Uh, Paste and Wes, the sarcasm was directed at ME, for not being on top of things like I said I would! That was me being annoyed at ME, not you!
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bass chords
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Simon Gallup of The Cure plays a lot of double-stops and sometimes full chords ("A Thousand Hours" is based around three bass chords) with a pick, like Peter Hook in his Joy Division days.
he often plays the open A and D strings while adding notes on the G eg. "Pictures of you" "Primary", or the other way round, using the open G or D as a drone over fretted notes on the A and E eg. "The Perfect girl", "Gone".
other Cure songs using double stops; "Sinking", "From the edge of the deep green sea" "Piggy in the mirror" (live version).
Steve Harris of Iron Maiden uses bass chords a lot- usually strumming a root-fifth-octave shape to fill out the sound.
(or is that a triple-stop as opposed to a proper chord?)
I play fingerstyle, and play chords with three fingers, or sometimes strum them with my fingernails.
he often plays the open A and D strings while adding notes on the G eg. "Pictures of you" "Primary", or the other way round, using the open G or D as a drone over fretted notes on the A and E eg. "The Perfect girl", "Gone".
other Cure songs using double stops; "Sinking", "From the edge of the deep green sea" "Piggy in the mirror" (live version).
Steve Harris of Iron Maiden uses bass chords a lot- usually strumming a root-fifth-octave shape to fill out the sound.
(or is that a triple-stop as opposed to a proper chord?)
I play fingerstyle, and play chords with three fingers, or sometimes strum them with my fingernails.
I usually strum them Les Claypool style, or Ill use the thumb, first, middle and sometimes ring finger to play each string.
For my band I use them when the guitarist is playing a moving part, I use it to make up for a lack of rythem guitarist and as the bass, so it usually works.
For my band I use them when the guitarist is playing a moving part, I use it to make up for a lack of rythem guitarist and as the bass, so it usually works.
Like anything else, when used tastefully double stops/chords can make a cool musical effect. For me they have been most useful in slow songs...particularly slow blues..coming out of a turnaround at the end of a guitar solo or something. Make sure you know them well before you start putting them in songs....on more than one occasion I've seen players grooving down low on the bass than jumping up to hit a chord as a fill/embellishment only to lose the groove when they dropped back down to the low end of the bass. Again though, for me I gotta say use sparingly and if you can't hit them and keep the groove don't hit them.
