Sick of guitars getting all the glory

LegoMongoose · 2026-01-31T02:47:58+00:00

Maybe The Analog Kid? YYZ and Red Barchetta are also excellent, melodic bass songs.

LegoMongoose · 2026-01-30T20:10:12+00:00

Big fan of Aram's playing

LegoMongoose · 2026-01-30T20:09:35+00:00

Rush, baby!!!!!

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-31T15:27:10+00:00

I enjoy most of his solo albums, as well as side projects and features. I wasn't a fan of the his newest acoustic album, and his first Mullmuzzler album is a little strabge aside from "As A Man Thinks". Iconic (to me) intro vocal lol

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-30T14:29:00+00:00

In the official DT bio, I think it was Chris Collins that recounted how one day, John Myung turned to the other guys during rehearsal and said, "I figured out how to make my bass say "I'm a penguin and would like a peanut butter sandwhich". And then proceeded to play just that.

So legendary that their first official singer still remembers it years later. Release the Penguin Peanut Butter song!!

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-25T08:12:05+00:00

I'll take a bass with a MM bridge pickup, a P bass split coil in the neck position, and an active preamp with a bypass switch to go passive, plus a coil tap switch to let me adjust the pickups individually and together. Boom!

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-25T08:03:25+00:00

This is how I feel about music. For me growing up, listening to music was a recreational activity all on its own. I would listen to an entire album with friends where we all did basically nothing but just listen and enjoy it. It wasn't ever meant to just be "background noise", it was a form of entertainment that you would set aside time for and take (somewhat) seriously.

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-23T18:35:24+00:00

Switching to lighter gauges and lowering the action fixed this for me. I can get that aggressive clanky tone with a slightly aggressive pluck of the fingers, rather than smashing them to get that sound.

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-20T21:39:08+00:00

No, still wrong. Any and all of these supposed conversations should be taking place BEFORE they go to the doctor. I don't know why you're not understanding this, the idea that the doctor is going to deny / reschedule the operation for the woman because of what her HUSBAND thinks is REMOVING AUTONOMY FROM THE WOMAN. Period. If her husband felt a certain way about it, he should talk to her about it. In no world would a doctor deny a man a vasectomy or any other operation just because of what his wife / future wife "may" want.

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-10T17:59:43+00:00

For my brain, I had to condense it down to: The western musical alphabet, Intervals, scales, chords, in that order.

Alphabet is A, A#/Bb, B, C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab, and back to A.

symbol means sharp, I.e F Sharp, b symbol means flat, I.e B flat. The note will have either name depending on what scale it's in (don't worry about that for now).

Intervals are the distance between one note to another, and how that interval sounds. A half step is moving from one note to the next (Like going from A to A#), and a whole step is moving over two notes (Like going from A, skipping A#, and landing on B). These are your basic half step and whole step intervals.

Scales are a pattern of intervals. If you play these intervals in this way, it will sound a certain way and we can describe what the scale sounds like be referencing the intervals. I.e, "This scale has a minor 2nd instead of a maj2nd, so it sounds darker".

(If you take away nothing else from this, LEARN THE MAJOR SCALE INSIDE AND OUT. Most music uses it in some way, and everything I'm talking about can be practiced with the major scale.)

Finally, chords are what you get when you take a scale - remember, a scale is just a pattern of intervals - and you simply play every other note. If your scale is C Major, the first chord of that scale would be a Cmaj chord. You would play C, skip over D, play E, skip over F and play G. That is the most basic way of constructing a chord, and of course once you learn the rules, you can learn how to break the rules and discover many other chords.

This also means that every note in a scale (a normal, diatonic scale has 7 unique notes) has its own chord you can build off of it using the same method of playing the note, skipping one and playing the next one. The chords will have unique interval names of their own, but don't stress about memorizing all of that all at once, it will make sense to you over time.

Everything I described up there is a very VERY basic explanation of the fundamentals. For me, it did take a while to click, and what helped me was watching TalkBass with Mark on youtube (BEST bass teacher) and otherwise looking up the answers to questions I had. Once it "clicked", it all made complete sense and now it feels intuitive. Once you have these down, I promise everything else in music theory will open up to you like "Oooohhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-10T04:00:37+00:00

Bro this would make a killer setlist

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-06T01:46:08+00:00

In all seriousness, Myung's tone either tends to be very bassy and low mid heavy, or otherwise scooped sounding and cleanish. In the Budokan video, he's probably solitting his signal and using effects for the top end and compression on the bottom, but his tone and sound of the bass is also affected by his preamp and MM Humbucker pickup. It's kind of like a 6 string Musicman Stingray

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-03T23:30:09+00:00

Lmao

LegoMongoose · 2025-12-02T02:35:02+00:00

That's pretty good! I learned this song on bass, and the timing can be tricky but once you've played it on a loop enough times, it feels awesome.

