The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

Duelling Sitars


View: https://youtu.be/_SBue1DuCyc?si=EVZ2D9E8lmN7bEnV

 

[delb0y]

Currently borrowing a bass guitar. They don't have many strings, do they? I assume that's why the bass players only get 40% of the tips whilst proper guitar players get 60%? ;-)

Anyway, seemed a shame not to drop some low down notes onto a tune whilst I can (although I'm not in the right union to allow my actual playing of the bass to be filmed).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRqgzzeJzhQ


The real reason I'm using the bass will become apparent at some point in the future when a proper album is released... watch this space, but not for some time.

 

[Drago]

Pretty sure my Hagstrom is 8 string? Mind you, maths was never my string point.

 

[delb0y]

You've probably got two basses standing next to one another and forgot to restart the string count when you got to the second one...

 

[Drago]

It's definitely an 8 string 7 stringer.

On the plus side, I can finger guitar style (with my thumb) on bass, which annoys a lot of guitarists who can't. I know of only one other bassist who can play wearing a thumb pick, Prescott Niles, but there are doubtless others lurking out there.

 

[DRM]

Looks suspiciously like GAK might be no more...

https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/bax-music-declared-bankrupt/
Now BAX have gone the same way too!

 

[Drago]

Christ, it'll be Thomann next week this rate!

 

[avecReynolds531]

Fitted this Osaka-made item yesterday to an early 80s 531 demi-course bike - which will now roll happily with relative pitch.
Listened to a late 60s classic song (in 3 flats) at the time; with the final chord (1major7), the Crane pinged a beautiful add nine.
Most EADG bassists (and guitarists) loathe that particular key in standard tuning: no trouble, a La Bella nickel wound B (in 128) at the fourth fret - through a 350 watt valve amp driving 8 x 10 - is a sound to remember for all time...

 

[Drago]

I'm an easily pleased Ernie Ball nickel rounds 45-105 man. Mr average, Mondeo man, John Majors dull cousin.

 

[winjim]

Divorced dad new flat starter kit. Now with feedback suppressor.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

It was DE who played it, on the original release by 'Love Sculpture'


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZzNLoDi2kw&list=RDhZzNLoDi2kw&start_radio=1

 

[delb0y]

Well, this borrowed bass will need to go back soon. But before it does I thought I'd better capture some low notes for posterity. Must say it was fun :-)


View: https://youtu.be/Y-aaozjeLT4

 

[DRM]

Over the last few weeks I've been committing the Am pentatonic scales to memory, so far so good, got positions 1 to 4 nailed

 

[Grant Fondo]

I've given my 25 year old Tanglewood a clean as it's getting more use these days.

 

[MontyVeda]

Over the last few weeks I've been committing the Am pentatonic scales to memory, so far so good, got positions 1 to 4 nailed

I managed two of those positions before I got myself baffled by too many dots. I also looked at the CAGED system and thought too many dots.

Much simpler for me was this method, which i call the cap and pan...

A pentatonic scale over two strings; blue is the cap, green is the pan.

Major root (Ionian) is at the end of the pan handle and at the back of the cap.
minor root (Aoilian) is in the bottom of the pan and on the front of the cap (where a minor's lamp would be).

The shape just repeats on the octaves of the next pair of strings. Two sets of five dots is so much easier for me to visualise on the neck.

Once i'd learned it this way I only had to add two more dots to the shapes to get out of just playing pentatonic scales and actually understanding what modes are.