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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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Herman's Hermits singer Peter Noone used to be a no one until he removed the space in his last name.
After four or five bars I'm lucky if I can get up out of the gutter much less come up for air.
Most bass players don't have as many different licks in their playbook as guitar players but the ones they do have go much deeper.
To improve your chops, use a small sharpened camping axe and strike the body of the bass repeatedly going with the grain.
If your bass body is made of plywood just strike it any which way you like, being careful to hold the bass by the headstock with your other hand so you don't cut yourself.
If you want to play a "turnaround", just turn your bass clockwise in a 360 degree rotation as you play.
To play a descending scale take your bass to the nearest elevator, wait 'til you're up on the 14th floor, press "Lobby" and then play as the elevator goes down.
Do the reverse for an ascending scale.
If you're playing a Pentatonic scale always have a bottle of tonic handy.
Take two teaspoons 15 minutes before playing.
If you're playing a Chromatic scale be aware that scales can and do rust quite frequently.
Shuffle beats on a bass are best played by shuffling your strings around. Switch the A string to G, E string to A etc.
Jump blues are best played by using a trampoline while playing.
If you're not a Rastafarian, don't bother playing reggae..because you'll have no idea what you're doing.
If you're in a garage with a bunch of musicians playing Jazz/Funk/Fusion, any bass is perfectly acceptable.
If your bass body is made of plywood just strike it any which way you like, being careful to hold the bass by the headstock with your other hand so you don't cut yourself.
If you want to play a "turnaround", just turn your bass clockwise in a 360 degree rotation as you play.
To play a descending scale take your bass to the nearest elevator, wait 'til you're up on the 14th floor, press "Lobby" and then play as the elevator goes down.
Do the reverse for an ascending scale.
If you're playing a Pentatonic scale always have a bottle of tonic handy.
Take two teaspoons 15 minutes before playing.
If you're playing a Chromatic scale be aware that scales can and do rust quite frequently.
Shuffle beats on a bass are best played by shuffling your strings around. Switch the A string to G, E string to A etc.
Jump blues are best played by using a trampoline while playing.
If you're not a Rastafarian, don't bother playing reggae..because you'll have no idea what you're doing.
If you're in a garage with a bunch of musicians playing Jazz/Funk/Fusion, any bass is perfectly acceptable.
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@Jay2U, great minds think alike...History repeats itself.
@GBassNorth So now everybody knows this is the one and only true history of the development of Fender basses.@Jay2U, great minds think alike...History repeats itself.
(I really didn't recall your 14 months old post)
Few know that Leo Fender did not invent the Precision bass.
Leo never invented anything. He worked as a packing boy at a supermarket his entire life.
It was his older brother Freddy (pictured below) who did it all. But Freddy wanted no part of the limelight and shunned fame. So he created the Leo myth and Leo sucked it all up like a sponge.
Freddy also invented the Ampeg SVT. In this pic he is holding a tube from one of the SVT prototypes.
However Freddy was not all that good at designing bass bodies and so he hired the Freddie below (Freddie Tavares) to do that end of things.
Freds were important in the Fender hierarchy.
Freddy Fender's son Freddy (shown below) carried on the Fender tradition by becoming a recording artist
because as Freddie put it "he just didn't have a mind for electronics or designing instruments ".
Leo never invented anything. He worked as a packing boy at a supermarket his entire life.
It was his older brother Freddy (pictured below) who did it all. But Freddy wanted no part of the limelight and shunned fame. So he created the Leo myth and Leo sucked it all up like a sponge.
Freddy also invented the Ampeg SVT. In this pic he is holding a tube from one of the SVT prototypes.
However Freddy was not all that good at designing bass bodies and so he hired the Freddie below (Freddie Tavares) to do that end of things.
Freds were important in the Fender hierarchy.
Freddy Fender's son Freddy (shown below) carried on the Fender tradition by becoming a recording artist
because as Freddie put it "he just didn't have a mind for electronics or designing instruments ".
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Hanging your bass just one inch above the floor helps a lot.
Whe I was young, I resembled that... ;-)
That's ok, I liked yours better! Apparently, like fine wine, misinformation improves with age.@GBassNorth So now everybody knows this is the one and only true history of the development of Fender basses.
(I really didn't recall your 14 months old post)
In-ear monitors have to be carefully trimmed, with regard to delay. Acoustic sound waves travel at the speed of sound, while the electronic signal travels at the speed of light, which is about a million times as fast. It requires trained specialists to get the timing spot on.
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Ear hairs need to be carefully trimmed too. The crackling noise in the headphones is not static...it's ear hairs...
Careful, musical misinformation, not physics misinformation. Movement of electrons is electricity, and because electrons have mass, they do not travel at the speed of light.
Having said that, users of lightwave pickups must play ahead of the beat in order to be in sync with the band due to the timing difference between light and electricity.
At a certain age, ear hair becomes an important part of hearing protection in loud environments.
Cymbal crashed are the third leading cause of computer crashes...
(After long nose hairs & loud mice)
(After long nose hairs & loud mice)
While we're on the subject of anatomy, it's a little known fact that all Gibson basses and guitars were derived from the Thunderbird/Firebird model, which was originally modeled after a now extinct giant Condor. To this day that's why we still call the various parts of the instrument the head, body, neck, or wings. Conversely, all Fender basses and guitars were modeled after a rhinoceros which consists of a head, body, neck and upper and lower horns.
80% of failures in solid state amps is due to silicon eating spiders.
But there's an easy fix for that - just pour about a cup of sand over the circuit boards once a month and the silicon will absorb back into the components. As an alternative you can spray Raid bug spray over the circuit boards every few weeks to keep the spiders at bay.
My bass playing girlfriend was getting pretty tired of her amp situation - she initially contemplated getting her tubes tied but decided to get a silicone injection instead. She claims her bass playing is in a pretty solid state right now and that the injection cured the sag she was experiencing in her prior set up. The change is really quite noticible. She's now much more forward in the mix and really stands out especially with a hard banging drummer.
Her next project will probably be enhancement of the bottom end?
