstruos."
"The sleep of reason brings forth monsters."
Francisco
Goya
|
09-28-2001, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | no, i know the teqnique to play it, but when i play it it sounds like a bass playing the part not a banjo. I have his notation book so i know im playing the part right. |
09-28-2001, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Sweden | | It SHOULD like a bass is playing the part, for it IS a bass that is playing the part!  Doesn't sound anything like a banjo to me on the recording.
__________________
"Bass is very easy to play.
There are only 12 notes."
- Joe Pacciano, C.G.P.
Those who can do, do
Those who can't do, teach
Those who can't teach, do research |
09-28-2001, 04:58 PM
| | Leveraging Zymurgy | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: AL/GA | | | I'm not really sure what guage strings Stu uses or used back then, but I know that lots of slappers use really light strings. That'd account for your tonal differencel, too. |
09-29-2001, 01:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote: Originally posted by JMX
It's part of <big><b>Quahogs anyone? (119,120 Whatever it Takes)</big></b>, a live solo.
It's on his <b><big>The Urge</big></b> album from 1991.
And contrary to some other opinions in this thread, I think his sound with the Kubicki is great, but I don't like his Fender sound at all. | Cool, thanks.
And about Country Music sounding like a banjo...it doesn't sound anything like a banjo to me, either.
Of course, listening to it right after dueling banjos probably has something to do with that, too. 
__________________
"Aaah"...a sigh of pleasure escapes my lips as I run my fingers over her body. Her perfect, round curves leave me wondering, "How did I end up with her? Why me?"
But that thought becomes but a whisper, as I bring my fingers to gently caress her neck. Her beautiful, slim neck.
Then, without saying a word, I ease my hands down the length of her body, and slowly remove her G string... |
10-01-2001, 11:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ireland | | Quote: Originally posted by Pacman
I think you might be talking about the main melody.
1. slap the F# on the D string
2. hammer up to the G on the D string
3. then pop the open G
That's the technique he uses to do the main melody of the song. After that, you just have to be really good. |
Nearly there, its actually
1. slap the F# on the D string
2. hammer up to the G on the D string
3. Damp the D string and slap the G note (for that percussive 'click')
4. pop the open G.
on a side note , some of the tabs in the Stu Hamm Bass book are wrong, however the notation is correct....another reason to learn to read music.
..stupid tabs....
__________________
"A great bass player MAKES a great vocal happen while a mediocre one limits the singer. The bass player is like a pilot keeping the ship away from the rocks. It doesn't draw attention to its self but it's a great big pain when there's nothing wrong with a bass but nothing right about it either".
Bob Ohlsson, former Motown 'super' engineer.....the man responsible for THAT sound.
| | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
