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10-11-2004, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York City | | | Wow! Fretless and Flats in metal!!!
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so yesterday at rehearsal my drummer asked me to try out my fretless on our more metal/heavy tunes.
WOW!!!
what a killer sound. i assumed that the flats wouldn't work for these tunes but it was really killer...even with a pick.
the fretless was also a blast to play...
the SINGER even commented on it.
she said the bass was so huge she could sit on it.
the moral of the story is playing fretless with a pick and a set of flats is great for the heavy stuff.
however,
it looks as if i have to start bringing another bass to gigs. |
10-12-2004, 01:36 AM
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10-12-2004, 02:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Belgium | | | don't you just love it when chicks come to you and say they wanna sit on your bass?
anyway, that's some good advice man, I play the heavy stuff also(well, actually where heavy and melody collide :d) and I was seriously thinking about defretting my old hartke 4 string
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10-12-2004, 03:52 AM
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Originally Posted by FireAarro Didn't Steve Harris use flats? | Yup! Rotosound RS77. He has a sig series of strings now with Rotosound |
10-12-2004, 09:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York City | | | yeah, i knew that Harris played flats but i haven't heard of much fretless in metal...except on some "ballady" sections.
and we do the heavy meets melody thing as well! |
10-12-2004, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Big Sound Central | | | I play flats on a fretted, often with a pick.
Great sound.
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10-12-2004, 02:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | I play fretless in the band for all of our songs, including a Hammerfall-esque epic metal song -- with TI flats and a felt pick  . The pick is only for the epic metal one though...sounds great with the fuzztone modelling on my digitech BP50.
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10-12-2004, 04:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: East Bay, CA. | | | I play a fretless with flats in a metal situation all the time. I like the unique sound it brings to the table.
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10-12-2004, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Milpitas, CA | | | i use the steve harris rotosound flats, yes theyre awesome. i like fretless, but havent gotten enough money to get a fretless stringray 5 just yet.
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10-12-2004, 08:38 PM
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10-12-2004, 08:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Manteca | | | Steve DiGiorgio played a fretless, he was in Testament, and Death as well as a few others. |
10-12-2004, 08:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Rafael CA | | | I thought the old bassist in Opeth used a fretless too, but I could be wrong. There are a couple Iced Earth songs on the Horror Show album that use a fretless.
But yeah I'm wanting a fretless myself. |
10-12-2004, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Diowulf I thought the old bassist in Opeth used a fretless too, but I could be wrong. There are a couple Iced Earth songs on the Horror Show album that use a fretless.
But yeah I'm wanting a fretless myself. | awesome, I'll have to check that out, I've always liked any Opeth that I heard, I just never got really into them. They have some pretty creative basslines though. |
10-13-2004, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York City | | | i will have to go listen to ORCHID and MORNIGNRISE again. you may be right but those are the two Opeth records i've listened to the least. |
10-13-2004, 02:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Rafael CA | | | I believe there is one on "To Bid You Farewell" (One of my favorite slow songs) And I believe there is a fretless, but I could be wrong. |
10-13-2004, 04:47 PM
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I've been playing flats on fretless for 15 years.
Killer sound, now they are becomimg popular again. |
12-18-2004, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Diowulf I thought the old bassist in Opeth used a fretless too, but I could be wrong. There are a couple Iced Earth songs on the Horror Show album that use a fretless.
But yeah I'm wanting a fretless myself. |
Horror Show was recorded by Steve DiGiorgio. Go figure...  |
12-19-2004, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edmonton AB | | | I used fretless and rounds in a metal band if you and, ask me rounds on a fretless for metal are much more fitting, it gives you an amazing GRRRRRRRROWL on the low notes.
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12-21-2004, 05:14 AM
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12-21-2004, 06:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Palomorado so yesterday at rehearsal my drummer asked me to try out my fretless on our more metal/heavy tunes.
WOW!!!
the SINGER even commented on it.
she said the bass was so huge she could sit on it.
. | i think hat last part is perhaps the best - definatly onto something here.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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