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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.

have the bass looked at, mine did the same thing and im pretty sure the strings would have nothing to do with that.

elixers will feel smooth because they are a coated string where as d'addario strings are not so if you are used to the coated feel they will be a bit rougher but no matter what you play you can get used to it.

What is everybody's opinion on coated nickel strings compared to regular nickel strings when playing hard rock/grunge/metal?

I have been using Ernie Ball nickel roundwound slinkys for a long time now playing stuff such as: ALL Metallica, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Rush, Iron Maiden, Steve Vai and a few others, but I mainly play Metallica. I also tend to use a Sansamp Bass...

When it comes to the really fast runs going over multiple octaves all I can use is my fingers. I can't see how anybody in the world can use a pick but then again some ppl don't see how I use my fingers. I don't think fingers or picks matters, neither is better than the other, its all personal...

yea the CS sounds like just what I am looking for. just wondering this may sound like a dumb question, but the 40P is that supposed to be a humbucker thats supposed to be close to a P pickup in sound? and yea thats right the MM sweet spot technically isnt at the bridge its away from it a bit...

yea i want the fullest sounding pickups I can find, thats why im not considering any J pickups, they seem to not have the fullness I am looking for. And if by MM you mean music man, i figured those to be the fullest warmest sounding pickups seeing as how the stingrays have that real warm smooth...

I am looking to buy EMG humbucker style pickups for a 5 string bass and there are so many different models to choose from. The models I am looking at are the 40P5, 40DC, and 40CS pickups. Anybody with experience playing those 3 models, testing, and comparing the sounds against each other with...

From playing Music Man Stingray 5 basses I love their sound by far over any other active bass i've ever played. They have the same high output, bright sounds, and clarity that I guess are characteristics that all the active basses i've played share, but the Stingrays seem different to me though...

Depends on what year you heard Rob play, around 2004 after he first joined Metallica and on tour in 2006 he used Dean Markley nickel strings. Sometime in 2009 he was endorsed by Dunlop and they made the Rob Trujillo signature steel strings which I think is what he used in the Death Magnetic...

He used a bone stock Rickenbacker 4001 and sometime i dont know if it was during the Kill em All tour or before or after they recorded the album im not sure but he did switch to Gibson EB-0 neck and Dimarzio J bridge pickup. You can tell because on Cliff em All when it shows the band still with...

Everyone here is absolutely right. I tried the Fender pure nickel 7150 strings and they still didn't give me what I was looking for. I was wanting round wounds because all the flatwound strings i've ever tried I hated. But La Bella Deep Talkin' flats are exactly the sound I was looking for, i'm...

I started this thread because I could not find any thread about this, I already searched all Cliff Burton threads that I could find. I'm sorry that I was not online to see that entire thread about this, but I am curious on this subject and honestly have no clue about what he uses, that is why I...

On the Metallica albums Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, I listened to a few of Cliff's bass tracks on certain songs and I noticed that his sound is always fuzzy and alot of the times muffled, why is that so? It seems listening to the albums that his bass sound has clarity and is just...

I was told by someone that on the Kill em' All recordings that Cliff Burton used flatwound strings. Is this true? Here are some sound samples: It is almost believable that Cliff did use flatwounds on Kill em' All because IMHO on the bass track it sounds like some flatwound strings I...

Yeah isn't that the truth? The only songs Metallica did that I think the bass was mixed good in was Hit the Lights, Four Horsemen, and Crashcourse in Brain Surgery. If every song had the bass mix those 3 songs had who knows how much more awesome it would have been. I think someone should start a...

Music Man Stingray 5 HH -All black, no pickguard -24 fret neck through body w/matching finish on neck -Headstock and back of headstock not matching finish -Rosewood fretboard w/o inlays -2 EMG MM pickups w/5 band active preamp -String through body -Black hardware

And thats just another reason to why Kill 'em All is my favorite Metallica album. Although hearing the amazing bass sound Cliff had on that album and the fact that I believe all 10 of those songs are probably my top 10 Metallica songs really helps too, lol.

wow man that is awsome! i'll be sure to check that out, thanks for the information.

Hey man thanks alot. we were just experimenting with that one, but theres still the trouble of me and a pianist sitting in a room and him playing all kinds of technical stuff and me on the spot trying to make up something pretty technical as opposed to just playing chord changes. But we still...

Okay here is the link. The song is in the music player on the page and is divided into 2 parts because it was too long to upload the whole thing. When we wrote this song we weren't really serious, almost joking, but we were experimenting with applying bass and electric guitar into classical...

Does anybody think an electric bass guitar can fit in with a classical setting? And not classical like Symphonies and Orchestral arrangements within the past 100 years, i'm talking more on the lines of really technical piano parts from the Baroque period and stuff like that. I have already...

I agree with alot of what you said about Kill em All. That is the best Metallica sounded as a band, I love hearing the bass perfectly mixed with the guitars and drums like it is on Kill em all, and the Gibsons through the Marshalls did sound awesome. I also agree that James and Kirk's sound did...

DUDE! what in the world is that 7 string jazz bass and how did you get it????

Does anybody else own an Epiphone EB-3 5 string?