Recent content by Cail

hrm King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed Metallica - And Justice for All Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance Quicksilver Messenger Service - What About Me Man that was really hard

I'd have to say Cliff Burton again. I think he'd be on a lot more peoples lists had he lived longer. With his musical interests I think he would have branched away from metal and ended up writing a lot of amazing songs.

I kind of used to do this back in high school. I was just learning bass and already was relatively good at tuba. So since I had all these songs memorized for tuba I would make slight modifications to those parts and play them on bass for practice. Of course tuba parts were really well suited...

Yeah, playing now and when I used to play I've always found it seemed most natural to play like: 121 212 121 212 this way you are always alternating. I think if you played 121 121 it's easier to mess up (probably just me). When I try to play like that I end up striking an extra note or...

OK just thought I'd update. I tried some of the stuff from that video specifically keeping my wrist straight. That completely eliminated the problem. I think my wrist was forcing a strange angle in my fingers or something.

ok *** is with the racial comment? Gotta love random posts on internet forums.

yeah, I'm sure of that. I'm just specifically interested in famous bassists. I am about the only person I've met in real life that actually wanted to play bass. Of course having played trombone, baritone, tuba the bass cleff was just more comfortable for me and I was biased toward rythm

I was reading through the bassists you can't stand watching thread and started wondering. Does anyone know of any bassists from bands that actually didn't play bass? Sort of similar to lip synching or having someone behind stage? Also curious about who actually played for the band. The...

Maybe I should actually get a webcam when I get some money that way I could do some videos when I need tips or anything. Although that could probably get anoying to people I'm sure.

That video was great Depth actually one of the most informative bass videos I've seen online in the past couple weeks.

the book I bought says this more or less: put the pad of your finger on the string and kind of press toward the pickup then roll your finger off the string upward. I improved a lot switching to this but with just words and diagrams it's hard to tell if you're doing it just right. But yeah...

That video is pretty good but the problem I have is just the angle of the camera and quality of video makes it hard for me to tell what's really going on. That's the one thing I hate about youtube is the quality of video there I guess I probably need to find some professional videos or...

Well, let me give a little more information on this because my bass does have a fret rattling problem. This problem that I'm specifically occurs even on open strings so it's not my fretting. The problem occurs on the pluck I can hear and sometimes even feel the string hitting my nails just...

I have just recently picked up the bass again and have started to notice one of my old frustrations that I'd like to work on. I did take formal lessons for a while but I believe that the guy who taught me was primarily a guitar player and didn't really know much about proper form. Anyway, on to...

Figured I'd put up a pic. It's got a few small dents and one chip in the finish but it's in pretty decent condition minus the switch and knob problems. Not sure how to post a bigger picture really. Here's the address of a picture of it on flickr...