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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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The only reason they ever put frets on a bass was to make it look really complicated with the amount of notes available.
That way they could sell more bass lessons at the dealer. An incentive provided by the bass makers to get dealers to stock their basses.
Beginners think you need to use all the notes on the neck...but experienced bass players are quite happy using a fraction of those.
Pick up any experienced players bass...notice there's no fret wear or finger marks above the 5th fret.
Country players only use the first and fifth notes in any scale below the 5th fret.
Metal players only use one note and one string. Open E. (Or B if it's a fiver).
That way they could sell more bass lessons at the dealer. An incentive provided by the bass makers to get dealers to stock their basses.
Beginners think you need to use all the notes on the neck...but experienced bass players are quite happy using a fraction of those.
Pick up any experienced players bass...notice there's no fret wear or finger marks above the 5th fret.
Country players only use the first and fifth notes in any scale below the 5th fret.
Metal players only use one note and one string. Open E. (Or B if it's a fiver).
The above fractious fifth notes and fifth frets... and the fact that most bass players receive one-fifth of the amount of money paid to lead singers, 1/5th less the money a lead guitarist gets... which is why there are 1/5th fewer bass players than guitarists and is what drives Bass Players to drink – consuming many fifths of whiskey – which 'causes their timing to be off by as much as 1/5th of a beat, which may explain why they receive 1/5th what other band members make, which leads to more fifths of whiskey being consumed...
This is the true meaning of "The Circle of Fifths".
When talking about adjustment to fanned frets, it is actually the frets themselves that often need tweaks to their angle. Since the technology is new, luthiers have not been able to perfect the angle of each fret, yet, so fan-fretted instruments often require adjustments by the player — it only takes a small 2mm allan-key, turned clock-wise for sharp and counter-clockwise for flat (in the Northern Hemisphere, for those living in the Southern Hemisphere it's the opposite and they must be turned wise and unwise).
Now, let's clarify that! Bass players are only off that much (AND they have to be drunk to be so far off) in order to be in time with lead guitarists, whom all have bad timing in the first place.
Swing bass started when a balance-challenged wanna-be jazz bassist named William 'Wobbles" Wilson transitioned from an upright to a new Precision bass in 1951. Since his upright was what kept him upright, he started wobbling which caused the bass to swing on its strap.
Only sheer luck let him continue to play, developing that unique swing style.
Only sheer luck let him continue to play, developing that unique swing style.
If you've ever seen David "Shuffle" Steele of The (English) Beat live, you can tell he was a devotee of the work of Mr. Wilson.
That further explains why my fretless skills are sad, very sad
The scale length of electrical basses shouldn't be any longer than 38". Otherwise the nut is too far away from the pickup(s), causing noticeable delay on open strings and low fret positions.
These etudes may only be played in university practice rooms and if accompanied, only by students on their (non-major) methods instruments.
The word crescendo was first mutter by a musician who was jogging in the village and saw the crazyest thing happen a hen in his path tried to escape and it doing so crash into a young deer that was also trying to move out of the way the crash hen doe accident was a story he told to many of this musician friends and it somehow morphed into it was a crashhendo I tell you!
E# are Fb are enharmonic equivalents, but not of each other. They are enharmonic equivalents to Cb and B#.
Elvis's most deeply moving songs are about food, for example "Peas In The Valley".
"Love Me Tender" was a tribute to cannibalism....
