You can also use it to play the gig from out in the parking lot.
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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Big Hoss
Up note, down note, blue note, brown note...
- Sep 5, 2014
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Most bassists who practice transcendental meditation find themselves chanting "ohm" instead of "om" while meditating. This unfortunately causes the brain to resist the beneficial effects of meditation.
I actually bought several MarkBass CMD102P combos JUST so guests would have a nice place to place their drink.The best place to put your drink is on your bass amp!
I found when you add the extension cab it makes for a fancy little end table that tells everyone you are really into bass guitar sort of like putting a piece of glass on a used NASCAR tire can work as furniture for those into stock car racing.
My new amp came equipped with Wi-Fi,now I can stay home and phone in my bass lines. This also has auto-correct which automatically fixes any bad notes or other mistakes. This feature is only available on bass amps. It seems that guitarists,drummers,keyboardist,and vocalists make to many mistakes,and overload the auto-correct function. So only certified bass players can purchase or use these new amps.
On the rare occasions when I play wrong notes it is entirely due to rogue electrons in my amp causing quantum pitch shift. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
This particular problem was first discovered by major league pitchers. The rogue electrons in the baseball caused a quantum pitch shift to alter their pitches. This became a problem for bass players when some pitchers started playing bass. It would appear,that semi conducting flux warps are the cause, at this time it is being studied by NASA and Major League Baseball,but it is too early to make a possitive claim as to the exact cause.
A heavy bass, together with its player, amp and cab cause spacetime to bend. In fact, a tiny black hole exists on stage, between the bassist and his gear. This is being proven time after time, when the floodlights leave a dark spot around the bassist.
Few believe this but it is true and where better to share than here?
So, I am what you may call a "gear snob" and a total elitist. Sometimes I feel pretty bad about this as I get really haughty if I have to dare touch low level gear.
I once had to play through a Glockenklang amp and I damned near told them they were going to have to cancel the entire gig if I had to use that flaming turd.
Gig was not canceled because without bass there is no show and without me the band just falls apart so it was a matter of hitting up my secret source for gear on the iPhone. (Craig's List. Shhhh)
We told the crowd it would be about 45 minutes for technical difficulties as my guys located me some choice gear which just so happened to be a Behringer Ultrabass BX4500H and as soon as the man arrived I handed him a crisp C note and plugged my B.C. Rich Warlock in and like Al Bundy, I just said, "Let's rock."
No dialing in. No fooling around. This amp was ready and my "axe" (us players call them that) fit perfectly and with a tone that just killed.
Needless to say the show went off without a hitch but we had a guy in the crowd who played bass and happened to know Victor Wooten so he pulled him up on the old FaceTime and Mr. Wooten observed me doing things with a bass guitar that ought to be illegal in 47 states (Delaware has no rules and Alaska and Hawaii are too far away to count) and well, Woots (as he told me to call him) wanted to talk to me.
So, I figure it was gonna be another nerd wanting to know how I get my tone. (No secret. Keep it flat. Behringer, B.C. Rich only do half the work because the rest comes from my fingers)
Nope. He wanted to know if he could Skype me on Tuesday evening for an hour or two and I said I could fit him in.
Fast forward to Tuesday and "Woots" calls me up and he wanted to take a lesson from me.
Yeah, now normally I charge for such but I told him this one was on the arm because I like the kid and think he has the tools to go far if he would just put his nose to the grindstone and stop fooling around with all the slappity bappity nonsense and stick to the damned basics.
"Play the root, Victor!" I said over and over until he finally GOT IT.
One hour later I blew his mind and he made some serious headway and the player he is today is in large part due to that lesson.
I try to never tell stories like this because I am a pretty humble guy but sometimes you need to toot your own horn just to cut through the mix and let them know you're still here.
Toot. Toot.
