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04-18-2010, 03:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Heart of idiocy: Washington DC | | | Anyone else have this problem at the music stores?
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So the other weekend I was at guitar center shopping for a new guitar.
(you know the thing that the other dude in your band plays that isn't a bass, its got 2 more strings and a shorter neck...hmmm? your unsure about this instument's existance? you'd know what i was talking about if you saw a pic)
Now that the trolling is out of my system...
When saw something I liked I of course gave it a once over and plugged it into a reliable amp, then sat down. And I realized I had absolutly no idea what to play  . Yup i had one of the biggest brainfarts of my life. If this wasn't bad enough my fingers started to cramp up from the pressure to play.
ANyone else have this problem or know an easy way to overcome it?
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04-18-2010, 03:55 PM
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I usually just go and play some power chords in a I-IV-V-VI-I progression or something like that, or I do some tapping thingy or some voodoo child intro or something real crappy. If all else fails, run scales.
If I grab a bass though I start playing one of either my band's songs, or some bass doodles that i've got floating around in my head
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04-18-2010, 04:06 PM
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04-18-2010, 04:20 PM
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04-18-2010, 05:10 PM
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04-18-2010, 05:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | Something from Joe Satriani or Steve Vai. You owe it to the other customers to let them know they're in the presence of a god.
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04-18-2010, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Heart of idiocy: Washington DC | | | Eventually I did play blitzkreig bop followed by an improvised smooth jazz peice (inronically on a fender Jazzmaster). Wchich is probably the last thing you'd expect a long haired teenager in a slayer t-shirt to play.
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04-18-2010, 06:04 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | Who cares what you play? You're there to check out a guitar, not for a concert performance. |
04-19-2010, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cheezewiz Who cares what you play? You're there to check out a guitar, not for a concert performance. | Oh, but thats about as much playing out as many TOTALLY BROOTAL guitarists get. |
04-19-2010, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by DerHoggz Oh, but thats about as much playing out as many TOTALLY BROOTAL guitarists get. | or PILE-DRIVINGLY HEAVY guitarists  
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04-19-2010, 12:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ontario Canada | | | I was in a guitar store once that had a HUGE sign in the guitar & amp try out room....."ABSOLUTELY NO 'ERUPTION' PLAYING ALLOWED". |
04-19-2010, 12:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | How about "Smoke On The Water"? No one ever plays that, I'll bet...
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04-19-2010, 12:59 PM
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04-19-2010, 01:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | No songs, I play scales & modes up & down the neck listening for dead spots and uniform tone & playability. Most of the time that shocks the dweebs slappin & popin the heck out of basses.
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04-19-2010, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by hdracer No songs, I play scales & modes up & down the neck listening for dead spots and uniform tone & playability. Most of the time that shocks the dweebs slappin & popin the heck out of basses. | This. |
04-19-2010, 04:52 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | My personal favorite is when you go to a GC and check out a bass, and the salestard picks it up and plays his best slap riff for you before he hands you the bass.
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04-19-2010, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by DeeDee Vicious So the other weekend I was at guitar center shopping | I think this is your biggest problem rather than not knowing what to play.
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04-20-2010, 12:22 AM
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04-20-2010, 12:27 AM
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04-20-2010, 12:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Framingham, Massachusetts | | | yea, i always draw a blank for the first minute or two when i pick up a bass at a store.
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