I have a fender active deluxe jazz bass and i recently took the strings off cause the bridge looked messed up. im taking it up to guitar center today for them to restring it. So my question is, what bass strings would be right for me? I have a jazz bass and i play mostly 70’s classic rock and slap funk.
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As others have noted, there is a strong country influence present in Southern rock (but some blues artists can be a bit countrified at times). I have to note (pardon the pun) that most soloing in Southern rock is reminiscent of Celtic/Gaelic music: fast execution of pentatonic major and minor scales within a clearly defined rhythmic conception. Blues artists tend to use dominant scales far more often than the pentatonic major (the blues scale is a hybrid which does has elements of pentatonic minor and its parallel dominant 7th arpeggio) and the approach to rhythm is looser and more interpretive.
With no ad hominem to those who made this statement, lumping the Allman Brothers into Southern Rock isn’t altogether fair beyond the geographical consideration. When Duane Allman was alive that band could play the blues (show me a better reading of “Stormy Monday” than the version from the Fillmore recording!) and whose musical sensibilities even stretched towards jazz (”In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” or “Whipping Post” definitely are worlds away from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, or .38 Special). The Allmans would be linked more fairly with Little Feat, Dixie Dregs (later shortened to the Dregs, this outfit sounded like the Allman Brothers crossed with the Mahavishnu Orchestra), or Sea Level (which Chuck Leavell started after leaving the first post-Duane Allman Bros. lineup) if they must be categorized (maybe Southern fried funk or gumbo boogie?),
Again, no offense intended by the rant; just my humble opinion- but one forged from countless hours of listening to and playing music including, but not limited to, the above artists.
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Anyway, The Stones are bluesy, and so are The Allman Brothers, but AC/DC? Guns N’ Roses? I don’t see it. Any ideas?
MQ: How would you rank the worst album of your favorite band? Assuming you’ve heard it of course.
Oh my god, Yahoo suggested rock and pop. This has never happened to me before.
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