Let's spread some musical misinformation

[ZenG]

If you play sharp scales on your bass you will need to wear gloves as the notes are sharp and you can easily cut yourself.

.....and watch the headstock while you're playing.......you could take somebody's eye out with that......

 

[ZenG]

If you grow your hair down to your waist and play slap bass, your hair will become hopelessly entangled in the strings resulting in a Gordian Knot.

 

[Jay2U]

If you grow your hair down to your waist and play slap bass, your hair will become hopelessly entangled in the strings resulting in a Gordian Knot.

Which is required to play the Gordian scale.

 

[zontar]

There is no such thing as a major key--it is a conspiracy by the government to make us think we're happy.

 

[Jay2U]

For the bass player it is often hard to cut through the mix, without completely overplaying the guitars. There is a very effective trick, however. Tune the bass half a semitone lower than the guitars and you will be heard.

 

[zontar]

Captain Hook was a mean slide guitar player...

 

[bonz - darrell]

For the bass player it is often hard to cut through the mix, without completely overplaying the guitars. There is a very effective trick, however. Tune the bass half a semitone lower than the guitars and you will be heard.

Doh! And all this time I've been tuning half a semitone higher. No wonder I get lost in the mix.

 

[pklima]

Unlike guitars or basses, drums cannot be tuned to a tuning fork. In the old days before digital tuners, they were tuned to a tuning spork.

 

[zontar]

Buddy Rich designed a combination utensil set/drumstick.
One drumstick had a spoon & the other a fork so he could eat during long sets.

 

[Jay2U]

Any combination of three or more different notes is a chord.

 

[eyeballkid]

Shake Your Money Maker is about Chippendale dancers and John Lennon originally wrote the song as The Girl With Colitis Goes By, but this is in the day when you weren't allowed to say the word "cancer" on the air and the record label censors thought a song about a girl with chronic incontinence was a bit much for the time, so the lyrics were changed at the last minute to keep the rhyme scheme intact.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Buddy Rich designed a combination utensil set/drumstick.
One drumstick had a spoon & the other a fork so he could eat during long sets.

If and when you come to a fork-stick in the road DON'T take it. You may be committing the crime of 'theft by finding'.

If, however, that fork-stick in the road happens to be a tuning fork-stick, then you're in luck.

Crimes against harmony trump laws relating to theft by finding, every time. So, you have every right to take that fork-stick in the road and henceforth never be out of tune, or without a concert calibrated whimsical dining drumming utensil, ever again. Fork that!

 

[zontar]

Richie Rich is Buddy Rich's son.

 

[My name is Mudd]

And they co-founded BC Rich guitars.

 

[ZenG]

If you have three tuning forks.....one in C, one in E, and one in G.....and you strike them all at the same time then you are playing a major chord.....which means you're well on your way to becoming a great bass player eventually.

 

[bonz - darrell]

Every practice that you attend is a good thing. It doesn't matter how chemically altered your band mates are, it's going to sound great...

 

[Jay2U]

Help saving the earth by buying more boutique and custom shop instruments. They're so cool that they'll stop global warming.

 

[BeardedFrog]

No bassist on earth actually cares about the difference between roundwound and flatwound strings. It's all just an act.

 

[ZenG]

No doubt at some point you'll want to play bass with your teeth when on stage to impress the women.....

Do not use Tapewounds or Elixir strings for this..........tape or coating will come off.........

Chicks love a guy that plays bass with his teeth.......

 

[ZenG]

If you are in the Florida keys and you are in Key Largo you cannot play an F# key using an F#Minor Augmented 13th Suspended 4th chord on any instrument or you will disappear into the Bermuda Triangle.