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07-02-2008, 05:47 PM
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What would yours be? and Why?
Lets all face it, we have really strong influences who have inevitably shaped our playing style.
Mine is School Days by Stanley Clarke.
Chordal/harmonic and largely pentatonic solo playing with a touch of slap. Thats me!
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07-02-2008, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Toronto, ON | | | NIB by Black Sabbath. Nasty pentatonic runs, power chordage, and pummeling the fretboard and strings. Good Clean Fun!
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07-02-2008, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sacramento, Hellafornia | | | Earthquake by Graham Central Station
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07-02-2008, 07:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | Won't Get Fooled Again - free form power
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07-02-2008, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | gimme de ting - lord kitchener.
not fancy, but still the fattest groove ever.
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07-02-2008, 08:16 PM
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In the pocket with excellent tone and a few fills thrown in.
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07-03-2008, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | ^^ Excellent choice!! My fave version of my fave Hendrix song! LOVE billy Cox!
Mine was a toss-up between "Live at Leeds" version of "My Generation" or studio "...Fooled Again"
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07-03-2008, 10:58 AM
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07-03-2008, 11:03 AM
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07-03-2008, 01:37 PM
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Otherwise as my name implies, imagine Malmsteen on a bass guitar. |
07-03-2008, 01:45 PM
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07-03-2008, 02:43 PM
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...solid fingerstyle groove, nice fast unison lines, nasty but groovin' slap solo...
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07-03-2008, 11:27 PM
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07-04-2008, 10:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ballwin (St. Louis), MO | | "Saturday In the Park", by Chicago, or "Rain", by the Beatles. High register melodic riffs, good groove, driving. Sorry, that's two. Pick one. 
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07-04-2008, 10:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Houston, TX | | | Can't Stop. Slow funk with a good mix of slap and fingering.
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07-04-2008, 11:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Santiago, Chile | | | I tried long ago to make this exact same mental effort to myself, and never could size it down to one tune. So, it's somewhere between these:
Heart of the sunrise - Yes
Red - King Crimson
New Born - Muse
Tons more, but in between those three comes my style. Funny thing, I play 99.9999% of the time with my fingers instead of a pick, being that my "style influencing tunes" are mostly pick-based bass lines. Weird.
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07-05-2008, 12:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | i honestly cant think of one song ...too many styles of playing and techniques.
i can say that the 2 bass players that made me want to play most when i was 12 and first got into it were meshell ndgeocello and bakithi kumalo, and both of them can absolutely be heard in my playing.
after thinking about it though...i might say that "djombwe" by richard bona is a pretty solid, single song answer.
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07-05-2008, 12:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario | | | The Mars Volta - Day of the Baphomets
Opens up with a ridiculous solo with a bunch of septuplet runs, proceeds into an 16th note semi-pentatonic ditty, then drops straight into a one-note groove. Half the song is played with a pick, the other half is played finger-style, the bass tone is dirty Ampeg goodness, and even when it gets ridiculously complicated, it never feels like he is losing the pocket or overplaying. He isn't just in the pocket, he IS the pocket.
Unfortunately, it's played by Juan Alderete, who is a million times the bass player that I will ever be. And it might be fretless, especially after the opening solo. I'm really not quite sure. |
07-05-2008, 08:13 AM
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Bass in this song is very different and melodic,includes a wicked solo.
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07-05-2008, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Little Walter Rides Again - Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
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