jmgman69
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It cu happenjcj":31slqo1f said:
chunktone
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Fixed.just42dave":2vyafsgu said:
ttosh
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Bass players are getting more important now that guitarists are tuning 3 steps below them somebody has got to cut through the mix. gheeeeeeez.
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Anonymous
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so it's ok to play with your right hand over the neck and lick your thumbs like Rudy Sarzo?
Digital Jams
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Just playing Jumping Jack Flash popping and thumbing the whole time, they are going to LOVE me.
snowdog
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One of the best threads in a while. 
Chris6870
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I guess the Steve Harris machine gun move is out of the question?
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7slinger
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Cliff Burton gets a pass, Billy Sheehan too
good list though
good list though
mikehickey
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this came from bass legend Bob Babbitt.... I am not sure if he actually wrote it , but words of wisdom nonetheless.....
--------BASS SOLOS-------
Jazz band w/upright = everybody stops but the piano player vamping lightly, the bassist goes way up the neck with a lot
of badly intonated poopity poop poop formless twiddling, with optional grimacing & grunting. Bar chatter goes up.
Hybrid blues-rock w/Ricky - bassist going off on extended noodling (also in the high register and sounding like pop-pop poopity poopity poop, only much louder, maybe with EFX). Guitar player can't count to 12 and steps in to attempt drunken riff-based call & response pissing match. Drummer rises to the challenge. Organist goes to the bar.
Funk w/exotic wood plank - Band drops out except for drums, bass solo sounds like small-screen version of Normandy
Invasion, lots of chattering machinegun poppitypoppitypoppitypoppitySLAP. Not as prone to high register noodling though.
Mid-neck assault and slightly back-bent posture, right hand/thumb to appear as a flailing blur. Don't attempt to look serene and spiritual doing this unless you are Vic Wooten. Can sound like angry chattering squirrels throwing nuts at a tin roof..... unless you are Vic Wooten.
Classic Blues w/ Fender P- There are no bass solos. Don't. Exception: One real slow showpiece grinder at the end of the
set...keep the sludgy bottom groove while the rest of the band backs way off so people can marvel at the thick pelvis
pushing thump AND the absolute lack of definition in those 30-yr-old BBQ sauce & nicotine -crusted flatwounds. The audience loves to cheer for the quiet kid on the non-flashy instrument. Once.
Trad. Bluegrass w/ Kay upright (say "string bass" or "doghouse")- only once per night, and the rest of the band just
plays lightly the downbeat chords for each section, the bass player keeps playing the same 1-5 pattern finishing up with a slightly flashy and attention-getting three note ascending run back to one. Pentatonic minor is a hanging offense, eighth notes are edgy.
Country w/Peavey. No solos. Ever. Bluegrass is the country version of jazz (chops-focused), if you want a solo go there.
Roots are deep, keep them there. Fifths always work in country. Maybe if it's a loose night you can play a solo in "mama don't allow", but it better be the normal boogie-woogie arpeggio. Extended chords invite flying bottles. Keep it Dorian.
Nu-punk-grass - hippie guys with fiddles and mandolins and kilts and dobros and dreadlocks and overalls with no
shirts and the bass player is a young college symphony guy who met the banjo player at a party and they shared a hand-rolled cigarette and the most amazing tri-tone arco ragas entered the cosmic flow, maaaaaan.......
Coffee-house w/fretless boutique bass-Sensitive Singer-Songwriter takes break from introspective lyrical navel-gazing and gives bassist an entire spaciously empty verse in a landscape of pastel wandery DADGAD-tuned acoustic guitar. Bassist - rip thru some pseudo Jaco Manring cliches- furious Phyrgian fretless smeary honks, growls and noodles, sliding chords with
pointlessly overdone clust ers of harmonics. Sound like angry cows in a rainstorm.
--------BASS SOLOS-------
Jazz band w/upright = everybody stops but the piano player vamping lightly, the bassist goes way up the neck with a lot
of badly intonated poopity poop poop formless twiddling, with optional grimacing & grunting. Bar chatter goes up.
