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07-28-2008, 11:26 AM
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I was in a guitar class in high school because I was just starting out and they would only let you play guitar and not bass. I had been playing bass for a couple of months at this time so naturally when the teacher said we were going to be doing finger picking first, I played it like a bass. Everyone else did there guitar thing and whenever they saw I was doing it different they would say, what's wrong with you, you're playing that like a bass and I would say, yeah it's cooler this way. They were never very friendly afterwards... |
07-28-2008, 11:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | Put a chart in front of them. They'll go completely insane, trust me.
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07-28-2008, 11:44 AM
| | | | Well, you did go to a GUITAR class. You should have just said that you have been playing bass for a couple of months and you are just getting through the formalities so you can in that class. |
07-28-2008, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | Tell them you changed the tuning on one of their strings, but don't tell them *which* one :-)
Better still, don't actually do it, just tell 'em you did - drives them nuts 
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07-28-2008, 06:46 PM
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07-28-2008, 06:53 PM
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07-28-2008, 07:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pullman, WA | | challenge them to go through a whole rehearsal without any distortion or playing outside of a song. Bet them something dear to them, see how long they can last 
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07-28-2008, 07:01 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: So Cal | | playing chords
they get so confused and look around and ask who it was 
also tapping - my guitard friend was all braggin about this new solo he made and he was showing off so after the thrid time threw i cranked the treble and played it over him 
basically one upping them does the trick |
07-28-2008, 07:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sunbury, Ohio | | | I usually ask them if I could play their guitar. They usually say yes with a grin on their faces. I'll plug in and, most of the time, blow them away on their own instrument. Then they'll either ask me for lessons or quit the band all together. I've had both of them happen to me in the last 2 years.
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07-28-2008, 09:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bridgewater, Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by daffy Tell them you changed the tuning on one of their strings, but don't tell them *which* one :-)
Better still, don't actually do it, just tell 'em you did - drives them nuts | Almost all of us did that in the class. It was more annoying than anything because they didn't have to be looking away. You just had to get a good grip on the guitar neck so they couldn't pull away and change the tuning on all of them as fast as you could before they started hitting you. Luckily I was in the same room for my last class and they would leave their guitars so I could change the tuning on them while I was supposedly going to the bathroom. |
07-28-2008, 09:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan | | | play loud as hell while he's tuning......even though my old guitard tuned through a built in tuner it bugged the hell out of him. |
07-28-2008, 09:43 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Roanoke, Va | | | Im married to a guitard so I get to annoy him ALL day EVERY day!!!
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07-28-2008, 09:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Sing quietly along with the tuning note. Try singing in unison, then harmonize. Just quietly enough that no matter how perfect they get it in tune, it isn't in tune.
NOTE: I would do this to someone I felt like annoying, whether bassist or guitarist. I don't recommend doing this to someone you're about to go on stage with. Ever.
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07-28-2008, 09:54 PM
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07-28-2008, 10:01 PM
| | | | if you are jamming, avoid playing the root note to the chord. they usually get confused sometimes even alittle pissed. |
07-28-2008, 10:11 PM
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07-29-2008, 12:18 AM
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07-29-2008, 12:30 AM
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07-29-2008, 08:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Willimantic, CT | | | The guitarist I play with has a thing for putting a solo in every song. The solos aren't that good and he gets fat headed after he plays one. Being very subtle I have been saying that we should cut down the solos because they take away from the song. Which is true some times but when your guitar players head is as big as the Hindenburg it's so amusing to see his reaction.
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07-29-2008, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Kemet09 | I fired my guitarist after I got my 1st 8 string. We were plying metal/hard rock so he was just doubling the bass part anyway.
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