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04-18-2013, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Two-Bass Attack!
I stopped by a friend's rehearsal space last night to lend a fretless bass to someone who wanted to try it for a while. While I was there, they invited me to sit in and jam with them.
I've never played with another bassist before. Very interesting experience. There's a whole other level of things you need to pay attention to! That band jams a lot, so everybody was quite capable of thinking on their feet, but it was still a bit of a mind-bending experience.
We did manage to stay out of each others' way, for the most part and, at times, built some really cool harmony. It was a lot of fun.
**I'm not really sure which heading I should have posted this under.
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04-18-2013, 07:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Vacaville CA. | | | Ive allways wanted to try this for a doom/sludge band. Were both of you playing clean or did one of you have some dirt? |
04-18-2013, 07:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Both clean. Me on fretless and she on fretted. Nothing was planned out or discussed, but we're both good listeners, so we were able to weave around each other without much chaos. We'd trade off between upper and lower parts of the neck, so it ended up sounding like one really big, extended-range bass with four hands playing it. It was really fun.
I'm wondering if they'll invite me to do it again. I think they had fun, too. It would be a blast to try it at one of their gigs. ...or a trainwreck.
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04-18-2013, 08:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada | | | Sounds like a lot of fun. I instantly imagine some Avenged Sevenfold style dueling guitars, albeit on bass. Hmmmm... |
04-18-2013, 08:19 AM
|  | El Nada | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Seattle, WA | | | It's a lot of fun. I tried to put together a two-bass band but we couldn't make the schedules work. At one point we had three bass players going at it! I suspect it was more fun for us than anyone who might have been listening, but it definitely makes you work differently.
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04-18-2013, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Serbia | | | I've seen this done and done well, but it's still better to jam with guitarists, instruments are sorta designed to stay out of each other's ways, though I see why this can be fun.
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04-18-2013, 08:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Nova Scotia | | I've seen it done back in the 1980s with one bassist for the low end and the other using a Rick running through some effects for the upper register.
Worked out pretty well, no guitarist in the band but they had a pretty full sound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewHudgR2y_E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXI0v18OgYY
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04-18-2013, 10:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | we play the one bass through a line6 guitar combo and the other bass through my mesa/orange rig, lot of fun, sometimes the drummer plays static on a third bass for even more noisy droning metal |
04-18-2013, 01:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | This was drums, 2 basses and 2 guitars. Amazingly, very little chaos.
I remember Ned's Atomic Dustbin (vaguely) and there's always Dos, but this is the first time I've participated in such bass-centric activities.
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04-18-2013, 02:00 PM
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2 basses and another overdubbed
Awesome song
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04-19-2013, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mpdd  we play the one bass through a line6 guitar combo and the other bass through my mesa/orange rig, lot of fun, sometimes the drummer plays static on a third bass for even more noisy droning metal | Is the bassist who plugs into the Line6 guitar rig playing guitar lines, or is he playing the same thing as the other bass? Do you work the parts out to stay out of each others' way, or just listen hard and let 'er rip?
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04-19-2013, 10:07 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Quebec city | | | The band Overbass from Montreal always uses two basses
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04-19-2013, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: ATX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dtripoli Love the 80's
2 basses and another overdubbed
Awesome song
"Guitars? we don't need no stinkin' guitars" The Cure - Primary | YES!
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04-19-2013, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | | | | LO-E
the line 6 bass is fuzzed or octaved up and he plays high metal solos
i play low with a lot of open and muted strings
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04-19-2013, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mpdd the third bass sounds like a staticbuzzing old cathode ray tube tv being bounced around on the floor | That's what I sound like most of the time! 
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04-26-2013, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: MASSACHUSETTS | | | Once in a while we play a song with two bass players. We play at least an octave apart and different progressions. I think it sounds good when we play it and later when we play back a recording, NOT SO MUCH. It lacks focus and the combined timing seems a little (?) off, at best. Maybe some practice would help, or trying harder to be "exactly dead on" with the drummer. Just too messy for us to bother.
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