Recent content by Elrend

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    What Are Your Top "Days" Songs?

    None, I generally avoid listening to music I dislike.
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    Double Bass And I thought I was scared before! (University entrance examination coming up)

    I'm sorry to hear that. I hear it's stupid hard to get in though, heard even Teppo Mäkkynen needed two tries. Is it true that they only have like 5 spots per program?
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    Do you collect anything OTHER THAN bass/music gear?

    Scores, records, textbooks on acoustics, game theory and probability theory, dust...
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    How does your band write music?

    All of us compose material, sometimes we'll create something together with a few predetermined parameters.
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    What to practice when you don't know what to practice?

    Time. Shout, shake, stomp and clap like a savage. Work on polymeters, swing, whatever, just practice time. And when you practice improv, simply scream the pulse and play against nothing but that. Internalize, internalize, internalize.
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    Who Are Some Highly Technical Pick Players?

    Carles Benavent.
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    Musical Classifications

    I think my new favorite genre name might be "post-african blankcore".
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    Crash course on walking

    Step 1: Realize that walking bass is hard and it's a life-long struggle to do it well. Step 2: Come to terms with the level you are currently at and create lines accordingly Step 3: Keep practicing.
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    Do you play another instrument besides bass?

    Double bass (main instrument): Well Bass guitar: Well Laptop: Ok Piano: Awful
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    How do keys in music work?

    It's really just a convenient tool for notating music that stays in one particular tonal center most of the time.
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    Thinking about giving up (rythm issues)

    Put away the bass and start clapping, clap different subdivisions to a metronome (while counting out loud).
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    Making walking basslines

    Here's some great practice material: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f22/walking-bass-licks-some-help-those-new-walking-bass-lines-522578/
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    What Have You Been Listening To Today?

    A collection of recordings from a small "collective" of musicians performing in New York during the late 90's in coffee shop/internet café alt.Coffee. In other words, this: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] (
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    how do you remember to turn off/unplug your active bass?

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    How about guilty pleasure movies?

    High Fidelity
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