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When I was nineteen, I got laid off and spent six months unemployed. I used the little money I had to rent a room off a friend, and he played bass. He was out working most of the time, as were most of my friends, so I was stuck in a tiny little room in his flat with a television and his...

I'm 37 and I still listen to death metal for pleasure. (I don't usually play it with other people, though I'll try and play along to it in my house when I fancy a challenge.) It's certainly an acquired taste--I was in my teens when I learned to love it. I've never owned a metronome or...

E Augmented: G---5--- D---6--- A---7--- E------- E Diminished: G---3--- D---5--- A---7--- E------- E 7th: G---7--- D---6--- A---7--- E------- Again, up and down the fretboard with these.

The easiest C major on the bass looks like this: G---0--- D---2--- A---3--- E------- You can move that up the fretboard to any position to make other major chords, so D major would be: G---2--- D---3--- A---5--- E------- And E major would be: G---4--- D---5--- A---7---...

People who've got any business jamming with Page or Clapton just know what's expected of them. They hear a chord, and the right bass note just jumps out of their fingers; their brain's hardly involved in the process at all. :) People who're just starting can watch a guitarist's fingers. If...