Double Bass TBDB FAQs

[Adam Booker]

Q: I mainly play arco in my high school orchestra. What kind of pick-up do I need?

A: Ask your teacher!!!!

 

[Paul Warburton]

Mr. Fuqua, If I haul my Kay on top of my car, will it give it enough MOJO for me to play some jazz on it?

 

[nathanmcnathan]

Hey everybody, check out my new bass! It's a dean, 34"scale, and the FRETboard is perfectly flat so it's really easy to play!

 

[TroyK]

Q: Hey! I was just thinking...rosin...play bach...dead hookers?

A: As an aside to that one guy, I've always respected your work, but enough with the blueberry pancakes.




FAQ cleaned up by supermod Chris Fitzgerald.

 

[Eric Swanson]

Q: I just bought a shiny new bass, sight unseen, mail order, from (fill in the blank). I have never played UB before. What can I do to get ready for its arrival?

A: Nothing except to get a teacher, learn to sight sing, play piano, and train your ears.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

"My bass has a popped seam that's causing a rattle..... can anyone recommend a good, inexpensive brad nailer?"

 

[Paul Warburton]

Q: I just bought a shiny new bass-shaped object, sight unseen, mail order, from (fill in the blank). I have never played UB before. What can I do to get ready for its arrival? Gosh, I am so excited!

A: Nothing except to get a teacher, learn to sight sing, play piano, and train your ears.

AND get to know your local drug dealers.

 

[weary gill]

AND get to know your local drug dealers.

That's probably been taken care of since a bass has been purchased.

 

[Paul Warburton]

That's probably been taken care of since a bass has been purchased.

Will, that's pretty cold. My respect.

 

[Alexi David]

Nice one, Cats. My contribution:

"I'm bored with playing 'So What' - anyone know any hip licks I can play over it?"

 

[nathanmcnathan]

Nice one, Cats. My contribution:

"I'm bored with playing 'So What' - anyone know any hip licks I can play over it?"

Yeah, just email me for the tabs!

 

[arnoldschnitzer]

Q The action is too high on my new ebay $399 bass.

A Burn it.

 

[TroyK]

Can't believe we left this out originally, but something I read today inspired me:

Q: I'm working on the bach cello suites and the original flexicores are a little stiff for me in thumb poistion any ideas what string might be similar, but more friendly for this application?

A: I've got the LaBella Jamerson set on my '72 Fender P-Bass, I love it for that old school sound! SWEEETTTT!!! I'm saving up for a Stingray 5, tho. My friend has one and their off the hook!

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Can't believe we left this out originally, but something I read today inspired me:

Q: I'm working on the bach cello suites and the original flexicores are a little stiff for me in thumb poistion any ideas what string might be similar, but more friendly for this application?

A: I've got the LaBella Jamerson set on my '72 Fender P-Bass, I love it for that old school sound! SWEEETTTT!!! I'm saving up for a Stingray 5, tho. My friend has one and their off the hook!

...

 

[Jake deVilliers]

Q: I'm working on the bach cello suites and the original flexicores are a little stiff for me in thumb poistion any ideas what string might be similar, but more friendly for this application?

A: I've got the LaBella Jamerson set on my '72 Fender P-Bass, I love it for that old school sound! SWEEETTTT!!! I'm saving up for a Stingray 5, tho. My friend has one and their off the hook!

Back, back, waaaay back - and its gone!

Great swing TROIKA, right down to the mis-spelled words!

 

[fdeck]

Q: My fingerboard is luth
A: Take it to a luthier

 

[mmjazzbass]

good, but spiral cores beat obligatos. my teacher told me that.

 

[MartinBorgen]

Q: "Hi all we just recorded with my band we play rockabillyhiphopalternativeindierock and it went really well we did not have a mick so we used my friends xbox headset and threw it down the fhole and it worked but when we moved the sound files to my laptop all the bass just DISSAPEARED OMFG WHAT HAPPENED ANYONE PLZ HELP ME WHY!!"

A: I have had teh same problems, so i always upload our audiofiles to myspace from my stationary computer

Answer 2: Bass frequencies need lots of space to generate, so you need a bigger laptop.

/audio engineering student

 

[TroyK]

Nice work, Martin! Thrilled to see the FAQs being updated.

 

[dvmweb]

I had missed this until just now.

You guys are some mean fu**ers!