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10-06-2005, 06:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | Describe Your Playing
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If you could only use a remark to describe your playing, what would it be? I think a good description of mine could be summed up in a joke: 1985 called, it want's it's licks back!
I say that because listening to all the super fast double slappers and chord soloists on this forum, my technique is clearly from a simpler time. |
10-06-2005, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Lowell, MA | | | Erykah Badu called and said she wants me to play in her live band. I would say that sums up my playing style.
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10-06-2005, 07:27 PM
| | | | Im a pretty experimental musician. "Roccojacojamersonpercyjonesesque"! Or "Next inline for the Trey Gunn chair". Im a busy player when I can get away with it but that's from playing in trios and having to cover alot of ground. With my current progressive jazz group, I play alot of chords and harmonics if there's a place for it or im playing more freestyle musics. Plus, I use alot of strange tunings and effects to get harmonic chords and ambient textures on quieter tunes. My drummer calls me the "Andy Summers of the bass" haha. Some guitarists Ive played with hate me. haha! But I only try to enhance the music, not show off. Im not big on bass solos. I don't think they're necessary but if it means the guitarist can change his broken strings, Im always game for my spotlight dance haha.
But on more commercial or traditional material, Im pretty much in the pocket or on the one, bubbling along with the drummer like Rocco Prestia or Victor Wooten. |
10-06-2005, 08:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NEW JERSEY | | | I'm a ska kinda guy. Think of me as sublime meets james brown....
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10-07-2005, 12:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Crap. |
10-07-2005, 04:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Germany | | | I like dead notes and blue notes and try to use them whenever I feel they make sense musically.
I like to describe the stuff I play as groove orientated rather than melodic as the fact that most bass lines aren't really melodies and sometimes sound pretty "abstract" when played alone was one of the things that made me pick up bass in the first place. |
10-07-2005, 05:39 AM
| | low ended | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Southern Ohio | | | I just get by. |
10-07-2005, 06:29 AM
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Artist: Genz Benz/ AccuGroove/MLP Basses | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The O-X baby! (Oxford Mi.) | | | WWWLD
What Would Will Lee Do!!!!!
Or
WWCRD
What Would Chuck Rainey Do!!
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10-07-2005, 06:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: London ON | | Very Cool  Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jason Carota Erykah Badu called and said she wants me to play in her live band. I would say that sums up my playing style. | |
10-07-2005, 06:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: USA | | | Pocket.
That's all any bass player ought EVER need to describe his/her playing.
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10-07-2005, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jason Carota Erykah Badu called and said she wants me to play in her live band. I would say that sums up my playing style. | I saw her play live on Dave Chappelle's show....some guy laying it down with a flame natural Modulus Genesis 5 and an Aguilar DB750. Was that you?
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10-07-2005, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Bass Awkwards
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10-07-2005, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Victoria, Australia | | | Pocket - what's that? |
10-07-2005, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | I'll just describe mine with a picture: 
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10-07-2005, 09:55 AM
|  | Hip No Ties | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York, NY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Dr. PhunkyPants Pocket.
That's all any bass player ought EVER need to describe his/her playing. | 
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10-07-2005, 10:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Very Ed-like.
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10-07-2005, 10:21 AM
|  | Mayday! Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Jackson, MS | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by The Owl I'll just describe mine with a picture: | Snarling? |
10-07-2005, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: London | | | Hard attack, high fills. Like the bottom string. |
10-07-2005, 10:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by abark000 Snarling? | Definitely, snarling, roaring and grooving.  Fingerstyle Snarling if you will.
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10-07-2005, 10:28 AM
|  | Wasn't thinking clearly on screen name picking day | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Martin County, Florida, USA | | | Depends on the song
* Rhythmic/melodic - connecting the guitar and drums - best of both worlds.
* Pocket - get in there with the kick and make it tight
* Engine room - drive this thing
* Some combination of the above
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