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john turner
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nice pics fellas.
i wish i wasn't so lazy, i'd do up some new ones of mine
. you guys are probably all tired of seeing em anyway 
i wish i wasn't so lazy, i'd do up some new ones of mine
. you guys are probably all tired of seeing em anyway 
nice pics fellas.
i wish i wasn't so lazy, i'd do up some new ones of mine
I think something with a higher res digital camera would be kinda nice. LOL, I used to get a little crap back in the day when I had several boutiques and no digital camera.
Bryan R. Tyler
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As someone who's entering that particular realm in a couple of months (assuming that I can sell my STR), can I ask what you had difficulty with?
The high C string on a fretless can sound very squeaky/whiny at times, particularly if you pluck it the same way as you pluck your lower strings or try to get the same elongated mwah out of it, which won't sound good to anyone but the person playing
You just (usually) need to be a bit more subtle in how you play it which I've learned to do over the years- I'll find out for certain in a few weeks when my new fretless six arrives.
john turner
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nice pics fellas.
i wish i wasn't so lazy, i'd do up some new ones of mine
spade's right- we've seen very little of your basses other than tiny, low quality shots. Some nice clear big ones of them individually would be great to see.
john turner
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Sure thing!
james, i really dig that bass. if you ever decide that you need to unload it for whatever reason, please contact me
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LOL, I wouldn't totally call 'em low quality since the age of the pics would have suggested a decent digital camera for back then. Due to the rapid and exponential outdating of technology, I'd guestimate that a kid's toy camera has better resolution these days. Then again, I just upgraded to an iPod nano that is currently holding 2 tubs of CDs and is about half full.
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Wow! Some really gorgeous basses here. It's important to keep perspective on one's ultimate goal, though. If it's to be unique, a showman, a star, etc., fine. If it's to enjoy steady work as a solid bass player, 4 is plenty and 5 is fine.
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Thanks for the insight, especially considering the context...
I can play as solid or as flashy as I like on my 4-strings as I can on my 6. It comes down to how you choose to play it-the instrument doesn't dictate your approach, necessarily. As spade noted below, it's nice being able to play efficiently thanks to the extra strings on a 6 (or however many the case may be), and that's my main reason (as someone who plays a lot of jazz) for choosing a 6.
"Solid" is always open to interpretation. A lot might say that solid means playing root 8ths and/or doing what the guitard/producer says and not questioning that.
I may be a tad on the flashy side in the sense I write my own parts and throw in enough signature that I'm not some nameless expendable band member, but one major advantage to the extended range is being able to play a lot of stuff without moving. While most note how hard they think 6 string bass is, the fact that I can get a lot of what I need without moving too far from the 5th position is not a bad thing.
Sounds like you have a healthy approach. Why then do you describe yourself on your myspace page as "just another bass player for hire?" : )
Seriously, thanks for the comment!
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If I should look at playing bass as working then I guess I should quit.
And it's not the bass that's unique, it's the man behind it. Bass doesn't make him more unique than the color of his eyes. I also am not aware of any 'stars' with ERBs.
If I should take showmanship over musicianship, I would not be playing at all.
But that's just me.
Hey everyone,
I just joined talkbass yesterday. I am currently in the process of having a 7 string fanned fret bass custom built. A good friend of mine is building it for me (still in the design process). He designs the body the headstock every thing to the way you want it, everything is 100% custom. I will post pic as soon as we get it started, as I would like to get feed back from you guys. This will be the first bass I will have custom. I currently play a Bc Rich US Mockingbird that I picked up off ebay back in 2005.
I just joined talkbass yesterday. I am currently in the process of having a 7 string fanned fret bass custom built. A good friend of mine is building it for me (still in the design process). He designs the body the headstock every thing to the way you want it, everything is 100% custom. I will post pic as soon as we get it started, as I would like to get feed back from you guys. This will be the first bass I will have custom. I currently play a Bc Rich US Mockingbird that I picked up off ebay back in 2005.
Ditto.
My 7 string actually has 9 semitones more than a 5 string, which amounts to 14 semitones more than a four string. It ain't a piano like some consider it to be, but it has damn good capabilities of being played like one!
james, i really dig that bass. if you ever decide that you need to unload it for whatever reason, please contact me
Thanks John, I'll let the wife know to contact you after I'm gone
It's a long story, but the Cliff's Notes version is that my last band broke up at a very bad time and there really isn't anything that good out there. Omaha is predominantly composed of cover bands that don't make much money because everyone is doing the same thing, indie, and metal.
I'm not bashing cover bands, but playing the same tired songs, working every Friday and Saturday on top of my crappy work schedule, and not making much money to compensate is.....not terribly fun. I'm really not angry enough for most modern metal and I kinda consider it pointless playing in bands if I'm not supposed to be heard.
I actually enjoy a lot of the Indie/Americana music, but I honestly can't stand hipsters. Working with surgeons all day, I gotta say that surgeons are much more humble and easier to work with than a good amount of local musicians. Ultimately, the music scene is a big clique and they've been keen to inform me that I'm not in it and probably never will be. A few turds have been so kind to make sure to black list me based on working with other blaclkisted musicians as well as having a different approach to music. Some time last fall, I kinda decided to put music on the back burner because I was having to beg for some pretty weak gigs and not get them because of what they had heard. :scowl: At the same time I realized how much more rewarding brewing and road racing was. In a very short time I had made more friends than I ever did as a musician. Band members constantly quitting/flaking out has kept my gigs to a minimum and I realized that I've had more races than gigs. Road bikers are historically a somewhat secretive and elite group, but being accepted was more about being able to hang with the big dogs than who ya know and if you've pissed off the wrong people.
.....and that's the short version.
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