Silvia Bluejay

OI!!! We're not sinister, right?

Welcome Andy - plenty of lefties here, including those not-out-of-the-closet who play a righty! Hope to see you around somewhere in London sooner or later.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1332153835' post='1583887'] Aren't Sabbath [i]supposed[/i] to be monolithic? I thought that was the idea (if not the attraction!) I think they did descend into self-parody later on, though "Headless Cross" was ok, and "Dehumanizer" was bloody excellent - with the late great RJD back on vocals. [/quote] Exactly.

Thank you Mark! I love hugging my upright

And now Tony has cancer. Sigh.

[quote name='gub' timestamp='1332093755' post='1583132'] I feel like the odd man out so many times in our rehersals as the rest of the guys are all into led zeppelin and sabbath and well ...i am not ! am i just being paranoid ? i really dont know , i feel like the black dog of the band ! [/quote] Sit! Not a huge fan of Zep, and not a huge fan of Ozzy's Sabbath (I love Dio's Sabbath though), but both bands are hugely influential and, in Sabbath's case, created a whole new music genre. It's a bit like the Beatles, can't stand them, no matter how hard I try, but nobody can escape their influence.

Hi Andy, and welcome. You've come to the right place. This forum is addictive, even before taking GAS into account! Stick around - you'll love it.

[quote name='fretlessguy' timestamp='1331952409' post='1581448'] One thing for sure: They make you use your ears much much more. Playing in tune requires much more attention. [/quote] I agree. And I'll go even further: playing a fretless - or even an upright - seems to make it slightly easier for me to pick the basslines I set out to find by ear, than when I'm working them out using a fretted. I don't know why that happens. Perhaps having to make sure that I fret the correct pitch - as well as making sure it's the same pitch I'm hearing in the song - makes my brain engage my musical ear to the max, and makes me more receptive than when I'm using the "lazy" fretted.

Welcome, Convair! Like you, I kept being directed to threads on this site when I googled bass-related questions, so in the end I said, what the hell, and jumped in!

I think Bassace is making a pun on your way of spelling the present continuous form of verbs. I'll get me Grammar Geek anorak and leave now PS Sorry but I can't help you with your actual question. I hope someone more experienced will take the time to reply to you.

Welcome, John, and watch out for more and more GAS

Welcome, Inti! Great videos, thanks for sharing.

Mine are located exactly where the fret would be, so, for instance, you press the string at the second dot and you get a low D, or a G etc. Edit; yes, my fretless is unlined.

Oh, and also DiMarzio (Deemartsio)!

LOL! You're right but D'Addario was originally simply a surname, not a brand name.

I've always pronounced Aria and D'Addario the Italian way ("arry-er" and "daddario") and been perfectly understood...

All the best, A - you'll be fine. Remind your drummer he's not in a Motley Crue tribute band for this gig Let us know your impressions of the new baby - in fact, the new babies!

LOL @Bassace! Awesome vids, even for a resolute non-slapper (insert your favourite puns here). And the guy is a lefty!

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1331372615' post='1571943'] Call me nieve but couldnt you just turn the bridge 180deg or is the front contour asymetric too? A [/quote] I did that on my upright, but had to file the inside of the grooves a tiny little bit, because they were sloping in what was now the wrong direction. I only felt bold enough to do that because the bass is cheap, and I wanted to experiment - I would get a pro to do everything properly if I bought an expensive non-lefty intrument. However, I'm happy to see that Thomann do sell left-handed double basses.

LOL some of us may even be failed right-handed guitarists! (no, We. Are. NOT!) Welcome LGM!

I remember seeing a masterclass/gig by Michael Angelo Batio at one of the London Music Shows in Wembley a few years ago. He plays with both hands, and often at the same time, on a V-shaped double guitar. Mental.

I think I've seen a couple of second hand instruments (advertised as such) for sale at a stand this year. Can't remember which stand though.

Further comment on your idea of stubborness: if all of us lefties were stubborn enough, and played lefty as opposed to so often accepting to be forced into something uncomfortable, there would be plenty of lefty instruments around, they wouldn't be considered unusual, and this debate would not exist.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1331206963' post='1569322'] That seems like a pretty fair definition of stubbornness, I should think..?[/quote] Hm. I'm just being practical here. If you have that much time to spend doing that sort of displacement activity, I guess you should go ahead. I'm not saying that's impossible - I'm a lefty who was taught to write with my right hand - but I do believe it'd be a bit pointless, when you could get a good instrument with the orientation already known to you and, y'know, get down to making music... Edit: my handwriting is near-illegible.

I see everybody's point. All I was trying to say is: when you have learned to play bass in a certain way - righty or lefty - and played like that for years or even decades, you will NOT find it easy,or even possible, to learn to play double bass the other way round. It's NOT a different instrument, and if your brain knows the chords, and you muscles know the movements, in a lefty way, that's what you're going to try and apply to the DB.