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thenewgreen  ·  1099 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yoko Ono covers “Big Shot,” by Billy Joel

My assumption is that Yoko would love that description. And I didn’t see it as shade. Not at all. How’s the bass playing going? I’ve been really into playing bass lately. So much fun!





user-inactivated  ·  1097 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    My assumption is that Yoko would love that description. And I didn’t see it as shade. Not at all. How’s the bass playing going? I’ve been really into playing bass lately. So much fun!
    My assumption is that Yoko would love that description. And I didn’t see it as shade. Not at all. How’s the bass playing going? I’ve been really into playing bass lately. So much fun!

maybe instead of playing Bass you should spend your time improving your shitty scammy company forever labs

coffeesp00ns  ·  1099 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think she'd love it too!

Bass playing it going well, I have a while at the beginning of the ol' Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour we've been living through where I could barely play at all, but I feel like some of my music is coming back - the songwriting too.

I'm also using a short scale bass guitar tuned to Bb-F-c-g (a whole step below a cello) as a sort of guitar-ish accompanying instrument for myself. I figure, four fingers, four strings = less complicated heh.

b_b  ·  1099 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's pretty wild. Is that because you want more low end or you're just used to the fingering of 5ths instead of 4ths? Does dropping the low string that much make the string buzz at all? It's gotta be loose, right?

coffeesp00ns  ·  1099 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's 60% because chords make more sense to me like this - they're built more like classical harmony is - 20% because the low end helps me sing in more comfortable keys, 10% because it's weird and I like weird, and 10% because 4 fingers 4 strings just makes sense to me.

It's a 30" scale length bass, and I'm using a combination of Baritone guitar strings and fender Bass VI strings.

I'll try to post a clip or something today. In the meantime, I also have an acoustic guitar tuned like a cello (CGda), and I have recorded it - link to the tune here

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b_b  ·  1099 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That makes sense about the string choice. I have never played on a short scale bass, but I imagine they're looser and relatively easier to play.

Beautiful song, by the way!