Advice to someone playing post hardcore

[JoeDahlia]

This being my first post, ill make it brief XD. I play metal, blues, hip hop, and funk bass, but I just recently joined a post-hardcore band, and I have know idea where to start with this!! Any advice from you guys? Should I try to incorporate other styles? Any help would be appreciated

 

[mpdd]

medium watt tube head, 215, passive bass with hot pickups, listen to oldies and jazz, to

keep things dynamic: play with fingers and a pick, use dead notes and harmonics

influenced heavily by hardcore devo, nou, and brainiac

 

[TBDave]

what exactly is post hardcore?

 

[Anonymatt]

you just gotta forget everything you know about hardcore, bro.

 

[VeganThump]

Just listen to fugazi... over and over and over again... if your band has that DC post hardcore sound, its all really bass driven but definitely incorporate more melodic baselines, a la Joe Lally from Fugazi. And then send me a demo, I loooooove post hardcore! Haha

 

[blakelock]

....
...or just go in with an open mind and invent post-post-harcore...

 

[Seb Peters]

....
...or just go in with an open mind and invent post-post-harcore...

This. A thousand times, this!

(Coming from a post-hardcore/metal/prog bassist.)

 

[Chef FourString]

you just gotta forget everything you know about hardcore, bro.

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