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Atomkilla said:
I've been playing bass for over 10 years, and this is the first time I hear of a short scale bass.
Granted, I kinda suck at playing and am not big into instruments and technical aspets as opposed to just jamming, but nonetheless, this is a surprise.

Maybe I have seen them at stores and dismissed them as beginner instrument for children though.
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They say that. But a lot of greats have used short scale basses- Jack Bruce, Mike Watt, Bob Daisley, Captain Sensible, Phil Lynott, Olsie Robinson, Bill Wyman, John Entwistle, Satomi Matsuzaki, Tina Weymouth, Stanley Clarke, Kevin Parker, Paul McCartney, the list goes on. I love em because i got small hands and theyre just comfortable play experience for me. i damn near have to play normal basses sitting down so i dont have my spine feel like it's bending out of shape more. Theyre really good for smaller folk too. And they have a pretty thunderous amount of low end to em. Though i will say my only experience is play a Gibson EB3 and a Gretsch Thunder Jet. There are some bassists who will shit on people who use short scales. You should play with what's comfy to use and let skill and tone do the talking whether it be a short (30in), medium (32in), long (34in), or extra long (35-36in) scale bass
 
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Sn1p3r187 said:
They say that. But a lot of greats have used short scale basses- Jack Bruce, Mike Watt, Bob Daisley, Captain Sensible, Phil Lynott, Olsie Robinson, Bill Wyman, John Entwistle, Satomi Matsuzaki, Tina Weymouth, Stanley Clarke, Kevin Parker, Paul McCartney, the list goes on. I love em because i got small hands and theyre just comfortable play experience for me. i damn near have to play normal basses sitting down so i dont have my spine feel like it's bending out of shape more. Theyre really good for smaller folk too. And they have a pretty thunderous amount of low end to em. Though i will say my only experience is play a Gibson EB3 and a Gretsch Thunder Jet. There are some bassists who will shit on people who use short scales. You should play with what's comfy to use and let skill and tone do the talking whether it be a short (30in), medium (32in), long (34in), or extra long (35-36in) scale bass
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Was that list something you know by heart or did you copy/paste a wiki page or something?

At any rate, sure, whatever fits you. We come in various shapes and sizes, no reason why our instruments shouldn't. I'm somewhat interested how I could feel playing it.
I have fairly large hands I guess and never had a problem playing a large scale bass, although it was an effort to learn holding and playing it properly early on. I have an issue when I grab a regular electric guitar though - it's just feels too small.
 
Atomkilla said:
Was that list something you know by heart or did you copy/paste a wiki page or something?

At any rate, sure, whatever fits you. We come in various shapes and sizes, no reason why our instruments shouldn't. I'm somewhat interested how I could feel playing it.
I have fairly large hands I guess and never had a problem playing a large scale bass, although it was an effort to learn holding and playing it properly early on. I have an issue when I grab a regular electric guitar though - it's just feels too small.
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Would it shock you if i told i learned it by heart? i learned it when i first started getting into playing short scales so i could hear them and distinguish the sounds between the brands and models (Gibson EB0, EB3, Fender Mustang, Jaguar, etc). Have you tried baritone guitars? They have a longer scale length and theyre basically made for guitarists who think like bassists. Itll be tuned a bit lower but theyre made for big hands. Btw, your conumdrum is similar to me finding a decent rifle for smaller hands. Lot of folk recommended AR15 for ergonomics.
 
Sn1p3r187 said:
Would it shock you if i told i learned it by heart? i learned it when i first started getting into playing short scales so i could hear them and distinguish the sounds between the brands and models (Gibson EB0, EB3, Fender Mustang, Jaguar, etc). Have you tried baritone guitars? They have a longer scale length and theyre basically made for guitarists who think like bassists. Itll be tuned a bit lower but theyre made for big hands. Btw, your conumdrum is similar to me finding a decent rifle for smaller hands. Lot of folk recommended AR15 for ergonomics.
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I am aware of baritone guitars, seen a few of them played live, but never tried them. Then again, I'm not really a guitar player.
 
Resardiv said:
Do Americans not feed their children milk? My kid became a milk monster at preschool.
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They do, that doesn't force me to enjoy it. Do you not have foods where you live that you do not enjoy?

I do try foods I hate once or twice a year usually to try and enjoy them and still do not. Rarely I would drink chocolate milk but I've never once thought about drinking a glass of milk outside of it being chocolate-fied by dunking too many Oreos in it and even then I'm only really drinking it to not be wasteful. Dairy in general is not very appealing to me. I can eat/drink milk and cheese but I'm not going to melt if it disappeared either.
 
SquidWard said:
They do, that doesn't force me to enjoy it. Do you not have foods where you live that you do not enjoy?

