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Topic: Gads. Here's a hint on when I started to mess with electric basses.

So I plugged my fretless bass with the flat wound strings (the way nature intended) into the new acoustic guitar amp this morning just to see how it would sound.  Not bad.  The problem is that I've been concentrating on guitar for four years and my bass knuckles had a bunch of rust to knock off.  I'm not smooth by ANY stretch of the imagination.  But what were the two riffs I was able to finally get to work? 

Intro riff to Pink Floyd's "Money" and...
(God help us all) the intro riff to "Chuck E.'s in Love"

Those have lived with me through the years.  Sure, for three years I was playing praise songs - pretty much the same ones you hear every praise group play if you're in a place (metaphysical or otherwise) to hear them.  Couldn't remember one bit of any of them.  But Chuck E.'s in love?  Sure.  Why not.  Go figure.  I guess the first things you learn stay with you the longest. 

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Re: Gads. Here's a hint on when I started to mess with electric basses.

The fact that you've got enough chops to poke about on a bass with no frets makes you more man than most.

I keep telling myself "someday..." but then I chicken out.

Someday we'll win this thing...

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Re: Gads. Here's a hint on when I started to mess with electric basses.

I agree.
The fretless bass is as tough as a violin.
You really have to "KNOW" your instrument to get anything good out of it.

Dm

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but mediocrity knows nothing more than itself."

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Re: Gads. Here's a hint on when I started to mess with electric basses.

I didn't say it was good.

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  • Registered: 2007-03-24
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Re: Gads. Here's a hint on when I started to mess with electric basses.

But you had the courage to buy a fretless and that in itself is laudable

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