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guitars...


Question Posted Monday June 6 2005, 11:18 pm

i just asked a question not to long ago about guitars and what kind to get. do you have a bass and a regular guitar? when ppl say regular...are they talking about an acoustic? or is there a bass and a regular electric guitar..? have you ever heard the song slice paper wrists by poison the well? if not...could you please download it? at the beginning a guitar plays for a little...and then a different kind comes in..or it might just be the same guitar. but anyways...is the guitar at the beginning a bass? or what is it? 12 seconds into the song...another guitar comes in for like 3 seconds. is that the same guitar as the one in the beginning or different? or if you've heard the song cold by crossfade...is that a bass? or..youve probably heard the song ohio is for lovers by hawthorne heights...is that guitar a bass? also...another song...fucking determined by mudvayne. is thaaaaat a bass? that one seems to sound different than the other songs i have been saying..but im just not sure if their playing "harder" or what. possesion by otep also..that guitar seems to sound different too. if you dont feel like downloading any of these could you please give me songs to download to hear the difference between bass or a "regular" guitar if there is such a thing...that isnt acoustic. thanx!

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MFS answered Monday June 6 2005, 11:35 pm:
Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin starts out with bass. The guitar comes in over the top.

Bass is lower. Bass is often playing in a linear fashion - you don't usually play chords on a bass, or searing guitar solos - that's not the point of a bass guitar. Bass is low, and creates sort of the backbone of a song along with the drums - bass is considered part of the rhythm section in a band.

Anything by the Who has kickass bass going on in it. Red Hot Chili Pepper's bass player Flea is outstanding at playing funk/slap bass.

When I talk about a 6-string, it can be either an electric or an acoustic. Electric guitars are just that - electric - they have pick-ups to translate the vibration of the strings into an electric signal that the amp plays back.

An acoustic relies on the quality of the strings and the resonnance of the wood. Yes, they can be amped, but it will still sound acoustic as opposed to the often thinner sound of the electric. This is also why electrics are often used with electronic effects like distortion, flanging, chorus, wah, etc...

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