How good are you?

[indybassplayr]

my goal is to be somewhere in the area of Sir Beatle Paul and Derek Smalls..... gotta long way to go.

I guess I also suck, because I too do not slap...


I once saw a Bassist slap some in a Church in Memphis... seemed out of place somehow, but i thought it was cool.

 

[Ari Schor]

i would say i sound mostly like John Paul Jones and Jeff Ament...play both extremes...although i'm nowhere near as good...but i've heard good things about me from a pro bassist named Gilles Fournier...

 

[flipperwhite]

well I can kick fieldy's a** but I'd sure play just like him if I could make the money he does.

 

[Hategear]

Damn good!

 

[BehindTheMoon]

Oh, I'm good.

I'm damn good.

I'm so good that it's unbelievable!

But, I can't play bass. Not very well.

 

[ThePaste]

Let's just say it like this, I don't think I'm good (I know), but some other people think I am. I don't know why, maybe 'cus I can play Smooth Criminal

 

[Freakapotamus9]

im pretty good ( i dont like to judge myself but... )

compare myself to a player .... hmm .... nobody really comes to mind right away. maybe sam rivers ( i hate limp bizkit mind you ). i consider myself able to do better than him ( not arrogantly ) i can play most anything if im given a few days/ weeks / monthes ( Jaco stuff )

writing .... hmm ..... fleas finger style probably. im mostly on emo right now. slow complicated songs with a mellow, jazz like feel then rock.

 

[jasonbraatz]

everyone tells me that i'm a bad motherf....and logically i should be, because i landed the bass spot in the best/most popular band in madison (they were already the best without me having anything to do with it)...



but i don't really think so. i just don't feel like stuff comes out like how i want it to yet. like...if i were to sing a killer bass solo, and play a solo, they'd sound TOTALLY different.

i have lots of chops, so maybe that's why people think i'm good. i can take a dump all over the chord changes as long as i doublethumb something at the end i guess. i'd rather be able to play the slow sh!t that's in my head rather than the fast stuff that comes out of my hands.



as to who i sound like - i'd like to think a cross between stefan lessard and stu zender. stefan is so tasty, and stu is the funkiest bassist ever, IMO, and i do everything i can to try to emulate him.


jason

 

[flipperwhite]

Originally posted by ThePaste
Let's just say it like this, I don't think I'm good (I know), but some other people think I am. I don't know why, maybe 'cus I can play Smooth Criminal

hey,I remember that song,it's from micheal jacksons thriller album

 

[Player]

Take Jaco, JPJ, Geddy, Rainey, Clark. Squier, Entwistle, Bruce, Pino, Flea, Pea-nut, Geezer, and numerous others. Mix them together, remove all their chops and timing and that’s where I’m coming from.

 

[Bassman17]

I'm not really that good I can play some cool sounding blues riffs and things of the like and I can play some songs like scar tissue, days of the week, and about around the first minute of Anesthesia(pulling teeth). And one green day song I learned at my lesson that I don't know the name of.


my writing style is like no ones because so far I have writen nothing.

 

[Chris J]

Well....I've been compared to a cat in pain. A screaming baby. And nails on a chalk board. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. I've been practicing recently.

 

[Rick Rice]

Lets just say that my name and Rocco Prestia's are often used in the same sentence! People are always saying "That Rick Rice, he's no Rocco Prestia

 

[Hexanity]

I'm good for a 13 year old
I dont know many bassists my age that can play blues, jazz, metal and do a bit of slap (i suck at slap tho).

But I arnt that great in the real world.

 

[Hary]

I have my own and wonderful writing style!

But to tell you the truth, Stanley Clarke called me yesterday - he wants to take some lessons...



I wanna see your face! Like this:

 

[basstastic]

Playing ability, i owuld say is somewhere in the regions of dirk lance from incubus, mainly because i listen to incubus and learnt all their stuff and they rule.

but i say for the kinda band im in my style is very close, only after hearing an album of theirs did i realise this but Robert Sledge from Ben Folds Five

 

[bggeezer]

to quote a comic master...

"i can play all the notes....but not necessarily in the right order"

 

[HeavyDuty]

I suck, but I suck with style.

 

[VoodooChile]

to sum it all up, i'm god...i wish