Basschat Top Trumps

[Chiliwailer]

Just for fun. 

 

If you were a card in a Basschat Top Trumps game…

 

Year started playing: 

Number of basses:

Music theory:

Technique:

Groove:

 

Marks out of 10 👍

[Chiliwailer]

Year started playing: 1993

Number of basses: 2

Music theory: 2

Technique: 4

Groove: 8

 

[Jackroadkill]

Year started playing: 2023

Number of basses:4

Music theory:1

Technique:3

Groove:5

[Dad3353]

Year started playing: 1966

Number of basses: 6

Music theory: 8

Technique: 3

Groove: 6

[Wombat]

Year started playing: 1978

Number of basses: 4 (if my wife is reading this) (7, shhh)

Music theory: 4

Technique: 7 (if I'm not being lazy)

Groove: 6

[BigRedX]

Year started playing:

1973 was when I start playing guitar. I played occasional bass when I could borrow one from a school friend from 1977 onwards and finally bought my own bass in 1981.

 

Number of basses:

Currently 4 (two 5-strings and two Bass VIs). Has been considerably more in the past.

 

Music theory:

No idea. I know what all the symbols mean but can't decipher them anywhere near fast enough to be able to sight read. I also know enough to realise that it's only theory and that practice may reveal different results especially with more modern instruments. IMO if I think it sounds good then it works and is good.

 

Technique:

Again no idea. Probably not a lot. I play well enough to be able to perform the music I write and have been competent enough to be able to bluff my way through a standard set of dad rock cover 10 years ago.

 

Groove:

Entirely subjective, and probably an old-school way of looking at micro-timing that doesn't really take into account how popular music has developed in the last 50 years. My micro-timing is perfectly suitable for the music I choose to play.

[Wolfram]

Year started playing: 1993

Number of basses: 5

Music theory: 8

Technique: 5

Groove: 5

[SICbass]

Year started playing: 1981

Number of basses: 10 ish

Music theory: 5

Technique: 6

Groove: 7

[BassTractor]

Year started "playing":  10  (yup! 1980 was that good; the playing not so, though)

Number of basses:  2  (down from 16, but up from 0)

Music theory:  10  (but some of my teachers have 100)

Technique:  0

Groove:  0

[goonerjoe]

52 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

Year started playing:

1973 was when I start playing guitar. I played occasional bass when I could borrow one from a school friend from 1977 onwards and finally bought my own bass in 1981.

 

Number of basses:

Currently 4 (two 5-strings and two Bass VIs). Has been considerably more in the past.

 

Music theory:

No idea. I know what all the symbols mean but can't decipher them anywhere near fast enough to be able to sight read. I also know enough to realise that it's only theory and that practice may reveal different results especially with more modern instruments. IMO if I think it sounds good then it works and is good.

 

Technique:

Again no idea. Probably not a lot. I play well enough to be able to perform the music I write and have been competent enough to be able to bluff my way through a standard set of dad rock cover 10 years ago.

 

Groove:

Entirely subjective, and probably an old-school way of looking at micro-timing that doesn't really take into account how popular music has developed in the last 50 years. My micro-timing is perfectly suitable for the music I choose to play.

 

How is that going to fit onto a card?

[goonerjoe]

Year started playing: 2002

 

Number of basses: 5

Music theory: 6

Technique: 6

Groove: 7

[Stofferson]

Year started playing: 2001

 

Number of basses: 4

Music theory: 4

Technique: 7

Groove: 10

[BlueMoon]

Year started playing: 1972

 

Number of basses: sufficient (but maybe need just one more)

Music theory: 7

Technique: 6

Groove:7

 

 

[Lozz196]

Year started playing: 1980

Number of basses: 3 (that I use)

Music theory: ???

Technique: ???

Groove: ???

 

I’m not sure on the last three, I usually make a band sound better when I join than they did before but to be honest I don’t really play/do that much so I couldn’t grade myself. 

[BassAdder60]

Year started playing: 1978 

Number of basses: 1 ( PBass ) 

Music theory: 5

Technique: 5

Groove 7

 

Personally I put more emphasis in fitting my sound to the band / song and less theory and scales etc 

 

I think listening is as important as playing IE when not to play ! 

[ped]

Year started playing: 2000

Number of basses: 1

Music theory: -5

Technique: 8

Groove: 8

[tauzero]

Year started playing: 1975 

Number of basses: 35

Music theory: 5

Technique: 7

Groove: 8

[Bolo]

11

[Mrbigstuff]

Year started playing: 2003/4

Number of basses: 3

Music theory: 7

Technique: 6

Groove: 6

 

For the theory, technique and groove I’ve used Marcus Miller as a yardstick (assuming he is 10 for each which he is)

[BassApprentice]

Year started playing: 1999

Number of basses: 3

Music theory: 5 (previously 8 but then gave up brass)

Technique: 6

Groove: 8*

 

 

*Based on how many ghost (read: wrong) notes I play

Edited 2 hours ago by BassApprentice

[Twigman]

Year Started Playing:  1979 - I learned the riff from Black Dog  - that was probably a bit ambitious for a total beginner - managed it though.

 

Number of basses:  5 electric, 1 acoustic 

 

Music theory: 3?   I can't read dots (a stave ?) - I know if I'm playing in a major or minor key...I know what a pentatonic scale is. I struggle with remembering the intervals associated with modes

 

Technique:  2?   I can only play with my fingers but I think I manage OK with that, muting with both hands  - I used to use a pick some of the time but not anymore - I have nerve damage in my neck and right arm and hand which severely limits the grip strength in my right hand - I can no longer hold onto a plectrum for more than a few seconds. I have never been able (nor wanted) to slap.

 

Groove:  3   - I don't think groove is particularly relevant to the music I play. Yes I can keep time and get tight with the musicians around me but to groove needs some swing, doesn't it?  My drummer doesn't groove at all, never gets funky. I suspect with a different drummer I might groove more but it's not really our style. I can lock in with him though but I wouldn't call it grooving.

 

 

I suffer from imposter syndrome big time.

Edited 2 hours ago by Twigman

[itu]

I started w/ piano at the age of 5, turned to bass when I was 17 (an excellent decision; no.year.yes.I.am.old) 

basses: 10 ish 

theory: pretty good, like a tad under 9 

trechmiqure: not mcuh more than 7 

groove: say 8, timekeeping is my thing 

[Steve Browning]

3 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

Year started playing: 1972

Number of basses: 14

Music theory: Grade 6

Technique: Good enough for David Gilmour

Groove: As above.

I wouldn't really know the answer to the last two (as a number). For the music I play, the answer would seem to be 10 for each but I doubt the guys in the Mavanishu Orchestra would agree!

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Steve Browning

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

@cetera’s card is the one that’s going to scoop a few with ‘number of basses’.

Edited 1 hour ago by hiram.k.hackenbacker

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

Year started playing: 1978

Number of basses: 32

Music theory: 2

Technique: 4

Groove: 8