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01-17-2006, 11:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Arco bass solo in a pop song?
I've been working on this concept for a couple of years now where I play the double bass in rock groups. When you click on this link the song "Precious Thing" will start playing. The bass comes in after the first verse and the solo comes in the middle.
I was wondering if you fellow bass players find this type of treatment effective for the song or is it a novelty type of thing. http://www.myspace.com/telegram
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01-18-2006, 05:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | Wow, that's some great playing! Are you familiar at all with Ashley MacIsaac? He's a singer/violinist (fiddler?) and this song reminded me a lot of his track "Lay Me Down," just because he has that kind of really intense, dark sounding voice and he works the bow in a similar fashion.
Great playing -- fits very well.
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01-19-2006, 12:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | Interesting Fact: Simon and Garfunkel's album Wednesday Morning 3 am is arranged entirely with acoustic guitar and double bass. Noticed that one day. Lot of arco bass on there. well not a LOT, but more than most. I also recorded arco double bass in a band I played in, Calibur, as background string parts in the arrangement. I could post some recordings of that if anyone cares.
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02-18-2006, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | | Bass playing on Precious
 GREAT PLAYING!
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03-15-2006, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Seoul, South Korea | | | Actually, I made a cd with a guy named Chris Larsen last year where I bowed a few songs. If I can find the CD I'll toss it up on the sampler. My pop lines are a little complicated I think and some feedback would be nice...
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03-15-2006, 07:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | That is really neat! You really make the 'voice' of that instrument very clear and what a nice, lyrical solo!
Great job! Makes me wanna pick up a bow again!
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03-16-2006, 09:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Austin, Texas | | Really nice work. I like the triplet run near the end.
You should listen to a tune by Mary Chapin Carpenter called 'I am a Town". Edgar Meyer plays on that track and does some really good work during the verses; low range double stops, pedal tones, etc. It is a good example of how to 'solo' through the entire piece without covering the vocals. Of course, his 'real solo' really slams too. 
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03-18-2006, 11:26 AM
| | Supporting Member/Luthier | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | Very nice. Keep it going!
I like the solo on Leo Kottke's "Back in Buffalo" tune... Edgar again...  |
03-18-2006, 02:02 PM
| | | | Hey, Edgar Meyer doesn't get to have *all* the fun, though he probably gets paid more than most folks for his recorded parts! (As well as being more than capable of delivering the goods on a moments notice)
I just added a trio of arco parts to a version of "Long Black Veil" last week. The producer didn't ask for it, but I offered the idea, and everybody loved it. It's down below, in the hold now, but should be up on deck and in stores soon.
So, I'd say that more arco is a good thing, for *any* kind of music, Pop, whatever. It may be a good way to illuminate cross cultural experience through music!
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05-07-2006, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | Very cool! I think the solo was a good compliment to the song, fit nicely. |
05-13-2006, 08:33 PM
| | | | Finally have a sound card and was able to check it out. Very cool! |
05-14-2006, 12:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Houston, Tx | | | Not quite pop, but the Dutch punk band The Ex have a double bass player who studied classical bass. She seems to play arco a lot of the time. |
05-28-2006, 03:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: ojai, california | | | Hi,
I'm not a bassist. I, for the most part, play ac. guitar and compose for an ensemble of guit., piano, ac bass, cello and clarinet - kind of pop- jazz stuff. I'm here because just yesterday I stumbled upon an upright bass at a yard sale and well.... So, this is my first post.
You're a terrific player and I was really impressed. And I thought your solo was fabulous. Really! But...
I personally could only take measured amounts of the low end doing solo stuff. Perhaps it's because it's unfamiliar. Perhaps it's because there seems to be more emotional content in kilohertz than hertz - I dont know. Arco pads are one thing and I love that style but soloing is something else.
There you are: one persons opinion.
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09-05-2006, 06:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Connecticut | | | That was great man. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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