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I started playing the bass on a beat up ol' Ibanez when I was in 9th grade because our stage band needed a bass player. I knew it was the right instrument when girls started wanting to meet me because they saw I had an oversized man-axe in my hands. :D :hyper: I stopped playing bass again...

They both sound great, and I sure wouldn't spent another $500+ on one versus the other. I think #2 is a little nasal and not as bright as I'd imagine a typical Jazz bass would be, and so I think it's the SX.

I wholeheartedly second this. I bought a GSR200 last year, swapped the strings with Ernie Ball Bass Slinkys, and the rest is history. Best $200 I spent in the last year. The two key aspects of this bass are the versatility with both P and J pickups, and a nice thin neck. You couldn't ask...

I use my thumb all the time, though almost exclusively on my low E. The tone is obviously different because of where it is relative to the fingers, it's shape and because it hits the string differently. I find it tends to give a softer fatter sound, though my Slinkys seem to have enough...

My GSR200 was made in Indonesia, and other than a loose pot a few months in it's the cat's meow as far as build quality goes. The pickups could be a bit nicer though, though that'd be totally up to Ibanez to address. The five string American Standard Jazz I played at GC last weekend had...

Well, since you were asking... http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ :hiding: And as for the original poster: pick your top ten bands with your favorite bass lines, and look at what and how and through what they play, and use that to narrow things down. Then, go and play as many as you can...

Thanks for the suggestion, they're pretty cool though a bit faster than what I had been looking for. Still, I think I'll keep listening to/for them. I've also had Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor and the like suggested to me, but I'm still curious: what's the bass setup in my original link?

Ever since the end of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, I've been mitigating my withdrawl by listening to the outstanding soundtrack by Bear McCreary. One tune on there that I've been listening to non-stop for the last two days is from the Season 2 OST called Something Dark Is Coming. You...

That bass guitar is pure sex... Edit: and yeah, it does look "familiar"...still waiting to hear it tho.

Practice makes perfect. It's just like the cut shot in pool. It's the toughest thing to do consistently, but all your other bag of tricks may mean nothing without it. The first corollary to this is "practice what you like to play". Yeah, I'll get hacked to pieces over this one, but until...

*BUMP* Anybody have any other thoughts?

Ok, to answer the laundry list :D I probably practice 1-2 hours a day on bass, negligible on piano (because my studio won't fit a Yamaha U3 at the moment and there's no digital piano in the ~$2k range worth its salt right now IMO... :mad: ) No bass teacher at the moment. I had a bass...

I'm very curious to hear about those of you who play at a fairly advanced level of piano as well as on bass, but anything I get on this subject will help. I've been playing piano since I was 5, and reached a pretty high proficiency. I picked up the bass not too long ago after a very long...

Funny how I finally registered after lurking for so long here to comment on THIS particular subject. :P Ears can be trained with enough work in everything except for IMO perfect pitch. What's necessary first is to get a few basics into place; namely, understanding scales...