Bass Player Pet Peeves

[Russell L]

Anyone who plays down in my frequencies, especially the drummer on bass drum. Then, it's the keyboard player. Then, it's the guitarist. Sometimes it's even the vocalist. Why can't folks eq their stuff to stay in their own realm?

 

[Elrend]

- People not liking certain instruments for arbitrary reasons.
- People thinking there is such a thing as good and bad music.

 

[iamdenialNJ]

Getting text like: Hey dude, can I borrow your hi hats?

 

[xXxTWO FACExXx]

Thing's I dislike:
Dentist
Dentist Drill
Lil Wayne
Screamo
All Foreign Cars in general (But I drive Hyundai)
People who play the piano with one hand or use it for like ten seconds (Geddy Lee is fine however)
Leaving my stuff at a kid's house with the intent to practice and never doing so and six months later I come back to pick it up and its all rusted.
Chevy
Sony
Warwicks
People who go 70 on a highway, you can save gas by just staying at 60
The fact that bass guitar strings cost three times as much as guitar strings do.

 

[funkinbottom]

Bad meter and people that play too loud.

 

[tofumanchu]

• Horn players who refuse to learn any tune for which they do not have complete charts.
• Showing up for a gig with a 10 piece band, and finding that the stage will only fit 4 comfortably.
• Unpredictable cues from the band leader.
• Bicyclists who run red lights.
• The need for a day job.
• People who don't practice between rehearsals.
• People who practice *at* rehearsal.
• The "unique" sense of time that most singer/songwriter types have.
• The dearth of good drummers.
• The abundance of mediocre guitar players.
• Free Bird.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Horn players who refuse to learn any tune for which they do not have complete charts.

I've experienced an even more annoying one: Horn players who refuse to play tunes in concert key signatures like E major or B major because, according to them, "those key signatures aren't 'natural' for these instruments and, as a result, many notes sound out of tune. Please transpose this chart one semitone lower".

 

[georgiagoodie]

1. Keyboard players wanting to play bass with their left hand. I'M PLAYING BASS!
2. Drummers who do not understand dynamics....pretty much ALL drummers.
3. Drummers who like low-tuned ringing bass drums...uggh!
4. Guitarists who want to have a heavy bass tone. I'M PLAYING BASS. LET ME PLAY BASS!!!

 

[crozier247]

When you are just having an instrumental jam when there is no PA present and you try to say something to one of the guys you are jamming with and you get cut off by a drummer or guitar player

 

[Samthebassist]

Having to endure an almost "sympathetic" response from people when they ask what you play in the band when you say "i play bass"...

e.g. "I play bass" "Oh really? wow...*re-assurance on* that's really good, great *re-assurance off*"

+1000000534688430

 

[Dethrats]

Is this pet peeves that bass players have or pet peeves involving bass players? I think mine covers both.

1. Putting two doors on an entrance and then locking one of them.

2. Not putting up a 'use other door' sign so you know one of them is locked.

3. Trying to get a bass rig through one door.

Especially the one that is locked with no sign.

++11111111111111111

 

[aus_bass]

Guitard that has 25 pedals on his board, but doesn't have a tuner. W*F? :scowl:
A drummer that wants to "lock-in" with the lead guitard, and pays no attention to the bass.
Drummer's foot gets tired, so he thinks it's OK to forget about playing the kick drum.
Vocalist that wants to constantly sing crap in E flat.
Other guitard that thinks it's odd if I play a 5th, or something other than the root. :scowl:

 

[The1bassist06]

What the hell... I'll risk getting flamed!


1. Bass players who have the bass hanging so low the pickups can get the vibration off their groins.
2. Bass players who NEVER take their eyes off the fretboard.
3. Bass players who just "stand there".
4. Bass players who always face the drummer.
5. BASS PLAYERS WHO NOODLE BETWEEN SONGS!

DCat

Im 2,3 and 4 =D

 

[Katfish Krow]

Church ones (Already possibly mentioned)

When the keyboardist tries to outplay EVERYONE,

When the keyboardist is still playing (AT FULL VOLUME) while the Pastor is trying to talk to everyone

When the Keyboardist glares at you for continuing to play during musical interludes

(sorry had a bad experience this weekend lol)

 

[Patrick61503]

The fact that i just wrote peeves for 30 min straight on my ipod (im a slow typer) to have it die... Even worse everyting i wrote was still there... But seeing as i exited the browser i needed to log back in and wen i was redirected back the page all 40 some odd peeves were gone and now im writing this and in writing this ive realized that this event was more therapeutic than posting ever would be

It was like the forums way of telling me it doesnt matter (in a good way)

 

[Mykk]

I'm sure I've got several. The one that comes to mind is when an individual string player is repeatedly playing the wrong note at the same point in a measure and doesn't have the ear or the knowledge to fix it.

outside of music, I can't stand going to a store (any store) and the under payed employee who couldn't care less about the world let alone their jobs is assigned to help, sell or ruin your mood for the rest of the day. Than there's the other end of the spectrum, the employee who has willingly given up their ability to make the simplest of decision making capabilities in the name of not breaking a company policy that's designed to screw the consumer in the name of covering their own asses. I mostly blame management for these scenarios.

And... while driving. When drivers on a relatively clear 2-3 lane highway insist on driving next to each other and successfully creating a rolling road block. It must come down to the 'Sheeple' thing

 

[Sbassman Scratch]

The letter "K"

Add it to PIC
Leave it off of RIC

 

[GrinningMouth88]

Hey - they're musicians...
This is what I do when at a live concert (if I'm not playing it).
And I'm not being cool, I'm analyzing the music.

/Ff

I agree with you sir.^ Someone made a post about how they hate it when people cross their arms and stand there.
I do this too, I can understand why it's a great sight to see people moving around having a good time. I play rock/metal so if a mosh pit starts thats a good sign. HOWEVER when i'm at a show I do not want to mosh, I do not want to really do anything other than listen to the musicians and appreciate their work. Never understood this one. If you are a bar/cover/dance band or what have you then okay. But isn't it kind of flattering that people want to really focus on idk, the musical ability of the band. Perfect example, first time I saw tool It was in a small stadium and I was on the second level and got to sit down and just listen and appreciate the music. BEST concert ever, wasn't tired of standing or getting booze spilled on me, or getting punched in the kidney, or groped by a biker chick on ecstasy, etc. etc. People who just want to stand still and listen at a show are okay in my book.

 

[Mykk]

I agree with you guys about attending a live show and crossedarms. The way I see, if I'm on stage and I see someone in the audience sitting, not moving, crossed arms, even backs to us at the bar... they're still listening, appreciating, analyzing... if they didn't want to be there, they wouldn't be.

A couple of months ago I was playing a show in a tourist downtown bar in central Arizona (Prescott, 20 minute drive from Jerome/Cottonwood Az) The bar is small, we've played there a hundred times before. You can see everyone in the place. I look up from the postage stamp sized stage of the bar. I see Maynard Keenan in the audience. He was just standing there, not getting into it or moving. But he was there and didn't walk out.

I told you the place was small: We use the stage for just a drum riser.

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[erigod23]

The letter "C."
Totally useless. Does nothing that "S" and "K" can't do.