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Dude, for a brief moment, I thought you were me, because I took this picture yesterday. My bass is a "HK" (HeKe-Vertrieb), though, the only difference is the sticker on the headstock. There was a swedish brand selling these basses under their name, too, it was Woodo Guitars, I think.

+1. Really underrated player.

Carles Benavent (Paco De Lucía, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, solo artist) Colin Marston (Gorguts, Dysrythmia, Behold... the Arctopus) Iñigo Muguruza (Kortatu) Tapio Laxtröm (Deep Turtle) Paul Gray (SlipKnoT) Karl Alvarez (Descendents, ALL) Rob Wright (NoMeansNo) Matt Freeman (Rancid) Jon Lindqvist...

Decrepit Birth Deeds of Flesh Blood Red Throne Decapitated Pantera (some) Man Must Die Opeth used Open D Minor, I think... And probably a lot of more Deicide, Vader and Carcass? I'm not sure about these...

Cryptopsy Spawn of Possession Origin Augury (I think) Between the Buried and Me (I think) Despised Icon The Faceless Protest the Hero That's all I can think of...

Thomas Haake, that guy is a beast!

Our bassist: "I gotta go buy juice oil for my lemon. I mean, bass..." /facepalm

Rocinante is also Don Quijote's horse, it comes from there, right? :hmm:

Binky is my nickname, most people know me as "Binky". It comes from a character in Life in Hell, by Matt Groening. The rest is pretty obvious...

Harley Benton HBP-120. From Thomann. Cheapest bass I could find.

I started 3-fingers and slap the very first day I got my bass, so they feel natural to me. I am no master of any or make Wooten-esque jaw-dropping slap solos, but sure I can play it. Double thumb was really hard for me! But finally, I've already got the basics. Sweeping wasn't too difficult for...

I don't really know about any but the B string will help if you don't want to detune your bass, and there are loads of Drop-D classic rock songs. Try "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" by Pink Floyd for example.

There are a lot... I really enjoy playing Bloodmeat and Sequoia Throne by Protest the Hero and Dead & Grotesque by Spawn of Possession. Also YYZ by Rush is really fun to play! Punk songs like Maxwell Murder by Rancid of 'Merican by Descendents... Roundabout by Yes probably is but I never learn...

That sounds like "Yo dawg, we heard you liek singing, so we put a..."

Just my HK. And I love it, it's almost everything I need. Sometimes I feel like I need one or two frets more or a low F#, but I can't live with that. Sure it would be good to have a fretless twin or a back-up or a slap machine, but I don't really need it!!

Carrots? Don't you mean waffles? I don't know what to vote. I love the Ibanez PD-7 Attack settings, that are not really distortion or overdrive, but they make the sound a lot more aggressive, really. I also love the wide range of overdrive you can get with an ODB-3.

My B string is like 0.226 inches from the fretboard at the 12th fret and I'm OK with two handed tapping.

This is me playing "Desert Urbania" by uneXpect. Their bassist, ChaoTH, plays a 9-string Bee Bass. It is REALLY fun to play! It isn't really bad, I think. ALERT: Extended Range Bass and cookie-monster-voiced-metal content. YouTube - uneXpect - Desert Urbania [Bass Cover, Redone]

N.I.B. by Black Sabbath and Black Dog by Led Zeppelin are pretty easy.

The bassist (now) from Rings of Saturn pointed me to Beyond Creation. That material is SICK! Amazing lines and bass work. And I also have to digest the whole Augury discography. Atheretic album is absolutely great for sure. I love his playing style. One of the best metal bassist and I'm sure...

I laughed REALLY hard! Well, I'd pick my HK... ...because it's the only one I have right now :hyper:

Hydrogen is also available for Windows, although an older version. I agree, Hydrogen is great, you can set up any beat you want.

I'm almost sure that in Orchid, Johan De Farfalla played a fretless.

I have included alto sax in my (kinda-technical) death metal band and it worked. If he just plays sax, maybe you could teach him other instruments. Y'all play the basic drums, guitars, bass and vocals, then he could be the other guy who does backing vocals, percussion, keys, horns, harmonica...?

Damn C# major, so many sharps confuse me! Thanks for some sheet music transcriptions, really useful for learning!

I've heard the "Megatars" are cheaper, but I don't know how much. Also, my 7-string bass was only 420 € (incl. shipping), so you may be interested in that. Have a look in eBay, seach "HeKe-Vertrieb", I'm REALLY happy with mine.

LOL'd! True, the chord progression of the opening bars of "Message in a Bottle" uses these chords.

Yes, you got it right, just a combination of the tremolo black metal riffs, their image (costumes, paint...), vocals (high shrieking) and lyrics (anti-religious mainly) with death metal. A good example would be Behemoth. YouTube "Ov Fire and the Void". I actually like all this music, death metal...

I can reach higher tempos easier with a pick, but I don't think it really fits the songs or my playing style (I know, at those tempos, anything will fit, probably you'll hear a muddy wall of sound, but still...). I know it can be done, and I think it will be the method that works for me the best.

Thank you very much! I always play 3-2-1, but I don't feel that limited, so 4-3-2-1 is how I'm trying to play. This is really useful, I'll start right now. What I think is that there are other techniques or aspects of my playing which I should focus on and improve more important than this, but...

I've read Jerzy Drozd's Barcelona weighs like 4.5 lbs. But then, I know nothing.

Just two... God... that's a hard one. I'd go with: Ryan Martinie ChaoTH (from Unexpect) Ryan's tone and lines are amazing. How he can play counterparts, not just to follow the guitars and add slap lines... awesome. And ChaoTH is the one who showed me ERBs weren't Chapman Sticks, it wasn't...

I've already done a search over the forums and didn't find a topic like this, so I hope I don't mess anything up opening a new one. Well, first of all, this is the problem: I'm mostly a metal player (although I LOVE jazz, funk and a lot of different styles) and I've already learnt the...

The bassist in my band (I'm the singer) tuned his Jazz Squier CGCF with .120 - .90 - .70. - .50, I think. Sounded great.

I taught myself to play. And I suck. So I don't reccomend it at all. But then, I took 5 years of sax lessons, so I wasn't completely clueless... but I suck anyway.

There's a cheapo brand I've only seen in Spain called Caliber, they do 4-string and 5-string Stingray clones and they sound pretty good! They are like 150 € in the music store in my city.

Hope you guys don't mind if the price is in €uros. 1. Fender Squier Vintage Modified J (250 €) + Gallien Krueger Backline 110 (130 €) 2. Warwick Thumb 6-string/Conklin GT-7 (800~1200, you may be lucky and get a GT-7 for around 600 €) and EBS Fafner head + EBS 4x12/8x10...

Hmmm... in real life, I don't think I'd spend more than 1500 € in a bass. If I was to win the lottery, probably around 5k €. Once, I dreamt about my dream rig: -Conklin Sidewinder custom 8-string -Jerzy Drozd VIII Legend fretless -Five string upright bass -EBS custom cab (1x15, 1x12...

YouTube - Will Karling plays 7 strings bass Conklin GT7 Clean, slappy and modern! I'm afraid that in a mix, it may sound like Fieldy (not a good for me...) Blood Red Throne - Rebirth in blood This one cuts incredibly (sp?) throughout the song!

If I'm not mistaken, I've seen two or three live videos where John Campbell (Lamb of God bassist) was playing one of them. Or at least it was exactly the same aesthetically. (sp?)