Recent content by metallibass95

Yeah both electric bass and upright double bass have the same pitch as the tuba but written an octave up I guess to avoid excessive use of ledger lines below the staff, I could see them wanting to save ink, but I never liked that it was written an octave up. I would have always rather had it...

lol yeah thats pretty much what I am doing right now but I won't be satisfied unless I can have an attack on almost every note in the song just like he does. 8 years of being perfectly fine with two fingers and now i'm pretty much back to the drawing board again relearning everything my right...

Holy cow I didn't realize that I said 32nds, I meant 16ths, that would be gay if I thought I could do 32nds at that tempo, my mistake, i'm sorry

without a hitch? what do you mean? none of the left hand parts are giving me too much trouble, but its just the right hand I am really struggling with

Who said anything about playing 32nds???? I'm having enough trouble with triplet 16ths at 170bpm.

Ok I done a little research, Dyers Eve is 194bpm and Silent Scream is 196bpm and it would take playing them at least several times back to back before my fingers start aching and slowing down considerably.

Ok my mistake, I may need to check my sources on the bpm being 200. The songs I was talking about playing was the Metallica song Dyers Eve and the Slayer song Silent scream. Both of those at least have to be above 180bpm though and not only can I keep up with the double bass in both but I can...

alright ill get a video camera off someone and see what I can do, but it shouldn't be too uncommon people reaching those speeds with 2 fingers. Cliff Burton was rumored to do it though I never actually saw video or heard him but I have heard Rob Trujillo do it before.

It will be a WHILE before I can do it, I have to pretty much master the 3 finger technique so my right hand can actually play it, thats not gonna happen anytime soon lol. I have the Finale file of what I have done so far if you or anybody would like to see I can send it via email.

I have done the same but I always keep coming back to 4 strings. For me it is the overall feel of the bass, I am most comfortable with the width of the strings on 4 string basses more than I am the standard string width on 5 and 6 strings, too close together for my taste. Also having a slimmer...

I used to use only two fingers and was attemping stuff like 16th notes at 200+ bpm but anywhere near that kind of speed wasnt really needed until now. I recently transcribed Michael Angelo Batio's solo piece No Boundries to 4 string bass of course displacing some octaves just so it will all fit...

its not hard to do, but anybody just cant do it over night, this comes from years and years of playing as fast as possible and building up the speed to do it. but here recently it has been getting rediculous, I transcribed No Boundaries by Michael Angelo Batio to bass and had to displace a few...

Yea I noticed the same thing, passives seem more agressive on the low end and smoother on the top, from my experience it is hard to get an active to sing smooth like the passives do up on the 15th-20th frets on d and g string unless you do some serious tweaking on amp or bass settings, actives...

What is everybodys opinion on passive basses compared to active basses and the pros and cons of each talking about all aspects of playing them both wether it be blending in with the band, soloing up high on the fret board, their sound in general, clarity, low end, anything.

I have reached speeds over 200bpm 16th notes with only two fingers and built my endurance to where I could just keep it going all day and not get that tired, very hard and lots of pain to get it like that though.