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Post by isador21 on Aug 28, 2008 20:58:41 GMT
I'm not a big fan of slap. It's great when done properly - guys like Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten are incredible. But it's a little bit cheesy and I never properly got to grips with it. Learning on a 5 string is always going to be upward struggle anyway. So true... I'm more into beautiful progressive melodic basslines played with a fretless... Slap-bass gets old quite fast when you practice it too much... I recorded that impro at like 3 am after having practiced bass for like 3 hours during the day ... Just trying to justify the lack of variety and timing in the recording  |
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Post by mycatquacks on Aug 29, 2008 14:43:34 GMT
Another bassist here! I've played bass for almost 6 years now. I used to be the bassist/leadsinger in a band, but the guitarist and drummer took off to New Zealand, so we're not much of a band anymore.. I played in several other, less serious bands before. I also play the piano and guitar. And I have too many influences to list  . |
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Post by forwardrob on Aug 29, 2008 20:52:29 GMT
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Post by musecubed on Aug 29, 2008 22:24:56 GMT
Heh, you sound like the sort of guy I'd like play with  finding a band hasn't been particularly easy for me from a time perspective (8 week terms at Uni). I have got kind of a group but we're all quite differently influenced. I'm currently trying to get something going...mixture of ambient/proggy influences, odd time signatures, that sort of thing. I've not managed to put a coherent piece together yet, I've had lots of sectional ideas. One of my main problems is wrestling with a drum machine because I can't find a drummer. Sigh. |
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Post by hyperborean on Aug 30, 2008 2:15:20 GMT
I can play most Mars Volta songs (not the solos) and can play that section in Cerpin Taxt where everything goes utterly insane, as a measure of my ability. Hey - do you want to cover the whole De-loused In The Comatorium cd with me? Haha. I once spent an entire summer and fall learning to play that whole cd all the way through on drums. Intense stuff. I can't honestly say I have it down note for note, but I have all of the basic grooves down. That is fun music to play. |
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Post by isador21 on Aug 30, 2008 7:47:45 GMT
Is there any weird alternate tuning you guys would recommend me to try for my bass?
I only practice by improvising random riffs...
I've tried DGDG, it was quite a fun tuning...
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Post by musecubed on Aug 30, 2008 10:58:06 GMT
FCGC is quite a good one.
Brian Gibson from Lightning Bolt uses cello chooning (ADGC) with a banjo string for the A ;D
I'm pretty happy with GDAEB/CGDAE really. If I want to use an alternate tuning I'd prefer to set a bass up with it permanently. I may play around with my old old bass to see what happens.
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Post by forwardrob on Sept 2, 2008 9:07:18 GMT
I can play most Mars Volta songs (not the solos) and can play that section in Cerpin Taxt where everything goes utterly insane, as a measure of my ability. Hey - do you want to cover the whole De-loused In The Comatorium cd with me? Haha. I once spent an entire summer and fall learning to play that whole cd all the way through on drums. Intense stuff. I can't honestly say I have it down note for note, but I have all of the basic grooves down. That is fun music to play. If I could record any of it, then I would. Also, there are sections where I'm really sloppy, not played for ages. I could probably play lots of the bass on it, but I've not tried (bar Cerpin Taxt, probably my favourite Volta song ever.) Still, I'd like to see some PRR chords/tabs, I remember seeing one for Intention Craft and one for Ambassadors on the old Sony forums - does anyone still have/remember that? |
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Post by ryan on Sept 2, 2008 9:19:44 GMT
yep:
Artist: Pure Reason Revolution
Track: The Intention Craft
Chords:
Dm
Night is blue clouds in the skies
A#------------------------C
And I can’t explain the night shine through closed eyes
Dm
I see through the walls behind
A#--------------------C-------------------Dm
I see the same the feelings mask the skies
------------------C------F-------------------A#
A million bright in her heart, answer the alarms
Rainband pendant deadlight grew
Dm--------------C------F-------------------A#
A million lights in her heart, answer the alarms
Waveband cadence daylight grew
Dm
I see blue the ocean ride
A#-------------------------C
Vision denied, we’re too high, sold his eyes
Dm
Light shines through on the sharpened knifes
A#-------------------------C-------------------Dm
Knee high in rhymes we climb confusion behind
Chorus
Dm C F A# x2
Dm
She seems to be on my mind through armagnac.
A#--------------C
Will your eyes visit solar highs?
Chorus
Dm
There was a sort of trembling, eager emotion, a strange nostalgia, as of a lost world, half forgotten, half recalled. A vivid recollection, half forgotten, half recalled.
(Mantra)
A#------------------------C
It came in colours they knew
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Behind the rhymes in the night
Inside the opal wide sky
It takes the greatest of mind
A#
It’s nearer dawn now than night
C
They tremble near to the side
Dm
The silent echoes of you
The ashes catching alight
A#
Behind the faces & lies
C
The sharpened knifes are disguised
Dm
He stares emotional guise
And joins the octopus-ride
A#
You ease my memories too soon
C
And now were changing the rule
Dm
I’m veering closer to you
Desire, obsession & truth
A# C Dm
Pure Reason Revolution - The Bright Ambassadors Of Morning
The 'heavy' riff from the end of 'The Bright Ambassadors Of Morning'
In drop D tuning but some parts may be an octave higher
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|-5-6-7-0--0-10-11-12--|
for abit, then repeat these two for a bit more:
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|-----------------------10-10-10-10-12-13-13-|
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|-----------------------8---8--8--8-10-11-11-|
|-5-6-7--0--10-11-12-------------------------|
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|-5-6-7--0--10-11-12-0--0--3--0-0--3--0-|
then:
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|-3-4-5--5-6-7--10-11-12-0-|
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|----------------------------10--|
|-3-4-5--5-6-7-----10-11-12------|
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Post by forwardrob on Sept 3, 2008 20:46:00 GMT
Thank you very much Ryan.
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Post by ryan on Sept 4, 2008 5:09:22 GMT
no worries.
not mine by the way, i just saved them.
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Post by the dark fourth on Sept 4, 2008 11:46:36 GMT
Had already worked those out - what I REALLY want to know is how to play the riff in Deus. I've got my own slightly tacky version, but I know it's not right. I'm almost certain that the song is, bizzarely, written in D#, which they can do because they use a drop-B tuning, the bastards (What the hell was wrong with drop-D???). I'm sure that the riff must be easier than it looks because it looks friggin impossible.
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Post by musecubed on Sept 4, 2008 12:50:34 GMT
Which riff, the synth line or the guitars? I'm working on the synth riff on bass. It's a little tricky but doable with some Digitech Whammy action. Haven't quite gotten the fuzz right yet though. I might try blending my synth and fuzz (if the synth will track it properly)
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Post by the dark fourth on Sept 6, 2008 10:56:04 GMT
Nah, I'm taking bout the main riff, which is just on the synth during the first verse, and then is picked up by the guitars when they kick in. It's not simple....
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Post by musecubed on Sept 7, 2008 20:33:14 GMT
I've worked it out but I really need to get up to speed on it. It's a little tricky.
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finding a band hasn't been particularly easy for me from a time perspective (8 week terms at Uni). I have got kind of a group but we're all quite differently influenced. I'm currently trying to get something going...mixture of ambient/proggy influences, odd time signatures, that sort of thing. I've not managed to put a coherent piece together yet, I've had lots of sectional ideas. One of my main problems is wrestling with a drum machine because I can't find a drummer. Sigh.
