The Guitar Thread

[jeffe]

Quote:music is the best hobby in the world.My playing is far short of accomplished, but how sweet those notes sound when I hit them right

[horacejesse]

All,I only started playing bass about a year ago after we bought the studio and it became incumbent upon me to do every part to every song that I could. To tell the truth I was amazed at how easy it was. Of course I am only talking about simple pop and country stuff. Jazz bass is a different ballgame, I know, because I have tried some of that too.Anyway, this thing I have heard the bass do for years in songs I heard on the radio or elsewhere has always interested me, even when I did not play bass. The bass player lets you get used to the standard part mostly on roots, then later he plays some notes that then sound to the ear like he might be making mistakes or doing what he does not intend to do.Hmmm...I am not explaining this very well. However there is an actual phenomenon here. Maybe it just boils down to mixing the bass part up enough to give it some variety. Well, I guess some of you know what I am trying to get at. Ten-four.

[sgs4u]

perhaps you're referring to playing a different root(alternate) bass note, from the actual chord that's being implied by the upper chordal instruments.

[arkjack]

Horace.... do you mean like Slapping.... ??

[johnnydean1]

Quote:All,Anyway, this thing I have heard the bass do for years in songs I heard on the radio or elsewhere has always interested me, even when I did not play bass. The bass player lets you get used to the standard part mostly on roots, then later he plays some notes that then sound to the ear like he might be making mistakes or doing what he does not intend to do.. Ten-four.Is somebody paying you for this.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roger Over and Out.

[sgs4u]

Quote:Is somebody paying you for this.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you the paid enemy agent? Just an agent of anarchy?

[horacejesse]

Quote:perhaps you're referring to playing a different root(alternate) bass note, from the actual chord that's being implied by the upper chordal instrumentsIt's basically that, in part. It has to be, right? Not much else for it. In repetitive music like country and pop et al, bass has the power to set the listener up. After a repetition or two the listener is expecting a particular chord change (or the sensation it gives) and the bass note can alter the (sensation) of the expected change, at once titilating the ear and breaking the monotony of the pattern. Beyond that, I like to hear the bass fumble in time once in a while. Is it art form or mistakes masquerading as such? In my bass takes leading up to the final take I always find some "good mistakes" that I never would have found any other way except via the mistake route. They are mistakes because they are not what I intended and they surprise me. I use some of them in the final take.

[edteja]

Hey JD, you play bass for Divys, right? So you'd know about this stuff.

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Hey JD, you play bass for Divys, right? So you'd know about this stuff.I have a 76 Prec and a Fender BXR300.Waddya wanna know. Can I play it??????Yes.

[horacejesse]

Quote:Can I play it??????Yes.Your word is your bond, right?