Jamming the bass

[CRobbins]

 

[Sct13]

yea....don't let them start counting the cases...as soon as they figure out... its one per case....the jig is up....

I'm thinking of a fretless....might be cool...I also want a Baritone guitar...

 

[CRobbins]

 

[edro]

bass is a ton of fun. I keep thinking about picking up a Fender/Squier jazz bass again.

I likey de slappy and poppy

playing bass taught me a lot about guitar and rhythm

Squier Vintage Modified are da cheeze for the bucks... PJ especially because you have a Precision body, Jazz neck, Precision pickup and a Jazz bridge pickup. Best features of both basses... You can get real close to P Bass tone AND Jazz tone.

The major tonal difference between the PJ with the Jazz pickup off and an actual Precision (my opinion, bite me) is the much lower mass of the Jazz neck which is much narrower and more comfortable to play. Some precision necks should have Lousville Slugger branded on the back.

The Precision body on a PJ (to me, bite me) is more comfortable sitting and standing than the offset Jazz body. I love BOTH. I just prefer a P body....

You can also find a killer (and cheaper) Squier Affinity (lower line) but play several before you hand pick one. If you ORDER a Squier, go with a Vintage Modified, they are all killer.

Before anybody jumps ugly, there are great Affinity models. You've just got to go through several of them to find a badass. They are a good bit cheaper for a reason...

A customer did come in my shop with an Affinity Jazz V for me to set it up. If I already didn't have several Vs, I would have paid him more than he paid for that specific one... It had the mojo... Played it for just a bit through a David Eden and handed it back to him and told him no charge, it's perfect already.

 

[edro]

Stanley and one of my favorite basses....

 

[Sct13]

Squier Vintage Modified are da cheeze for the bucks... PJ especially because you have a Precision body, Jazz neck, Precision pickup and a Jazz bridge pickup. Best features of both basses... You can get real close to P Bass tone AND Jazz tone.

The major tonal difference between the PJ with the Jazz pickup off and an actual Precision (my opinion, bite me) is the much lower mass of the Jazz neck which is much narrower and more comfortable to play. Some precision necks should have Lousville Slugger branded on the back.

The Precision body on a PJ (to me, bite me) is more comfortable sitting and standing than the offset Jazz body. I love BOTH. I just prefer a P body....

You can also find a killer (and cheaper) Squier Affinity (lower line) but play several before you hand pick one. If you ORDER a Squier, go with a Vintage Modified, they are all killer.

Before anybody jumps ugly, there are great Affinity models. You've just got to go through several of them to find a badass. They are a good bit cheaper for a reason...

A customer did come in my shop with an Affinity Jazz V for me to set it up. If I already didn't have several Vs, I would have paid him more than he paid for that specific one... It had the mojo... Played it for just a bit through a David Eden and handed it back to him and told him no charge, it's perfect already.

I have an American Standard Jazz Bass, I absolutely Love the neck on that thing. The Bridge ….oh that bridge....sometimes I just look at the bridge while I'm playing it....

nice fret board too....

 

[edro]

I bought the fretless late summer. It is a work in progress...

At first, because you can't cheat the reach, you are gonna probably at times sound more like a Taco Hell Bowel Movement on some things you try to do... I think that's normal.... At least I've progressed past that. Makes you listen to tuning all the time...and pay attention... You'll be off pitch like mug before you know it. To play a whole step up on a fretted, you only have to reach a bit wider than one fret space. i.e. just below a fret and just above the next, just outside two adjacent frets...works because it is the FRET not where in the fret space where your fingers are... On a fretless, your fingertips MUST be right where dey posed to be or you'll sound like a bowel movement....

Fretless is fun.
Sounds different than fretted so don't try to make it so. Skrangs ain't on metal when you play a note.
Just plain fun once you stretch fingers out and learn to really use all four in playing. (fret hand)

My favorite string right now is the D'Ad 45-100 half round. (rounds with the outside curvature ground off) Feels almost like flats but has a richer tone than flats (my opinion, bite me) after they break in... I did have Fender SS Flats. Felt real good. Sounded good for the first few days of playing but started getting too dark.... Too much like double well done steak... No richness at all... (yes I keep my skrangs clean)

Good for a guitarist to experience the other side....might recall some stupid shit you thought correct that you told a bass player at some past time...

Learn em all.... You only get one ride. Ride it with your hair on fire...

Old bandmates years back picked at me a bit because I'd sit in the john and play my wife's clarinet...a lot... great acoustics... Wasn't great but it was fun...

 

[edro]

Oh, and those of you with a Jazz or Precision... You gotta get a freaking ramp! Got one for my Jazz fretless and love it.... I know exactly where my thumb is at all times... Mine is like below. Mounts on the inside pickup screws... Love it...

Precision Bass ramp...

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

@ehb

you may like this (or not)..

that bald BEAST of a bass player in Babymetal/The Kami Band? This is his student,...she's the Bassist for another group I like, DOLL$BOXX.


….she's a damn beast, too.


(I swear these all girl Japanese Metal bands coming out the past few years just make American players seem like they're all asleep at the wheel. )

 

[edro]

@ehb

you may like this (or not)..

that bald BEAST of a bass player in Babymetal/The Kami Band? This is his student,...she's the Bassist for another group I like, DOLL$BOXX.


….she's a damn beast, too.


(I swear these all girl Japanese Metal bands coming out the past few years just make American players seem like they're all asleep at the wheel. )

She is much better than what she played....

If I went to the show at the end of the vid, I think after just ten minutes, I would feel as if I had had eleventy-two pots of coffee, four dozen Hot & Ready glazed with sprinkles, and eaten a handful of black beauties...

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

yeah that's Gacharic Spin, they're sort of pop-dance.....meh

they got a lot better when they replaced the singer with Fuki and called themselves DOLL$BOXX

(you can hear her really slam the bass in DOLL$BOXX, it's a better use of her skills. They're ALL a lot better as DOLL$BOXX, I think Fuki somehow pushes them all to 11. They really become a different group with Fuki fronting them. )


(that thing Fuki does with her dress at 1:15 melts me. I can count on one hand how many times I've seen a woman wear a dress in real life.)