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EDIT: Turns out my answer was in Octavian's reply. Relax the fingers, kick up the volume and let the electronics do their job. Somewhere along the line I had turned the volume down and I was trying to compensate for it by plucking more firmly. Apparently all I needed to do was twist the volume...

If the frets are placed exactly right and the setup is good then every note should be clean and true. If the PU's are decent then the sound to the amp will be strong and clear. A bass that's put together correctly doesn't need to cost a fortune. The hard part's on you, Superman :D

Time is on my side - Rolling Stones

To prevent having the shapes drive what you play instead of what you hear, I'd recommend this: If you can, listen to the tune first. Imagine various lines, hear them in your head. Get one into your head that really grabs you and only then try to create it. You'll find that the shapes will get...

Wow Ed, that's awesome stuff. Here I thought this thread was going to stay at kind of a kindergarden level for those who are trying to figure out the basics of chords and you toss in the kind of thing that someone can use for years and years. :) It kind of reminds me of the sort of thing Victor...

Rhythm of My Heart - Rod Stewart

I can see that I probably did it again... I didn't write exactly what I meant. When I said I moved to Newburgh Hts, I meant: Number Please :)

Add me please. I've never been in a band, not sure I'd want to unless they were up for playing melodic lines and using counter melodies. The vast majority of the time I'm playing the only person who can hear it is me... because I play with headphones on for the way I feel when I play. I don't...

Stuart, It's awesome that you're getting a lot of good ideas and opinions that you can really use in a constructive way! I'm really glad to see that you're coming away with this excited and looking at new possibilites rather than grumbling and feeling insulted. :) One last little bit of...

I think your old teacher wasn't trying to be critical of the things you did do, he was trying to tell you that something was missing. Victor Wooten really pounds on these same points in nearly every workshop I've seen and he really hits on them in his 4 hour groove workshop DVD. Think of...

http://www.musicards.net/cgi-bin/music-note-flashcards.pl?type=bass Just what I needed at this point. :) My reading is really weak.

If you are seeing line break HTML code in my reply it's because I posted this from my tablet. The talk bass app on my tablet seems to insert code no matter how I try to prevent it from doing so. Sorry about that. In step six I'm still referring to the triad. One of the points that I make in...

I don't know how to describe my reaction... FLAVA is a cool tune and has a LOT of potential. However, I kept getting annoyingly distracted by something and it took me a while to figure out what it was. The dynamics of all the instruments, especially the bass, are exactly the same. Attack...

"The most imporant note is silence" Tied with: "Learn the shape of the arpeggios, then move them around to the root of whatever chord you need. Don't try to memorize 30+ separate arpeggios."

Sweet Home Chicago - Blues Brothers