I was just schooled on how to play 2112 and Tom Sawyer...

[SMILEYSIXX]

... by a guitarist.

[caeman]

And?

[Gord_oh]

with little info we can come to a few different conclusions:
1. you suck at bass
2. your guitarist is better at bass
3. you are not Geddy Lee
4. the guitarist may be Alex Lifeson

the list goes on.

[caeman]

Oh, I get it. We are supposed to make "guitard" jokes! Ah.

No.



I think it will be more fun to mock you in jest.

[hdracer]

I'm still waiting for the punch line.......

[Rickett Customs]

Originally Posted by SMILEYSIXX

... by a guitarist.

You sir.. Fail @ Bass

[Rocks]

My one guitarist who also fancies himself as a bass player only tried playing my bass once. Between my heavy gauge flatwounds and the fact that I lube them up with mineral oil he couldn't stop on a note to save his life, he'd slide right past them. Myself, I love my bass this way and am very comfortable playing it. We also played a gig at a large club and another local band was there that are friends of my band mates. They asked if they could play a couple songs while we were on break and we let them. I had a front row seat to watch this guy try and play my bass, it was f'n funny watching the looks on his face as he struggled to play mine. My guess is he'll never ask to play it again and I am happy with that. He asked how I could even play like that and I answered that it was very comfortable for me. I can play very fast with lubed flat wounds with no problems. It really helps kick up the muscle memory of your playing when it is so easy to slide right past the note.

[caeman]

You lube your flatwounds? That seems...odd...to me.

[Rocks]

Originally Posted by caeman

You lube your flatwounds? That seems...odd...to me.

Yes I do. It started by accident, I was oiling my rosewood fretboard with mineral oil (same as lemon oil without the lemon smell) and it was all over my strings and for some reason I decided to give it a try before wiping them down and I loved it and have been doing it ever since. I only need to lube them once every month or two and I never wipe down my strings after playing. I am one of those lucky people that doesn't have a problem with the oils from my fingers rusting strings. I also remember reading about a guitarist, I think it was Billy Gibbons that used to eat greasy fried chicken before each gig without wiping off the oils from his hands. Now it all makes sense to me. My fretting hand has gotten much better as I have to push down on the string just right or risk sliding off it so my fingering is more precise.

Years ago when I played in a metal band I used baby powder on the back of my neck to stop my hands from sticking to it. The baby powder ended up getting in the round wound strings and killing their tone quickly.

YMMV

[Beej]

Yeah, I like to spit on the inside of my car windows too. Then, when I wipe it off, its smears all over the place and looks really cool. The best part is that now because I can only part way see through my windows, I have to drive really carefully. Spitting on my windows was the best thing I could do to improve my driving...

[JAGGL3S]

You Disgust me.

[trayner1]

Originally Posted by Beej

Yeah, I like to spit on the inside of my car windows too. Then, when I wipe it off, its smears all over the place and looks really cool. The best part is that now because I can only part way see through my windows, I have to drive really carefully. Spitting on my windows was the best thing I could do to improve my driving...

HAHA! I tried lubing my flats on my fretless, hated the feel. I put just a little too much Pledge on my neck.

[totallyfrozen]

Lubes? Mineral oils? Pledge? Baby powder?

You guys sound truly clueless. Maybe you should do a little research on the long term effects of those things on wood and electronics before you start spraying and pouring stuff on your bass.

[caeman]

I wipe my strings down to keep them dry and clean of my finger prints. I have heard of string products that help to reduce string squeal (Gorilla Snot comes to mind), but with flatwounds, that doesn't appear to be a problem like with round-wounds.

[totallyfrozen]

Originally Posted by Rocks

My one guitarist who also fancies himself as a bass player only tried playing my bass once. Between my heavy gauge flatwounds and the fact that I lube them up with mineral oil he couldn't stop on a note to save his life, he'd slide right past them...

Sounds like you're trying to shoot us the the ol' B.S. pistol. The guitarist "couldn't stop on a note to save his life, he'd slide right past them"...riiiiiiiiiiiight.

Sounds more like he was running down your fretboard with no shoes on rather than trying to play it, you know, with his HANDS.

[caeman]

Okay, back to the OP. Let's make a game of this. I am going to revise his post to be more informative, but completely lacking anything resembling the truth.

"...by a guitarist. The guy was pretty cool about it. He patiently helped me through the part because has a better ability to play by ear. Once I figured it out, we were all rockin' out for the rest of the night. And then we ordered pizza. It was a good night."

[bwest9]

All of you oughtta get off the dope right now
before I put such stress on the individual’s momentary experience
that the Romantic synthesis of subject and object,
through the agency of the IMAGINATION,
begins to deconstruct almost as soon as I get any response
from this posting.

[SMILEYSIXX]

As it turns out he plays guitar, bass, drums and like twenty other instruments so I don't feel too bad about it. I still feel like I failed epicly though...

[FringeBass]

This is such a strange tone for a TB thread...

Usually everyone's so polite...

...I like this.

[randall p]

The guitarist was Geddy. He was playing his 4080!