here's 3 done on the lefty bass thinLizzy/NightRanger/RickDerringer
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amimbari
Posts : 2070 Join date : 2009-03-21 Age : 64 Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Subject: here's 3 done on the lefty bass thinLizzy/NightRanger/RickDerringer Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:07 am
I thought it would be a good addition to put them here for all the new people, and to remind all the old FARTS, that you can do something one way for a l.o.n.g. time, and then all of a sudden change, and still make it work
who says an OLD DOG can't be taught new tricks????
HOW DO ALL OF YOU STAND HAVING THE E STRING ON TOP IS WAY BEYOND ME, ya cant hold onto it, ya gotta stretch to reach the D and G strings...you people have it tough!!!
EricHaven Admin
Posts : 2974 Join date : 2009-03-20 Age : 58 Location : Birch Bay, WA
Subject: Re: here's 3 done on the lefty bass thinLizzy/NightRanger/RickDerringer Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:18 pm
amimbari wrote:
HOW DO ALL OF YOU STAND HAVING THE E STRING ON TOP IS WAY BEYOND ME, ya cant hold onto it, ya gotta stretch to reach the D and G strings...you people have it tough!!!
I have often wondered the same about you, Mike! I could NEVER get used to having my G up top, and my E at the bottom. Having the E at the top makes it cake to do a dramatic live ending by taking your (well...OK...MY right hand), and sweeping over the top of the neck, smacking the E string as I go!
amimbari
Posts : 2070 Join date : 2009-03-21 Age : 64 Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Subject: Re: here's 3 done on the lefty bass thinLizzy/NightRanger/RickDerringer Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:39 am
it really isn't a "getting used to" thing. If you played like me all the time, it would be normal. another advantage is because of the E on the bottom, the plucking hand position is not as "closed" since my fingers must span the strings to reach the E and A strings, using the same typical resting place for me hand on the bass body, which subconsciously tells me to arch my wrist to avoid the knobs, allowing a better wrist position laying/spanning the strings to help in fatigue-less playing for a few hours at a time.
if you have small hands/fingers I guess that would matter, but I don't, so it don't.
you know, kinda like the goofy mouse pads that have built in wrist rests in them for long hours of typing on the computer that automatically force you to arch your wrist when typing. I supposed if I said NO more playing inverted, it would be a short time, but I could probably un-learn it all, and just play normally, and finally be able to play slap bass, but....nope, no need to.
we had a jam last night Eric, to audition a singer who it turns out knew me, as soon as I saw him I knew him, he is great, and he also plays the bass, and although he has seen me play from back in the day in 2 bands I used to be in, he STILL said it: " I'm still baffled on how you can play that way after all these years"...and I just HAD to say it one more time : "I'm still trying to figure out who started the "normalcy" of actually playing electric stringed instruments, it certainly wasn't me"
anyway the jam went great, we stopped around 10:15pm, just in time to go upstairs and finish watching the NEW STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS....THE PITTSBURGH PENGUINS!!!!!!!
as a tribute to him, to the old days, and to the Penguins, I don't think we played ANYTHING off our current list...a TON of old assed FAVORITES that my boys ( the guitarplayers ) could play...I am actually HUNGOVER, which is a feeling I never really feel anymore from the thrill of jamming the old stuff with an awesome singer. ( there was case and a 1/2 of beer between those 3, and a ton of W**d ) I think we did every ozzy and sabbath song we could think of ---lololol
EricHaven Admin
Posts : 2974 Join date : 2009-03-20 Age : 58 Location : Birch Bay, WA
Subject: Re: here's 3 done on the lefty bass thinLizzy/NightRanger/RickDerringer Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:05 pm
Awesome! Congratulations to the Penguins! I watched the entire game, and they have a lot to be proud of. Not only did they play their arses off n that game, but they also had fought back from a two-game deficit at the beginning of the series, and to take the cup in Detroits house is quite a feat!
You know, it may seem odd to everyone else playing bass the way that you do, but that way I look at it, it's no different than the way anyone learns how to play. It's like you said, it's just the way you learned to do it.
It's a lot like my own approach to the bass. I constantly get questions like "why do you play like that?" And my answer is pretty much the same: "it's just the way I do it". Sometimes when I perform, people assume that I'm deliberately showing-off. I'm not. I'm only doing it the only way I know how to. I honestly can't play "normally", and I really have no desire to anyways.
So the fact that you play so-called "flipped" matters not one tiny bit. It's simply the way that you do it, and quite frankly, you do it well.
It's kind of like the maps you can get in the southern hemisphere that show Antarctica on the top, and the North Pole on the bottom. People immediately react with "but that's upside-down!" Bull feathers! In open space, there really isn't any such thing as "up" or "down", and after all, the Earth is spinning in open space. When you walk about on the Earth, you aren't really going "up" or "down", but across it's surface. So, just because the early map makers put the North Pole on the top doesn't mean that's the absolute way of things. It's only one perspective. And I view your approach to playing bass in the same way.
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