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Who is the best bassist of all time?

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>Paul McCartney
Yeah, a true pioneer especially after he started playing Rickenbackers (Paperback Writer & Rain) Jack Casady of the Jefferson Hairpie was pretty awesome too

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Yep gotta be  THE OX ..John Entwhistle .. Barry
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Where to discuss buying a beginner's guitar?

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Try an Alvarez RD-8 with hard shell case for $168.  Sounds like a $600 guitar.  Very nice and stays in tune for months and months.

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Tone!

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Thank you Daniel I missed that until you reminded me.  Chuck definitely missed what I was trying to say.  I have tons of pedals, several amps and several guitars, but I still sound like Lon Smith and never like Jimi Hendrix unless I am trying to imitate. – Hide quoted text [...]

12 String Guitar

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get yourself a good chromatic guitar tuner also, I have two Korgs, a chromatic and a regular one, and the chromatic should make tuning the 12-string a lot easier, since on a chromatic it automatically detects the string pitch and you can alter the pitch to any microtone you like.  it [...]

shredding scales

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20 going on 12.

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<snip> > what the hell is ’shredding scales’. > anyone give a newb a specific example of it, a link, video song etc etc > i sorta know what a scale is… > and assume shredding means doing it quickly…. > but would like [...]

pain and frustration

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>Something tells me you’re going to do all right. Good luck!
Thanks. Another factor is that I am in guitar transition. My 1965 Fender Malibu acoustic is in for repairs (tone block glue let loose). I just sold my Les Paul Custom and I am waiting for my new Telecaster [...]

upgrading a guitar

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Thanx for replying. I think I’ll buy that guitar in the end, since your comments were all positive…Squier is out of the question, I don’t like their looks (just a matter of taste, but 99% of Telecasters look ugly to me…), I tried to find an Epi, but the store had only [...]

Bar chord problem

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Good example of chord progressions in tunes that use a 1st inversion chord: Fleetwood Mac’s "Landslide": C–>G/B–>Am7–>G/B. The G/B is just a GMaj chord with the 3rd in the bass. The bass line traveling stepwise from C to B to A and back up to B is what makes the whole tune. [...]

err…. Santana is hard to play :>(

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> Hi All- > I’ve been playing guitar for about six months now, and am doing pretty well. > I’ve been teachin’ myself so far as I already know how to read music. I have > an el cheapo Squier Strat, and a pod 2.0, and I just [...]

Open C and the 6th string

Question:
Great explanations. Thanks, guys. Ian

Response:
Sounds like you guys are both right, you have just provided a more technical explanation of "muddy". I like the explanation of low tuned string harmonics, it explains alot. Sniffin Vinyl
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