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Lovely. Somehow I feel he sounds a bit too upbeat (well, if I were playing with any of my children I would be happy too). I loved how they sounded when she was doing chorus, their voices matched perfectly. As a bass player I find very weird that tendency (many guitar players have) to use the thumb to play while using the fingers to lock the hand (instead of the oppossite, it can be on purpose, to make it sound even softer). 6 comments
@Bearfaced @amiserabilist oh! Thanks! I had no idea. It just feels weird to me 😁. I use to place my thumb on the pickups, but I learned with an electric Jazz bass. (And I am not very knowledgeable). @sabandijo @amiserabilist Me too, as an upright bass tends to be fingered I would have assumed the electric 'horizontal' bass would have been designed to be played the same way. It was only after I heard someone say it was originally designed to be played with the thumb that I wondered about it and did a little digging. I'm not sure it was designed that way but it was expected to be played with the thumb. 😁 I'm currently checking info on it 😁 It's so amusing. I'll try to play mine like that to see how it feels. PD: by looking for info I realized I still don't have a P bass and have been checking them out 😅 I hope I can resist buying one.  @sabandijo @amiserabilist the original Tears for Fears version is a very upbeat sound with devastating lyrics. I find it fascinating that they're doing the Gary Jules cover (though it IS much more suited to acoustic, and is more widely known these days.) @philbetts @amiserabilist indeed, it is the first one that comes to my mind 😅 (almost the only one). |
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@sabandijo @amiserabilist p-bass had a tug bar below the strings because originally it was thought that players of the electric bass guitar would use their thumbs.