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jack walsh13

jack walsh13

Jack Walsh 13
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respiration said:
Mercy.
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black again

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respiration said:
I'm not a bassist per se, but...
The metal of which you speak was a pickup cover. Presumably at some point early on, folks thought pickups were unsightly. lol.

Here's a bonus bass tip from the legend Carol Kaye


tip 100

About muting: The way I mute the strings is by folding over a piece of felt muting (buy at the sewing section at Target, Walmart etc.) so it's doubled to a width of about 1-1/2". Take it and tape it (I use masking tape) to on top of the bridge area, but laying slightly ahead of the bridges. It won't be too loose but you will have to re-tape it tighter from time to time. Thus, it lays on top of the strings and kills the over- and under-tones, making your bass sounds more defined. You use a doubled up piece of felt *on top* of the strings when you play *only* with a pick. If you play with fingers (or even with fingers sometime and then pick sometime), then get a piece of foam about the same width, but fit *underneath* the strings, barely touching the strings. This takes some doing. You don't want the foam to mute the strings so much it gives off a "plunk" sound, yet you need it to touch all the strings relatively the same amount. The strings in all instances should ring almost as much as if there wasn't any muting at all. You'll notice an immediate difference in sound and your band will too as well as the audience noticing the bass sounding great and projecting very well too. In recording, it's a must. If you have a bridge cover and are using a doubled up piece of felt, lay it between the that rubber "mute" (that is practically useless) in the bridge cover and the strings, but....do raise the bridge-cover slightly so the strings ring....you will have to stick a couple of wedges underneath the bridge-cover so it stays up without rattling (I always used 2-3 picks). This is the sound you want, a ringing sound but without all the extraneous noises of over- and under-tones the strings get. This will work fine. You'll see my mute (with the "fancy" masking tape) in my pictures with the Aria Pro II (Steve Bailey bass), my bass w/Seymour Duncan Basslines PUs and Thomastik jazz flats.
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That cover seemed like it would've gotten in the way...
 
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black again

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jack walsh13 said:
How you doin with that Stevie Wonder "Superstition" and Billy Joel's "Movin Out?" I really wanna learn Isaac Hays "Hung Up On My Baby" and the beginning riff of B.B. King's "You're Losing Me"








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Bruh I knocked that Superstition out in about 15 minutes...I'm nice with it..a lil more practice to get smooth.

I'ma fuck with Moving out prolly today.

I been going WAYYYYY back to a couple songs I've wanted to play forever...
Spent about 45 minutes copying tabs for a Weezer tune, Buddy Holly. Thought it'd be more difficult, but it's mostly power chords...
Shits bout to get real loud today..might be a pun there.. :lol:
 
jack walsh13

jack walsh13

Jack Walsh 13
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black again said:
Bruh I knocked that Superstition out in about 15 minutes...I'm nice with it..a lil more practice to get smooth.

I'ma fuck with Moving out prolly today.

I been going WAYYYYY back to a couple songs I've wanted to play forever...
Spent about 45 minutes copying tabs for a Weezer tune, Buddy Holly. Thought it'd be more difficult, but it's mostly power chords...
Shits bout to get real loud today..might be a pun there.. :lol:
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I gotta work on Superstition. Been working on the 4 C Scales and C arpeggio.

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I wanna try all those vids above. The BB tune is a modified standard blues riff, I believe. I have the tabs..I'll find it and post em..but it's super easy.

That K2S joint is nice. Definitely gonna put that in my repertoire.

I like the choices so far..if I would add one, it would be Sara Smile by Hall and Oates..

It's a real familiar riff, pretty slow, and you don't have to do anything to the signal..you can just play it clean. I have the first line and a half down, but I'm gonna finish it off.

Do y'all keep a list of everything you can play? I've listed in my music folder every song and riff I can play, because I've found if I don't, I'll forget all about the tune...got about a full page of songs I can jam to.

