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08-06-2006, 06:31 PM
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I was told at a band audition that I play bass like a guitar player? For the life of me I can't figure out what that means.
So help me understand what that is supposed to mean. I don't use a pick, solo or play chords.
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08-06-2006, 06:34 PM
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08-06-2006, 06:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northampton, MA | | | You fret the fretboard like chords? and you use a pick? and you go on endless wanking solos?
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08-06-2006, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowner I was told at a band audition that I play bass like a guitar player? For the life of me I can't figure out what that means.
So help me understand what that is supposed to mean. | my guess is that you were probably playing more than just the root note of all the chords...that gets a lot of guitar players mad... |
08-06-2006, 07:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Quebec | | | It all depends, if it's a guitar player who told you that, then I guess that means they think your play like a music god and kick ass! |
08-06-2006, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowner I was told at a band audition that I play bass like a guitar player? For the life of me I can't figure out what that means.
So help me understand what that is supposed to mean. | Did you get the gig?
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08-06-2006, 08:02 PM
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...then again, I am assuming and we all know what that can lead too....
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08-06-2006, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Blisshead ...then again, I am assuming and we all know what that can lead too.... | bar fights? wedgies? |
08-06-2006, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by steve66 Did you get the gig? | No, because I play bass like a guitar player.
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08-06-2006, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowner I was told at a band audition that I play bass like a guitar player? For the life of me I can't figure out what that means.
So help me understand what that is supposed to mean. I don't use a pick, solo or play chords. | Well, that last time I told that to someone playing bass he was not following the drums at all, and trying to solo/add a melody line in over everything even when there was singing. I have nothing against some tasty fills and lines in the right context but this guy was trying to wank.
He also happned to really be a guitar player that was filling in for us on bass. Funny thing was the first practice he played the bass like a bass and we liked it, the second and last practice with him he tried to go into lead bass land and acted like the prior practice never happened.
Even if you happen to be playing more that the root, other players still expect you to lay down a nice foundation so their guitars can shine. |
08-06-2006, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowner No, because I play bass like a guitar player. | Were you playing too many notes?
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08-07-2006, 12:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: northern illinois | | | maybe it was their way of saying you over played. |
08-07-2006, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by FrigginChris maybe it was their way of saying you over played. | +1 Maybe?  |
08-07-2006, 12:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | "..my guess is that you were probably playing more than just the root note of all the chords...that gets a lot of guitar players mad..."
Yeah... hahaha! You probably stole someone's thunder.. there MAY have been a bit of jealousy
in that comment you heard. Maybe they actually wanted a 'root-bound' bassist...  |
08-07-2006, 12:24 AM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Did you play the same way you did at the infamous party? Maybe the guy who told you "the corect [sic] way to play bass" was right, huh?
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08-07-2006, 12:42 AM
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08-07-2006, 12:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | So you over-used the wah, tore off your shirt, and slept with someone else's girlfriend?  |
08-07-2006, 05:38 AM
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08-07-2006, 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga Did you play the same way you did at the infamous party? Maybe the guy who told you "the corect [sic] way to play bass" was right, huh? | That's what I was thinking...
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08-07-2006, 07:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | Lol I had someone say to me once "I was watching you play bass, and I think you'd be good at saxophone".
He was actually serious. He thought I'd make a good saxophonist for some reason.
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