[LAU] Resonance

[david]

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:34:00AM -1000, david wrote:
> 
>> The fun thing about playing bass is you can play a lot of wrong notes 
>> and nobody can tell. ;-)
> 
> Aaarrrggh ! Not true. Wrong bass makes me want to scream. 
> 
> My way to test bass players is to have them listen to 
> "A remark you made" by Weather Report, and request them
> to play the right bass to Zawinul's haunting synth line
> starting at 00:52. Very few of them find the right notes. 

In that case, yes, I guess (don't remember ever hearing that song). Not 
sure that would be so apparent in a hard driving rock song where you're 
not so much hearing the bass as feeling it ...

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David
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