One of the first riffs I learned by ear was the intro to Stairway to Heaven...stopped playing it for months, never wrote down the tabs, and then had to relearn it.
 
jack walsh13

jack walsh13

Jack Walsh 13
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black again said:
I wanna try all those vids above. The BB tune is a modified standard blues riff, I believe. I have the tabs..I'll find it and post em..but it's super easy.

That K2S joint is nice. Definitely gonna put that in my repertoire.

I like the choices so far..if I would add one, it would be Sara Smile by Hall and Oates..

It's a real familiar riff, pretty slow, and you don't have to do anything to the signal..you can just play it clean. I have the first line and a half down, but I'm gonna finish it off.

Do y'all keep a list of everything you can play? I've listed in my music folder every song and riff I can play, because I've found if I don't, I'll forget all about the tune...got about a full page of songs I can jam to.

One of the first riffs I learned by ear was the intro to Stairway to Heaven...stopped playing it for months, never wrote down the tabs, and then had to relearn it.
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Yes. I use the Tabs app to keep everything in my favorites. I was thinking that B.B. King was a simple blues riff too. I started figuring out the 1st and 3rd note. Love the beginning of that song. Sarah Smile is another good one. :yes:

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jack walsh13 said:
I gotta work on Superstition. Been working on the 4 C Scales and C arpeggio.

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Bruh...you're about your craft!
Practicing scales and technical stuff seems boring, but you gotta know it at some point...that's wassup!

Maybe I'll start dipping my foot in theory, later this year. I'm still in the honeymoon phase, and I'm just having a ball. My son was telling me that's how he learned. He just played around.…playing hours everyday, and after while, especially if you play with more experienced players, you start picking it up.

Wednesday is chord day for me. I have a list of about 30 or so chords... mostly open ones and some used in alotta songs...and I just go over them and make sure I know the shape, just by the name of the chord...then go off onto whatever songs or riffs I wanna practice.
 
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jack walsh13 said:
Yes. I use the Tabs app to keep everything in my favorites. I was thinking that B.B. King was a simple blues riff too. I started figuring out the 1st and 3rd note. Love the beginning of that song. Sarah Smile is another good one. :yes:

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Tabs app? So there's a better way to keep track of all this than my 100 sheets of paper and post its in a manila folder?
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black again

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jack walsh13 said:
Yes. I use the Tabs app to keep everything in my favorites. I was thinking that B.B. King was a simple blues riff too. I started figuring out the 1st and 3rd note. Love the beginning of that song. Sarah Smile is another good one. :yes:

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Here's the BB King riff..it's so easy you won't need tabs..

6th string (bass E) 5th fret (E5)
D7
D5
A7

Play that twice

Then you play that same pattern, one string over.
A5
G7
G5
D7

Play twice

Play the same pattern
A7
G9
G7
D9

Play it twice and then go back to the second pattern

A5
G7
G5
D7

Play it twice and start it all over

There's a turnaround..I hadn't seen this in months, cuz I usually play it without looking at the tabs..forgot all about this part of the song, but here it is, in case you wanna use it.

Turnaround

E5
A4
A5
A6
A7

Play twice

Ez like Sunday morning..

Edit..

If you wanna get fonky wit it, you can play each note twice..
 
jack walsh13

jack walsh13

Jack Walsh 13
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black again said:
Here's the BB King riff..it's so easy you won't need tabs..

6th string (bass E) 5th fret (E5)
D7
D5
A7

Play that twice

Then you play that same pattern, one string over.
A5
G7
G5
D7

Play twice

Play the same pattern
A7
G9
G7
D9

Play it twice and then go back to the second pattern

A5
G7
G5
D7

Play it twice and start it all over

There's a turnaround..I hadn't seen this in months, cuz I usually play it without looking at the tabs..forgot all about this part of the song, but here it is, in case you wanna use it.

Turnaround

E5
A4
A5
A6
A7

Play twice

Ez like Sunday morning..

Edit..

If you wanna get fonky wit it, you can play each note twice..
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