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Avoiding the idiosyncrasies of your favourite players


arthurhenry
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Not a Bass story, but a friend of mine used to play Keyboard do a major Christian event/conference. One evening the Worship leader started talking to the 4000+ congregation, my friend was expected to play quietly underneath this. After about 20 mins the leader turned round and gave my friend a very stern look... Having just noticed that those deep and meaningful chords were actually slowed down and rearranged theme tunes from Soap operas!


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We do "Go your own way" and the guitarist nicked part of the solo from "Sultans of swing" - the part that goes over the intro riff, not the part over the verse. So I now play the bassline to that when he goes into it. I have no idea whether anybody notices.

Mrs Zero and I occasionally play in a ceilidh band at barn dances (she does the calling). Whenever she introduces a move called the chain, I think it's fairly obvious what I start playing.

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[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1481333775' post='3191656']
Mrs Zero and I occasionally play in a ceilidh band at barn dances (she does the calling). Whenever she introduces a move called the chain, I think it's fairly obvious what I start playing.
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Oooo, is it this?

http://youtu.be/6M6W2NyD02o

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Nobody notices the bass player unless s/he catches fire.

I have to say, I am regularly on the other end of this. My knowledge of bass parts is fairly encyclpeadic and I hear people copping licks all of the time. I remember seeing one kid (definitely a teenager) at the Brecon Jazz Festival ripping off Jaco for the whole gig. I wanted to go and tell him 'don't do that; you need to find yourself' but it is not in my nature to do that to a stranger. I wonder what happened to him.

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[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1481324201' post='3191608']
No.

I sneak recognisable themes in to my lines to test if people are listening all the time! It's great fun!
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Agree.
We're doing Black Horse and Cherry Tree with the Seven Nations mash-up and some lines just felt natural to insert in for fun and to see if I can get away with them. Band mates haven't seemed have noticed.

So "quoting" is the word rather than stealing. Well as long as I don't have to put both my hands I in the air and wiggle my first two fingers before I play them.

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[quote name='YeastieB' timestamp='1481453875' post='3192330']


Agree.
We're doing Black Horse and Cherry Tree with the Seven Nations mash-up and some lines just felt natural to insert in for fun and to see if I can get away with them. Band mates haven't seemed have noticed.

So "quoting" is the word rather than stealing. Well as long as I don't have to put both my hands I in the air and wiggle my first two fingers before I play them.
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'Quoting' is favourite pastime during some musicals, especially with one guitarist. On one run of 'Grease' we had a Led Zep contest. I managed Dazed and Confused, a bit of ramble on and whole lotta love but he wasn't as subtle and opened up the guitar solo to Grease Lightning with the Black Dog riff at full pelt- game set and match to him.

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[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1481469152' post='3192467']


'Quoting' is favourite pastime during some musicals, especially with one guitarist. On one run of 'Grease' we had a Led Zep contest. I managed Dazed and Confused, a bit of ramble on and whole lotta love but he wasn't as subtle and opened up the guitar solo to Grease Lightning with the Black Dog riff at full pelt- game set and match to him.
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Exactly! It's so much fun to work lines in somewhere, even if it's just for my own amusement! I often drop a bar of Snarky Puppy in whenever I do the chain! I use some aspects of Jaco's continuum in Isn't she lovely by Stevie Wonder too!

But I never approach bass playing or music from the stand point of how can I sound like 'said player' or 'what would said player do here' however I have been heavily influenced by a vast number of bass players and everyone of them feature a little bit in my playing to help make me, me!

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It's sometimes just fun to drop something in or to hear a hint of something inappropriate and see what happens when you push it a bit further. I'm playing Hungarian folk music at the moment and a bass part carried a hint of Steve Harris in the galloping triplets, so I deliberately went at it in an Iron Maiden style. The drummer and the guitarist spotted it immediately, but it works so it's staying.

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[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1481614919' post='3193646']

Exactly! It's so much fun to work lines in somewhere, even if it's just for my own amusement! I often drop a bar of Snarky Puppy in whenever I do the chain! I use some aspects of Jaco's continuum in Isn't she lovely by Stevie Wonder too!

But I never approach bass playing or music from the stand point of how can I sound like 'said player' or 'what would said player do here' however I have been heavily influenced by a vast number of bass players and everyone of them feature a little bit in my playing to help make me, me!
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+1 to snarky puppy! The main line from Lingus can be dropped almost anywhere!

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