So, really it all comes down to the magic of Behringer with a sprinkle of B.C. Rich Warlock and the rest my friends you will have to come up with on your own but each time you see Victor Wooten and marvel at what he can do, just know I am the one who got him there and it was all because of that one time I played a local bar show.
So, I am what you may call a "gear snob" and a total elitist. Sometimes I feel pretty bad about this as I get really haughty if I have to dare touch low level gear.
I once had to play through a Glockenklang amp and I damned near told them they were going to have to cancel the entire gig if I had to use that flaming turd.
Gig was not canceled because without bass there is no show and without me the band just falls apart so it was a matter of hitting up my secret source for gear on the iPhone. (Craig's List. Shhhh)
We told the crowd it would be about 45 minutes for technical difficulties as my guys located me some choice gear which just so happened to be a Behringer Ultrabass BX4500H and as soon as the man arrived I handed him a crisp C note and plugged my B.C. Rich Warlock in and like Al Bundy, I just said, "Let's rock."
No dialing in. No fooling around. This amp was ready and my "axe" (us players call them that) fit perfectly and with a tone that just killed.
Needless to say the show went off without a hitch but we had a guy in the crowd who played bass and happened to know Victor Wooten so he pulled him up on the old FaceTime and Mr. Wooten observed me doing things with a bass guitar that ought to be illegal in 47 states (Delaware has no rules and Alaska and Hawaii are too far away to count) and well, Woots (as he told me to call him) wanted to talk to me.
So, I figure it was gonna be another nerd wanting to know how I get my tone. (No secret. Keep it flat. Behringer, B.C. Rich only do half the work because the rest comes from my fingers)
Nope. He wanted to know if he could Skype me on Tuesday evening for an hour or two and I said I could fit him in.
Fast forward to Tuesday and "Woots" calls me up and he wanted to take a lesson from me.
Yeah, now normally I charge for such but I told him this one was on the arm because I like the kid and think he has the tools to go far if he would just put his nose to the grindstone and stop fooling around with all the slappity bappity nonsense and stick to the damned basics.
"Play the root, Victor!" I said over and over until he finally GOT IT.
One hour later I blew his mind and he made some serious headway and the player he is today is in large part due to that lesson.
I try to never tell stories like this because I am a pretty humble guy but sometimes you need to toot your own horn just to cut through the mix and let them know you're still here.
Toot. Toot.
So, really it all comes down to the magic of Behringer with a sprinkle of B.C. Rich Warlock and the rest my friends you will have to come up with on your own but each time you see Victor Wooten and marvel at what he can do, just know I am the one who got him there and it was all because of that one time I played a local bar show.
I would suggest the new bass strings,SUPER WOUNDS, they are so rough ,that they keep your nails ground down to the quick. And if you keep playing they can actualy shorten your fingers.
gota to seek those low frequency waves, for brain output, resonance freq. Just like speakers. Fortunately, because there are two halves of a brain, the brain works in a push pull manner. When you get a headache, migraines in particular, the DC component is starting to saturate the core.
Originally the bass guitar was developed and given a code name, much like the different versions of computer operating systems produced by major developers. The convenience of a very (especially for the time) compact, short necked instrument was considered to be very BA, (as in bad aspirin)... With the comparatively SHORT SCALE, the acronym, B.A.S.S. took off as slang that differentiated it from it's upright bass counterparts. Over time, and especially as a wide variety of manufacturers as well as luthiers began producing their own version of the B.A.S.S. These iterations were not uniform in design or configuration, but all versions were considered to be a B.A.S.S, as opposed to an upright. Eventually the periods after each initial were dropped. it was near that point in time that someone noticed that coincidentally B.A.S.S. also spelled out BASS, which is the namesake tone register produced by the instrument.
It was once widely thought that the bass clef used to score musical compositions got it's name from the creation of the B.A.S.S. Upon research, this was found not to be the case.
It was once widely thought that the bass clef used to score musical compositions got it's name from the creation of the B.A.S.S. Upon research, this was found not to be the case.
