Alright, I've decided I'm going to cross-train to Bass from Guitar so I can be a lil' more valuable in some way,shape, or form.
(Background info)This was brought about by joining a band. The band has 3 members, 4 including myself... The two guitarists both do vocals evenly while playing guitar(quite well) and then there's the drummer of course. They play metal originals and covers along the lines of Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, and As I lay Dying in Drop C Tuning. They were looking for a bassist close, so I decided to try out. I surprisingly did well when I picked up the bass they had over in their place, apparently I outdid 5 other people who tried out... and I've only had about maybe an hour worth of actually contact playing a bass guitar.
Anyways, I'm needing to know where to start, I already have some playing skill with a pick and a background playing metal/general rock on guitar. So I know a lil' general music theory and skills from that, but I KNOW there are some differences between making a guitar-line and a bass-line. What they(and I) want to do it be able to play bass to where I can follow the song but not be to where I'm literally just playing most the guitar stuff an octave down. Needing to know because they have already written 4 originals that they play on stage, and about 5 more off-stage.
To save time, what gear do you recommend. They've offered to buy my equipment as long as the total is about under 1.5k-2k, what type of strings, pickups, etc.
Thanks to anyone who replies, I'm going to post this on some other bass forums as well to get a larger response.
-Al
2nd Instrument Cross-Training Bass 
