How would you define your style of playing?

[Frndmoretti]

So, what are the things that make your playing your own?
How do you play if left to your own devices?
What would a band you started around your musical style sound like?

In my case it's a repetitive, speeded-up funky sound. Minimal chord changes. Mostly minor.

What about you?

 

[Jeff Scott]

My playing is like a sweet symphony of cacophony.

 

[SLO Surfer]

Like a soft plastic bag.

 

[catcauphonic]

Still finding my own playing style, but so far I just mainly look good right up front and center next to our singerbabe

 

[BurnOut]

I too am finding my way, keep improving, playing closer to the original but still doing my own thing. The fills keep coming, as I leave my root ways behind. My vocals keep improving thanks to my neighbor taking me under his instruction. Wanna be the guy up front playing bass, maybe not 100% but a majority of the time.

 

[lowplaces]

Dark

 

[dmt]

Hmm. Maybe, "Stephen Stills-y, but more aggressive" would be in the right neighborhood. Currently I’m bringing some reggae influence into the mix. I’m always up for faux-country or straight up blues, and I’m also up for just whole note roots if that’s what the song calls for. Basically though, an eclectic 60’s and 70’s classic rock-based style, fingers or pick. Maybe ‘Berry Oakley meets John Entwhistle’, lol

So, what are the things that make your playing your own?

I’m a bit less staccato than many others, I’ve noticed. Not "all legato, all the time" or anything, but....maybe it’s just that I’m not ‘modern’ or funky

How do you play if left to your own devices?

I noodle around trying out different progressions, riffs and runs, looking for cool little bits I can use later

What would a band you started around your musical style sound like?

For starters, it would have frickin’ awesome drum fills Soaring guitars leads, mixed with crunching chords and rippling arpeggios
There would be a mix of aggressive, beautiful, jazzy, folky, rootsy, progressive, bluesy and funny.

Sounds like a project! In fact, I was doing something loose but along those lines just recently (within the extent that the time confines I have allow), but...a health issue cropped up (Boo)

 

[Element Zero]

Somewhere between Jamiroquai, Pantera, Bryan Adams, and Brad Paisley.

 

[dmt]

Somewhere between Jamiroquai, Pantera, Bryan Adams, and Brad Paisley.

Intruiging!

 

[FilTurd]

My style would be fast fingers, keeping in time, stick to the root notes the majority of time. Do some fills but basically keeping it simple, in time, having a blast and trying not to laugh at whatever antics our vocalist is going to do. Those are determined by how much alcohol he's consumed by the time our slot is up.

 

[Joe Nerve]

That's a really good question that I felt I have to respond to, because I don't have a response.

Most entrepreneurs have a 30 - 60 second (elevator) pitch to tell what they do. If I was hit with that question for a potential gig, I'd flub through it right now. So thanks, as I'm going to work on this .

Right now it would be something like: "I like playing every style of music and consider myself a song oriented guy. I love committing to 3 note songs as well as million note songs, and left to my own devices I lean towards the funky rock and roll kind of thing."

Hmm... needs work, but that would be me. @Frndmoretti , thanks for making me think.

 

[Tom Bomb]

After an astronomically long break — I began as a pick-wielding punk, before the crime that sunk that episode — and because of some ungodly peer pressure from unnamed internet sites, I put my mind solely to finger-style bassistry. All well and good. I like it fine. I also love the storytelling modes, rhythm, melody, and dancing, so I'm naturally drawn in these directions but I adopt lots of different stuff, not being too fixed or discriminating.

These days, I use a pick every now and again, and I've recently found the thumb to be a powerful ally for a lot of stuff — all this comes easy because of my background with a pick.

Reinterpreting, reharmonising, and matching or blending/augmenting feels is a lot of fun — keeps me amused. Improvising. I sing and play but rarely with a bass in my mittens, so I do need to do some of that soon. That'll be an adventure.

My band, just like the last, would be a loose collective of drifters and like-minded souls, unlimited in every way except our own limitations and the course of the music in play, on the day. This is bliss

 

[Element Zero]

Somewhere between Jamiroquai, Pantera, Bryan Adams, and Brad Paisley.

Think... mashed potatoes. Simple. Thick. Creamy. But also with butter, a pinch of kosher salt, sour cream, pepper, crushed garlic, bacon, chives, and cheddar cheese.

Don’t the rest of you play like food?

 

[twinjet]

So, what are the things that make your playing your own?
How do you play if left to your own devices?
What would a band you started around your musical style sound like?

In my case it's a repetitive, speeded-up funky sound. Minimal chord changes. Mostly minor.

What about you?

Adaptive. Ears always on.

When in my element, jazz, I love playing with chromaticism and dissonance. I don't do it too often though, as it can really throw some for a loop. I also enjoy rhythm play, dancing around the beat.

When playing everything else, I'm hyper focused on maintaining time and supporting the chord progression.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...I love playing with chromaticism and dissonance...

I do that in any musical style.

 

[Spidey2112]

"How would you define your style of playing?"

If I may be so bold, a lot like Geddy's...

... when he was about 3, or 4.

 

[Spidey2112]

Adaptive. Ears always on.

When in my element, jazz, I love playing with chromaticism and dissonance. I don't do it too often though, as it can really throw some for a loop. I also enjoy rhythm play, dancing around the beat.

When playing everything else, I'm hyper focused on maintaining time and supporting the chord progression.

Have you ever thought about running for political office?

...

 

[Wanker_Joe]

Self-indulgent wankery. I've heard my style called "masturbatory" and "not really melodic".
(edit: in no way do I mean this comment to imply that I have any chops whatsoever).

 

[40Hz]

Melodic with a healthy dose of syncopation.

 

[pomegranesis]

Vague