As a bass player myself, I love Carol Kaye! Besides some electric basses I have an old Kay upright double bass that I named Carol, after this fine musician!

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Well... My mom filled out a raffle ticket on my name when i was two, we won a SAAB 96 and traded it for this model, 99. Almost the same color (metallic paint was for US export model...). My family kept it for 25 years, it served us really well. I learned to drive with it and that thing handles like a dream (it has heavy steering but is is so stable and responsive, just wonderful, plus ours had aftermarket short gearbox from police unit and bored cylinders, small tweaks to oomph the torque for caravan use. Finnish police used SAAB for a loong time, it accelerated like a rocket..).

Seeing the inside of that just brings me memories. Mom, Dad, my big brother and me and a full sized double bass, all inside (you can't transport it outside when it's freezing, the thing can explode..). It meant that i had to ride shotgun, seat fully front and back against the front door, head on dashboard. Backseat folded and mom and bro at the back, equally cramped. We used to say that first comes the bass, then the family if they fit in and there is always room in the boot (joke.. ). The day he started to play cello was a blessing and a curse. Have you ever had to live with a person that learns to play cello? It's horrible but i paid him back when i got full blown PA in my room, cabinets from floor to ceiling.. Musicians family is always a bit eccentric and weird..

My dad still has SAAB (fourth one) as they are just amazing to drive, handles winter conditions like nothing and are great for long roadtrips. I just hope i can get him the Citroen CX he has wanted from his teens...

Really enjoyed that... never seen a cello played pizzicato like a double bass like that before.

*skilful and *quality

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I could really do without the double-bass in the background. There have been better videos about this subject.

Double bass drum. That was almost a triple bass drum! What does it mean?

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^pho3n1x:
>> ^Shepppard:
To be fair, he is technically cheating.
I don't much care about the repositioning of things, but he's using a double-kick bass pedal.
If he can play this without that, then I'd be absolutely shocked.
Still impressive though.

Not really... I have a double-bass kit made for the game. granted it's not a true double-bass setup like he has, it's just a second pedal with a powered splitter, but still... i wouldn't call it cheating.
and i've been seriously considering making a new snare with a frisbee and positioning it where it's supposed to go on a real kit instead of the far left where it is now... one day i'll get a real electronic drum kit but for now I can play (and record) using the in-game practice mode just as effectively.

Well... it's not cheating in the sense that it's an auto-hit or anything, but it's more cheating in the sense of he's playing the game in a way that it wasn't intended to be played.
My comment is more a response to "Harmonix purposefully makes these songs to keeps fans occupied"
because I guarantee you that if he tried this with just the single foot-pedal he wouldn't be able to make it.
Again, it's still a impressive in its own right.


You're both sort of right. I don't understand how Harmonix decides what bass hits to chart. I would think that they would chart with the right foot in mind, but For all the blast beats (0:56 for example) I've seen in this game, they chart both feet when most drummers alternate right and left, although the Shannon Lucas (Black Dahlia Murder Drummer) is one of the only drummers I know of who only uses one foot for those. Also, In the verse, the fast bass hits in groups of two are really groups of three but instead of charting the right foot hits (1 and 3) they chart the right and left (1 and 2). So it seems that it's charted as a hybrid of both double and single pedal. I'm gonna sift the video of Shannon Lucas doing his magic because I see it hasn't been sifted yet.

A friend of mine has a 'Metallica' version of one of these systems, and it came with a double pedal.

I have barely played these game systems before, but I do play the drums (with a double bass pedal), and we played Metallica 'One' all the way through the first try with myself on the drums. It was seriously fun, and felt like we accomplished this thing as a team.

Learning the drums (and many other instruments) can be difficult when its just you, imagining the other parts or playing along with a recording. The greatest thing about these systems is how they allow you to 'perform' in an interactive way with the music you enjoy, so you're practicing rudiments with a band, of-sorts, and at your leisure.



>> ^Shepppard:

To be fair, he is technically cheating.
I don't much care about the repositioning of things, but he's using a double-kick bass pedal.
If he can play this without that, then I'd be absolutely shocked.
Still impressive though.

I see your point, but consider this: http://www.ripten.com/2009/04/08/harmonix-releases-kick-pedal-with-double-bass-adaptor/

I do agree that single pedal'ing makes it much much more difficult, but realistically you can even see by the way he handles himself that this isn't his first sit at a drum set. he makes that song look like a walk in the park, compared to my epileptic-ness, and i'd like to think that i'm pretty damned good at that game (and decent at a real drum set).

>> ^pho3n1x:

>> ^Shepppard:
To be fair, he is technically cheating.
I don't much care about the repositioning of things, but he's using a double-kick bass pedal.
If he can play this without that, then I'd be absolutely shocked.
Still impressive though.

Not really... I have a double-bass kit made for the game. granted it's not a true double-bass setup like he has, it's just a second pedal with a powered splitter, but still... i wouldn't call it cheating.
and i've been seriously considering making a new snare with a frisbee and positioning it where it's supposed to go on a real kit instead of the far left where it is now... one day i'll get a real electronic drum kit but for now I can play (and record) using the in-game practice mode just as effectively.


Well... it's not cheating in the sense that it's an auto-hit or anything, but it's more cheating in the sense of he's playing the game in a way that it wasn't intended to be played.

My comment is more a response to "Harmonix purposefully makes these songs to keeps fans occupied"
because I guarantee you that if he tried this with just the single foot-pedal he wouldn't be able to make it.

Again, it's still a impressive in its own right.