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I know nothing about basses, but as far as guitars go, squier is pretty much considered bottom of the barrel stuff. Even at prices that low, you can do waaay better than squier in my experience. It seemed like the $300-400 squier stuff was about as bad, if not worse than, my old $100 yamaha.
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Mighty Scoop posted:Haha, I take it inches are indicated with a quotation mark then? 
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Col.Kiwi posted:Well I'm a guitar player so I'm not exactly a wealth of bass exercises but one classic that's good for both is the spider exercise. Play this: That would be called the "ascending/descending chromatic scale". Not the "spider exercise".
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Jan 3, 2009 06:32
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h_double posted:you could easily build a 34 foot scale bass by building it horizontally, and fretting it with a matrix of keys connected to padded blocks over the frets. Congratulations. You built a really big (and stupid) piano. edit: VVV even if you play it in a different order, it's still (a piece of) the chromatic scale. ZombiePeanut fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jan 3, 2009 |
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Jan 3, 2009 07:39
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Stux posted:Again I'd like to point out that ZP is gay and you can ignore him. Just play some music in the RAWR TWANGY scale and I'm sure you'll feel better.
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Jan 3, 2009 18:10
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82Daion posted:What's inherently unreliable about tube amplifiers? Tubes can break (from impacts and such) and wear out, while transistors do not.
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Jan 4, 2009 20:29
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h_double posted:I was once told that it's a good idea to crimp a sharp bend in a wound guitar string before you trim it, so that the core of the string won't slip out through the winding. This doesn't really happen anymore unless you buy reaaaally lovely strings. It was much more common back when string construction wasn't quite as good or consistent as it is now.
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Jan 10, 2009 02:02
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Ferrous Wheel posted:And if you use flatwounds that just makes them even better. Do flatwounds still get gunky? I figured that was a roundwound phenomenon.
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Jan 21, 2009 22:13
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scuz posted:I have a speed-playing question! The secret seems to be playing very loudly with lots of gain, having your band do the same thing so as to produce an incomprehensible wall of sound and then recording through god knows what. I'm impressed you can actually pick the bass out.
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Feb 11, 2009 20:22
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An electric bass IS an electric guitar, by the way. Electric Bass Guitar is the full name of the instrument. That really bothered me when I was reading the last few pages.
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Feb 14, 2009 07:34
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Yeah, if you're learning songs by cover it's not really necessary to learn them meticulously. Also unless you have real tabs or a good ear, don't expect internet tabs to be anywhere near 100% correct. Usually if you know scales reasonably well you can fix obvious fuckups. If you're having trouble with a part also try moving things around on strings. A lot of times internet tabs will have the correct notes, but in a nonsensical place on the fretboard which makes it significantly harder than it needs to be to play.
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Scarf posted:Actually, for something as intricate as Entwhistle's stuff, I'd consider it an accomplishment to be able to play it note for note. It will also give you an insight as to how he (and other artists) construct their lines. You can find some cool, recurring aspect/theme and incorporate it into your own playing. True, but it's not really the best way to learn in general. Practicing your fundamentals and scales and stuff will seem to magically make you better at everything as you start to realize those same scale patterns in things you play. Playing a lick in the minor scale will really only improve your playing with that lick. But just doing exercises in the minor scale will make you better at playing that lick by a good amount. I used to spend a lot of time getting down solos and such to an intricate degree when I was starting playing guitar, and it would kind of work but it'd take a lot of practice and was pretty much a one-trick-pony thing. When I finally started taking it a bit more seriously and actually learning music theory and such, going back and playing that same stuff now is a breeze, even without having to practice much.
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