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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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Years of standing around with a twelve pound bass hanging on you will eventually begin to make you shrink about 1/16th of an inch a year.
. . . . of course when pushing the boundaries of jazz metal, a fifth is a naturally occurring interval.
I was just telling the wife it used to be 2 inches bigger 30 years ago.
That's true! look at my avatar and see how low the bass already hangs due to my shrinking.
The lower you wear your bass the power the notes are--so if you wear it low enough you don't need a 5 string or to de-tune.
Musical instrument related changes in morphology are properly described in fathoms.
The Tone Hammer is a handy piece if kit. If ever you're at a gig and you can't get the sound you want, if the drummer sounds like death warmed up or the singer is scaring the kiddies, just take out your Tone Hammer.
A few well aimed blows — don't be too concerned about where, but the head region's normally a good place to start — will usually be enough to get things back on track.
A few well aimed blows — don't be too concerned about where, but the head region's normally a good place to start — will usually be enough to get things back on track.
Unless you are playing jazz, in which case you want t use a joiner's mallet. And for metal a sledge hammer, unless it is black metal in which case use a rock hammer.
Reggae phenomena occur with all types of vibrations or waves: there is mechanical Reggae, acoustic Reggae, electromagnetic Reggae, nuclear magnetic Reggae (NMR), electron spin Reggae (ESR) and Reggae of quantum wave functions. Reggae systems can be used to generate vibrations of a specific frequency (e.g., musical instruments), or pick out specific frequencies from a complex vibration containing many frequencies (e.g., filters).
The term Reggae (from Latin reg, 'un-stick', from gae, 'a Scotch form of go') originates from the field of acoustics, particularly observed in musical instruments, e.g., when bass strings started to vibrate and to produce sound without direct excitation by the audience. If it's a holiday of drunken debauchery you want, this is not your dream destination...
The term Reggae (from Latin reg, 'un-stick', from gae, 'a Scotch form of go') originates from the field of acoustics, particularly observed in musical instruments, e.g., when bass strings started to vibrate and to produce sound without direct excitation by the audience. If it's a holiday of drunken debauchery you want, this is not your dream destination...
There is another place that can be hit to get the singer to produce higher notes, way higher.
You'll find that the head region normally covers it.There is another place that can be hit to get the singer to produce higher notes, way higher.
Rock-a-billy is a more informal (street, if you please) version of chamber music known as rock-a-william.
Ornette Coleman took his name from a railroad engineer. Touring by train during the 1950's, he overheard a conductor raving about an engineer who was extremely neat shoveling coal. The conductor said: "Now that's what I call an ornate coal man." He figured if it was good enough to get an engineer praise, he might as well try it, too.
Starting January 2020, Fender American Ultra Series basses must have a red label, reading: "Not suitable for beginner and mediocre bass players".
Health and Safety had wanted a carnival ride type of sign that said "you must have this much money to play" but legal and marketing decided that the risk of a law suit was low.
Purchasing a Squier bass immediately makes you landed gentry - although just barely.
The best tonewood is morning wood, so much sustain it's annoying sometimes.
