Bass Players
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mrSHEiK124
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!!! Using a plectrum produces an entirely different sound. I don't believe it has much, if anything, to do with skill level.
If you ALWAYS use a pick, then yes. There are more ways to play a bass than with a pick.
I use a pick sometimes, but I'm always switching from fingering to slap to pick and so on.
I use a pick sometimes, but I'm always switching from fingering to slap to pick and so on.
Well, jazz is more suited to the soft-fingered pluck, while picking is reserved for faster, more technical playing.
Yeah. That's the main reason I have so much trouble in bands nowadays... they want me to play some simple crap over and over, when all I want to do is jam out.
3 different levels of musician:
Cover musician - lowest, crappy.
Band musican - can play a riff or two
Jam artist - comfortable enough with their instrument to sit down with a group of people they've never met and have an awesome jam session.
- Mar 31, 2003
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help me out and define what 'technical playing' is...
i really don't keep in touch with alot of the new stuff today, but IMO, Steve Harris of Iron Maiden will run circles around anyone today...his bass tracks were not the same thing played over and over like pretty much all of the stuff we hear today...
Billy Sheehan of Talas also had alot of unique stuff...hell, pulling teeth on Metallica's kill'em all trumps anything out there right now unless someone can prove me wrong...
I don't really know anything about the guys you mentioned heh.
By techincal playing I mean double picking or doing chords or palm muting... stuff like that. Sounds you can only get from a pick.
Haha yeah Justin Chancellor is a major inspiration in my playstyle. I :heart: me some crazy drop D tunes very now and then.
i hate 'bassists' who always pick. why? because they aren't bassists. they are faggy guitarist who think they can play bass. it isn't possible to do the same thing with a pick that you can with your fingers.
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Thats not true at all. Some music calls for a pick, some music is intended to sound sharper. No, its not possible to do the same thing, but there are times when a pick is required. If all you are interested in is, say punk for instance (get off me I know there are bass players that play punk without a pick), then odds are you don't need to even learn how to use your fingers. That's not to say over time you won't pick up on a few things, but there's no need to learn if you are good at what you interested in most.
This debate can go in the same direction with a guitar. "they are just faggy guitarists that only know chords, easy riffs, and barely interesting scales and solos. it isn't possible to do the same thing with a pick that you can with your fingers." The fullest sound from a guitar can only be achieved with a thumb and three fingers. Using a pick with guitars is just more widely accepted.
Don't make a big deal out of people that play bass with a pick. Its not their style so its not their style, stfu.
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