Faithless

But 'silencer' doesn't work on active basses... I got one, but at the times, when I was pluging/unpluging lead with 'silencer' end in/out of bass, I could hear a serious "POW!" at that moment.. Fellow bassist-shop assistant assured me about this, so I didn't bothered about that thing anymore, sold it to guitarist, and bought a pair of Klotz La Grange cables without any 'silencers', and that's another story...

What?... It's 'one note plucking' on verses, simply needs control and stamina. I'm really wondering, why it's hard for him to do with fingers (yeah, he plays Universe with pick Live), while he played Fight Fire with Fire with Metallica and Rob Trujillo in LA about a week ago... here's [b]Universe[/b] live: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-n2FY3YsgA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-n2FY3YsgA[/url] and here's [b]Fight Fire[/b] with Flea (about 4:00 - rehearsal...): [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-n2FY3YsgA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-n2FY3YsgA[/url] and evening's live, faster, i believe..: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vgMB8IQ_c&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vgMB8IQ_c...feature=related[/url]

[quote name='Jobiebass' post='210961' date='Jun 2 2008, 12:08 PM']+1 Search and destroy by metalica was a good one for fingerstyle too.[/quote] Shame.....!!!!! It's [b]Seek and Destroy[/b]! One of my faves...

[quote name='The Funk' post='210330' date='Jun 1 2008, 01:57 AM']Yeah, I sometimes get a bit dizzy too. I sometimes lean against my rig so that I don't fall down or pass out. I heard that Jason Newstead once passed out at an early Metallica gig when he was overwhelmed by the heat and the volume. Probably bollocks but still an amusing story.[/quote] That's all true about Jason. It was one of his first gigs with Tallica. It's said, he passed out just because of the heat, but maybe volume done it's job also..

Well, I don't think, I'll stick with that 'one finger usage' method. Especially for sevenths, and fourths that should be done on lowest and inner strings (exception for D and G strings...). I've 'invented' a method to use the same finger to play an interval, just elegantly shifting it from one fret on another. The most important moment is shifting process - you gotta work on it, so that there won't be any difference in melodical interval sounding, wheter you'd use one or two fingers to 'fret'.

Aye, got that. Dunno if it will 'fit' in e-mail size, but that ain't the problem... Gimme your virtual adress PM's ok.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='209159' date='May 29 2008, 11:03 PM']I want to play in a band that's Cynic crossbred with Wintersun with the drummer from Meshuggah.[/quote] People call him Tomas Haake One-man-percussion-army.

[quote name='Machines' post='208991' date='May 29 2008, 06:05 PM']Well now you mention it.. [url="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2037347964"]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoid=2037347964[/url] Not great quality and I hated the Laney rig I had to borrow . Some very dodgy demo recordings here too: [url="http://www.myspace.com/shatteredage"]http://www.myspace.com/shatteredage[/url][/quote] Hmm, quite an interesting interpretation - no 'double' voicing on acoustic part.. Though, the only weak thing there, as I've spotted, was your vocalist Was he drunk or somethin'? I'll get my coat...

Ah, I'd love to see your playin' Master and Cowboyz, Machines.. Maybe got video or somethin'? Aaaaand, our set is: Metallica... Enter Sandman; Wherever I May Roam; So Fakin' What; Whiskey In The Jar; The Unforgiven; Orion [eeeepic sh*t... that's ma thing ]; Harvester of Sorrow; Master of Pupz; For Whom the Bell Tolls; and a lil Master/Harvester/Sanitarium medley... Pantera - This Love; Kiss - Cold Gin ; At the mo, studying Dream Theater's - Constant Motion from their latest album, on my own...

By the way, inspired by this story, last night I've wrote an e-mail to Mr. Steve Bailey, asking for a few advices about exercises in his bass book.. Hope to get an answer soon. At least, an answer... Anybody got any 'contacts' with him before, maybe?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='208391' date='May 28 2008, 11:18 PM']I play metal. The riff the guitarist plays inspire me to follow the root notes exactly, otherwise he threatens to punch me in the face and turn his octaver on.[/quote] Uh, me plays some Mmmmmmetal too... If you count Metallica and Dream Theater as metal.. And, btw, thinking of auditioning to some Modern Metal band.. I love Prog.

