Show Us Your Basses (Part 2)

If you ever want to sell that POS Jino let me know :sunglasses:

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I had a difficult time deciding on a starter bass (just learning) when I saw this Squire series on sale at GC for just under $300.

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Black and gold - good combo

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Oh man! thatā€™s, Thatā€™s just, just. Wow! good one Cheezy! @cheeze_pizza

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Too excited to take the tags off :joy:

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Whip 'em off and get some grubby fingerprints on that baby. They donā€™t sound any better when theyā€™re not touched.

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Man get you some matching socks to go with those awesome basses! :rofl:

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Lol, Iā€™ve been playing the sh*t out of it most of yesterday afternoon, got off work early last night, played even more! :grin:

Didnā€™t even have to touch the setup, straight out of the box, tuned and it was good to go!

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Not much to say about it - not a high quality item, for sure, but itā€™s MINE, dammit

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And thatā€™s the only thing that counts.

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After playing a 4 string normal electric bass for a long period of time (one month) I decided I need something more challengingā€¦

ā€¦just joking, I donā€™t really needed the challenge of a fretless bass but: I couldnā€™t resist. Weā€™re both build in '79 and Billie Jean sounds great on it and I love it! But: I canā€™t play anything on the E string. I donā€™t figured out where to rest my thumb :sweat_smile:

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You can either practice your floating thumb technique or install a thumb rest. Hereā€™s a link to a thread about it :wink:

There might be some more, just picked the first I found.

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Thereā€™s another alternative: I donā€™t usually rest my thumb on a pup; I just lightly touch the top of the body with my thumb.

This has a few benefits for me as Iā€™m not depending on a pup on any of my basses to be optimally positioned for resting, and I can play closer or farther from the bridge or neck as I tonally choose.

This isnā€™t Joshā€™s recommended technique, but it works for me.

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Another alternative is to learn to pluck the E with your thumb. This is a technique Tina Weymouth has used. If you watch some old videos of Psycho Killer, she plucks the E string with her thumb and the other strings with her index and middle finger. As if she were playing a guitar

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I will go with the floating thumb technique in long term. For now, touching the top of the body as @MikeC mentioned works well.

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I will check them out. Thanks

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Iā€™m at work or I would find one sorry

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After finishing the beginner to badass course this week Iā€™ve decided to buy my first bass to reward myself. After using my girlfriends Harley Benton to complete the course, I felt like I needed something more appropriate to continue my bass journey.

It was quite a challenge to find something appropriate since I wasnā€™t really sure what I was looking for in a bass. Unfortunately there werenā€™t any musicstores nearby for me to test different kinds of basses. So Iā€™ve spend hours (and hours) searching the internet looking for a new bass. Since Iā€™m only four months into playing bass, I wanted something to explore different kind of music genres (rock, funk, jazz).

Long story short, I decided to take the risk of ordering this beauty online.

The online praise for this bass (Marcus Miller P7 Alder 4 AW 2nd Gen) combined with its versatility tone wise made my descision final. To be completely honest, going from a bass with two knobs to a bass with seven knobs felt really overwhelming playing it for the first 10 minutes. But after that (with a little help from dear old friend youtube to set up the tone), I couldnā€™t stop playing this bass. Iā€™m very happy with my choice and Iā€™m very excited to explore what this bass has to offer and to develop my own skills futher!!!
https://youtu.be/XzvyUYO770Y?si=G0_KkNPRI1dGc46r (Playing it like this man would be the dream!!)

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Nice! Love the Sire basses!

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