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I've had a similar issue with using guitar pedals with bass. The bottom end is gone. Can an EQ fix that?

[quote name='StanRobinson' post='287638' date='Sep 19 2008, 03:23 PM']Check out the Dave Marks channel, love those walking bass lessons. [url="http://uk.youtube.com/user/davemarks?ob=1"]http://uk.youtube.com/user/davemarks?ob=1[/url] SR[/quote] Yeah....that guy is pretty awesome. I'm from the US so I can't really tell, please excuse my ignorance, but is he from Scotland or Ireland? Sorry, I don't hear Scottish or Irish accents a lot.

[quote name='Protium' post='293194' date='Sep 26 2008, 07:06 PM']Then why are you asking if you can take it off? :S[/quote] First, awesome avatar. Second, I wasn't sure if it would somehow mess up the pick-ups by getting dust in them or something. Just being safe. Oh, and I don't care about the paint job. The bass + amp was $300 so it's not really top notch stuff anyway....

I've taken it off before, no exposed wires it's solid black underneath. Thanks!

I want to take the pick guard off of my Squire jazz. Would that be ok or would it hurt the instrument?

A sort-of old post, but I'll add. Learn all the major notes and know that to the left or to the right is a flat or sharp (Except for B and C and E and F). If you know where an A is you know that A sharp is a half step (1 fret) up. Makes things a little easier.

I had a friend from college who played cello. I found it difficult to play.

Ok, I have both a Russian Big Muff and I love it, but the memory man sounds so "tinny" it really sucks the low end out, I love what it does so I don't want to get rid of it...I've played it with both the big muff and without. Is there anyway to get some low end back into the mix? EQ?

I'm surprised I haven't seen.... Radiohead- "The National Anthem" And also.... My Bloody Valentine- "You made me realise" Stereolab- "Metronomic Underground" Nirvana-"Blew" (Well...the muddy banks of wishkah version anyway....)

[quote name='jono b' post='194118' date='May 7 2008, 12:51 PM']Good call![/quote] I 3rd that. The basslines for Talking Heads are always tight.

[quote name='The Funk' post='193574' date='May 6 2008, 08:01 PM']I've never listened to My Bloody Valentine so I don't know about their guitarist's technique specifically but I do know that Les Claypool is a prominent bassist who does use a tremolo on his bass. Maybe check him out?[/quote] Yeah. I've heard Primus, but this dude does something specific that Les does not. Thanks though!

I'm not sure how many people here listen to My Bloody Valentine, but for those who do, has anyone tried Kevin Shields' guitar techniques on bass? How'd it work out? I'd like to eventually get a trem on my bass for this purpose, but I don't know if it'd be worth it...

I'm a girl!

Thanks. I wasn't going to do it to my current bass, but eventually buy one for this purpose. Thanks for the link! Is the tuning with these things ok? I've seen some pretty nasty stuff written on Harmony Central about them, but it was mainly for 6 string guitar and not bass... I want to make sure that this trem system won't be more trouble than it's worth...

Thanks. I'll have to look into one of those Kahler trems. Is it true that they go out of tune easily?

I saw a video hosted on YouTube that someone linked here of a Japanese player (can't remember his name) playing a Bass with a Trem arm on it. I was wondering if this has been done elsewere? I'm assuming it's possible to do this..has anyone had any experiences with this? I know it goes way beyond the need of most bass players, but I like it and can see myself using one. Does the Fender Jaguar bass have one or is this something you'd need to have done custom? Thanks!

Thanks again all!

[quote name='dlloyd' post='54012' date='Sep 1 2007, 04:34 PM']"Perfect" is all to do with some old dead guys' ideas of perfection in music... it comes from the fact that octaves, fourths and fifths are found early in the harmonic series... I wouldn't worry about it too much. All you have to worry about is that fourths, fifths, octaves and unisons/primes do not have major/minor qualities... if you flatten them they become diminished, if you sharpen them they become augmented. Fourths and fifths are also the only intervals you commonly find to be augmented or diminished. The other intervals tend to either be major or minor... if they stray above or below that they become augmented or diminished. A "bb" is a double flat, as you figured. You sometimes also see double sharps, which are denoted by "x" or "##". You don't see them often.[/quote] Thanks again. I might print that out if you don't mind. My teacher and I were working on the root 5th thing and I hit a 2nd and he explained that to me...so I am learning.... So, only with "perfect" if you flat them, they become diminished and if they are sharp, it's augmented? With those other intervals, to flat it more than once would be diminished rather than once in the "perfect"? Thanks for your patience!

Thanks! I really need to learn more theory past just 1 3 5 and 1 b3 5.... What is a perfect? With Major intervals, what is bb? I didn't know that notes could be flat twice. Or maybe I'm off again. This thread should be moved to technique and theory..

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='53955' date='Sep 1 2007, 01:49 PM']an interval is the space between 2 notes, either the same or different. The numbers go up chromatically. The weird thing about it is when counting an interval, you count the starting note aswell as the finishing note so a distance of a tone is called a 2nd rather than a 1st like you would expect when doing a sum in maths for instance. an octave is called an 8th so because it's just over an octave it's a 9th. However it's only a semitone, rather than a full tone over an octave so it's called a diminished 9th.[/quote] Thanks! Does a diminished chord have a semitone in it at all times or only in this case? So, this is actually a A Dim9th? Or am I completely off?

[quote name='dlloyd' post='53929' date='Sep 1 2007, 01:03 PM']A b9 interval.[/quote] Thanks! Excuse my ignorance, but what is an interval in relation to music?

[quote name='The Funk' post='53835' date='Sep 1 2007, 09:15 AM']The D (octave) and D sharp won't sound at the same time on the same string. So there are just two notes playing: D and D sharp an octave up.[/quote] Right...sorry, my mistake. So what is D and D# and octave up?

Thanks! The notes are D D(octave) D#.

Well I wasn't going to reply because I've only been playing for a short period of time. But as far as playing and "styles" I like/want eventually to sound like or pick to for my own sound is.. Les Claypool, (whammy bar stuff like in My Bloody Valentine) and it seems like everything I write ends up sounding like one of Mogwai's new tracks. So....yeah, Mogwai? Does anyone know of any basses with a decent trem system? Does the jazz bass have the floating trem and such like the guitar does? Don't mean to hijack the thread.

I saw a Victor Wooten tutorial on YouTube last week and saw him use a chord that looks fairly simple, but I don't know what it is.. I've only been playing bass for 2 months so.... I know that the D is the root and the other is the octave (the "7" in this illustration). By adding the D# ("8") what have I done? Does this chord exist or does it just sound cool? It's a chord isn't it? I might've gotten the fingering wrong from the tutorial, too.... G-------------------------(7)--------(8)---- D-------------------------------------------- A-------------------(5)--------------------- E--------------------------------------------