Fretless piccolo bass solo
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Let me se if I get this straight, He has a lefty but he still has the lower strings toward the floor. Thats cool.
Go with what works I guess. I've seen other bass players (Jimmy Haslip for instance) who play with that arrangement without any apparent problems.
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that´s what happens when bass/guitar companies don´t make lefty instruments... lefty people just flipém over and playém the wrong way...
this guy seems to have gotten used to that, and when getting the bass he´s playing, he had it strung up that way, cuz´that´s what he´s used to now
(notice it IS a lefty bass, just strung the right-handed way)
happens alot, really...
this guy seems to have gotten used to that, and when getting the bass he´s playing, he had it strung up that way, cuz´that´s what he´s used to now
(notice it IS a lefty bass, just strung the right-handed way)
happens alot, really...
Incredibly bright tone for a fretless. Loved the playing!
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So...what again is the difference between a piccolo bass from a guitar with a long scale, minus electronics of course.
I'd say the main differences are tone & feel. Even baritone guitars are usually well under the 34" scale of a bass, and coupled with the convention of bassists playing with a much higher string tension & therefore string gage can lead to a very contrasting tone even when playing the same pitch.
There's also string spacing & action issues that would suggest that bassists could be more comfortable playing a piccolo bass than a guitar - so they can use their same finger techniques.
Think of the sound of a normal bass and how easy it is to distinguish it from guitar even when the bassist plays on their high D & G strings which overlap the range of a guitar.
There's also string spacing & action issues that would suggest that bassists could be more comfortable playing a piccolo bass than a guitar - so they can use their same finger techniques.
Think of the sound of a normal bass and how easy it is to distinguish it from guitar even when the bassist plays on their high D & G strings which overlap the range of a guitar.
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that´s what happens when bass/guitar companies don´t make lefty instruments... lefty people just flipém over and playém the wrong way...
this guy seems to have gotten used to that, and when getting the bass he´s playing, he had it strung up that way, cuz´that´s what he´s used to now
(notice it IS a lefty bass, just strung the right-handed way)
happens alot, really...
my thought aswell
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Wow... that was really stellar. I love his use of atonal stuff.It's called upside-down-backwards. My first guitar teacher played that way, because that was the way he first had a guitar handed to him... Dick Dale plays this way also. It doesn't help the necessitation for a left-handed guitar however. My teacher simply had a LP double-cut (which is symmetrical) that had the electronics reversed in it.
