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12-22-2007, 09:54 AM
| | |  What to do when I'm alone with my bass?
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For those of you who clicked because they title sounded almost sexual, no I don't have a bass guitar fetish (well not a sexual one!)
Anyway, my band has just broken up and I'm finding myself with increasing amounts of free time alone with my bass.
It's very frustrating for me as I can't play a full tune as I could on an electric guitar, bass is meant to integrate with a song, it sounds weird on its own!
What can I do?
All advice is welcomed!
Thanks,
Ruairidh |
12-22-2007, 10:00 AM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | You can always "polish your fretboard."
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12-22-2007, 10:07 AM
| | | It's pretty damn shiny now...
I can't think of anything to play without a band  |
12-22-2007, 10:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: england | | | get out the scales book if your really board i spend most of my alone time practicing runs and fills that i might use one day or by inventing new basslines and intro's........
of course if i'm alone and the girlfriend is out i might "polish the fretboard" for an hour or two
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12-22-2007, 10:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | Play, by ear, the melody of every song you can think of. Open a song book to the table of contents and play the melody of every title you know (don't look at the music).
Turn on the TV without sound and improvise a sound track to whatever is going on. (sports are great for this)
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12-22-2007, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Coleford, Gloucestershire | | | If you picked up a cheap electric guitar you could record some basic power chords or something, perhaps get a drum machine or a load of looping samples? I'm pretty sure there are a load of "jam" loop sites on the internet as well. My favourite thing to do is to just sit at my workstation and write a piano line, then a drum line in Cubase then a guitar track with my £50 squire, then jam on top of that. :>
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12-22-2007, 10:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | | um, play along with a CD or mp3? |
12-22-2007, 10:53 AM
| | | | Thanks guys, these are great ideas!!! |
12-22-2007, 10:58 AM
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12-22-2007, 04:08 PM
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Moderator for EHX Forums | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Houston/Nacogdoches | | Pfft, bass sounds bad on its own?
Stu Hamm and I disagree with you. http://youtube.com/watch?v=H8Q_J2fIKPI
Now go practice chord shapes, scales and tapping!
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Probably in a lot of other clubs as well.
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12-22-2007, 04:29 PM
| | | | play to a recording, like cds or sumthing |
12-22-2007, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga  You can always "polish your fretboard." | 
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12-22-2007, 07:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | generally i take my bass nice and slow. Watch a crappy movie, than pretend i am bored with it. Than i do the fake yawn and arm around neck thing. Than i play with its knobs and mess around with the input jack and by then i already busted
a string?
I am sorry.
I would say find a new band, play with recordings, find a jamming buddy, and go on talkbass....and pratice technique!!! It is amazing how new techniques can make you change your style from a bass player to a solo musician. |
12-22-2007, 09:08 PM
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12-22-2007, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by santucci218 generally i take my bass nice and slow. Watch a crappy movie, than pretend i am bored with it. Than i do the fake yawn and arm around neck thing. Than i play with its knobs and mess around with the input jack and by then i already busted a string. | That made my day!
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12-22-2007, 09:18 PM
| | | lol Mighty Boosh "he strummed himself to ecstasy"
But yer +1 on practicing scales and runs. In fact write some grooves, most of the songs my band writes are derived from my grooves.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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