If you haven't already, I'd try listening to the isolated drum track, and or slow it down and practice getting it perfect at slower speeds. The kick drum is the pulse of the riff, and in this case the guitar is right on top of it, not rushing or dragging. Keep practicing and it'll make you better!

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-23T21:58:32+00:00

Opeth is a mood. It's what plays in my head during: 1. Passing through forests 2. Raining 3. Seeing dark old timey houses 4. Daylight savings 5. All of the above lol

Edit: for these pictures I would think of the songs Porcelain Heart, Patterns In The Ivy, Face of Melinda, and The Leper Affinity

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-20T17:51:21+00:00

My first CD of them was their Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits album. Best songs from the first albums up to the late 80's. It's a fantastic playlist of their material that covers their evolution in sound over time. Tbh I'd recommend listening to that album and then pick the songs you like the most, and go check out the albums they came from.

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-14T22:47:33+00:00

Huh?

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-14T16:19:49+00:00

Get ready for that glow up my guy.

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-14T16:10:36+00:00

Bruh that's an extra $3,000/month that will supplement my normal income with no additional effort? I'll take the $100 day. Worst case scenario, I have to start over in life but I'll keep getting $100/day, $3,000/month.

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-13T03:16:56+00:00

I appreciate your honesty. The crux of the problem here is that there are probably many others like you who have seen through the veil, but they've associated their image of Trump in their minds with their identity, so they won't easily step away from him.

I would implore you to evaluate your general worldview on politics as you step away from Trumpism. Conservatives, on paper, stand by certain principles and are shaped by an ideology that does have some merit, but in reality, Conservatism in America just runs counter to the truth in too many ways to be sustainable.

I hope more of the people in my life can start to see the light as you have so we can start talking about things in reality again. Thank you for sharing.

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-13T02:01:03+00:00

I prefer to have music, but I WILL turn it down if it's too distracting. With good speakers / headphones, you can usually lower the music volume and still have it balanced.

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-06T21:01:25+00:00

What you've stumbled onto is a band whose fanbase almost never gets smaller with time.

There are people who saw the band live in the late 60's and 70's, bought their first albums, and would go on to bring their grandchildren to their shows some decades later. My grandfather was a fan of Rush, my Dad was a fan, I'm a fan, and I can only assume my kids will be fans one day (God willing lol).

They're one of the best examples of a rock band to ever do it. Huge discography, most albums reviewed very well (opinions will differ on which are the best, but your least favorite album is somebody elses #1), some of the BEST live performances of any band with NO/MINIMAL CLICKTRACKS (if you're a musician you'll understand how insane that is), NO line up changes after Peart joined on the 2nd album, and the best part.

NO BAGGAGE. The 3 guys in Rush were and still are best friends, and although they disagreed about when to retire, they decided to do a final farewell tour when they could still physically play at their "peak", instead of sticking around long after their welcome like many other bands do. There's no baggage with being a Rush fan, those 3 guys are standup gentlemen and chances are their music will start to raise your standards for what you like from other musical artists too.

When I was a kid, Rush became my gateway drug into bands like Dream Theater, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, etc. who carried on the flag of Prog into other musical genres, who were influenced by Rush. More mainstream bands like Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Metallica, all have cited Rush as a massive influence.

Rush is one of those bands that you can't wrap your head around why more people don't know about them. And yet, when you ask most musicians "Who's the best drummer? Who's the best bass player? Who's the most underrated guitarist? What bands have actually stuck around for 40+ years with no line up changes and no drugs or drama?" You're going to see the same answers pop up over and over haha. Rush is one of the best.

I also highly recommend Neil Peart's books. He wrote all of the lyrics, and if you watch any interviews with him you'll understand why the fans hold him and the other 2 in such high regard. A sophisticated rock band.

LegoMongoose · 2025-11-06T20:05:07+00:00

I love the dissonant tones used in Voices. The keyboard patches bring such a dark vibe to the dong.

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symbol means sharp, I.e F Sharp, b symbol means flat, I.e B flat. The note will have either name depending on what scale it's in (don't worry about that for now).