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I am a beginning bass player and of course I was heavily inspired by Geddy. Which Rush song is easiest to play on the bass. I am playing along with a lot of other stuff and taking lessons but would like to find a Rush song to add to my practice routine. Thanks for any advice you can give.
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I guess I should clarify that a bit.
He is looking for stuff to learn that he won't necessarily play at live gigs so I'm looking for Alex's best work. Something a guitar player could really get into. Thanks!
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I have a new aquaintance that is an awsome guitarist. He has won Best Guitarist In The Quad Cites ( a metro area of 400K people ) two years in a row.
He is interested in learning some more Rush for his band. They are playing Tom Sawyer. He is a big Alex fan and is currently working on YYZ and owns Moving Pictures and Roll The Bones. I suggested ( since he knows I'm a Rush freak ) that I put together a CD of Alex's best work off the albums. The first thing that comes to mind is La Villa Strangiato and Driven but I'm looking for some suggestions from the guitarists here on TRF. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Hey Larks - I'm just starting to learn bass so I'm impressed with anyone that can play anything Rush. I can do a small part of Spirit Of Radio but it's pretty scary. I think ya sounded good!
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QUOTE (daveyt @ Jan 20 2006, 04:12 PM) ok here it is but it still needs to be color sanded and buffed.
ladies and gentlemen: the 1973 MONTE CARLO i bought for $1850 in poor condition. i spent $850 on the body and the metallic jade green paint job.
enjoy
I love those old Monte Carlos. Classic lines
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QUOTE (Riv @ Jan 2 2006, 04:11 PM) QUOTE (Riv @ Jan 2 2006, 09:49 PM) QUOTE (ByWyzD @ Jan 2 2006, 07:29 PM)
Hey Riv:
Very Cool! I've always wanted to learn bass as well and just bought my first setup. I only had a $750 budget for the whole thing so I bought a Fender Jazz bass and a Crate BT50 Amp. I would have loved to get the Geddy bass but the cheapest I saw it was $669 and that wouldn't have left much room for the rest of the stuff I wanted. Good luck to you. Let me know how your bass playing goes! I'm excited to start my first lessons. By the way, the piece of equipment your referring to is made by Tascam. I think you can get one for around $100. I definitely plan on adding one to my stuff as soon as I can. I figure I better get the basics down first then start playing. Again, good luck to you!You're right! It was by Tascam. Looked like a cool piece of gear. So are you taking lessons? I wish I could get some in, but it would probably be just as hard as me to find a teacher with good enough English skills as it would be for me to fit it in my schedule. I got some books and video's and stuff. I also found a forum called talkbass and learned so much stuff just reading through their stickies. There is a wealth of knowledge there. Through there I found some great info at some other place. Here's the links:
Good luck to you, also!
Here's some more good resources:
This has two parts, note the 'part 2' at the top.
Not taking lessons yet. I'm still waiting for the bass to arrive from Musicians Friend. The color I wanted was back ordered. I figures I'll spend a little time on my own getting used to it and then start taking lessons. I know a local guy that has been playing bass since 1963 and does lessons. He anxious to get me started. I figure between lessons, some books and DVD's and practice I can be playing like Geddy in about 50 years!
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Thanks for the links all!
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QUOTE (Riv @ Jan 1 2006, 10:26 AM) Well, I have been thinking of learning to play the bass for a while now. Not only is it cool that it is Geddy's bass, but review after review on the thing is astounding. Looks like the best bang for the buck for sure. I got a killer deal, too. Everywhere I looked has it for $699 - but I luckily stumbled on a closeout deal at music123 for $500 with a gig bag! Sold. SO now I can't wait to start.
I asked a friend whoi is a great bassist for some advice and he told me to start listening to Motown records and sing the basslines. He pointed me in the direction of James Jamerson. There is a book out called "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" which has sheet music and CD's of his bass parts. It puts the bassline in the left channel and the rest of the music in the right channel. Interestingly enough, as I was checking it out I noticed that Geddy even plays a track.
I wanted to get an Ampeg amp but I couldn't afford it right now. So I got a Behringer Ultrabass practice amp. It's only 30 watts and you can plug headphones into it so everyone doesn't know how bad I suck. Anyone have experience with behringer?
I've played the drums for many years but have never even tried playing a guitar. I'm hoping I can pick it up pretty well. If not I guess I can always hang it on the wall!
