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08-24-2008, 03:06 AM
| | | | john entwhistle technique/style
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What books/dvds are out their that show johns style of play particularly well? Theres definately a few traits of his playing that would complement mine, so thus am wanting to learn them.
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08-24-2008, 07:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: CT | | | I don't really think theres too much out there, other than to watch 'An Ox's Tale: The John Entwistle Story' and really watch what he does.
His style is very unique, very difficult to replicate well. |
08-24-2008, 07:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Perth, WA, Australia | | | There's an instructional DVD (originally VHS). Google it. It's apparently fairly crap - just John playing some stuff and lacking in actual instructional value.
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08-25-2008, 08:49 AM
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08-25-2008, 12:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: san diego, CA | | | i second buying, watching, and re=watching 'an ox's tale.' some great shots on that using the headstock-cam. also, buy ' the kids are alright, deluxe version.' on it there is isolated audio and video of the ox playing 'baba o' reily' and 'won't get fooled again.' |
08-25-2008, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by phatbass  There's an instructional DVD (originally VHS). Google it. It's apparently fairly crap - just John playing some stuff and lacking in actual instructional value. | From an instructional perspective, the video is not particularly good. It is, however, worth seeing just for John's incredibly dry sense of humour, which goes totally over host Arlen Roth's head... 
He does demonstrate his various picking techniques (including the "typewriter" technique) and a few other worthwhile bits of note though, so, educationally, it's not totally worthless. |
08-25-2008, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by phatbass There's an instructional DVD (originally VHS). Google it. It's apparently fairly crap - just John playing some stuff and lacking in actual instructional value. |
you can find it in a 3 parter on youtube. not too helpful in my opinion. here it is (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBuhB...eature=related |
08-27-2008, 01:03 AM
| | | | My old bass teacher encouraged me to learn as many of Entwistle's lines as possible, but threatened to beat my hands with his leather guitar strap if I ever copied Entwistle's left hand technique. My teacher always preached economy of motion, and The Ox always looked like he worked twice as hard as he had to. (Compare Stanley Clarke's or Jaco's left hand positions to Entwistle's.)
Still one of my favorite players, though.
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08-27-2008, 10:17 AM
| | | | Pick, Rotosounds, P-Bass, play close to the bridge, Live at Leeds CD, Who's Next CD. Listen, mix, stir, and serve.
Try a ukelele pick. Hard felt that works really well and easy to learn with. No pick sound. Kinda cool. |
08-27-2008, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by chadds Pick ... | You lost me right there. |
08-27-2008, 11:10 AM
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Pick, Rotosounds, P-Bass, play close to the bridge, Live at Leeds CD, Who's Next CD. Listen, mix, stir, and serve.
Try a ukelele pick. Hard felt that works really well and easy to learn with. No pick sound. Kinda cool.
| His tone was so much more than just that. The whole My Generation tone was constructed using Rotosounds, a Danelectro and using triplet technique where his fingers hovered over the fretboard and smashed the hell out of the strings.
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08-27-2008, 12:20 PM
| | Working on his world citizenship... | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Colonies | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete C His tone was so much more than just that. The whole My Generation tone was constructed using Rotosounds, a Danelectro and using triplet technique where his fingers hovered over the fretboard and smashed the hell out of the strings. | The recorded "My Generation" tone is a Jazz with flats, played with a pick. He wanted a brighter tone, so went with the Danelectro baritone guitars, but he went through several of them during the recording session - every time he broke a string (frequently, apparently), he had to go out and get a whole new instrument, since the strings weren't available separately!
In the end, he just recorded the bass breaks with his Jazz Bass, flatwounds and a pick, in a somewhat simplified form.
His search for a brighter sound, and teaming up with Rotosounds to create the roundwound bass string stems from this incident. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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