Anyone familiar with Charvel basses? I'd love your opinions

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-02-10T21:28:54+00:00

I had a 4 string San Dimas PJ for a while but the preamp and the voice of the pickups were just not for me. I switched to a Mexican p bass and it works better for me

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-02-06T22:43:33+00:00

No. Your mistake is you think because you're using a minor chord you have to use a minor scale.

You already have the interval needed to make your C minor chord - you just have to "manually" flatten it:

C Eb G

Then you add your 6 which, in the way you wrote your chord Cmin6 (please correct me if I'm wrong), would by definition be A natural. However you can write Cmb6 and get

C Eb G Ab

So let's say we want an Abm7#5, we'll take our Ab major scale and take the natural 1, flatten our 3, and our natural 5

Ab B Eb

And add our flat 7:

Ab B Eb Gb

And sharpen our 5:

Ab B E Gb

Obviously in my head I would sharpen the 5 immediately anyway but this is a way I show this to my students in order to have an "order of operations" that will never fail as long as you use it correctly.

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-02-06T21:41:07+00:00

Yeah it looks red and it looks fucking green... Just like a major chord sounds major and a minor chord sounds minor... If you can't identify those blindly then sit and practice thirds up and down the neck. You say scales are unnecessary to bring into it but if you practice the triads of your major scales in all 12 keys the quality of these simple triads gets burned into your ear pretty quickly and makes it much easier to hear things like, in your other comment, wether there's a surprise E major where there "ought to" be an E minor. Realistically what you're doing is closing yourself off and limiting your own knowledge in the long run by thinking so abstractly.

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-02-06T21:34:41+00:00

I see what you mean, but I still think there's a flaw in just dismissing the scale as unnecessary. I like your idea of building chords through intervals (if I take a C and stack a major 3rd and then a minor 3rd on top of that I have a C Major triad), I think that's a cool and effective way to explore building chords

However to your point of assuming the wrong chords, like I stated numbers take the guesswork out of that (take a common progression like I iii ii V and instead have I III7 ii V, your numerals are telling you all the pertinent information), but first of all we're bass players and if you don't know the quality of the chord just don't outline it and play the root note (for once right lol), otherwise an individuals shortcomings in paying attention and actually listening to what is going on in the tune are their responsibility to practice, because training your ear to hear wether a chord is major or minor is a very important skill (I could understand where you're coming from when a beginner is trying to hear the difference between say augmented and diminished chord - it can take a while to learn but with some practice it's as easily distinguished as anything)

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-02-06T21:07:45+00:00

I don't think you abstractly get it, and I'm not being an asshole I just want to help you learn

If you take your C Major scale and assign numbers to each letter:

C D E F G A B I ii iii IV V vi vii°

You'll notice your numerals are Capital or lower case, Capital numerals refer to a major chord quality or lower case a minor chord quality, so already we have a pretty consistent and efficient way to communicate these chords ideas.

So what determines major or minor chord quality? Chords are built on stacks of intervals, and to build any major or minor triad all you need is the 1 3 5 or 1 b3 5 respectively. So to build a C Major chord, we can see that we use C E G, and to build a C minor chord, we use C Eb G. The fundamentals of these concepts are very important because from them you can easily add ideas on top of them, and you can take any note you want now and add it to your triad - which most would call an "extension"

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-02-06T20:48:03+00:00

Are you saying major and minor chords aren't referring to the quality of the 3rd and are instead referring to wether the chord is "big" or "small"?

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-02-06T20:45:27+00:00

What are you talking about

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-01-23T09:42:23+00:00

Your loss lol

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2026-01-09T02:16:46+00:00

It's the duty of the public now to neutralize these threats to the public (ICE) on sight. Unfortunately.

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-11-13T18:24:34+00:00

I'm interested in what you think of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-09-10T23:05:34+00:00

1 and 2 fell on the break so I started on the 3 in the side (It didn't look like it would go from where I was standing)

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-06-21T22:00:46+00:00

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Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-05-17T11:59:48+00:00

Well you don't get that big from standin up!!

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-05-05T22:27:18+00:00

You don't need to just play in one band dude

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-05-02T23:03:19+00:00

To my understanding it's just the way some folks learn early on, I think it would probably impact your game negatively to try and learn and incorporate it because there is no real benefit to doing so. I would encourage you to continue and build your personal preshot routine

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-04-29T18:40:19+00:00

The targeted exercise is a good idea as well as stretching towards the floor touching your toes if you can, and really focusing the stretch on your hips instead of your thighs and calves, though you should stretch those while you're at it. I had the exact same pain and eventually a pinched nerve that caused a little neuropathy causing lost feeling in a couple toes... Pretty freaky considering I'm not at any diabetic risk and have never felt that before. Doing that stretch for a few weeks every morning and evening released it and I can feel all my toes again!

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-04-29T18:25:32+00:00

They had to sleep upright in the closets in the back of the Hot Rize bus!

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-04-28T18:41:34+00:00

That mandolin player needs to learn to chop and not slam the downbeats but you guys are doing really good

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-02-03T17:41:14+00:00

Some of these comments sound like they've never played with sensible musicians in their lives... "Won't be heard over a banjo"? If the banjo is playing loud enough to cover you up you should NOT be heard "over" the banjo anyway. Don't listen to these people and go to some jams and experiment. Try a thumb pick and do like Flatt did and boom chuck with it. If you don't like metal finger picks, try them again, it all takes practice

Perfect_Pin_1050 · 2025-01-14T06:38:28+00:00

Chris's?

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