Hey Riv:
Very Cool! I've always wanted to learn bass as well and just bought my first setup. I only had a $750 budget for the whole thing so I bought a Fender Jazz bass and a Crate BT50 Amp. I would have loved to get the Geddy bass but the cheapest I saw it was $669 and that wouldn't have left much room for the rest of the stuff I wanted. Good luck to you. Let me know how your bass playing goes! I'm excited to start my first lessons. By the way, the piece of equipment your referring to is made by Tascam. I think you can get one for around $100. I definitely plan on adding one to my stuff as soon as I can. I figure I better get the basics down first then start playing. Again, good luck to you!
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Thanks for the help everyone. I just didn't want to ruin my new amp.
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Thanks for the info!
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I was wondering if it would damage a bass amp if you played a guitar through it. Probably a dumb question but as a beginning musician I'm curious. My daughter would like to use my bass amp for her guitar on occasion. I realize she won't get the best sound, but would it hurt the amp at all? Thanks in advance for your help.
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I just bought my first bass and amp. Waiting for it to be delivered the beginning of next week. I bought a Fender Standard Jazz Bass in Midnight Wine and a Crate BT50 amp. Looking forward to learning to play the thing!
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I have always wanted to play bass. Today I was in a shop and saw a used B.C. Rich Warlock Platinum series bass with fitted case. I can buy it for $300. It's in excellent condition. They go for $429 at Musicians Friend with out the case. Now, I had been considering buying a Fender Bass pack to get started and the Warlock isn't exactly my style but I do think it looks pretty cool. As far as style of music, obviously I want to try to learn some Rush, but also a lot of other classic rock and some metal. Is this considered a good bass and is it a deal at $300? Thanks for any input you can give.
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QUOTE (Mustard Death @ Nov 23 2005, 05:28 PM) The Arcade Fire
Arcturus
At the Drive-In
Borknagar
The Bravery
Coheed and Cambria
Cryptopsy
Dave Matthews Band
Death Cab For Cutie
Depeche Mode
The Dissociatives
HORSE the Band
Incubus
The Mars Volta
Nine Inch Nails
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
The Postal Service
Radiohead
Ron Jarzombek
Silverchair
Spastic Ink
ToolJust a couple of things related to this thread.
A: I didn't watch all of the music awards but don't think many of the bands on this list were on the show. That's the point I was trying to make
B: On my way to work today Time Stand Still was playing on my XM radio. As I was leaving work to go to the theater Digital Man came on XM. On my way home from the movie, 2112 came on. That's the beauty of not having to listen to radio stations all the time.
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QUOTE (Moonraker @ Nov 23 2005, 03:07 PM) QUOTE (Necromancer @ Nov 23 2005, 12:56 PM) I agree with everything about the industry and what "popular music" has unfortunately become. But to say there's no good music out there today is way off base. I honestly can't listen to the same stuff over and over. The remark that Stairway still gets played on the radio is something that irks me to no end. Not only does the industry suck, but radio doesn't help by constantly playing these "time honored classics". Yeah... zep doesn't have any new stuff... but RUSH does. When does your rock stations play One Little Victory or hell for that matter... ANYTHING after Moving Pictures? There's two stations around here worth any time and one plays "classic rock" and I usually won't listen to it since i've grown with that old crap and other than RUSH, couldn't care less about hearing one more Stairway or Freebird. There's a lot of modern stuff out there that's brilliant. TOOL and A PERFECT CIRCLE come to mind immediately for me. Talk about musicians learning their crafts and having CHOPS. Danny Carey, no matter what band this board is devoted to, may be the greatest drummer alive. Justin and Adam are no slouches at their respective instruments either and MAYNARD... probably the best male vocalist of all time IMHO. His other band APC, is just as accomplished on their instruments and the songwriting of both bands is phenomenal. I think there's a lot of stuff out there that will knock your socks off if you're not convinced that STAIRWAY is the end all of good music. And as far as the local bar scene... HELL YEAH. My area alone has produced some major bands. The Alex Lifeson produced LIFER... that i'm amazed not many of you have heard, and BREAKING BENJAMIN who are on the track to stardom now. All good stuff. More of it out there, but i mentioning it all would be too long-winded EVEN FOR ME. Just check out some of the bands that are mentioned in here. I did with Nightwish and now have a new band i'm really into. Lock those OLLLLDDDD tired Zep albums away and give something else a shot. You'll be glad you did. I DEFINATLY agree with you here, in regards to classic rock stations playing the same songs. Yeah, all those bands that you hear on classic rock radio are great, but the stations are dooming themselves and the music if they honestly think they can continue to play the same music day after day, year after year. I used to listen to nothing but classic rock for years, but after a while I began to notice I was listening to the same group of bands, and the same group of songs repeatedly. They found a way to turn the incredible music of the past into something I cant stand to listen to anymore through repetition. It almost seems like the industry realized it missed out on fully capitalizing on a lot of those previous bands, so its trying to make up for it now by giving it constant airplay.
