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05-11-2007, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Utopia, Jersey | | | DA ZEN OF BASS PLAYING
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I recently had an epiphany regarding my bass playing, now let it be known, if not already, I am a slow learner, painstakingly so, and the bass is no exception.
My epiphany was… I am… the Bass. I am the bass, all the sound, the beat is me, I could use a rubberband and a stick to produce it   Now, the manner I choose to express my inner-BASS becomes one of wood, electronics, strings and amplification, finger dexterity the easy  or hard part depending…   Depending on what YOU think that BASS should sound like
Until then, be the Bass, You R the Bass. I am THE BASS 
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05-11-2007, 09:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Calgary, Canada | | Uhhh... 
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Simple is nicer.
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05-11-2007, 09:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | hahaha....lots of epiphanies occur after tackling a bottle of jack.
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05-11-2007, 10:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Miami, FL | | | Time for a nap now, come on, nice and easy. . .
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05-11-2007, 10:24 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tampa, Florida | | | I am the Walrus; Goo goo goo joob.
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05-11-2007, 10:27 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dupont, PA | | Hoping someone would put that in their signature? 
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05-11-2007, 10:28 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Outside Boston | | | *subscribed* for entertainment value... |
05-11-2007, 10:37 AM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Fargo, ND | | | Umm, yeah, I guess.
Have fun being a bass. Let us know how that goes for you.
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05-11-2007, 03:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Georgia, USA | | | I am the bass too!!!
Ok, those other guys are not getting your drift.
You are saying bass is a state of mind.
Bass is more than a chunk of wood with wires and knobs. Bass is the support for the rest of the music. Bass is an attitude.
Just this morning I was sitting here at my desk at work absent mindedly holding the end of a piece of string to my ear and plucking it, hitting notes below the low B on my 5 string. It was good.
I've played gigs with a three piece band where I did some songs on my stage piano, doing the bass parts with my left hand- so bass is not even necessarily the aforementioned chunk of wood.
Shoot, that old band the Bad Livers was a two piece - upright bass and banjo, sometimes the bass player played tuba- what the hey? Its still bass!
I have to admit your message reads like you've been smokin funny ciggarettes.
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05-11-2007, 05:02 PM
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05-17-2007, 08:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ellenwood,Ga. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Space Ritual  | LMAO!!
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05-17-2007, 08:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | How many strings are you?
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05-17-2007, 09:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | I broke my axe into a hundred pieces at last nights show...
So what're YOU doing tonight?
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05-18-2007, 08:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Lafayette, IN | | | I'll have some of what he's having! |
05-19-2007, 01:18 AM
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05-19-2007, 12:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Netherlands | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Vegiehead UUmmm ok whos the AMP then??
Vegie | Amps give girls funny feelings below their belly..
I wanna be the amp! |
05-19-2007, 04:46 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | wow ender, what were you smokin when you posted that?
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05-19-2007, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chicago | | I feel ya bra 
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Namaste
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05-21-2007, 08:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Kent Island, Md. | | | have you read 'Zen Guitar'? My instructor reads it once a year and it's highly recommended by Anthony Wellington.... Just got into it and it has helped me focus on my playing.
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05-21-2007, 08:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Santa Cruz, CA | | | Hasn't our dear Victor Wooten touched on this subject before?
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