anyone got any heneral bass tips for begginers?
i should be gettin my bass in a couple of days
cheers,
JACKO
i should be gettin my bass in a couple of days
cheers,
JACKO
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if you haven't picked up the riff to enter sandman in 3 days of getting your bass then get lessons. if you have then do as stated above
ok thanks, i think i got things worked out fine
i have my mates to teach me a bit and to jam with
i'll just have to get a book
i have my mates to teach me a bit and to jam with
i'll just have to get a book
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
I recommend a book, Mel Bay is cheesy but effective. If you're REALLY serious, get Serious Electric Bass, most book stores carry it. Everything you've ever wanted to know about bass.
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genocide roach
DOOOOOOOOOOM
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just write your own stuff. listen to cds and do what ever comes out. if you have somthing in your head just try and try to get it. and for as long as you want to progress keep tryin difficult stuff that you cant play yet
and DONT USE A PICK!!!!!!!! picks are for pussies, your better off in the long run to use your fingers. that way to can include more interesting things like pops and slaps
~gR~
and DONT USE A PICK!!!!!!!! picks are for pussies, your better off in the long run to use your fingers. that way to can include more interesting things like pops and slaps
~gR~
i r teh bass n00b 
I use a pick, but its kinda fucking hard to use fingers when you are playing EXACTLY what the guitar is playing at 250bpm. I'll adapt, I'm getting better at playing fast with my fingers Plus 6 string basses have alot of room to mess around, and they have me using all 6 of them
I use a pick, but its kinda fucking hard to use fingers when you are playing EXACTLY what the guitar is playing at 250bpm. I'll adapt, I'm getting better at playing fast with my fingers Plus 6 string basses have alot of room to mess around, and they have me using all 6 of them
genocide roach
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use more than one finger
ive gotten pretty fast with my fingers. i can tremelo pick faster than the people in my past bands!
~gR~
ive gotten pretty fast with my fingers. i can tremelo pick faster than the people in my past bands!
~gR~
Thats the sad part, I usa 3
Speed really isn't THAT much of a problem, it's all the string skipping I have to keep doing. I'm really a guitar player that just happened to have a bass, and since a metal bass player in Columbus is hard to find, let alone a bass player in general, they asked me.
Speed really isn't THAT much of a problem, it's all the string skipping I have to keep doing. I'm really a guitar player that just happened to have a bass, and since a metal bass player in Columbus is hard to find, let alone a bass player in general, they asked me.
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
Fingerstyle is much easier to play faster than using a pick, shredding with a pick is too clumsy with those giant strings.
Nothing wrong with playing with a pick, but fingerstyle makes you more of a REAL bass player.
Nothing wrong with playing with a pick, but fingerstyle makes you more of a REAL bass player.
Bryant
Mr. Sleepy
I will get flamed for this, but actually listen to some pop music and learn some of it. Just don't play that shit live or even show your friends. Ha ha ha...
I am actually dead serious. Though there certainly are notable exceptions, metal music is based on loud six string guitar and thundering drums. The bass gets lost often. Some of the 90s pop bands like The Gin Blossums and The Counting Crows have/had good bass players that don't play extremely difficult basslines, but have great flow, personality and tie the guitar and drums together well, while still throwing in cool riffs of their own.
Bryant
I am actually dead serious. Though there certainly are notable exceptions, metal music is based on loud six string guitar and thundering drums. The bass gets lost often. Some of the 90s pop bands like The Gin Blossums and The Counting Crows have/had good bass players that don't play extremely difficult basslines, but have great flow, personality and tie the guitar and drums together well, while still throwing in cool riffs of their own.
Bryant
Bryant
Mr. Sleepy
One other suggestion I have is learn to play with both a pick and fingers. Sometimes the finger-picking bassists will get down on the ones that use a pick, but I dont think a bassist has to do one or the other. I consider it two different techniques that give two distinct sounds and each have two different sounds to offer to two different songs.
Bryant
Bryant
Bryant
Mr. Sleepy
One other suggestion I have is learn to play with both a pick and fingers. Sometimes the finger-picking bassists will get down on the ones that use a pick, but I dont think a bassist has to do one or the other. I consider it two different techniques that give two distinct sounds and each have two different sounds to offer to two different songs.
Bryant
Bryant
SADUDE said:
That's the WORST advice I've ever heard.
Lessons, even if it's just a few of them, are the BEST way to start learning a new instrument. Someone to guide and correct you is the best thing you can have.
Dora said:..and the best way to loose innocence of original ideas and go into clichés..
I've heard that lame argument many times before, it always comes from frustrated musicians...
aye, exactly what I thought. a lot of people start off without lessons and after a long while, they realise that they've done it wrong... and by then, getting a teacher would be too late and it would be really difficult to start over..SPL said:
Bryant
Mr. Sleepy
Dora said:..and the best way to loose innocence of original ideas and go into clichés..
No way. A good foundation can never hurt. After watching friends play and playing bass for six months, I practically picked up an electric guitar and could play a simple power chord progression. Because I had developed an interest in guitar, and had been playing electric for about a year, my Dad offered to buy me an acoustic so I took his offer up. I took some "stupid" lessons learning those "country chords" and playing stuff like "House of the Rising Sun" and got really bored after a couple of months, but when I jumped back on the electric, I realized I had really progressed dramatically as a musician from learning those chords, as well as a major and minor scale. I would even recommend a bassist to get an acoustic (six-string) and learn how to play it. While I have never had any advanced lessons learning modes and different stuff like that, I will always look back at those "country lessons" as one of the biggest factors in my progression as a metal guitarist. I know it would work just as well for a bassist as I am also a bassist as well, not just a guitarist who can play bass. I started out on bass, gave it up for guitar, but rediscoverede it about five years ago and own one sweet Peavey Foundation five-string.
Bryant
