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Status: Single
City: SAN RAFAEL
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/11/2005

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 
Ahhh the holidays.

I'm without my bass in the arctic wonderland known as Upstate NY. Which pretty much looks like this in every direction.

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I do however have my fancy computing device which affords me the ablility to mangle and mix sound. That's where YOU come in my fearless bass pioneers!

YOUR MISSION:

I want you to send me a bar or 2 of your bass playing OR other any other instrument you play.

I'll collect all the riffs I get and produce them with my laptop toys over the next week.

I'll post the results (for better or worse) on this blog and throughout the interwebs with full credits to everyone who participates.

Or - if you prefer - I'll leave your good reputable name off this auditory abortion leaving your participation totally anonymous. Your call.

For the sake of simplicity / interoperability there's only 2 rules.

Play to a click/metronome with a tempo of 110.

Play in the key of E maj.

You can play in ANY mode of E Maj - but please confine your riffs to the key of E Maj.

Play in any time sig you want - just label what it is

Play with any effect(s) you want.

As simple or complex as you want. Doesn't matter. Don't overthink. Just hit record, play, save the file - and

SEND YOUR RIFFAGE TO ME

beautifulbass@gmail.com

mp3 is fine.

Letter loose kids!

DEADLINE - JAN 1.

but seriously. If it takes you that long to lay down 1 bar of 110bpm bass in E.....
Zen Beer

 
I'm in! Gimme a day or two to find a spare five minutes.....Upstate NY eh? If you've got your passport, come up here and I can fix the no bass problem for ya... although it won't be lefty and upside downy.....If you get too bored, you can always listen to Kanye.
 
Posted by Zen Beer on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 5:39 PM
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Jeff Schmidt

 
Sweet. You rule.

I'm going to mangle everything together into a big steaming pile of bass chili.
 
Posted by Jeff Schmidt on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 7:38 PM
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Max
Max Reed

 
Dude, I'm in as well......time for some tapping fun :)
 
Posted by Max on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 9:10 PM
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nick_

 
Brilliant!
This is like the musical form of Two Girls, one cup. I'm so in!
 
Posted by nick_ on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 9:32 PM
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Alexander

 
I was born in Kingston, NY in 1976, and spent my childhood fishing and mushroom-picking in that redneck paradise.

Which is (partly) why it's karma for me to someday own a MTD Kingston axe.

Wish I had the tech-support to contribute a bass lick off my beat-up Fender Urge. (sigh)
 
Posted by Alexander on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 12:35 AM
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Jeff Schmidt

 
awesome.

For everyone that contributes I promise an afterlife with 70 virgins!

Mostly human. Probably female.

Don't quote me on that though.
 
Posted by Jeff Schmidt on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 3:20 AM
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Zen Beer

 
Sweet! That's way more than 85% of people will ever get for their tunes!....Say, do you want the full-length sections or just a couple of bars that you can loop?
 
Posted by Zen Beer on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 12:18 PM
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Jeff Schmidt

 
send whatever you man - I've got really short clips from peeps and full measures of stuff.

I'm just gonna cut and splice and mangle.
 
Posted by Jeff Schmidt on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 4:18 PM
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Zen Beer

 
Oops, never mind, I guess it helps if I read the whole post. Nobody ever said bassists were smart.....Hey, and Merry Christmas :)
 
Posted by Zen Beer on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 12:23 PM
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Jeff Schmidt

 
oops. my bad. just hit record and play something. email me the file. I'll figure out the rest.

:)

Merry Xmas mutha fuckka!
 
Posted by Jeff Schmidt on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 4:22 PM
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neil
neil coburn

 
Count me in all i need is get ma christmas goodies in the morning and ill be recording in no time :P
 
Posted by neil on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 9:50 PM
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