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What is your "gift" as a player.
- Thread starter Peace Cee
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Locking in with the drummer like we're one..... whether I'm playing straight, syncopating with the drummer or playing counterpoint to the melody.
(ie the pocket = feels like sitting in a chair while floating in air).
(ie the pocket = feels like sitting in a chair while floating in air).
Drummers tell me I make their job easy.
Also I know a lot of songs and can fake the ones I don't pretty well (good ear). I'm never asked to turn down and often asked to turn up.
A drummer in one of my former bands told me my playing reminded him of John Deacon. I lived on that for a few weeks...
On the flip side, I'm a terrible -- and very reluctant -- soloist. I wave-off soloing opportunities whenever I can.
Also I know a lot of songs and can fake the ones I don't pretty well (good ear). I'm never asked to turn down and often asked to turn up.
A drummer in one of my former bands told me my playing reminded him of John Deacon. I lived on that for a few weeks...
On the flip side, I'm a terrible -- and very reluctant -- soloist. I wave-off soloing opportunities whenever I can.
ReIgnition
if you are the big tree, we are the small axe...
After playing drums / drum corps for so many years it's easy for me to slap / pop drum rudiments between individual hand or both. I'm working on thumb only slap... i.e. up, down, up, up, down, up, down, down. Para-diddle.
Really Phalex? I thought your Ron Jeremy-esque ____ was your biggest gift.
That's where the resemblance ends unfortunately. I was known as "Tiny Tim" in Gym class.........
An ear and instinctive feel for melodic bass lines. Plus i have no fear of playing a simple line when the song calls for it.
Weakness? Never could get the slapping thing right, and though I am working on it, I just don't have moobs like Phalex!
PS. Sorry I haven't been around in a zillion years.... Been busy. And spending tons of time learning to become a guitardist. And despite what Geeza might have said, I was NOT in jail.... that he knows of!
Weakness? Never could get the slapping thing right, and though I am working on it, I just don't have moobs like Phalex!
PS. Sorry I haven't been around in a zillion years.... Been busy. And spending tons of time learning to become a guitardist. And despite what Geeza might have said, I was NOT in jail.... that he knows of!
I don't know if I have fancy gifts like some of the other posters (12-packs, etc).
Working with and writing in odd time signatures is my thing. Not necessarily a gift, definitely an inclination.
Working with and writing in odd time signatures is my thing. Not necessarily a gift, definitely an inclination.
Timing and playing what the song calls for.
My current band is going on seven years and we play with sequenced tracks, keys, horns ect.. (made by us) for about 70% of our material, I didn't really like playing with tracks at first but I have come to love it and it has greatly improved my timing.
My current band is going on seven years and we play with sequenced tracks, keys, horns ect.. (made by us) for about 70% of our material, I didn't really like playing with tracks at first but I have come to love it and it has greatly improved my timing.
+1...same hear! I can play almost anything by just listening to it, on bass, guitar, piano or drums. I also can get really close to the sound of the original just by the way I play it!
I was gonna say "nothing", but I've recently come to terms with the fact that I can't beat myself up if I wanna get any better. I would say what I bring is a simplistic approach, while always trying to do something a little different. Like bringing some jazz mentality to a rock n roll or soul or blues thing, like a walking line etc
I don't feel as though I have any special gifts. My gift, if there was one, would be dedication. I never seem to mind or have any issues with practicing four or more hours per day, regularly. And this is after 12 or more years of playing.
I am just an information sponge and if I learn something new in my music theory studies, I immediately compose something and make a bassline, or find something that has such qualities and I will learn it inside and out.
Another gift is that I like to be low in the mix. Most other people (besides bassists) are VERY happy that I have no desire to be outfront.
I am just an information sponge and if I learn something new in my music theory studies, I immediately compose something and make a bassline, or find something that has such qualities and I will learn it inside and out.
Another gift is that I like to be low in the mix. Most other people (besides bassists) are VERY happy that I have no desire to be outfront.
I can sing and play pretty much anything simultaneously without having to dumb down either one. People ask me all the time how I do it...I don't know and I don't want to!
Gets me a lot of gigs, even though I consider myself a "meat & potatoes" sort of bassist. Actually, that gets me a lot of gigs too...I just lay it down and don't noodle around.
Gets me a lot of gigs, even though I consider myself a "meat & potatoes" sort of bassist. Actually, that gets me a lot of gigs too...I just lay it down and don't noodle around.
My best quality is being able to hear the bass in existing music and reproduce it quite easily. I didn't learn this, it's just something I've been born with.
While I feel I'm pretty much an average player I've been told "you've got an ear that won't quit" and "you know how to fit right in and how to enhance at the right time." Well, I try.
While I feel I'm a decent player who knows his weak spots, it's nice to know that a few folks think I'm doing something right.
So much to learn, so much to improve upon and so little time to do it.
While I feel I'm a decent player who knows his weak spots, it's nice to know that a few folks think I'm doing something right.
So much to learn, so much to improve upon and so little time to do it.
One of my guitarists calls that radio memory... I got it too! Even if I hadn't heard the song in many years, I've played some songs fairly close to note for note on the first try. Of course, if the bass line is very complex that is not as likely. But I'll get the gist of it in a hurry.
