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You know you're a bass player if...
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You know you are a bassplayer if:
You see two kids running down your street playing cops and robbers, one kid chasing the other with his right hand shaped like a gun with his first finger strechd out and his thumb in a 90 degre angle to his first finger. Everyone else are concerned that the children are playing such a violent game while you are psyched because you instantly think the kid is into slap bass.
You see two kids running down your street playing cops and robbers, one kid chasing the other with his right hand shaped like a gun with his first finger strechd out and his thumb in a 90 degre angle to his first finger. Everyone else are concerned that the children are playing such a violent game while you are psyched because you instantly think the kid is into slap bass.
You don't even realize there's a guitar solo.
First time I heard Incubus - Hilikus was when a buddy of mine sent it to me on mIRC. I was listening to it and said, "Man! Check out _:__ far into the song!" He was like "Dude, that's a guitar solo."
My reply?
"...what guitar solo?"
First time I heard Incubus - Hilikus was when a buddy of mine sent it to me on mIRC. I was listening to it and said, "Man! Check out _:__ far into the song!" He was like "Dude, that's a guitar solo."
My reply?
"...what guitar solo?"
You know you're a bass player when any time you injure any finger, you imediately take note of whether or not it will impact your bass playing and to what extent.
He's one: I use to push carts at walmart, and when I did, as you can imagine, I'd hear a lot of car alarms, and no one to turn them off. So, to avoid insanity, I would treat it as a techno beat and come up with a bassline for it.
yeah that is damn true!
I was playing paintball the morning of a gig and was shot right in my right index.
I dropped my gun and screamed NOOOO as I literally watched it swell before my eyes.
When the marshall broke the news to me that I was dead and out of the game, I didnt even care.
I was playing paintball the morning of a gig and was shot right in my right index.
I dropped my gun and screamed NOOOO as I literally watched it swell before my eyes.
When the marshall broke the news to me that I was dead and out of the game, I didnt even care.
Hay same thing for that bass....KeiBau said:
But I replaced it by a Buckeye F Bass BN5....
I just surprised myself "slapping" the air while earing marcus miller or alain caron's songs.....
Same thing on songs when there's slap....
The "oh fretless" is terrible....
Never say this but....
Vince
Matthew Bryson said:
Dude, that happened to me a few weeks ago. Got a blister on my middle right finger from playing too much bass (hah! but I hadn't played for a while), and one day I decided to pop it (well, didn't decide, it just happened)... and I was all like "so when will it heal? I wanna play bass!"
pbd
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stephdawe04 said:Dude, that happened to me a few weeks ago. Got a blister on my middle right finger from playing too much bass (hah! but I hadn't played for a while), and one day I decided to pop it (well, didn't decide, it just happened)... and I was all like "so when will it heal? I wanna play bass!"
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I was skateboarding and I injured my LM finger. The next day, we drove past a Guitar Center so I went in and played, purple finger and all. Hurt like hell, but I was there for a while.Matthew Bryson said:
I found out three weeks later that I broke it in 3 places... kept playing everyday though
You're significant other has complained about you being in a band, and you're response is:
"I was a bass player before you met me. I am a bass player now. If you leave, I will still be a bass player. This is not negotiable in any way, shape, or form. Now, where would you like me to take us for dinner?"
"I was a bass player before you met me. I am a bass player now. If you leave, I will still be a bass player. This is not negotiable in any way, shape, or form. Now, where would you like me to take us for dinner?"
bimplizkit said:You're significant other has complained about you being in a band, and you're response is:
"I was a bass player before you met me. I am a bass player now. If you leave, I will still be a bass player. This is not negotiable in any way, shape, or form. Now, where would you like me to take us for dinner?"
One reason why few bass players still have significant others
.. We put the cant in significant.+1bimplizkit said:You're significant other has complained about you being in a band, and you're response is:
"I was a bass player before you met me. I am a bass player now. If you leave, I will still be a bass player. This is not negotiable in any way, shape, or form. Now, where would you like me to take us for dinner?"
bimplizkit said:You're significant other has complained about you being in a band, and you're response is:
"I was a bass player before you met me. I am a bass player now. If you leave, I will still be a bass player. This is not negotiable in any way, shape, or form. Now, where would you like me to take us for dinner?"
I think we've all been here. I feel bad, but one time when my girlfriend and I were fighting, it was bass related. I told her that if she said, "It's either me, or the bass." Without batting an eyelash, I would say bass. It's terrible, but true.
bimplizkit said:
Boom.
Better yet, "you met me BECAUSE I was in a band! Now shuddup before I decide to eat at Taco Bell and pull the covers over your head tonight!"
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