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08-10-2009, 06:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | | The lazy bassist manifesto
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If you frequently find yourself playing more notes than your guitarist, fire the bum. What's the point of having a guitarist if you can't make him play all the complicated parts?
Bands that play quietly are nice. You don't have to carry as much gear to be loud enough.
You shouldn't have to play solos or jump around the stage to get attention. You should just look good and get all the attention you want that way.
Things like verses and intros aren't always important enough for you to play them. Let the other instruments deal with those.
Pedal tones are great. Pedal tones on open strings are even better. Rests are the best, though.
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08-10-2009, 07:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: UK | | | Write songs that only require open strings, that way your left hand can hold a beer.
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08-10-2009, 07:30 AM
| | | | Hire a dep.This way you don't have to show up at all.
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08-10-2009, 10:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bezerkely, CA | | Never be in any band smaller than a 7-piece. That way, everyone praises you for "not overplaying".
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08-10-2009, 03:19 PM
|  | Beware the "intense intentional venom" of my posts | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hacienda Heights (LA), SoCal | | | A slight overdrive can add lots of sustain to your open string plucking, allowing you to play even less!
Buy a loop station, loop one riff, and stand there drinking for the rest of the song.
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08-10-2009, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: NYC | | | Anything other than I-V requires too much thought. It's been working fine for 50 years, why change it? |
08-10-2009, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina | | | In case no chairs around, rig height should be around 18 - 20 inches, for playing seated.
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08-10-2009, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Saskatoon, SK | | | It's a lot less distance to your parents bassment than a gig.
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08-10-2009, 04:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: TENNESSEE | | | Always play with a drummer that is more talented than you. The other way around is too much work. I'm a bass player not the instructor for the rhythm section.
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08-10-2009, 04:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Austin, TX | | | It is of absolute importance that you drive the largest vehicle in the band. This way, you can sit back comfortably while everyone else loads and unloads for you and still thinks that you are doing them a HUGE favor.
Make sure to use the phrase "Man, this thing only gets ____ miles per gallon" to avoid any suspicion.
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08-10-2009, 04:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: TENNESSEE | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RTL It is of absolute importance that you drive the largest vehicle in the band. This way, you can sit back comfortably while everyone else loads and unloads for you and still thinks that you are doing them a HUGE favor.
Make sure to use the phrase "Man, this thing only gets ____ miles per gallon" to avoid any suspicion. |
Holy crap! Been there!
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08-11-2009, 12:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbus, OH | | | Teach your dog to slap the strings with its tail , so you only have to use your left hand for fretting. The right hand can hold the beer or dog treat.
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08-11-2009, 01:05 AM
| | | | anything more than 4 strings is too much like work!
(and if you can avoid that annoying top G string, all the better)
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08-11-2009, 02:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: dirty jearsy | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania A slight overdrive can add lots of sustain to your open string plucking, allowing you to play even less!
Buy a loop station, loop one riff, and stand there drinking for the rest of the song. | i did that playing an ac/dc song i was not playing at all just screaming in to the mic
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08-11-2009, 02:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: dirty jearsy | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RexNFX79 Always play with a drummer that is more talented than you. The other way around is too much work. I'm a bass player not the instructor for the rhythm section. | im there rigth now i have a drumer hwo didnt no how to play enter sandman on drums *** and i can play parts of CT by wooten
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08-11-2009, 03:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: biggleswade | | | when writing out the chord sheet for a song only write down the root note... i mean why play anything other than that. simples.
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08-11-2009, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indy | | | Don't tune more often than about once every two weeks or so. All that unneccesary stretching just wears the strings out faster anyways.
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08-11-2009, 05:20 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J.C. Basses | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, Arizona 85029 | | | Always drop tune; transposing sucks.
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Never drop tune. If there's a note that's too low, don't play it.
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08-12-2009, 04:51 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | Basses are typically too heavy to bother picking up. Consider the triangle instead.
Okay, maybe that`s too lazy  |
08-12-2009, 05:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Framingham, Massachusetts | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya Basses are typically too heavy to bother picking up. Consider the triangle instead.
Okay, maybe that`s too lazy | or concider getting bass pedals. that way you don't have to pick up anything at all!
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