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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
- Thread starter ttasselm
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Was inches away from getting one when I gave up upright.
Never happened but I miss playing the upright alot. Was my main instrument for over 2 years.
Edit: I still use alot of Simandl fingerings to this day on electric. Kind of a hybrid thing that came naturally after spending so much time on acoustic.
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me too. you can use the weight of the hand, which helps relax the hand also helps the sound, imo, etc.
Exactly, more “power” with less effort on the left hand.
Each finger is helping the other one.
Also not only the thumb but the entire hand helps apply pressure on the back of the neck.
IMO, very underrated technique for electric.
I'm an idiot: I started on electric (actually, I started on guitar, then electric bass) before moving to the upright. Only played upright consistently for a year, but then, as well as the few times I've picked one up since, I'd always deploy the "one-finger-per-fret" left hand technique I'd developed on the electric...and then couldn't figure out why A) other upright bassists looked at me like I was crazy; and B) my hand hurt so much.
and why it was harder to play in tune, i bet.
i started on ebass; got my ass kicked at university learning upright. generally, my tech and concept is all ebass, but i like more upright players. neither fish nor fowl.
Same , ebass then upright.
Then only electric with hybrid technic.
This makes me.want to put old dead flats on my jazz like when it was the only bass I owned.
I prefer the P now but that jazz bass has so many hours and miles put on it it's like an old friend.
I got an upright about 10 years ago. I did the Simandl (if that's the one that you use three instead of four), made sense to me. Problem was, unlike ebass, where I can literally go a few months without playing and get back fairly quickly, those URB muscles go to crap pretty quickly when not used. I just couldn't make that time commitment (mostly because I just like ebass a lot more, overall). I still have it though, as I keep telling myself I'll regret it if I get rid of it.
I hear that. I have a much funnier excuse for why I didn't pursue the upright:
At the point when I was seriously on the fence, when it seemed like more of the music I was interested in and involved with used or would benefit from an upright vs electric, I took quick stock of my living situation. My car was a Honda Civic, and my home was an underground basement apartment with 6'3" ceilings and a front door that was only 5'5" tall.
That put an end to any serious consideration of sticking with the upright bass.
Tree trimmers are outside my window cutting down a palm tree. They occasionally rev the chainsaw in key with the music in my earbuds. Right now, it is Sabbath's Iron Man and they've hit a few chord changes in time with the music 
I can't imagine what it must be like to have perfect pitch and hear everything as a note.
I can't imagine what it must be like to have perfect pitch and hear everything as a note.
I just didn't want to cary that huge thing.I hear that. I have a much funnier excuse for why I didn't pursue the upright:
At the point when I was seriously on the fence, when it seemed like more of the music I was interested in and involved with used or would benefit from an upright vs electric, I took quick stock of my living situation. My car was a Honda Civic, and my home was an underground basement apartment with 6'3" ceilings and a front door that was only 5'5" tall.
That put an end to any serious consideration of sticking with the upright bass.
Major pain in the @$$.
not too many 6-string uprights—i don’t do 4s anymore (well until that one project last month where i used my old upright).
i had a 6-string eub, but sold it. the guy wants to sell it back to me. maybe…
i had a 6-string eub, but sold it. the guy wants to sell it back to me. maybe…
