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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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A lot of TB bassists play by ear. A recent secret study showed that 65 percent of TB "ear players" use the left ear for fretting.
They will use the right ear for picking. Most don't use both ears at the same time...although some admitted they tried...
They will use the right ear for picking. Most don't use both ears at the same time...although some admitted they tried...
Due to excessive string vibration, the bridge saddles and the nut of a bass guitar need to be replaced after 500 playing hours.
Setting the intonation on a guitar is named as such because a properly intonated guitar looks like the toes profile on a human foot. A related fact: guitars were initially 5 string instruments. The low E string was added in 1877 by the Austrian luthier Jo Hamer.
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Exactly!! I always intonate my bass so it looks like this.... but I play a 4-string so I leave the little tiny toe out...
I have been keeping this secret for sometime now, but I feel it is time to share with you all, If you buy a set of round wound strings and decided you want to try flats instead all you need to do is, removed the round wound strings from you bass hang them up by the ball end in a well ventilated area, next go out and by yourself a can of
spray your strings let them dry for 24 hours replace them on your bass and now they are flat wound strings! your welcome RTS
I did the whole fretboard with that and now all my notes are flat...
Stop me if you've heard this one.
Middle C, E-flat and G walk into a bar.
"Sorry" says the bartender to the E-flat, "we don't serve minors here."
Middle C, E-flat and G walk into a bar.
"Sorry" says the bartender to the E-flat, "we don't serve minors here."
Okay, so C, Eb, and Gb are leaving the bar.
"Hey!," says the bartender, "who's paying for that diminished fifth?"
"Hey!," says the bartender, "who's paying for that diminished fifth?"
Suzuki is going to reissue the Omnichord, and also make a new expanded version - the Omnomnomnichord.
A Squier bass is just as good as any Fodera or any other "botique" high end bass. Sorry if this has been said before, I wasn't going to read 238 pages this morning.
Boutique basses give you 10 times the performance for 10 times the price.
If things start going wayward, one can always boutique one's boring basses, on a boutique basis.
Simply take your boring basses along with you, whenever you go in for a pampering at your favorite boutique, and shout the dear things a Brazilian maybe, or a henna tattoo, or something similar, just to brighten them up a little bit. Works a treat, most of the time, and you'll find they'll start playing nice again.
Simply take your boring basses along with you, whenever you go in for a pampering at your favorite boutique, and shout the dear things a Brazilian maybe, or a henna tattoo, or something similar, just to brighten them up a little bit. Works a treat, most of the time, and you'll find they'll start playing nice again.
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Boutique basses look a little different, because they were taken from the production line due to flaws.