I do try foods I hate once or twice a year usually to try and enjoy them and still do not. Rarely I would drink chocolate milk but I've never once thought about drinking a glass of milk outside of it being chocolate-fied by dunking too many Oreos in it and even then I'm only really drinking it to not be wasteful. Dairy in general is not very appealing to me. I can eat/drink milk and cheese but I'm not going to melt if it disappeared either.
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I'm complete opposite. I used to live off beer and milk during my uni days basically. Nowaday I mostly avoid milk, but do like it in smoothies or with cookies and what not.

I insanely love cheese though. It's probably the number 1 item in my diet.
That being said, cheese around here differs a lot from what is typically considered cheese in US.
 
I love milk, but too much will have me on the toilet all day.

American "cheese" is not even allowed to be labled as cheese. It is a cheese product. I also hate those pre-shredded bags of cheese. It's covered in that white cellulose powder. Just grate your own. Melts better too.
 
Atomkilla said:
I used to live off beer and milk during my uni days basically
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Same on the beer but replace the milk with whiskey and various substances. And cheap delivery subs and 3 pizzas for $15 deals that I swore would last all weekend and I'd wake up still drunk Saturday afternoon wondering where my pizza went.
Atomkilla said:
but do like it in smoothies or with cookies and what not.
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Yeah that part is 100% fine by me, I like smoothies and I like chocolate with milk on occasion. Just getting a glass of normal milk is a bit different:puke:

Silica Pathways said:
Do they? I've often heard they feed their small children "formulas" instead of milk. It does sound very weird and dystopian.
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Formula is for infants and there's been a decent resurgence in avoiding it if possible. IIRC it's not recommended to use formula for the first 6 months though recommending something to people, especially Americans, goes about as well as you can guess.
But every household I visited and stayed in as a kid always had milk in the fridge. If bad storms call, you know the grocery store will run out of two things: milk and bread. Sadly, the milk-bread fanatics deny us our ritualistic meal during storm-time, the sacred milk sandwich.
Morgan_ said:
Euros love bringing this up.
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Not gonna lie, I think Bri'ish people have been so indoctrinated with propaganda that America is Mad Max-Super-Scary-Experimental-Science-Radiation-Die Die Die-Everyone Got a Warhead in They Pocket-Land that they cannot be similar to us at all and must always notify Americans that they are not similar to us. Somehow this all lead into that I really thought that British people just had no interest in the microwave and thought it was so lazy and dangerous that they refused to buy them so they never took off there. One day a friend from the UK said he was going to heat something up and I was like oh on the stove or oven and he was like, uh the microwave? Blew my fucking mind. Bro wasn't gonna heat it up in the kettle?! Preposterous.
 
SquidWard said:
They do, that doesn't force me to enjoy it. Do you not have foods where you live that you do not enjoy?

I do try foods I hate once or twice a year usually to try and enjoy them and still do not. Rarely I would drink chocolate milk but I've never once thought about drinking a glass of milk outside of it being chocolate-fied by dunking too many Oreos in it and even then I'm only really drinking it to not be wasteful. Dairy in general is not very appealing to me. I can eat/drink milk and cheese but I'm not going to melt if it disappeared either.
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No.:smug:
 
Morgan_ said:
No stomach issues I assume?


Euros love bringing this up. Big day for you all when American cheese released.
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No stomach issues. Not really, no. Then again, I did stop drinking milk before work or social gathering because it can make me tummy feel funny.

I'm not from one of those countries which pride themselves on their cheese *too* much like France or Netherlands, but there's definitely an old tradition to some of the sorts I'm used to eating.

The cheese I buy and eat regularly is what would probably be marketed in US and some EU countries as "organic" or some such catchy term, and would probably be sold for some insane price because of exclusivity. It's made in small quantities by a single family, and milk comes from a few cows that they own. There's no industrial production whatsoever.

In reality, it's a very common thing around here, the price is fine and the taste is fabulous. So yeah...I guess US people miss out. No wonder US is going to shit.


@SquidWard

Whiskey wasn't something we had major access to during uni, because it's kinda expensive. The good stuff is, anyway. Other stronger alcohol was readily available though.
 
Wish we had bakeries. Only wonderbread loaf forever.

Don't know if this is unpopular, but Jack Nicholson is Dicaprio's dad.
 
Atomkilla said:
@SquidWard

Whiskey wasn't something we had major access to during uni, because it's kinda expensive. The good stuff is, anyway. Other stronger alcohol was readily available though.
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Fair. I liked the higher shelf stuff of course but often was buying the lower shelf shit like Evan Williams.
Wild Turkey or Maker's Mark were the more expensive ones I bought often but rarer occasions I'd buy some real top shelf shit.
 
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