bassists you know that you cant stand!

[SOA_bassist]

this is about non-famous bassists you know that you can not stand

for me, it is this guy named jared

he always says he kicks a** on bass and says he can do all of this stuff, but he cant. he wazs telling me that he could slap extremely well i doubted it, i told him to explain his technique to me and he just slaps some notes on his E string and does it with his wrist... and he doesnt/cant pop.

he also says he is good at finger stlyle, but he pulls the strings and can not do it fast...

when i had him read about how Jaco was able to play " All the Things you are Now " and how at first he just glanced at the music sheet and didnt even need it at all after the middle of the first chorus and after i explained how he could improvise over pretty much anything, he said it wasnt anything special. His reasoning was that he could improvise to just about anything to, it might not be in the right key, but he said he could... and this guy almost always follows the bass drum, guitar riff, or plays straight roots... and will play the entire bass line throughout the entire song ( not really improvising ehy? )

and he also steals other peoples bass lines.

also, when explaining to him that technical death metal was one of the hardest genres to play he said that it wasnt that hard or that fast. I threw him a cd and told him to learn songs 3 - 9 ( which was cannibal corpse songs from the wretched spawn ) and told him that it wasnt as hard or as fast as technical death metal and i dared him to learn just 1 song up to speed in 2 and a half months he said " i cant play that fast, no reason to ever play that fast, slow music is better "...


this guy doesnt even know what arppegios, sweeps, etc. are, doesnt know any chords or scales ( other than minor pentatonic, and even though only box shapes ) and all around bs's all of the time...

so you guys know anyone like that?

[Minger]

My personal peeve is when a guitarist plays a bass like a guitar.

Its like bleh to me, even though I'm not much better.

[SOA_bassist]

that pisses me off to... like when my drummer comes up with a wicked bass drum beat and i want to groove with the beat my guitarist will just play power chords to the bass drum... only happened twice so its still cool.

[morf]

I dont mind guitarists playing my bass. Afterwards they hand it to me and I show them how its done - if they're honest they'll usually want another shot at it

The non famous bassists that get to me is those snobbish jazz bassists who think they're so much better than everyone who didnt choose to learn music the way they did. Those guys are fun though, I always get a good laugh.

[cheezewiz]

Bassists who think they know everything and lord it over their friends they consider inferior annoy me. Hang around TB, and you'll notice that the absolutely best players are very humble about it.

[dlloyd]

People who offer bad and misleading advice on topics they're not qualified to deal with. Particularly in the General Instruction/Techniques forums.

Okay, I've done it myself from time to time...

[dustybottoms]

I hate when people rest their palm on the top of the guitar and curl their hand around the strings. It just looks awkward and i can't understand how they move across the strings. I had a buddy that did that. come to think of it, i don't think he ever played past the A string. hehe

[phillys]

I hate guitarists who siad they could play the bass easily, picks up the bass and plays it like a guitar, strumming wildly without making any of the notes played sound atriculate enough to make out what the heck they're playing and yet they think they kick ass on the bass more than me, a dedicated bassists who played waayyy longer than any of them. *rolleyes*

I also hate it when people play my bass with sticky hands and gum up my bass' neck with sticky stuff. It's disgusting.

[Bardolph]

To be perfectly honest, the bassists I can't stand are not the people that sit at guitar center and sloppily slap their favorite flea lines. The ones I can't stand are the ones that have taken like one theory class and listened to about 2 Jaco songs and suddenly must go on a flaming quest to "educate" all the rookies.

[vindy500]

im liek totally the awesomest on bass! i h8s pppl who cnt evn ya know play with a pik

[Joey3313]

I hate people









No, that's it.

[Triclops]

Its funny...I don't know piss all about theory,and I kick ass at the "feel" of a bass.I can't read music,and only know my keys.
I can slap,play Jacoish style stuff and improvise very well.(this is what I have been told over the years) Why do you have know all that crap anyway? a good ear is a good ear!

[Bardolph]

I wouldn't really call being able to read music "crap." Some gigs might just consist of a folder of 100 charts and the band leader calling out tunes.

[radmin]

<Too Lazy to quote the first post in this thread>
I read on Marcus Miller's site that Jaco could not improvise.
Marcus was like, "Wow, what a brilliant song writer!"

On Jaco's video he said it took him 9 years to learn Donna Lee. That bummed me out.

[SundanceChile]

My biggest peeve is one of the local drummers. He's ego is seriously bigger then anything I've ever seen before. He can't keep time on the drums, he doesn't know jack about piano(except for playing just black keys), and he slaps on the bass, but it's only slap and only on the E string. Now I could understand if you're just bad and you need practice. But this guy thinks he's the #*$% at everything music. I can't stand people like that. At all.

[thekyle]

I've had very few run ins with big headed musicians, especially bass players. I have had to take people (mostly guitar players) down a few pegs though.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Originally Posted by Triclops

Why do you have know all that crap anyway? a good ear is a good ear!

It depends on the situation you're in- for example, your good ear could keep you in business with most rock songs, but it probably won't help you at all if someone wants to play "Giant Steps." Or a lot of bebop, for that matter.

[gkbass13]

i hate bassists who think speed is everything and have no technique. quit double picking and learn some damn vibrato!

[vindy500]

maybe they dont want to vibrato

[SnakeAnthony]

A guy in my town, who more or less recylces the SAME bassline for everysong. And thats no exageration. Its all based around the jumping of an octave, over and over again. It just gets old.