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Bass men. Well? Do you? Should you?

Doktor Avalanche

I thought this thread was gonna be about scabs... scabs or noses.

pick? as opposed to slap? certainly, every time.

Yup

Picking stops you from playing anything too fancy and looking like a smart arse!

Also it's much easier to play 8 to the bar bass and the sound is consistant.

But you need to stick in a slap now and again just to show that you can

Ed Rhombus wrote:Yup

Picking stops you from playing anything too fancy and looking like a smart arse!

Also it's much easier to play 8 to the bar bass and the sound is consistant.

But you need to stick in a slap now and again just to show that you can

i was with you all the way up until the last remark!

you never saw hooky or TJ slapping their basses

Quiff Boy wrote:hooky

I think you'll find that's 'ooky.

Quiff Boy wrote:

Ed Rhombus wrote:Yup

Picking stops you from playing anything too fancy and looking like a smart arse!

Also it's much easier to play 8 to the bar bass and the sound is consistant.

But you need to stick in a slap now and again just to show that you can

i was with you all the way up until the last remark!

you never saw hooky or TJ slapping their basses

tj hooky?

@ ED... LMAO...... Priceless picture.....!!!

Personally..... i LOVE SLAPPERS !!!

Paddy.

Padstar wrote:Personally..... i LOVE SLAPPERS !!!

Yes, but we were talking about bass-players.

oh......

Paddy

Padstar wrote:oh......

Paddy

Actually, what I meant was do you use a pick, or do you prefer calluses?

Thrash Harry wrote:Actually, what I meant was do you use a pick, or do you prefer calluses?

i use a pick. a very thick, very hard pick. kinda like a bit of two by four

me' mitts are too soft for any of that warty finger business

I though this threat was going to be about that Austrian doctor who has just said that picking you nose improved you health:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_903083.html?menu=

But if we are talking about the bass - I pretty much agree with Eddie Rhomboidy - a bit of both is the order of the day. The pick definitely allows for better thrashing along with a consistent volume which is sometimes what you need - but picking allows the bass to become more of an instrument and less of a backing vibe.

<plug>As a salient example of such things I would recommend looking out for the imminent Grinn album 'Bubblegum and Machine Guns' which will demonstrate the correct use of the pick/slap mix</plug>;-)

Black Horizon wrote:Thrash Harry the MORE I get to know you, the LESS I get to understand you

I find that very reassuring.

Ian - Rhythm Smurph wrote:The pick definitely allows for better thrashing along with a consistent volume which is sometimes what you need - but picking allows the bass to become more of an instrument and less of a backing vibe.

Junior seems to be under the impression that using a pick to play bass was a punk thing and, by inference, implies a lack of technical ability. Besides your good selves, who, unfortunately, don't carry quite as much weight with him as you do with me, can you name some names to put him straight?

Plectrum is more the traditional style (Doesn't that fellow who used to be in the Beatles play with a plectrum?) as well as thumbing the string

Fingers, slapping and popping came later.

Most 'great' bass players with use all styles.

Lemmy is a confirmed plectrum man, and he's one of the finest bass players ever.

Lemmy

If there's ever a nuclear war, the only things to survive will be cockroaches and Lemmy. If the amount of drugs he's done can't kill him then nothing can.

Black Horizon wrote:

Is that a twitch, or do you have something in your eye? I've heard Optrex is very good for that sort of thing.

Ed Rhombus wrote:Plectrum is more the traditional style (Doesn't that fellow who used to be in the Beatles play with a plectrum?) as well as thumbing the string

Fingers, slapping and popping came later.

Most 'great' bass players with use all styles.

Lemmy is a confirmed plectrum man, and he's one of the finest bass players ever.

He's not convinced. Held the Muse man up as a shining example. I have to admit, he has a long lost yet strangely familiar obsequious disposition. Sunsets is the riddle man.