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    Well, that would be the obvious assumption, since that is exactly what music theory is a precondition for, and what is usually is good for, however that is not exactly what OP claimed, which is more in line with what I stated above. Music theory is an analysis of music.
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    To play bass, which later was specified to "really" play bass, or some such nonsense, but without quotation marks.
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    And more specifically on topic: You pluck too light if there's too little power to get the strings to vibrate and sustain properly, that said this, at least if you pluck with the precision required, happens at an almost ridiculous light touch which would be very obvious. Of course you should however also pluck sufficiently precisely, which is probably of even greater importance for a proper result than the mere force you pick with, and with sufficient force, so that there is still dynamic space to go quieter and lighter without the above example happening.
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    WWJBD?
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    I think you misinterpreted my reply, if not right out ignoring parts of it, as far as I am concerned there is nothing wrong with responding to people's comments in a thread, rather than videos posted, although I am sure you are happy for the coins you get from people clicking it (if you didn't want people to comment on anything but the video, you could just have posted the video and spared your strongly opinionated write up as to why you made the video, which apparently now, according to yourself, is irrelevant, despite you choosing to post it ). Sure we all have biases, but sometimes it is a healthy exercise to at least try being objective, and actually challenge our own closemindedness. Only presenting facts that supports your opinion is not very objective and a rather lazy attempt, if even an attempt at all, to side step bias. If you had honestly actually at least tried to be objective, as your video title promise, you would have digged up examples that could support the opposite viewpoint, which, remember, was not weather music theory is useful, which would be right out silly to oppose, but rather if learning music theory is a necessity to become/be a proper/"real" bass player. Your own premises, not mine, which unfortunately you do absolutely nothing to investigate or challenge in that video, despite choosing a tittle that promises so, rather than being honest, for which the only reason I can think of being to attract more clicks. But at least after all you still seem to have enough integrity left to have spared insulting your viewer's intelligence further by including big red arrows in the video thumbnail.
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    I'm Waving My [Richard] in the Wind - Ween
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    What Part of Me - Low
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    Those are the Max Grip Nylon ones, which will produce a significantly different, rounder, warmer, less snappy and clicky, tone, than the Tortex ones. Also the Nylon picks are considerably more flexible than Tortex picks of the same gauge. For instance the Dunlop .73mm Nylon pick will be more flexible than even the .60mm Tortex one. When not using a combination of different finger picking/plucking techniques to play bass I personally prefer either a Dunlop Tortex .60mm pick or a 3.1mm soft Wedgie rubber pick, depending, as obviously they produce very different tone respectively.
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    Come to think of it there might be a misunderstanding happening here, I think when you say musician you might be talking about being a professional instrumentalist, in this context bass player, and probably maybe even hired gun/studio bassist more specifically, while I am talking about being a real musician, by which I am mainly thinking in the context of being an original composer. Also your video is alright I suppose, although rather biased and one sided, seems like you pretty obviously right from the start, rather than exploring the subject, as otherwise promised by the title of the video being posed as a question, had a clear one sided mission of proving your personal opinion about it, so a more honest title for the video perhaps would have been "Why You Need To Learn Music Theory As A Bass Player", which again suggests that you were prioritizing making more people click your video over clear communication. When that is said I never really commented/replied to the video, but on what you otherwise stated in the OP and replies you posted in this thread. Threads tend to evolve and branch out from strictly being about the OP (original post), you can't really expect people to solely focus on the the OP (original post), and to an even lesser degree your personal main objective with the OP (original post), and not to comment on what else is being said in a thread, especially not if it is responses to what OP (original poster) otherwise posted.
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    Sorry, but I don't know how to possibly have a constructive conversation with someone who straight out ignores all my arguments/points. As I already stated in my first response to you I am not opposing that music theory indeed can be very helpful when playing and composing music, I am however opposing your patronizing statements of it being a requirement to be considered a "real" musician and to make "real" music, and, as I also think I actually already pointed out pretty clearly, I am pretty certain that I have music history, at least the more modern one, on my side in that argument. I don't need music theory to recognize and know what sounds great, and I don't need music theory to know, or at least be able to find out, how to make that sound happen. Neither do I need music theory to tell everyone else how to play, cause I trust they got ears too.
