Thunderstruck

[Rattlehead]

It sounds funny on bass (the fast guitar part) but it is very fun to play. It sounds real fast but since every second note is B, with your right hand you can hold down the 4th fret B on your G string and hammer and pull-off the notes with your left. If only I had a 6 string, then I could tune my C string down to B.

Another thing I find fun is to use the technique that guitarists often use where you use both hands to play on the fretboard, using pull offs and hammer ons. I forgot what it's called, but it sounds cool on bass.

By the way I've been wondering if any of you are better for fretting with the pinky rather than the ring finger. For a while my pinky was better, because I had earlier realised it was worse and had practised it alot. Now I'd say they're about equal, there's only one thing I can't do with the pinky. It is when you play a 3-stringed power chord (root, 4th, and root one actave high) using the strings D, A, E. My pinky can get either the fret on the D or the fret on the A, but never both. It is so much easier to do a power chord like that on the G, D, and A strings. Any advice on strengthening(sp?) my pinky so I can cover both strings?

[Tattered]

Originally posted by Rattlehead


Another thing I find fun is to use the technique that guitarists often use where you use both hands to play on the fretboard, using pull offs and hammer ons. I forgot what it's called, but it sounds cool on bass.


Yeah thats called tapping, victor wooten and les claypool (primus) use it as a technique a lot its gives a decent affect if u have active pickups and a very low nut

What do you mean by thunderstruck?

[walpurgis]

He's talking about the intro to the song Thunderstruck by AC/DC.

[Tattered]

ahh right, i hardly heard any ac/dc

[walpurgis]

Eh, in my opinion you're not missing much. If I want to listen to old blues rock type of stuff, I'll take Black Sabbath. It's heavier, darker, and Angus Young and Brian Johnson irritate me.

[Rattlehead]

Originally posted by walpurgis
Eh, in my opinion you're not missing much. If I want to listen to old blues rock type of stuff, I'll take Black Sabbath. It's heavier, darker, and Angus Young and Brian Johnson irritate me.

I agree, they aren't that good, it's my favorite song. Oh and by the way it's not just the intro, he does it through most of the song ... it must get tiring.

[Pablo]

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AC/DC Rocks!
:smash::smash::smash::smash:

[deMANUfacture]

i use to love ac/dc but everybidy started playin em and listenin to it where i come from so i got very bored of it and really starting to hate it:o

[Tattered]

You shouldnt get pissed with a band just cos there starting to catch on and everyone else likes them, i know its annoying everyones like yeah! guns and roses are my band! yeah they rule! and ur like..argh i discovered them !! i heard them first! but u shouldnt hate them.

[PantericA]

i think he means he just over played it. you know, listened to it too much and it started to lose it's appeal.

[deMANUfacture]

both your views r correct, i was playin ac/dc at my school first a few weeks later every wanna be guitar playa is tryin it out, and i listened and played way to much so i just started hating them

[nightrider06]

u must go to a pretty kool skool, but acdc go fuken hard u could never listen to too much of them

[deMANUfacture]

u can when ya have fags at ya skool who listen to it all to much. enough about ac/dc talk bout bass stuff now

[nightrider06]

never enough about acdc, but anyway how long u been playing bass for demanufacture

[deMANUfacture]

lad about 3 years now, playin lots of jazz n stuff

[nightrider06]

true just a amateur eh