That was pure adrenaline for me. Lumberjack Feedback shook my world! Thanks Terb, they’ve made a new fan.
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Bit of grunge this Friday. Such a great bass line and so much fun to play.
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Metal needs more cellos…
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The Lenchantin.
The sound she got out of her Mesa Walkabout Scout in this band was one of the main deciding factors in me acquiring one
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Paz always had such great tone
Ok lets put some French Metal delight for the metal lover we have here! 
And something lighter for those that aren’t that much into it. 
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I don’t think we had Adam Nitti featured here yet!?!
While you could say it’s your run-of-the-mill fusion piece, it ties nicely together with some topics discussed in the forum this week:
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the floating thumb technique (probably the only way to go on a 6-string bass)
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the (as far as I can tell) flawless alternate finger plucking (note: it’s alternate plucking going up, and raking going down!)
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and then, of course, his trademark sweeping/percolating arpeggios, which are sure to impress even @bassbot (around the 1:40 mark in the video) - I know we are all studying those
Happy Friday!
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I know I post on this topic too much, but I love entirely too much music, so deal with it 
This is from an acoustic set from Devin Townsend that just hits me in the feels. If you have the time, listen to the whole set. If you don’t, find the time. It has little relevance to the bass but a whole lot of relevance to general musicality and stage presence.
For long time followers of Hevy Devy, try and reconcile this with the strapping young lad original…
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so many strings … 
… what is “raking” exactly ? sorry, I don’t know the word 
great piece of fusion by the way, even if I don’t listen to fusion anymore, I find this one to be a pretty good catch ! and very nice bass playing obviously
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I’m almost sure I did not post this yet (but not 100% sure), I hope it’s not a repost ! here is some pretty nice post-rock/shoegaze with a SansAmp BDDI (same circuitry and sound as the BDI21 we always talk about ) :
and a song from the last Cult Of Luna album, which is great as always (sludgy post-metal) :
and two great songs of DVNE played live (psychedelic/progressive stoner) :
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What an interesting guy. I went from this video to looking up his other work and fell into a YouTube hole watching interviews with him.
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@terb I’m really digging the music in all of those songs. When they break into the death-grunt singing style it leaves me cold. Is there any sludge out there without the death-grunt or is that just part of the style?
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the grunt-thing singing is not at all a sludge thing. it’s more a common metal way of expression, but sludge is more related to “extreme rock” than metal and if you listen to pure sludge like Electric Wizard for example, there is very often only clean singing. For more stoner bands, it’s the same thing, there are a lot of clean-singing-only songs and instrumental songs too. And about post-rock/post-metal/shoegaze, those styles are very often purely instrumental so it’s pretty easy to avoid the grunt if it’s not your thing 
some examples :
Electric Wizard, pure sludge, some screaming but no grunt :
(if you evolve in the sludge world, you will always heard about Electric Wizard which is a very fundamental band)
Elder, psychedelic stoner, clean singing ot at least not grunt-ish at all :
Also if you like this musical universe, you might be interested by space rock ! and here is a band I absolutly love, named after the first man in space : Yuri Gagarin . if a song sounds like progressive/psychedelic rock (or stoner) but uses way to much phaser and rotary sounding things, it’s space rock
And also I would like to precise one thing : the sludge part is the slow, dark and kinda hypnotic rythm and ambience (it’s here with Elder but not at all with Yuri Gagarin, for exemple). The constantly evolving, progressive living structure with no clearly identified verse or chorus is not a sludge thing, it’s more the post-* (-rock, -metal …) part ; this particular aspect is some kind of natural evolution of psychedelic and progressive rock/metal.
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For the record, I have listened to Dopethrone at least 10 times since you originally posted it. I didn’t expect to like it so much. But, damn, I’m feeling the Dopethrone.
Thanks for giving me more leads to chase down. 
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you’re very welcome ! One more sludge disciple to the world !
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Sorry was offline for a while there (on a plane), @terb
I probably should have explained better: when you cross strings going “up” (from lower pitch to higher pitch; e.g., from E to A), then you keep alternating as if you were staying on the same string. When you go the other way across strings, i.e., “down” in pitch, like A to E, then the finger that has just plucked the last note on the A string will again pluck the first note on the E string. This is more efficient, mainly because the plucking finger is already resting on the new string now anyway.
This is called raking, as you keep moving the same finger across the strings, like when collecting leaves with a rake, I guess. Some people keep alternating no matter what, but I find “raking” more efficient on the way “down”.
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thanks @joergkutter ! that’s what I do and Scott Devine describes it as : alternate up / economy down.
with a pick the economy/raking thing is called sweeping and it also works going up, but this is not relevant with finger playing because the finger always move from bottom to top so you obviously can’t pluck two strings in the same motion when going up. That said, I almost never sweep with a pick, because it sounds different than down/up, way smoother. sweeping sounds more … fusion I’d say !
well I’m happy to learn that I was naturally raking without knowing the word for it
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