Which phrase annoys you the most?

[MynameisMe]

Missed my point completely.

Firstly, if it was tongue in cheek, that didn't come across at all. It seemed, instead, to clearly state that anyone thinking their fingerboard is "ruler" flat must be an ignorant fool.

Secondly, I would never ASSume that. I started playing professionally in the 1980s. I didn't start adjusting my necks for zero relief until I moved to fretless full time (also 1980s). I then learned that for styles where you move all over the neck, as I do, the action is inconsistent if there is relief. Relief is designed ONLY to help avoid string noise when playing in the lowest positions, and actually has counterproductive effects on string action in various ways higher up the neck. Those are facts of science, and I'm absolutely not the only person who plays bass, or guitar, with a flat neck.

Thirdly, obviously. "Pay attention?". If you "pay attention", I specifically was continuing to call by the same name ("fretboard") since everyone here is well aware that a fretboard and fingerboard refer to the same part of the instrument, and the wording stayed more consistent that way. But, speaking as a professional violinist as my primary instrument, I'm well aware that it is a fingerboard, not a fretboard, on a fretless instrument.

Small comment about wording. I was not being insolent. I was pointing out a fact that people can, in fact, use a ruler to ensure their fingerboard is perfectly flat. Since I am an example of someone with zero relief in the necks of my fretlesses, my ERBs, and pretty much all of my basses with probably one or two exceptions for specific reasons, I have come to learn that someone claiming that their fretboard, or yes - even their fingerboard (!?) - is ruler flat, may actually not be an ignorant fool, despite your apparent belief to the contrary.

Lastly, I played an old Fender Precision for several years as my primary bass, and on that instrument played jazz, fusion, rock, RnB, musical theater, Jaco covers, Rush, and (ironically enough) YES covers. That was my instrument for the first 5.5 years of my bass playing life. I'm a huge proponent of good tone coming from good technique, and versatile tone coming from versatile technique, mostly because I come from the most expressive musical instrument ever made - the classical violin. Not sure who you are trying to educate about this, but it was wildly off topic and addressing entirely the wrong person.

You mad braugh? (Translated: bro).

 

[BassBrass]

"Enough said" or worse, it's abrev, "nuf said"
I see it as a challenge. They're fencing off territory.

 

[dkelley]

You mad braugh? (Translated: bro).

Yea. I don't like being called out for entirely the wrong reasons, with assumptions made about my knowledge and skills in far reaching ways outside of the point I was making, when I was originally contracting a post that was actually making a generalization about bassists that is incorrect (the original statement that people claiming their neck is ruler flat are probably wrong).

 

[Fat Nermil]

What's the problem with that, bro?

*runs away

Bruh, seriously?

 

[MynameisMe]

Bruh, seriously?

That's how you spell it?✓

 

[Standalone]

You're not from Walla Walla, Washington are you?

Ahem. That's pronounced Voila Voila Voishington.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

plays like butter,,,,
gear snobs saying "well I play a xxxxxxxxxxx, and nothing compares to it.
Ibby
getting my chops back ??
Relic'ed ? (more like messed up)

 

[Bass Viking]

"This show has been previously recorded"

"Filmed before a live audience."

I certainly hope so !!!

 

[Splash7]

Actually some older shows were filmed without an audience, with a laugh track added. You could always tell which ones, because the laughter in the laugh track was used when the actor's comments really weren't that funny.

 

[Bass Viking]

Sustain.

Once of the most useless features of a rhythm instrument is long sustain. I take measures to reduce sustain on nearly every bass I own. I can't recall a single time, in 33 years of playing bass, on which the song called for more sustain than a plunky Fender bass with stock components was able to muster. Yet with every single note I have ever played, I have had to actively control where it ends – i.e. use conscious technique to reduce the natural sustain of the string. I have a hard time imagining where the quest for sustain on a bass guitar comes from.

If you don't need sustain maybe you're playing too many notes.

 

[zoonose]

That's how you spell it?✓

That's the Cajun spelling, bruh

 

[Bass Viking]

O. M. G. Don't get me started, you know how I get.

Speaking of nauseated I can't mute the TV fast enough when medical drug ads come on. They start telling everyone that they should take this drug even though it proceeds to say it's going to give you every side effect known to man and probably kill you. Yeah Doc, give me some of that! I'll have what he's taking!

"May cause explosive diarrhea and murderous rage."

 

[Bass Viking]

Actually some older shows were filmed without an audience, with a laugh track added. You could always tell which ones, because the laughter in the laugh track was used when the actor's comments really weren't that funny.

Yeah, I know what they're saying it just strikes me as a funny way of putting it.

 

[Bass Viking]

"I am outta here!"

I have yet to see someone make good on that threat.

 

[Peavaria]

It is what it is....
I'm here....
Livin the dream....

 

[FilterFunk]

"Why do you have a [5/6/7/whatever] string bass Jaco only needed four"

Oh my god every time I hear someone say that I want to pour a bucket of paint over them. I'M NOT F#&$ING JACO NOR DO I HAVE ANY ASPIRATIONS TO BE SHUT UP NOBODY CARES

I have a problem with so many "you need" or "you don't need" statements regarding music. It seems so closed-minded. It's fine if you choose to play "clean," but please don't presume to speak for anyone else.

"You don't need effects or synths to play funk." True. But what if I want effects and/or synths to enhance my funk? It worked for Stevie Wonder, Bootsy Collins, P-Funk, Herbie Hancock, Billy Preston, George Duke, Zapp, etc.

 

[MynameisMe]

That's the Cajun spelling, bruh

I'm Southern, naught Cajun.

 

[Peteyboy]

I love it when the man-baby in line ahead of me gets up to bat and goes, "Yeah, lemme grab a tall dark roast with..."

Lemme Grab.

 

[Bass Viking]

In the music world? "Going into pre-production." Or "Entering the studio." WTH???? Pre-production is a place? And, of course, you're going to be entering the studio for your next album. Now what, once you're in there?

I know...silly annoyances on my part, but...

Yeah, that bugs me too. "We're going into the studio..." Makes them think they're serious artistes, important, etc.

 

[Jaygetsreal]

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