Recent content by avalant

Focus on the absolute basics of bass playing. The bread and butter stuff: chugging, string crossings, timing, etc. When I look back to the situations I got stuck, it were always situations in which I wanted to progress at all costs before I got the basics down. Even doing advanced technique...

Beginner to Badass is the best way to learn bass online in my opinion. Just do what Josh says. It works.

Steve Harris plays flats, though.

Playing a p bass for the first time was nothing special for me. They pretty much all sound and play the same with the usual manufacturing variance. So my reaction when I got my hands on one was basically "yep, that's a p bass". Understanding the p bass, however, changed everything. Hearing me...

When I want to learn a new song, I google the tabs and start practicing at 50 bpm. Most of the time I'm like "that doesn't sound right at all who the hell uploaded this?" and then I try to figure out the correct notes by ear. When I get it right I look back at the tabs just to realize that...

My vote goes to the Player because I recently got one myself. A couple of weeks ago I was at the instrument shop and this was by far the best bass they got. I tested at least 20 different p basses and the player killed them all and it wasn't even close. It's the best neck I've ever played and...

I wouldn't worry too much about your very first bass guitar. The big problem with buying an instrument as a noob is that you don't have the technique to judge wether the instrument is good or bad for you. No matter if you buy a $50 bass or a $5000 boutique instrument, you will sound bad anyway...

Steve Harris and his p bass can cut through a 6 piece band with three guitar players no problem. Harris has one of the most distinctive bass tones ever despite playing "only" a p.