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Lynx33 
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Posted: May 30 2011 at 17:28 |
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Let's just now disregard the number of strings. Which is the one?
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Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget.
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Manuel
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Posted: May 30 2011 at 17:35 |
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More than the type of instrument (bass), is who plays it.
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Lynx33
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Posted: May 30 2011 at 17:41 |
 Manuel wrote:
More than the type of instrument (bass), is who plays it. |
it's about the sound of the instrument. if you know what instrument you like, you know who's good at it as well
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Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget.
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dwill123
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Posted: May 30 2011 at 19:18 |
Lynx33 wrote:
Let's just now disregard the number of strings. Which is the one?
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Which is the one, for what? Your question makes me think of the statement, "the right tool for the job". What job exactly are you talking about here?
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Gandalff
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 00:44 |
Expecting winner would be Electric Bass Guitar.
I like especially Rickenbacker type, with its Master Chris the Squirest.
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Mushroom Sword
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 01:01 |
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Well, an acoustic bass guitar was used in the ultimate prog song, "The Court of The Crimson King", but I'm gonna have to go with Electric Bass Guitar, because of Hard Prog being my all time favorite genre, well, tied with Jazz Fusion, but still!
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King Manuel
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 01:44 |
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Fretless bass guitar for me!
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CPicard
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 01:44 |
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Hard choice: I play electric bass, but the sound of double bass is deeper (not lower, deeper), more organic... And it has this je-ne-sais-quoi noble and distinguished that the electric basses can't have.
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iluvmarillion
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 01:54 |
Gandalff wrote:
Expecting winner would be Electric Bass Guitar.
I like especially Rickenbacker type, with its Master Chris the Squirest. |
Rickenbacker electric bass guitar for me and John Entwistle my favourite bass player.
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cannon
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 02:26 |
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Electric bass followed by the double. Stick would be my third choice from the master himself, Tony Levin.
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someone_else
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 02:31 |
Gandalff wrote:
Expecting winner would be Electric Bass Guitar.
I like especially Rickenbacker type, with its Master Chris the Squirest. |
This. But a double bass played by Danny Thompson would be an excellent alternative.
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Gandalff
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 02:35 |
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Notice: Stick and Warr Guitar would be joined to one option. These are related instruments with the same style of playing.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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The Wrinkler
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 02:39 |
I love electric bass guitar's 
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akaBona
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 05:14 |
The Wrinkler wrote:
I love electric bass guitar's
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Same here.
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Atoms
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 06:34 |
I play electric bass and double bass
However, I can say the I prefer electric bass by far, when I play double bass with my jazz band, I'm so restricted to scales and chord progressions.
But with my rock/prog band, where I'm the electric bass player, I feel so much more free, I still play in the same scales, but I don't feel the same restrictions, this might be just me being bad at playing music, but I feel that I can focus much more on making my sound better when playing electric bass, instead of all the theory you've been reading these past 5 years.
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 06:45 |
Gandalff wrote:
Notice: Stick and Warr Guitar would be joined to one option. These are related instruments with the same style of playing. |
The Warr guitar is a bit different as it has the option of being played just like a normal bass as well as tapped. No vote as its all dependent on what you want it to do in the music.
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Earendil
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 08:05 |
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The one with the most strings.
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Icarium
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 08:13 |
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I like contra bass with bow, as much as a upright bass played wtih fingers, i also like the combined sound of contrabass and cello, Enjo Morricone have some nice songs with contrabass
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The Pessimist
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 08:21 |
Upright, followed by a 6-string fretless, then Warr-guitar  Can't beat the good-old organic woody sound of an upright though... especially in jazz fusion.
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Prog Geo
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 08:27 |
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Fretless bass guitar!
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