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You know you´re obsessed with bass when...
- Thread starter jugoziithouu
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I'm lost. What's the body made out of????
+1 to the G-String puns. I had to do a How-To-Speech for my class and I drew up the sheet music and label the strings on it and all of a sudden I heard a few of the guys in the back giggling. I spaced and was like wth? Then I realized they were laughing that I wrote G-String on the board. I was about to show them a riff.
I'm going to use the F,A,G, on my bass teacher to see if he notices.
When a person asks to see your bass and you get nervous AFTER she tells you not worry she plays guitar. Happened after the speech.
When you watch TV and hear a sound effect and realize its a bass line and immediately try to find it.
When you said you wanted money for a new video game. Told people you were going to go get a new video game and proceed to change mind and use the money to get a hard case that costs just less than double what the video game cost.
When your in Music Theory class and you can pick out each separate instrument. (eg. The cello, the 4-String Electric, and the type of drum being used, as well as the most of the brass section. Trumpets and Saxophones get me confused when I try to separate them).
When you go online and look for bass tabs for songs that don't have a bass in them.(Kept doing this for Sorry by Buckcherry)
When you find tabs online and realize the guy who tabbed them had his bass out of tune.* (my bass teacher noticed that when I played the Iron Man riff by Black Sabbath)
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My Ibanez bass is named Arachne and a Thunderbird and named it Raiden.
when you have a big test the next day but you can't sleep becausee you are to busy thinking of mods you want to make to your bass. True story
when you fall asleep in bed playing your bass and, when you wake up, you start playing before you open your eyes.
Did this. Fortunately, all they took was my Ritalin.
Also, you refer to all pastels using the Fender Color Chart.
This reminds me of when I was about 13 or 14 and I just started playing bass. I remember that the local PBS (non-profit Public Broadcasting System, for you gents and ladies from overseas) had a series of music instruction programs on Sunday mornings. Guitar, piano, violin, etc. I used to record them to VHS while my parents made me go to church. You could imagine how happy I was when I saw a new show called "Bass Masters" tacked onto the music series!
Get back from church, pop the tape in... Fishing.. Fresh out of church, and I was using the Lord's name in vain...
I thought about this thread the other day when I was sitting in the waiting room at a local Wal-Mart waiting for my car's oil change and tire rotation. I noticed a poster on the wall that talked about tire care, damage, blah blah blah. There was a section heading on the poster that read "BEAD DAMAGE". I couldn't believe that I didn't read that as the word "bead", but that I saw it as the notes for a downtuned bass B-E-A-D. Sheesh....
Same thing happens to me when I read the word EADG.
- But then I'm usually the one who writes it as an actual word...
