Double bass tempo

[isp_of_doom]

This is just an idea I've had lingering in the back of my mind for some time... here it is:

From time to time to time on these forums I have noticed many threads running along the lines of "My feet wont go at 200bpm... whats the miracle cure?"... to which I sure we all know the answer... if you dont, heres the secret: practice, practice, practice

Now it can get very boring listening to the *click, click, click, click* of a metronome... so people have suggested playing double bass to the radio... I've tried this over the past few months, and trust me, you get 2 songs, then on average 8.5 minutes of ads... sometimes you get no songs, and some egotistical fool yakking on at you... anyhow, heres my idea:

Why dont we compile a list of songs (involving a fair amount of double bass work) and cateogrise them into their tempo's... that way beginners, intermediates, and advanced drummers can practice in peace and comfort whatever tempo they like.

The thing is... If I were to do this alone, I would end up with a very short list, with a lot of gaps in it. So I need other forum dwellers to let me know what they have practiced to over the years, the tempo it is at, and preferably what kind of notes it deals with (16ths/ triplets/ sextuplets/ syncopated/ or a mix).


I realise its a long post, and to anyone who reads down this far... Please just dig up the old songs you learned to, and are playing today... and list them here. I will compile the list and post it wherever it is applicable.

Thanks :thumb:

[Janeway]

I don't know. That involves a lot of work.

[MatthewMeredith]

Darn good idea, isp

I'm not actually going to find out the bpm of these songs, but lots of Blind Guardian will work. They tend to use a lot of straight 8ths and 16ths. For very advanced, Quo Vadis is ridiculously fast, with lots of on and off bursts, and quite often with triplet feel.

Hope that helps!

[FockerTheLopper]

I can play 128th notes at 1,000,000 beats per minute. My Iron Cobras break right after I burst through my bass drum head when I do that though so I try not too.
/had an urge to write something really stupid.

[Janeway]

Wouldn't notes that fast just blur into one big slightly wavering boom?

[FockerTheLopper]

Wouldn't notes that fast just blur into one big slightly wavering boom?
No, I play them very articulately. You hear every note.

[Janeway]

Funfact:
Axons of the vestibulocochlear nerve (auditory nerve) synapse in the cochlear nucleus of the same side. Projections lead from the cochlear nuclei to the superior olives, and the olivary nuclei continue on passing through the lateral lemniscus towards the inferior colliculi, where they synapse again on neurons that project to the medial geniculate nuclei of the thalamus, which in turn projects toward the primary auditory cortex. This Primary Auditory Cortex is located slightly below the lateral fissure between the frontal and the temporal lobes.


I was trying to make a comeback with something I learned in biology three years ago, but I forgot what half of the words were. So I did that.

[FockerTheLopper]

Funfact:
Axons of the vestibulocochlear nerve (auditory nerve) synapse in the cochlear nucleus of the same side. Projections lead from the cochlear nuclei to the superior olives, and the olivary nuclei continue on passing through the lateral lemniscus towards the inferior colliculi, where they synapse again on neurons that project to the medial geniculate nuclei of the thalamus, which in turn projects toward the primary auditory cortex. This Primary Auditory Cortex is located slightly below the lateral fissure between the frontal and the temporal lobes.


I was trying to make a comeback with something I learned in biology three years ago, but I forgot what half of the words were. So I did that.
lol, and here I went thinking that you made up those words...
In case you were wondering... Batman is still the Funk Master. Observe. http://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/

[Janeway]

That song is really catchy.




I actually just copied and pasted that from a wikipedia article, but now that I actually read through it, I think the person who published that just made it up.

[FockerTheLopper]

lol, thats pretty funny. Anyway its been fun hijacking this thread but I'm tired, and its too late for this. Goodnight MF

[Janeway]

Sweet dreams.

[Panopticon]

This is just an idea I've had lingering in the back of my mind for some time... here it is:

From time to time to time on these forums I have noticed many threads running along the lines of "My feet wont go at 200bpm... whats the miracle cure?"... to which I sure we all know the answer... if you dont, heres the secret: practice, practice, practice

Now it can get very boring listening to the *click, click, click, click* of a metronome... so people have suggested playing double bass to the radio... I've tried this over the past few months, and trust me, you get 2 songs, then on average 8.5 minutes of ads... sometimes you get no songs, and some egotistical fool yakking on at you... anyhow, heres my idea:

Why dont we compile a list of songs (involving a fair amount of double bass work) and cateogrise them into their tempo's... that way beginners, intermediates, and advanced drummers can practice in peace and comfort whatever tempo they like.

The thing is... If I were to do this alone, I would end up with a very short list, with a lot of gaps in it. So I need other forum dwellers to let me know what they have practiced to over the years, the tempo it is at, and preferably what kind of notes it deals with (16ths/ triplets/ sextuplets/ syncopated/ or a mix).


I realise its a long post, and to anyone who reads down this far... Please just dig up the old songs you learned to, and are playing today... and list them here. I will compile the list and post it wherever it is applicable.

Thanks :thumb:

why not just put on any old song and play double bass overtop of it, whether the song calls for it or not?

[LiquidTensionTheatre]

why not just put on any old song and play double bass overtop of it, whether the song calls for it or not?

Yeah. Probably wise.

Songs I first played with my double bass pedal were songs from Scenes from a Memory - Pretty much all of them apart from the quiet ones.

But I think a good thing for developing double bass is just playing songs/patterns you know but playing double bass figures under them in triplets and all different note values.

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[sid121]

but, won't the drums like over volume the radio?...i'll try it. And also if you wanted to play it quieter i guess it would improve your ghost note on the bass drum???