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Is having a "nice roll" underrated as a bassist?

#122
Lesfunk said:
From the slang dictionary…


Style
“Drip” used as slang means style, particularly fashionable and sexy style. It can especially refer to things like “ice,” which is expensive jewelry, often jewelry with diamonds. Basically, if someone has a drip, then they have a confident, sexy, stylish look
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Back in my day if you had drip, then you were probably wearing some depends so you could look confident.

It was kinda hard to hide the rolls though. If you had rolls you just sorta had to flaunt 'em.
 
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2112 said:
Perhaps @roller can shed some light on this question for us...
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LBS-bass said:
It's not the first controversial thread he's started. Not that I'm implying anything. I think that the scenario is reasonable but I'm not familiar with the term. A few others seem to be.
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Not me... I'm just exploring the avenues. :)

Actually I'm still wondering how the hell 'rock and roll' gets defined in a world where musicians know what rock is but not roll. That's just weird.
 
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jpmcbride said:
The OP means hanging on a single note but swinging or shuffling it like you might use in a blues.

Guitar and bass are two different skill sets. What looks easy isn't always so.
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The OP is guessing at what the guy meant who said he had a nice roll, as is everyone else in this thread. The only uses of "roll" I know in this context are banjo rolls, referring to a finger-picking technique, and barrelhouse piano.

[Edit: I see Michedelic already posted the "Roll 'Em, Pete" clip.]

 
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for the pop quiz in advanced bass class 567 with professor smoothfingers, can someone provide points of differentiation between “nice roll” and “nice groove”?

i assume since almost no one knows what “roll” means in “rock ‘n roll” someone just assumed since the guitarist “rocks” the bassist “rolls”. but how to congratulate the drummer? lol
 
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Cadillac_Mike said:
One night doing a live gig for my dad's band an audience member told me "you're a good bass player, you have a nice roll." That always stuck with me because I'm definitely not that flashy as a bass player. My dad who's a guitarist and I jam with a lot often picks up the bass and even though he's basically taught me everything I know about music theory and a way better guitarist than me; he can't even hold down a nice simple do do do blues bass roll like I can it sounds too choppy.

It just kinda baffles me how that works. Everyone thinks thumping on one note for the rhythm is like falling off a log and takes no skill but my dad who can play "Skuttle Buttin" note for note on guitar, can play a lot of surf and rockabilly stuff can't capture the organic roll I can get on one note.
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Maybe that's a guitar player lacking a bass player's feel....most are guilty of that. Hendrix played bass on Watch Tower I believe and to my ears, it sounds a mess......and (at the risk of lighting a rocket)..I always thought McCartney sounded like a guitarist playing a bass
 

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