I've been wanting to learn to play this way so I can properly learn some Jeff Schmidt tunes. Harder than it looks.
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playing upside down.
- Thread starter eSmith
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Only bassists playing upside down are the australian ones. And they can play the right way around when they come to the northern hemisphere. How weird is that?I guess it has something to do with the coriolis effect
That's beautiful!! LOL.....
Also, left-handed boxers AlWAYS have the advantage.
I could play songs with simple parts right away, but to fully make the switch on DB took about a month (BG I can't say - I've got a doubleneck with one fifths-tuned neck and one tuned in fourths). Give it time and practice basic scales and arpeggios for a bit.
In my former band (where I was the singer) our bass player just started playing the bass, didn't own one,
but he was really talented, so I gave him my bass, I am a lefty, but play right handed.
He's a lefty, too, but plays left handed, so he played it with the strings upside down and learned it
pretty well really fast, played guitar at home in the normal way, was able to play acceptable
right handed and switches from time to time nowadays.
Like he played his new left handed Warwick Corvette $$ once, with a normal string setup, but he broke a string
so he asked another guy if he could lend his bass (bassplayer from another band had his Warwick Corvette $$, but right handed)
so he just used his bass, with the strings upside down.
That was really cool, he just switched between the songs from a normal setup on a 4 string to upside down on a 5 string.
And we played fast technical death metal, and he still loves to play fretless upside down
but he was really talented, so I gave him my bass, I am a lefty, but play right handed.
He's a lefty, too, but plays left handed, so he played it with the strings upside down and learned it
pretty well really fast, played guitar at home in the normal way, was able to play acceptable
right handed and switches from time to time nowadays.
Like he played his new left handed Warwick Corvette $$ once, with a normal string setup, but he broke a string
so he asked another guy if he could lend his bass (bassplayer from another band had his Warwick Corvette $$, but right handed)
so he just used his bass, with the strings upside down.
That was really cool, he just switched between the songs from a normal setup on a 4 string to upside down on a 5 string.
And we played fast technical death metal, and he still loves to play fretless upside down
Whoa, that looks odd.Another take on upside down playing
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I've posted this before, but you could also try alternating - playing every other note left-handed:
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Jimi Goodwin of The Doves - underrated tasty player and band, IMO.
Jimi Goodwin of The Doves - underrated tasty player and band, IMO.
eric gale's bass player played that way when i saw him 20 years ago (gales plays that way, too, when he's not on lockdown.). the bassist from the terrible band jackyl played that way, too. saw them open for zz 20 years ago. that was the most memorable part of their set.
I'm gonna try to go for playing quadruple upside-down - lefty, strung righty, tuned in fifths, and on a bass that's actually right-handed but looks like an upside-down lefty. The confusion will be complete.
jive1
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Yes, it does, but it's still better than if an American hipster did the same thing and called it meta-post-upside-down playing!
Sat in with a Brazilian band last night whose Spanish bassist has this:
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I brought my EUB, so for a few songs we had two backwards lefty bassists, one upside down and one sideways.
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I brought my EUB, so for a few songs we had two backwards lefty bassists, one upside down and one sideways.
