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Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:27 pm
by friendship
hell yeah i love to go weeeooowwoorrorooorwwrooorr
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:42 am
by nogodsnobedtimes
the raytownian wrote:I "play" the tremolo on my guitar sometimes too. It's hard for me to hold it and pick simultaneously, though, so I put the underside of my forearm over the tremolo bar and strum around the the bottom end of the fretboard while spasmodically wiggling my forearm over the tremolo bar to make it go weeeooowwoorrorooorwwrooorr. I think it sounds pretty, amusical as my blind idiot improv-playing is.
Hey that's how I do it on my JM. Strum like normal, trem arm right under my arm behind my wrist, bob my arm slightly.
I also only fret my bass with three fingers, and my pinky usually ends up behind the neck somehow. IDK why, it just does. I've done that for 20 years at least.
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:39 am
by Pete
Pinky behind the neck-that's interesting!
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:52 am
by MechaGodzilla
I used to do that sometimes but it felt like a bad habit and I don't think I do it anymore?
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:24 pm
by lost in music
Yes, I definitely used to do that. It was like my pinkie was an atrophied withered deformity and would just go hide back there, away from the harsh light of the sun. I'm definitely not conscious of doing it anymore but will have to pay more attention. At some point, I switched to using my pinkie for power chords, instead of my third finger. Maybe that helps keep it out in front.
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:44 pm
by nogodsnobedtimes
MechaGodzilla wrote:I used to do that sometimes but it felt like a bad habit and I don't think I do it anymore?
Oh it's totally a bad habit. Playing live I'm incredibly self conscious about it and make sure I keep my pinky out front where it should be, even if I don't use it. But at home or when recording I fall back on my old ways without thinking.
lost in music wrote:It was like my pinkie was an atrophied withered deformity and would just go hide back there, away from the harsh light of the sun.
Lol yep
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:12 pm
by dugwolf
Was way into Nirvana when I started playing bass so of course I had to hold my pick with my middle finger and thumb. Played like that for years. I guess I stopped doing it when I switched over to playing mostly guitar. I think Krist only did it so he could sling his bass that extra inch lower.
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:34 pm
by Pete
That's a good pic of him
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:41 pm
by lost in music
Those pants!
Re: What's something that you do, that's just plain *weird*?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:38 am
by VREEEEVROOOOOW
Having the guitar *that* low seems... somewhat uncomfortable.