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    So what you are saying is my music is crap, and it is supposedly because I don't know enough theory? And I don't need to have a great insight in music theory to know what music theory means. Just like I don't need you to point out your insults to know them for what they are.
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    Plenty of highly skilled, acclaimed professional "amateurs" by your definition then, and I struggle to see how that is not supposed to be seen as an insult. And you still totally ignore my point that you can still make amazing music without basically knowing any music theory, just by practice and actually using your ears. The only thing you really need is having a great pair of ears and training them to be better, might be easier if you learn some theory too, but not in any way necessary/a requirement to make just as amazing great music as one who learned the names of they sounds they make. Art doesn't need to be explained to be understood, and that is exactly the beauty of it. Also as I already said H.C Andersen was a dyslexic and Einstein struggled with mathematics in school. Plenty of great visual artists as well who never had any formal schooling, even some of THE greatest in history, though I am sure some smug academic, in a patronizing tone of voice, would tell you why they are not really to be considered so, and how they are better than those themself.
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    I was basically replying to you strongly insinuating that you couldn't be a real musician without learning music theory, but seems you missed that, even if I think I made it pretty clear, by actually starting out with only quoting the bold underlined sentence of yours here: And now doing it again, apparently completely choosing to disregard my response:
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    I don't agree... I don't think knowing musical theory is a requirement to be a "real" musician. Not at all. I composed and created this without any deep knowledge of music theory : And plenty of examples of great music that has been made by very real and acknowledged musicians without deep knowledge of music theory. You don't really need descriptive theory to understand music. All it really requires is you using your ears (and eyes). And I also think you are kind of missing some of the main points of that video. I think one of the points of the video is that what we call music theory, THE Music Theory, is just one way to look at and understand music, and if you don't realize that it will be limiting and constraining, while I don't think it in any way suggests that it is useless, and I, and for certain Adam Neely, would still absolutely call it very useful, as it absolutely does make it easier to communicate musical ideas. But just as knowing a different language than your native one expands your ability to communicate and offers different options, not only in number of people you are able to communicate with, but also actually changes and expands your idea of language as such, allowing you to express concepts and ideas in a somewhat different way in one language over another. Looking and understanding the world through the filter of different languages simply changes your whole perspective of the world slightly. Also H.C Andersen was a dyslexic and Einstein struggled with mathematics in school.
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    I disagree! Applying a HPF at the right frequency, eventual boosting the right low frequency and then applying a HPF at the right frequency, can really tighten up the low end of your signal and make it punchier.
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    Yes there is at the bottom right corner of the upside down V his legs form. A lot of bands who still uses amps, especially if they use several different amps, have them placed at the back in a rack to be switched between and/or combined depending on the songs. He might have swapped the speaker units of the cabs. How about some jazz then? :
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    By far most basses won't sound good going directly to the desk, would need some kind of cab sim, or at very least a LPF, and a lot of soundmen doesn't know how to treat bass, add to that that there might be impedance issues. I personally use this setup: Buffer -> Tube preamp/subtle compression -> Subtle reverb -> Preamp with amp emulation and cab sim -> Tube preamp + DI with build in HPF
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    Or sand the grip part of the pick with coarse sandpaper.
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    Which music theory exactly are you referring to? :
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    Youth Culture Killed My Dog - They Might Be Giants
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    If weight is not an issue then hands down and old used Trace Elliot amp, as suggested above. They can be had quite cheap used, sounds no short of astonishing, play really loud compared to the rated Wattage, and are build like tanks. However they do weight about a ton.
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    Makes perfectly sense to me, even if I personally am not exactly too fond of headless basses, but I am sure it helps immensely to counter the neck dive otherwise bound to be a thing with that short upper horn.
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