Funkadelicious Sh1t, word! It'd be a real sin not to share it... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hmVHhH96es"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hmVHhH96es[/url] and, wait till 6th minute... Maaaagic, for real :brow:

Nah, I didn't mean double stops.. In other words, I'm about playing fourth/seventh melodicaly.

So, I'm studying Steve Bailey's "5 String Bass" thing (enroaching to be 'the Only One' it's student in whole Basschat so far... ) and been stopped by damn fourths/sevenths... Got to say, I've never liked ( that means [i]practiced[/i]) playing fourths/sevenths using one fretting finger, but now, there are few excercises [Chapter is about playing scales, thirds, so on... [b]in one position[/b]], that ask to play fourths just like that.. Steve keystoned "one finger per fret rule", so that means, I got to play fourths in one position using one fretting finger at the time. But it's kinda hard to play 'a fourth' on two inner strings, for eg., A and D using one fretting finger, and keep the hand properly expanded/ready for hitting other notes aaaaand remain other strings silent.. It's even worse about sevenths 'in one position with one fretting finger" - got to use the same finger, and skip one string, for eg., I'm starting to play a seventh on A string, so I'll end up on G, but we got a D-to-be-silent in-between... That's hell!!! Considering, that was just the forth[of nine] chapter of the book, and other thingies in it weren't that hard, maybe I'm doing something wrong? Or maybe it simply needs a loootta work? Or it's just me?... How do you guys struggle with 'em, played in one position? Villain Steve didn't tell a thing about that... BTW, sorry for flimfams, but, I'm expecting, at least a few understood, what I wanted to say.. Cheers, Faith.

Mr. MusicMan - [b]John Ro Myung[/b] (Dream Theater) Mr. Musician+Scene Artist in one - no doubts... [b]Roberto[/b] Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel [b]Trujillo[/b] Veracruz

Is there anyone familiar with that school, or even 'graduated' it? Gotta few questies about few excercises then..

Ah... How do ya force Pod and computer work altogether during practices? I mean, running mp3s through it and stuff.. XT Pro doesn't work with Gearbox, does it?..

Umm, Ped, you were talking about Pod XT Live version, didn't ya?.. Gotta few questies for you then..

I strongly don't think, that the man misspelled the name... Because latest Opeth's work is called Watershed

I've tried to 'put' my Ibby to most horizontal angle.. Dah, if I want my 'perfect'-horizontal angle, I still have to, as Geiler mentioned, push down the bass with my plucking hand's thumb or lift the neck with my fretting hand... What should I do? Maybe strap is the problem.. For e.g., have you ever looked at Rob Trujillo? He's using kinda same form 'structure' basses and 'soft' straps, if ya know, what I mean..

Oh, it was here some time ago.. One of my best ones, btw...

[quote name='geilerbass' post='203016' date='May 20 2008, 07:04 PM']Nice one! I think Wooten is a must - I saw him with Bela Fleck last year and he was awesome. Would be great to see the guy with his own band.[/quote] I was quite dissapointed about his 'band' when I saw them here in Lithuania, in autumn. Well, maybe they'll do 'things' more responsibly here, in Britain, but back then, it felt like they didn't look seriously at that gig. BTW, Return to Forever will perform in Lithuania on July 2nd Wish the best, Faith.

She's ok with that. Knows that I'm close with my billet. Comes to my gigs, supports morally. Believes, I'm quite dedicated to bass and music generally. And quite good at those. Has quite special taste on music which is quite a mistery to me at the mo

Yeah, kinda have the same problem with mine. I gotta try soft'n'long cheapo strap, because the one, I'm using now, doesn't suit me well - when I wanted to 'lowride' a bit, I had to hold neck with hand, too...

[quote name='KarateKid' post='201398' date='May 18 2008, 11:59 AM']The Jamiroquai - Runaway cover is excellent[/quote] Aye. I am Rob Trujillo at my 17ties probably then.