Guys, do you mosh your head while playing bass? If you do, what style do you use? Do you have problems with loosing coordination or to miss sounds on the guitar or whatever?

Sounds pretty ridicolous, but I wanted to know how you do on that things ;D

I've crowd surfed while playing. That was fun

Mosh your head? That would probably give you a head ache. I bang my head though.

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im pretty fat...so if I windmill, i throw off my center of gravity and fall over.
but i do the martin mendez style headbanging pretty well.

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anyone here does windmill? cause i've got one problem, i don't know where to look while I mosh. Any advices?

Well its not that difficult, i do it playing guitar aswell as while playing bass. However, it is easier on bass if you pick fingerstyled. There is no advice to be given except starting with easier stuff and, of course, bang your head correctly to the rhythm, i tend to have the downbeat when my hair is at 6 o clock, if you know what i mean .

hmm i would probably stab somebody with my headstock if i moshed while playing .....

(no0b, its called headbanging!!!)

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What kind of bass do you have?

esp, its pretty pointy he he....

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guess that's not big difference beetwen mosh or headbang - it's about the same thing though ;P

U mean Mosh as in for getting in the pit?

Cuz i do that while playing guitar and doing vocals with a headset mic.
But when there are venues without em, I would go during the parts w/o vocals and start shoving with my shoulder.

As far as windmills, DONT LOOK DOWN, ur balance will be fucked and there is a chance u will fall.

Just look straight at the crowd.

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um it it is?? i didnt realize pushing people around in a pit and banging your head were the same!

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haha, indeed, completely different matters

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ok, i give up, you're maybe right, i don't know how you call those things in english ;P
here headbanging is called mosh, and moshing in the pit is called different ;P

well let this be a lesson to u and ur people. LOL.

Dude, I doubt what u said is true. Alot of people into death metal in Poland are very proficient in english.

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wait what are you talking about? are those 2 different statements?

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you seem to misunderstood me. I meant it's like people in poland say word mosh, but they mean headbanging by that. They say 'mosh' same as they would in english, but they mean something else :P

In germany we say mosh and mean headbanging, too.

At least in my area.

hmmm, people need to learn that mosh and headbang are two seperate entities.... i know what you mean though, thats what you were taught that it meant

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you see, i'm not the only one!!
maybe it's because american found that term, and europeans changed it meaning for them, but i'm not sure - that's just a stupid idea

i dont lik moshing, i usually jsut stand back , then when im high, i jimp in lol

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your avatar is soo emo lol

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i just "mosh my head" as my head wants to be moshed, i usually change it up depending on what style the song is in and wat i feel like doin at the moment, just really w/e i feel is right

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Check out Alex Webster...that guy headbangs like fucking mad while playing intense bass riffs, great bass player...I don't know how he whips his head around so hard while playing every note flawlessly...

Check this out if you want to see him in action... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXQ0F08YuU

Skip to 01:16 to see some really intense shit.

~Cheers

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Fuck dude! Thanks for showing us him, I'm sure none of us have ever heard of him or seen any videos of him before!

Alex webster is the shit. Ive met the guy, and by his speech it sounds like hes doing too much headbanging hahaha.

Overall hes a good songwriter.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fam0OSLAvqk

By far the most brutal windmill.

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Well, Cannibal Corpse is pretty big in the Death Metal world...and Alex Webster does own, his technique and writing skills are incredible...anyways, heres another great video of him playing 'The Gallery of Suicide' (Great song, a work of fucking art)...some more fucking intense headbanging too check out him whipping his head around at 02:02, 02:33 and 04:02. That can't be good for the neck but who fucking cares, keep it brutal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nr_w1OehVs

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Windmilling while playing is easy, you just have to make sure you can...

1. Play the riff by feel (so without looking)
2. Keep balance windmilling that speed in the first place
3. keep your picking hand at the centre of your body, so that it stays still while your upper body moves.
4. The very bottom of the windmill must coincide with the beat, so you stay in time.

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your such a fucking cunt.

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What the hell is up with that man that kinda came out of nowhere. Is it possible for symptoms of tourettes syndrome to come out in forums?

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Haha, I am.

That comment made before was pure sarcasm... I dunno just got the urge. You're showing us Alex Webster, one of the biggest names in Death Metal bass, and sort of 'introducing' us to him like we've never heard of him.



It's a shame he doesn't know the difference between ' your ' and ' you're ' though.

Good to see that the American education system is doing it's part in educating their people properly eh man? lol

And I wasn't "introducing" Alex Webster as though he's new or anything...I just thought he would make a good example of a great bassist who can headbang like a chimp on meth while playing every note flawlessly. Sorry if I gave anybody the idea that I'm a n00b lol. I'm not, I was introduced to death metal at the age of 9

~Cheers

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there you go again. same old shit, every time. you fucking obsess over grammar errors and calling people "fags"

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There you go again. Same old shit, every time. You fucking obsess over grammar errors and calling people "fags".

Well now you're just being silly...

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youtube some Cephalic Carnage bootleg videos and watch Jawsh (bassist) literally mosh while playing. He has one of those nifty wireless bass things.

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within the metal scene your stage presence is fully necessary and must be impressive eg headbanging/moshing/windmills/feet on foldback speakers even punching yourself or your instruments??! From what I've seen you should also perfect an evil glare, metal should be nasty not fun...
anyways who wants to go see a metal band and watch them all stand there like zombies even if they play the best damn set you've ever heard?? You headbang = they headbang... if you fall over just keep playing \m/

Anyone else have more interesting stage techniques to share?

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i go to concerts to watch musicians, not kids hopping around. im not getting on anyone for feeling the music, and getting into it, but if someone is making evil faces and doing little kicks i tend to laugh hysterically in their general direction. lets leave the choreography to ashley simpson.

how his intonation is so strong on fretless while jumping around like that is impressive. let alone what he is actually playing. did they kick him out again? its a shame if they did. how many kick ass fretless players are you gonna find to play that technical of shit.

good point

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The Skinless vocalist always moshes... but he doesn't play an instrument.

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I don't understand the attraction of jumping into a pit if you're holding/playing an instrument. It would throw you massively off balance whilst playing, you'd fuck up ridiculously and you'd stand a fair chance of having your bass broken.

Waste of time really.

Original poster meant headbanging. But he was Polish or something.

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I'll headbang and whatnot. If I'm playing bass I'm way more likely to be headbanging than if I'm playing guitar because for some reason the position I'm in while playing fingerstyle makes it easier to not get thrown off balance for some reason.

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