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01-05-2012, 10:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | | | When somebody asks you to play...
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What do you play for them?
Something melodic? Improv? A particular song?
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01-05-2012, 10:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | A bass line from something familiar, like "Sunshine of Your Love" or "Black magic Woman." If not that, probably a walking blues line.
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01-05-2012, 10:25 PM
| | | I diddle randomly if they're not a musician. If they are a musician, I diddle in a specific key 
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01-05-2012, 10:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Minneapolis | | | The theme from Barney Miller. |
01-05-2012, 10:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: alabama | | | billie jean
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Originally Posted by *insertcoolname 1nce at a gig i roxed the crowd so hArd that all teh gurlz were liek "i want u" an all teh bands were liek "u roxed evry1 2 hard" and i waz liek "yea i no cuz i am teh mastr uv base" | |
01-06-2012, 12:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Left Coast | | | A funky version of Stevie's left hand groove on "Superstition". That usually gets their head nodding and a smile. 'Cept i do it in E instead of D to get a bottomy open E string vibe heh-heh. |
01-06-2012, 12:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Beaverton, Oregon USA | | | Anything I know, which usually means something no one else knows.
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01-06-2012, 12:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Eastern Wisconsin | | | Something with buttloads of modulation ><
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01-06-2012, 01:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | | The main part of My Girl
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01-06-2012, 01:41 AM
|  | Bongo and Jazz Bass Fan | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | Depends what day it is.
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01-06-2012, 01:45 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz Benz Amplification | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Nashville | | | I've got sort of a "stock soundcheck riff" that I pull out, just a funky fingerstyle thing that covers a lot of bases. It's mainly pentatonic, with a little flat five here and there, and I'll throw a b3-3 slur in for that Sly Stone vibe. |
01-06-2012, 02:04 AM
| | | | Van Halen - "Running With the Devil"
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01-06-2012, 06:50 AM
| | | | I say "pay me first" and then they usually stop asking. |
01-06-2012, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lemon Van Halen - "Running With the Devil" |
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Originally Posted by bongomania I don't care if you're a 90-year-old gay man who only looks at woodworking websites | |
01-06-2012, 07:04 AM
|  | Remember 12/21/2012! ...it's my birthday! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cheviot, OH | | Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lemon Van Halen - "Running With the Devil" | +1
That or if I'm around some of my more adventurous friends I'll throw in the Jaws theme.
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01-06-2012, 07:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Nashville, GA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lemon Van Halen - "Running With the Devil" | LOL that cracked me up... I was just trying to imagine the victim's face as you thump that out - priceless!
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01-06-2012, 07:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Twixt a rock and a hard place | | | Usually something instantly recognizable like Billie Jean, Money, Sunshine of Your Love, Manic Depression, etc. |
01-06-2012, 07:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Parke County, Indiana | | | Usually, I just drop the Murderface slap solo on them........then I play some bass |
01-06-2012, 08:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK | | | I put the chorus pedal on & play the main riff for Come As You Are or the intro to Whom the Bell Tolls, I can never think of anything else that sounds half decent.
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01-06-2012, 08:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Cypress, Texas | | | Grand Master Flash. Just kidding.
I play either the intro to "Number Of The Beast" (Maiden) or the bass solo from "Please Do Not Go" (Violent Femmes).
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