Recent content by penguinbassist

lolz! How do you get a guitard off your porch? A: Pay for the pizza!

i always learned to play the notes, not positions. like thewhale said, its the notes that count. Positions are just markers, like the little black dots. try scales in all -possible- fingerings, it'll make it easier when you're playing something unusual.

How many sound techs? Hey man, I just do sound...

Wow. Three notes at a time. You're gonna get some REALLY freaky harmonics.

hey, if it has no serial no. maybe its really valuable? [edit] oops, only saw first page of posts... still, if there aren't many of them, and if takamine can't tell you much else...

Love the pearl black. White kinda looks guitar-y.

I try to sort of parallel the actual song melody a bit. This doesn't mean playinbg the melody, more like playing a harmony mixed with it. The important thing is to keep within each bar. Try using simpler rhythms too.

I've SO done this. every thing shoul;d have less gutarists. you need rhythm bass, and lead bass would sound awesome in funk... 58 bar solos...:bassist:

I always get that flute one. The reason they have DB's in an orchestra is to use up the bits from making violins.

I was playing in the youth orchestra a while back, and we had a big concert. The last piece of the show: the Dance Macabre, with a quiet bit right at the end where just the basses do this two bar melody. Our conductor had rehearsed the last chords a million times and we were carefully trained to...