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Situation: Your hard rock/heavy metal originals band is run democratically and you're holding rehearsals for a new lead guitarist. After careful consideration, your bandmates cast votes for Randy Rhoads, Zakk Wylde, and Tony Iommi. All are at their peak, alive and well. You, the bassist, get...

Ok, so I have a four string Fender Jazz. It's a great instrument and does everything I need for a four stringer. Now that I'm in the market for a five, I'm looking for some variety to get a whole new set of tonal possibilities. Based on what I'm looking for, I'm looking at- 1- Five Strings...

There always seems to be one hand (the picking/fingering or fretting) that lags behind when practicing. Sometimes it alternates due to the type of things you play or your methods, or simply that the type of music you play requires more work from one hand as opposed to the other. Other times...

Ok, here's the format for the thread- Name of the band - Name of the song Bassist for the Band Genre (Just approximate it, if you don't know) Difficulty Rating (see Rating Guide) Comments- Example - Rush - Tom Sawyer Geddy Lee Progressive Rock *** I had some problems with blah blah...

Get ready to get squeezed off the internet. Time Warner is testing their tiered model of internet service which requires users to pay more to view large amounts of videos and music. In essence, they want people to stop downloading media that congests their network and uses large amounts of...

Here's the game- if the song shows up on the radio, do you turn it up or change the station? If you'd turn it up or leave it on, leave the text black. If you'd change the station, grey out the song. 100 Sammy Hagar "I Can't Drive 55" 99 Grand Funk Railroad "We're An American Band" 98...

Question for the metal and hard rock crowd- When writing metal and hard rock, what instrument do you tend to write for first? I'm having difficulties with how a single person can write pieces that make a whole when every instrument kind of blends into the song seamlessly. It's like trying...

Even when the music got bad, he was still great. AAA work all around. Spiderwebs Excuse Me, Mr. Sunday Morning Hella Good It's My Life (great cover) Underneath It All On another note, Don't Speak is one of the best rock compositions of the 90s, easily.

How do I do it? I consistently lose my place whenever I look away from the sheet music and at the fretboard and then try to find where I was. I realize that I'll have to periodically look at the fretboard when I change positions sometimes, but I feel I can't progress much further when I can't...

Tab was a great tool to start out with, but I feel that I'm at a point where it's hindering me. I have identified three sticking points that will take me to the next level- * Being able to play positions on the bass without looking down at the fingerboard. This will end the practice of me...

Am I the only here that would rather have a band member send me their material to play bass under than to "jam" until something is figured out? I mean, I understand the desire to play with other people in a practice atmosphere, but I just get way too impatient with the whole "let's try this...

Thoughts?

I've started a tendency to pull up on the strings rather than to play the strings across. Is this normal? Is this a form issues that just works itself out or do I need to concentrate on this?

What would you say are the top 5 or 10 scales used by metal and hard rock bassists? I'm specifically thinking classic rock (KISS, The Cult, etc), classic metal (Queensryche, Judas Priest, etc), and glam/hair metal (RATT, Guns n' Roses, etc). Would it be major (phrygian), minor, pentatonic...

Let's talk KISS. - New album and tour this year. - What do you think the chances are for an Ace or Peter Criss song on this album? It seems that Gene and Paul are all about staying consistent with Thayer and Singer for this CD, which is fine, but I want to see a CD full of former members...

I'm a recent guitar to bass convert (within the past three months) and just have some thoughts- 1- The bass community is a trillion times more tightly knit than the electric guitar community. It's like a fraternity. 2- What's with the lack of variety with basses? I can only figure that...

This is probably a mind-numbingly simple question, but I'm new to all this and don't want to reinvent the wheel... When each band member (singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bassist, drummer) records for a song seperately (out of necessity), who tends to lay the their tracks down first...

Well, Album Showdown I ended with Sabbath crushing Judas Priest, 14-2, when asked which was an ultimate preference... Let's see how Led Zeppelin's IV holds up against The Beatles' Revolver. The question is "Which album holds up the best today?"

I've always wondered, between the two, which album people ultimately prefer.

I was wondering about this recently. I remember getting psyched about the Dethklok Explorer at last year's show, but it never saw the light of day. There was also a guitar in a previous show that I liked that I never saw again. Does this tend to happen often? Will we actually see this T-Bird...

Thoughts on Tennant and Eccleston? Thoughts on the new 11th Doctor? ..or is this all stupid discussion, because Tom Baker is the best of all?

So I have no bass playing experience, save some experience with an electric and acoustic guitar. The instructor wants me to play a sample to see where to start from. What is an easy "showpiece" that a beginner would tend to play? I have, at most, two days to throw something together...