Hybrid blues-rock w/Ricky - bassist going off on extended noodling (also in the high register and sounding like pop-pop poopity poopity poop, only much louder, maybe with EFX). Guitar player can't count to 12 and steps in to attempt drunken riff-based call & response pissing match. Drummer rises to the challenge. Organist goes to the bar.
Funk w/exotic wood plank - Band drops out except for drums, bass solo sounds like small-screen version of Normandy
Invasion, lots of chattering machinegun poppitypoppitypoppitypoppitySLAP. Not as prone to high register noodling though.
Mid-neck assault and slightly back-bent posture, right hand/thumb to appear as a flailing blur. Don't attempt to look serene and spiritual doing this unless you are Vic Wooten. Can sound like angry chattering squirrels throwing nuts at a tin roof..... unless you are Vic Wooten.
Classic Blues w/ Fender P- There are no bass solos. Don't. Exception: One real slow showpiece grinder at the end of the
set...keep the sludgy bottom groove while the rest of the band backs way off so people can marvel at the thick pelvis
pushing thump AND the absolute lack of definition in those 30-yr-old BBQ sauce & nicotine -crusted flatwounds. The audience loves to cheer for the quiet kid on the non-flashy instrument. Once.
Trad. Bluegrass w/ Kay upright (say "string bass" or "doghouse")- only once per night, and the rest of the band just
plays lightly the downbeat chords for each section, the bass player keeps playing the same 1-5 pattern finishing up with a slightly flashy and attention-getting three note ascending run back to one. Pentatonic minor is a hanging offense, eighth notes are edgy.
Country w/Peavey. No solos. Ever. Bluegrass is the country version of jazz (chops-focused), if you want a solo go there.
Roots are deep, keep them there. Fifths always work in country. Maybe if it's a loose night you can play a solo in "mama don't allow", but it better be the normal boogie-woogie arpeggio. Extended chords invite flying bottles. Keep it Dorian.
Nu-punk-grass - hippie guys with fiddles and mandolins and kilts and dobros and dreadlocks and overalls with no
shirts and the bass player is a young college symphony guy who met the banjo player at a party and they shared a hand-rolled cigarette and the most amazing tri-tone arco ragas entered the cosmic flow, maaaaaan.......
Coffee-house w/fretless boutique bass-Sensitive Singer-Songwriter takes break from introspective lyrical navel-gazing and gives bassist an entire spaciously empty verse in a landscape of pastel wandery DADGAD-tuned acoustic guitar. Bassist - rip thru some pseudo Jaco Manring cliches- furious Phyrgian fretless smeary honks, growls and noodles, sliding chords with
pointlessly overdone clust ers of harmonics. Sound like angry cows in a rainstorm.
Digital Jams
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Curt you no funk no rhythm white boy!!!! 
Let the MAN Marcus Miller take you to places where unicorns frolic in fields of gold while virgin maidens bath in waters of purity.
Notice that white boy guitarist sitting in the background 10 feet back and no eye contact?
I knew the first time I heard Living Colour on the radio they were not white
Poogie behind the kit is smoother than a brand new road
3:06 for some guitarist tone beatdown
Let the MAN Marcus Miller take you to places where unicorns frolic in fields of gold while virgin maidens bath in waters of purity.
Notice that white boy guitarist sitting in the background 10 feet back and no eye contact?
I knew the first time I heard Living Colour on the radio they were not white
Poogie behind the kit is smoother than a brand new road
3:06 for some guitarist tone beatdown
Digital Jams
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...and since lots of us here get called out for living in the 80s here is the same tune back in 91, Marcus in full wife beater attire, Juujuu beads, and parachute pants..............
Since someone mentioned Rudy and his over the neck shit here is marcus showing the white boy how it is done at 3:43
Since someone mentioned Rudy and his over the neck shit here is marcus showing the white boy how it is done at 3:43