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I don't like rounds sounding too bright either. When I was gigging a lot I used to have two basses on the go, so I could re-string one and not have to gig it until the strings had calmed down a bit. Expensive solution, sorry. You could maybe ask a local slapper if you can buy his part-used strings. Although slappers IME tend to use really weak gauge girly strings.

The slap part... That nosebleed-inducing whoops-slapped-a-guitar-guage-G-string-against-the-pickup BLIP! sound he was producing on the third beat of every bar... Why wouldn't he just stop doing that after the first couple of times? Why did he have to do it a million times? I liked him until that part and then I decided he was a dickhead.

I've had Janek thingy. Jimmy Haslip watched.

Wow that's a signature and a half. If not more.

Music made for musicians is always sh*t though isn't it.

[quote name='supabock' post='825944' date='May 2 2010, 09:51 PM']Ummmmm think i need to do a little practice really!! I see what you mean, but i would rather see a great technician doing this on a fretless??[/quote] Well yeah of course you would because you're a bass player. The rest of the world won't notice what's making the sound.

Personally whenever I played fretless I wanted the fretlessness, not the sound, but if it's the sound you want then yeah this is a clever way to do it.

It was a while after I'd started playing bass, I realised all the songs I liked the most when I was a little kid (Ghost Town, House of Fun, Rhythm Stick) had great bass parts. I was way too little to know that at the time though.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='824071' date='Apr 30 2010, 02:03 PM'][i]singer[/i] [i]guitarist[/i] [i]drummer[/i] [i]as well as the shadowy 'other one', whose face we don't quite know but without whom the magic wouldn't happen.[/i][/quote] Producer? Cowbell?

Sounds like it would be too hard. Bending the string at that sort of tension I'd want my whole hand behind it so I'd have no fingers spare for widdly pull-offs. If you're in a metal band you could do the widdly part by tapping with your other hand maybe.

It's easier to do stuff like that if you have a very low action and light strings. I think I pick pretty much every note these days, I just prefer the sound of it. I use hammers/pulls for quick trills occasionally but not to pack lots of notes in like the rockers do.

Still Norwood

Looks quite cool, I can imagine it would go down well with folk players. If it's considerably louder than a double bass I might want one myself.

I don't like Metallica or slap but I liked that. Nice playing.

Wow. I always thought those sitcom moments where a character was learning the violin were hammed up. Even I can't stand the sound of my own bowing! Back to square one with this sodding instrument once again. It's impossible to practice quietly too. My poor neighbours!

My Warwick is occasionally called "Warwicky", my double bass is sometimes called "Bassy", my Jazz doesn't have a name. We like imaginitive names for things at Chez Kev. The car is called 'Little Car'.

Not bad Bilbo but you're lucky I've even heard of them. Unless the jokes were for everybody else's benefit (which would be mean!). Is Simandl the pivoty-positiony guy? I like that idea. And I only know who Paganini is because all the poofy-haired metal guitarists proper bum him. MM: Thanks I will take a nosey at those tonight.

TBH my girlfriend's fairly good at giving feedback. She's worked sound and lighting in theatres before and done a fair bit of directing too. I'm suspicious that she only says nice things about my singing, but for everything else she's a good critic.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='820838' date='Apr 27 2010, 04:52 PM']Which bow did you go for, tnit? (He says, hijacking his own thread for something more interesting )[/quote] I'll tell you when I see it! It's arriving this evening, it could be either I don't know. The geezer who sold me the bass has been keeping an eye out for a bow and he seems to think this one will be a good fit. We'll see. Edit: French! I'm not nailing my colours to the mast here, I don't want the German crowd ostracising me for this!

I need to learn to use a bow, and I need to learn to read dots. I can't do either at all. Any suggestions of material that won't scare me away? I noticed yesterday that I've got a book of Bach's cello suites that I must've bought in 1996 when I last (briefly) had a double bass. I don't remember buying it but there it is, I suppose I must've!

You were probably picking a bit lighter if you were amplified for the first time. My amplified sound sucks. I think I need more gear.

I have one active bass with roundwounds, one passive bass with flats, and a ply upright. I think they are different enough to justify having them, although I haven't played the Jazz much since I got the upright. I've got a bow arriving today so that's more to learn. The Jazz is going to get dustier still.

Most bands I go to see I can't hear the bass player anyway. They could be making balloon animals and it would sound just the same.

I suppose some people buy basses just to have them. there's nothing wrong with that. I would move on anything I'm not using though, I don't like dusting.

Actually I think the main thing that lets that tune down is Britney's voice. She's such a lightweight. There's some clever stuff in the music though.