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Post What does "bass" mean now?
I began this post about an hour ago, with pre-conceived notions as to what I would want it to say(as a former bassist--albeit 15 years gone by). After many thoughts and deleting as many thoughts, I decided I would just let the question hang out there...Since you have played the Chapman Stick for a while, "What does the bass mean now?" Or if you haven't come from a bass background, what did it ever mean to you?

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Post Re: What does "bass" mean now?
Bass? It's a license to not show up on time, drink way too much and not bother to ever be in tune. Or care. hahaha

Dammit, playing bass is like being a Pirate!

Lol just kidding, bass is the root of the tree so to speak, the harmonic/rhythmic connection to the drummer... Even if it's a Tuba lol

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You asked for it...

https://youtu.be/cgWQQYZ3uoc


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Post Re: What does "bass" mean now?
As you get older and can't hear the higher notes anymore,
bass is the part that you play, so that you can still call it music.
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mike kemp wrote:
I began this post about an hour ago, with pre-conceived notions as to what I would want it to say(as a former bassist--albeit 15 years gone by). After many thoughts and deleting as many thoughts, I decided I would just let the question hang out there...Since you have played the Chapman Stick for a while, "What does the bass mean now?" Or if you haven't come from a bass background, what did it ever mean to you?

No wrong answers, apart from 42.



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Post Re: What does "bass" mean now?
lol I love Benny Greb, I got to see him on his clinic tour playing to pre-recorded backtracks of his horn stuff. I really like the way he looks at rhythmic notation as binary letters and tertiary letters... Super handy stuff.


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I've played guitar on and off most of my life but these days its Bass & Grooves that really grab me. The old mainstream stuff from the disco era, Chic and that kind of stuff. Corny , maybe but I find myself enjoying trolling those old videos on Youtube. I was a huge Michael Hedges fan but now I see lots of people doing it and its kind of merged into one thing unless its particularly unique. Maybe I am getting old. .
So for Stick I am really concentrating on Bass Lines for this year , one thing I noticed in about 25 open mics last year was that the couple I have with a good bottom end groove were the ones that got people moving a bit.... or 42.
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Jayesskerr wrote:
Bass, The harmonic/rhythmic connection to the drummer...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3_QhmQHvc[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/user/sinadrumming/videos

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Post Re: What does "bass" mean now?
For me, bass or baselines are the melody, even partial melody, that makes all other melodies sound better.

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Post Re: What does "bass" mean now?
Bass is like the foundations of a house. Risky if you want to build a house without it...lol. I include the bass played with a stick or with a bass instrument...it can be a bass saxophone or whatever...What comes up (harmonically speaking) starts from the bass.

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Post Re: What does "bass" mean now?
Bass to me is an entirely new world that opened up when I got my first Stick, the 10-string Rosewood. I've played keyboard bass (and keyboards in general for over thirty years) on my own recordings, which is fine for electronic stuff, but nothing beats the sound of a "real" bass for rock and metal (there are many exceptions of course!) And the funny part was that I was mainly interested in the melody strings of the Stick, and wasn't so interested in the bass side.

Then my Rosewood came while I waited 7 months or so for the Railboard. I played with those fat bass strings because they were there and new to me and strange. I quickly discovered that they were the best part of the new Stick! The fifths tuning let me do things quickly that I didn't know I could do and sound like a "real" bass, with tapping and sliding and bending and feedback and distortion and all the realtime expressive control of a 10-string Stick and 10 digits on my hands.

I discovered that I was now concentrating on that bass side, and recording mixed instrument settings with Stick as my Go-To bass sound. But I wanted to dig in a little more on the strings and once I saw Don Schiff (and others!) on the NS/Stick, popping and slapping and tapping and sliding and shredding and wielding a potent, fat-ass bass sound, I had to have one. I ordered mine on 6 December and it's close, I hope!

I decided that I am a motherfricking bass player now. Sink's Law #12: You Are What You Do. If you play bass, and get into bass, and start focusing like a laser on every bass line you hear now, and start learning the thing and writing with it, you're it. You are a Producer if you Produce--not whether you win a gold record or do it for a living. Singers sing, and players play, and writers write, and musicians make music. Wrestlers wrestle and politicians lie (ha!) and you are what you do. I always felt guilty calling myself a "musician" even when I still sucked, although I was obsessed with it and spending hours a day on it. But you are what you do, even if you are a sucky whatever it is that you do!

Sorry! Long way around to saying "My name is Steve and I play bass now!"

My own NS/Stick is supposed to come any week now and then I can REALLY get to rocking out some bass! Meanwhile, Railboard and Rosewood fifths for the bass win!

--"I wanna be Getty Lee" Steve

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