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View Poll Results: What do you like to play? | |
Fast lines (arpeggiated/eight-note like sections)
|    | 21 | 50.00% | |
Slow, melodic lines
|    | 24 | 57.14% | |
Moving Harmonic lines
|    | 20 | 47.62% | |
Weird lines (quarter tones/strange fingerings/etc.)
|    | 13 | 30.95% | |
Other... please specify
|    | 11 | 26.19% |
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08-26-2008, 05:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | |  What do you like to play?
My fellow bassists:
I have recently been posed a question by one of my mentors who is beginning to write a new piece. He asked me, "what do bassists like to play?" And I couldn't come up with a clear answer.
So I pose the question to you... what do you like to play?
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08-26-2008, 05:03 PM
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08-26-2008, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Yes. |
08-26-2008, 06:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Hillsboro, Oregon | | | Whatever sounds good. So pretty much it's up to you what you like to play. |
08-26-2008, 06:57 PM
|  | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | I voted all of them. |
08-26-2008, 07:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | If it's musical.. I like play...maybe not polkas  |
08-26-2008, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Annapolis, Maryland | | | I like to play the Bass.. |
08-26-2008, 08:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fredonia, NY | | | emergency! ha! call the doctor! |
08-26-2008, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Brooklyn | | | no polkas even. lol. no but really, i would so seriously play a polka and have the time of my life. it'd be like primus minus the drugs.
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08-27-2008, 09:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Georgia | | | whatever fits the song.
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08-27-2008, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Williams  My fellow bassists:
I have recently been posed a question by one of my mentors who is beginning to write a new piece. He asked me, "what do bassists like to play?" And I couldn't come up with a clear answer.
So I pose the question to you... what do you like to play? | There isn't any one particular thing. It's all about context for me, and given different contexts, all of those techniques could be either just what is needed, or completely inappropriate. I want to play with good musicians. I want to play good music. I want to deal with competent, friendly yet professional people who know how to communicate.
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08-27-2008, 09:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Houston, TX | | | I only like to play out of tune notes in the thumb position. |
08-27-2008, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Northwest IN | | | I just like to play with feeling. It makes me happy and the bands I play with seem to like it, so it works out good for everyone.
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08-27-2008, 01:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Is this the double bass forum? I like to play whatever best serves the music and makes the tune happen. |
08-27-2008, 02:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Marvelous, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Sypher Is this the double bass forum? I like to play whatever best serves the music and makes the tune happen. | +1000. The composer should feel free to write whatever, with only regards to the physical limitations of the instrument (not the player). It's the player's job to be the composer's advocate. |
09-04-2008, 01:52 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Unless you are playing improvised music with no preconceived ideas... 
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09-04-2008, 03:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | In that case you are the composer and deciding what best serves the composition in your head. |
09-04-2008, 03:49 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Surely that would be responding to what's around you and contributing to a group/ensemble sound....
If I had a fixed idea in my head - then it would not be spontaneous improvisation, but rather, me imposing my musical vision on others... 
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