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09-01-2009, 08:41 PM
| | | | What exactly do you DO while playing bass?
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What exactly do you do while you play? Do you walk around, bob your head? Stand with your feet together while looking intently at your bass? Maybe you sit down?
What is it you that you do? |
09-01-2009, 08:46 PM
| | | | I do all sorts of stuff
most of the time I kinda dance to the rythmn |
09-01-2009, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | | Let the music move you. Stop before you start breaking things.
Whatever's appropriate for the song, but more importantly "for the band, and venue". IMHO nothings worse than one person in a band who's a lunatic on stage and the others are zombies. |
09-01-2009, 09:20 PM
| | | | oh yeah and when I play metal on stage
I ****ing headbang till it hurts
throw the guitar around and stuff
like stflbn said, do what's appropriate |
09-01-2009, 10:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | | I try to get the crowd worked up if nobody else is doing so. Other than that, it's back up vocals or interacting with the other band members and crowd. |
09-01-2009, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by the4toedjoe  What exactly do you do while you play? Do you walk around, bob your head? Stand with your feet together while looking intently at your bass? Maybe you sit down?
What is it you that you do? | I pay a lot pf attention to the drummer 1st, then either the lead or the singer trying to keep everyone together. Other than that, it depends on the tune. My knees aren't what they used to be so on slow tunes I use a stool and really lock down the bottom end, getting the emphasis where it needs to be. I do get up and dance around quite a bit, but no acrobatics.
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09-01-2009, 11:37 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Stand there and groove.
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09-01-2009, 11:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boston | | Quote:
Originally Posted by stflbn Let the music move you. Stop before you start breaking things.
Whatever's appropriate for the song, but more importantly "for the band, and venue". IMHO nothings worse than one person in a band who's a lunatic on stage and the others are zombies. | Hahah thats totally me sometimes. Most of our stuff I'm just weaving around, doing the occasional dip backwards or something (hard to explain the motion) but if we're playing faster songs, like "Same in the End" from Sublime, I tend to get a little crazy. I guess its the old punk rocker in me dying to get out in my groovy reggae rock band.
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09-02-2009, 12:31 AM
| | | | Move. Anything. Something.
The most boring thing I can imagine it everyone standing in the same spot playing.
Dance monkeys. |
09-02-2009, 12:48 AM
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09-02-2009, 04:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | I tend to sing as well as play bass, so I'm stuck in one place. I do dance though, or in bars when I'm not playing I'll dance and clap my hands/wave a tambourine/do something.
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09-02-2009, 06:25 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | I stand there with my feet firmly planted (for the most part) and my eyes squeezed tightly shut (for the most part) and I bob around and make the most amazing faces (so I'm told).
When the muse strikes me, I stalk around the stage like a caged jungle cat. 
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09-02-2009, 06:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | | pretend-machine-gun the crowd |
09-02-2009, 07:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: melbourne victoria australia | | | i swing around rythmicaly.
aparently the way i move naturaly (including my walk) looks like i'm constantly on the brink of falling over, so thats how i dance with my bass. |
09-02-2009, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | I'm a pacer. Hate those crowded bar stages. I've fallen off more than once.
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09-02-2009, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by RickenBoogie I'm a pacer. Hate those crowded bar stages. I've fallen off more than once. | Been there 
I make rather odd faces, tongue hangs out. In the groove I move around a lot more. Depends on the song, style etc.
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09-02-2009, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by RickenBoogie I'm a pacer. Hate those crowded bar stages. I've fallen off more than once. | Same. haha. I always manage to trip over something though and look like a douche.  |
09-02-2009, 03:34 PM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | Try to get the crowd into it. All while checking out the dancing babes. (If you need instructions for the latter, I can't help you.) |
09-02-2009, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Rudreax | You put your bass under your chin? Must play a lot down low on the neck, huh?
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09-02-2009, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | Depending on how my back feels: Small stage-Either stand still and play or groove with the music.
Big outdoor stages-Stand still or lumber around,being fat.
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