Do you guys jump around while playing the bass?

[john turner]

i don't stand still, but i don't jump either. sorta "sway to the music"

 

[Matt Till]

Originally posted by john turner
i don't stand still, but i don't jump either. sorta "sway to the music"

I'd like to see you jump with that double neck... it would probably smack you in the face.

 

[evilbrian9]

i didnt know prog bassists where allowed to post here....

 

[rabid_granny]

I tried headbanging for 15 minutes during practice and gave myself whiplash - took nearly a week to recover.

 

[soundoholic]

I jump around. I think it looks cool but the rest of the band is about twice my age soooo. The drummer is a wild man. I think he has ADD. He's still cool. The jumping thing can suck cause it's easy to hit other musicians or maybe get hurt. I suggest practicing jumpingt like everyone else said. It's weird but the more I move around the worse I play but!!! The more I move the better I get progressivly. It's like you don't have to worry about playing bass because it's so automatic that you can worry about hitting other people.

Here is a funny story. Playing in a really cool town in kansan/nebraske border(I know it sounds impossible) Three girls jumped up on stage and started dancing. I thought sweet, hot chicks! Then BOOM! They grabbed me. I was just trying to hold the groove. Security came pretty fast and saved me. I impressed a lot of people, might have been the underwear I was wearing or the fact that I didn't miss a note.I became friends with the security guy and I've got all of the girls phone numbers. cool huh?

 

[Ian Hall]

jt, my band nicknamed me "sway"

 

[grahambo420]

it's really not all that hard to jump around and play, the only trick is that you have to ake your parts simple enough to do it, because of you can't play well and jump around then just stick to playing

 

[Randumb]

You can't pay me not to

I love to jump around, its how I get in to the music.

And if you're not getting in to the music, why should the audiencde? And a band that stands idle is boring to watch.

One thing I love to do, I picked up from watching my bass teacher play with his band is, you step up on the drum riser and jump off that.

Yet, I always fall in to the speakers, or off stage(almost), or something, so if you can play do it.

 

[Bridge Builder]

I've only read about half the posts so far but I thought I'd throw in my two cents... (I may bite my tounge later, but here goes)

I try to stay modest, but I'm a pretty damn good player. I can double thumb with the best of them, cross hand tap al a Mr. Manring, strum, slap and chord like Stanley and Les, and play a super clean fretless when called upon. I play $3800+ custom basses and use full epifani/eden rigs. And I do all that while dancing around and jumping all over the place like an idiot. So far in this thread I've picked up on some people who find it only necessary or appropriate to do all the jumping when you aren't on top of your game musically or are more concerned with image that musical ability. I play in a trio where our guitarist is glued to a microphone and the drummer is obviously stuck behind a kit, so I'm left to provide about 75% of the stage show. We play very energetic, super technical, innovative and catchy music. Every time we play our #1 priorities are play bad ass music and nail it and put on a show that people will never forget. WE wouldn't be able to do that if we stood perfectly still, maybe bobbing our heads, just so we can nail the music perfectly. We still nail about 99% of the music, but we do it while jumping around and going crazy. Besides, even big Vic wooten tosses his bass over his shoulders and does back flips on stage just my two cents...

Justin K.

 

[cronus]

only when im playing by myself infront of a mirror

 

[Matt Till]

Originally posted by ModulusAcacia

I try to stay modest, but I'm a pretty damn good player...

I don't know... did you read everything that you posted Mr. Lord of The Low?

 

[Matt Till]

My 2 cents is getting into music, however you do it, is cool. As long as you don't take it to the ultimate level... 80s hair metal.

 

[jazzbo]

Originally posted by ModulusAcacia
I try to stay modest,

Try harder, cause right now, you suck at it.

This post just screams of problems to me. I just can't stand it when people rattle off "skills" like they're stats on the back of a baseball card. Okay, so you claim to have skills in certain techniques, that doesn't tell me anything about your skills, at all. Double-thumbing, or whatever you call it, tapping, and all that, doesn't mean diddly-squat when you're on stage. "Super-technical" music, all that doesn't mean anything to me.

Can you serve the music? Do you have a solid sense of time? Can you play what you hear?

Those, to me, are far more important questions.

 

[thrash_jazz]

Ok, this doesn't look like it's going anywhere. Closed.

Have a nice day