Root / Octave Playing

[TimR]

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1341476965' post='1719494']


just thought I would confuse matters

Good point on the naming though... I've decided I'm going to start calling it a dodective
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You'll have to change all the others too. Minor third becomes a 4th, third becomes a 5th, fourth becomes a 6th, fifth becomes a 7th will all be very confusing....

[4 Strings]

http://youtu.be/ypXcLg7djl8

I think so (esp 4.30 onwards)

[Fat Rich]

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1341478243' post='1719533']
You'll have to change all the others too. Minor third becomes a 4th, third becomes a 5th, fourth becomes a 6th, fifth becomes a 7th will all be very confusing....
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Be interesting to hear what people play when they see 8va on the page

[4 Strings]

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1341477115' post='1719497'] Root/Octave....... Sex! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PXxPQKxggU [/quote]

Expertly done to boot

[charic]

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1341478243' post='1719533']
You'll have to change all the others too. Minor third becomes a 4th, third becomes a 5th, fourth becomes a 6th, fifth becomes a 7th will all be very confusing....
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I'll just pretend it's jazz

[BigRedX]

Totally depends on the kind of music you are playing - it doesn't suit everything. In previous bands there would be some root octave stuff in just about every song. Some songs were built almost entirely around root octave patterns. However in the Terrortones basslines there are less than a handful of root octave patterns in the entire set. Given the right song it is fantastic!

Edited July 5, 2012 by BigRedX

[charic]

Yeah I don't think root octave really fits with Cerberus Cell...

[steve-bbb]

so versatile too - you can finger them or slap them!

[Balcro]

Wow, suddenly the skill level of the entire Basschat community has risen twelve fold!! We're all hyper elite mega
members and sexy too. Even I can slap. Thanks steve-bbb. Lordy!

Thus spake silddx. And it was good.

Balcro.

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1341480081' post='1719589']
so versatile too - you can finger them or slap them!
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Just like....
I'll stop there.

[icastle]

I don't use them much at the moment, but that's more of a genre issue than anything else.
Interspersing the run with alternate doubled up (or more) octaves is rather nice as well if your fingers are nimble enough.

[icastle]

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1341482458' post='1719658']
Just like....
I'll stop there.
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That just went through my head as well...

Great minds think alike and fools seldom differ.

[charic]

Actually think about it I do octave up artificial harmonics in a couple of tracks but that might make it root - 2nd or 3rd octave

[Wil]

I've no idea what the interval is, but my favourite is same fret, two strings up. So, 5th fret E, 5th fret D, for instance. What's that then?

[Dave Vader]

Minor 7th, also lovely.

[ahpook]

one word...

"disco 2000"

nuff said

[KevB]

It's the sort of sound I usually associate with J Taylor in Duran Duran stuff (choruses on Rio and Hungry Like The Wolf) or am I thinking of another pattern?

Edited July 5, 2012 by KevB

[Low End Bee]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3DbO6mRcy0&feature=fvst[/media]

[xilddx]

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1341483820' post='1719711']
Minor 7th, also lovely.
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All intervals can be glorious.

But there is something god-like about the root octave in the right place, something sacred in its subjugating of the miserly musical consciousness the turgid machinations of the cerebral curds, in favour of the Heart with its joyful halo of orgasmic and spiritually liberating abandonment

[crez5150]

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1341484887' post='1719752']
All intervals can be glorious.

But there is something god-like about the root octave in the right place, something sacred in its subjugating of the miserly musical consciousness the turgid machinations of the cerebral curds, in favour of the Heart with its joyful halo of orgasmic and spiritually liberating abandonment
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MMmmmmmm Juicy....

[ahpook]

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1341484887' post='1719752']
All intervals can be glorious.

But there is something god-like about the root octave in the right place, something sacred in its subjugating of the miserly musical consciousness the turgid machinations of the cerebral curds, in favour of the Heart with its joyful halo of orgasmic and spiritually liberating abandonment
[/quote]

like i said, disco 2000

[Low End Bee]

Here's one of mine.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeAUhTzuKq4&feature=g-all-u"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeAUhTzuKq4&feature=g-all-u[/url]

We don't play it any more but it was fun to play live. All done with a plastic triangle. No right hand fingers were harmed.
Any similarity between this and a bit of Atomic was only realised too late....

[Gust0o]

Here, here!

[gary mac]

Got to agree Nige. It can be a very pleasing thing.

I've taken to doing a root/octave thing at the end of the chorus on Billie Jean, so simple but my band mates think I'm genius

[mep]

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1341490245' post='1719896']
Got to agree Nige. It can be a very pleasing thing.

I've taken to doing a root/octave thing at the end of the chorus on Billie Jean, so simple but my band mates think I'm genius
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I did it in the outro (although no longer in our set). It really worked a treat, and I slapped it to boot!