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS NEW GOOD MUSIC!! You dont HAVE to go through the same old bands every day.
I'm not advocating that people keep their head in the sand and only listen to music from the past. I used the Stairway To Heaven reference to illustrate the longevity of some of the creations from bands in the past. This, I believe, is a tribute to the quality of these creations and the impressions they made upon people. I get sick of hearing Stairway as much as the next guy, and I get really tired of the fact that radio station playlists only include a few Rush songs that everyone had heard a million times and they don't delve any deeper into the Rush catalog. My local classic rock station rotates the same 40 or so songs it seems and while most of them are true classics, you can only hear them so many times before you burn out on them. That's why I have XM radio and have a huge choice of styles and genres of music. I'm just as likely to hear something from Caress of Steel as I am to hear something from Led Zeppelin 4.
The whole point of this thread was to demonstrate what mainstream music has become. It's not about the music as much as the show. And talent is hard to come by. It's not that it isn't out there, it just doesn't pay like some of the crap.
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QUOTE (Geds @ Nov 23 2005, 08:50 AM) For those who may have missed my point, I'm not trying to start a board war.
ByWyzD was making the point, and I agree, that really good music IS NO LONGER the norm.
Really good bands who write and play really good music have to be SOUGHT OUT .
You NEVER turn on the radio and "stumble" onto the next musical icon anymore.
I know there is good music out there.
It's just that most people are too lazy to go find it, or just don't give a damn about the integrity of what they are listening to, so they inadvertently end up supporting eminem and fiddycent instead of the next "musical yardstick".
So the "common" stuff ends up being crap.
Wow, I didn't think this thread would get that much response.
Geds understands the point I was trying to make and I can't really put it any better than he already has. I quoted some of his key points.
I realize there is still good stuff out there if you go looking for it. Just watching the Music Awards and realizing what was main stream was sickening.
All I know is that 30 years later I still can hear Stairway to Heaven on the radio and probably will be able to hear it 30 years from now. Can you name much modern music that can claim the same?
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Thanks for the nod Geds
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I'm at work and we have the TV's on in the bar and the Music Awards are on. It makes me sad to see the sorry state of music in this day and age. All you need to do is sample someone else's music, jabber along to it and you are a star. While I realize that there are still some great bands bringing out music, the majority of the music is just sh*t. There are no more Rushs, Led Zeppelins, Pink Floyds, Bostons, etc. Whatever happened to learning an instrument, perfecting your craft, writing meaningful lyrics and creating great songs. All I know is that I'm glad I grew up in the 70's and 80's when their were still musicians and true artists. Just my humble opinion.....
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QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Nov 18 2005, 12:03 AM) Yes = No
No = Yes
Maybe = No
We need = I want
I'm sorry = You'll be sorry
We need to talk = I need to complain
Sure...go ahead = I don't want you to
Is my butt fat? = Tell me I'm beautiful
Do what you want = You'll pay for this later
I'm not upset = Of course I'm upset, you moron!
Are you listening to me? = Too late, you're dead
You have to learn to communicate = Just agree with me
You're so.. manly = You need a shave and you sweat a lot
Do you love me? = I'm going to ask for something expensive
It's your decision = The correct decision should be obvious by now
I'll be ready in a minute = Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV
How much do you love me? = I did something today that you're really not going to likeNow I'm more confused about the female species than ever!
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Working as usual - the pleasures of having a restaurant. At least there is free booze when I'm done!
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Damn - can't edit my post for some reason - Springsteen not Springstein
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QUOTE (MrMiltonBanana @ Sep 29 2005, 04:36 PM) QUOTE (Mustard Death @ Sep 26 2005, 11:58 AM) You forgot Lead Zeppelin and the Beat Alls. HAHAH!!!
Alright - now ya touched a nerve. I'll give ya the Beatles, they do pretty much suck, but Led Zeppelin? Most modern rock wouldn't be what it is without their influence.
And if you really want to add a worthless artist to that list add Bruce Springstein, someone ought to let him know how bad he sucks!
My two cents worth!
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I'm always looking for new music to listen to and being a Rush fan it's hard to find much else that is interesting. I kept seeing these Nightwish banners on here so I decided to buy a CD and check it out. I bought "once" and have been listening to it the past couple days. Pretty cool stuff. I wish the lead singers voice was a little louder but other than that I think I'm gonna like these guys. I'd never heard of them before joining this board, so thanks to the fans here for pointing me in their direction.
Now a question for the bass players
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