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- Thread starter whitehawk55
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I am about to try a 0.17 guitar string as a high F on my 6-string bass ~
1&5 or 1&3 or 1&b3. Use sparingly. I find triads can get muddy. Forget extended chords on the bass. Tonal center go out the window.
It works a whole lot better if your EQ isn't real bass heavy. Secondly, to prevent the woofs, make sure your bass and other instruments are in tune.
This. Probably only intervals will sound ok unless you're Lemmy and you're not Lemmy but that's ok.
End every song you play with a Root and 3rd. Drives BLs and WLs crazy...
No worries. You get a freebie on your very first day here...
Once in a while I think about getting a looper. Is the Ditto good enough (are they still made)?
Depends on how elaborate you want to get. They work fine, and you can record a layer, then record a second layer and remove the second layer and add a different second layer and remove that new second layer, etc. It's probably a good way to start in order to decide if you like looping. I got both of mine for $75 each on either eBay or Reverb. Then I got an RC-300, which requires at least a master's degree if not a PhD to be able to make maximum use of it. But I still have a Ditto on each pedalboard.
Chords can be pretty cool. Chord tones are pretty much essential......
You gotta know your chord structure.
You gotta know your chord structure.
It's all about 10ths. If your root is on the low fourth string, then the 10th is on the 1st string. You can lead into it with the 9th or the 11th while playing the root. It sounds sweet and full with just those two notes. You can totally Comp like that while the guitar solos, even on upright.
If you wanna spice it up, the 6th, 7th and octave are available on the second string, and the 5th and third are there on the third string.
If you wanna spice it up, the 6th, 7th and octave are available on the second string, and the 5th and third are there on the third string.
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I started playing guitar a few years after I picked up bass and then started applying chord shapes and ideas I learned from guitar onto bass. I do chord stuff more at home when I'm messing around and not so much in a band (well not the Americana band I'm currently in anyway).
I will often create bass lines based around chord shapes without actually playing all the notes at once but rather in a staccato or other fashion.
Adding some raked chords in with slapping is fun to, ala Les Claypool or Doug Johns.
If chords intrigue you have at it!
I will often create bass lines based around chord shapes without actually playing all the notes at once but rather in a staccato or other fashion.
Adding some raked chords in with slapping is fun to, ala Les Claypool or Doug Johns.
If chords intrigue you have at it!
Rare Blend did a double bill with Doug many years ago. The last time I ran into him was in 2010 at the NAMM Show.
Here are a couple of spacey things One has out there false harmonics stuff along with the droning part (kind of long); both are with the fretless Elfin 5 (the other stuff, above, was on the 4004L SPC). All these recordings are a single track, all "performed" 
at once, like magic 
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Bass Noodle #1380 Copyright © Jeffrey P. Scott 2016 All rights reserved.
Bass Noodle #1433 Copyright © Jeffrey P. Scott 2016 All rights reserved.
at once, like magic .Bass Noodle #1380 Copyright © Jeffrey P. Scott 2016 All rights reserved.
Bass Noodle #1433 Copyright © Jeffrey P. Scott 2016 All rights reserved.
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Thanks for the insight.
A guitarist in an old band of mine had an RC-300. It came in very handy for a lot of fill-in and extra tracks in addition to the normal looping functions.
Not trying to turn this into a fifths tuning thing, but if you're really into the idea playing your bass like a rhythm guitar then fifths tuning is, like, cheating for chords.
