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    ANYONE NEED BASS SWEEPING EXERCISES

    Ok sorry to everyone who I said I get you these a couple of months ago but I got into some trouble ( I'm only sixteen ) But I got them done. So If anyone needs some guidance hit me up!!!! I can send it to you in a message or by email just say! Keep bass sweeping and playin:bassist:
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    Need some help!

    Ok so I've been playing my six string. and for about two weeks i've noticed a buzz on the 6 and 8th fret on the E, A , D , and G strings. so I decided I would fix it today because I'm sick. I've done plenty of setups on my basses and I normally get them right. But I straightned the neck and the...
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    Tuning Key is To Tight...need help

    so i got a new six string bass and I've been doing the setup on it. So i was shimming the neck and the G string came off of the bass. So I put it back on it and then I started to tune my bass and when I went to tune the G string I would turn and turn and it would stop turning and the tuning key...
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    Some setup questions.

    Hi I need some help so I thought I would go to some fellow bassists. So I have been trying to get my setup on my Rogue LX205B Series II 5 string ( I know it's a rogue but it was my first five string.) and I have had some difficulties with the action. So recently I read some stuff where...
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    Tech Death players that use a pick

    Hey everyone I listen to technical death metal alot and i havn't seen any players that use a pick. Now I play Technical Death Metal and I do use a pick. Mainly because I'm not really fast with my fingers and I sweep using a pick. (The pick gets annoying when i need to do alot of tapping...
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    Technical Death Metal bassists

    I listen to alot of technical death metal and I havn't seen a thread like this so just wanted to know what some of your guys favorite bass players that play this genre. If you could name the bassist/band. And maybe some underground tech death bands that maybe someone doesn't know about. And if...
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    Can't get my action right

    Hi Recently I've been working on my basses on their setups and stuff, and i started working on my five string ( Rogue LX205 B II series, cheap bass my first five string.) So I straightned the neck to where it was straight but around the 1st to 4th fret feels like that its bowing a bit. Then...
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    Need some help

    Ok guys i need some help and info! ok my bass has been screwing up lately..ill plug the jack in to my bass and if i tilt my bass a certain way nothing comes out of the amp. Now i noticed latly when im tuning my bass to standard for jazz band that the tuner wants to say my E string is a low B and...
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    I need a GOOD online drum machine

    ok guys i am a one man band i do all the vocals ( screams ) guitar and the best out of all of it is the bass. I am a death metal band, if you wanted the bass could be labeled as technical death metal because im a WAY better bass player than guitar player. I need a good online drum machine. Ive...
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    What do you think?

    Well i got a new band going and i have to say it's diffrent. We have a guitarist ( he's ok ) we have another guitarist who is more experienced. A vocalist ( he is a screamer ) and a drum machine. This band is more diffrent because well me and the more experienced guitarist have way two diffrent...
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    Should I?

    Ok im thinkin about getting a five string bass. I've got some questions like is it hard to transition back and fourth from a 4 to a 5 to a 4 string back and fourth. I don't think i would have any problems with that but thought i would ask. And what are some good makes of a five string bass? and...
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    Help?

    so the song condemned by impending doom sounds really fun to play that bad thing is it's really hard to figure out what notes he's playing. i did go to songsterr and i'm guessing that their version was the guitar pro version because it wasn't finished.so please no guitar pro i need from the...
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    New Gauge Question

    Ok i need new gauge for drop A on a four string and I was recommended .150 for the low A then regular gauge for the rest of the strings so i need a website where i can find these strings because there is no place i can find where they have these strings. So any help? thanks!
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    The Diesease

    Suicide Silence Ok guys i know every song by suicide silence they are my favorite band but there is 6 songs i have no idea how to play they are 1. The Diesease 2. Girl Of Glass 3. A Dead Current 4. About A Plane Crash 5. Somthing Invisible 6. Genocide if anyone knows how to play...
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    Drop strings?

    So i have been playing bass for about 2 and a half years and i spent most of that time learning songs technique and all but never really learning alot about my bass. But i've been learning more and i wanna ask is there such thing as drop strings and are there diffrent type of strings for...
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    The Willing Well I: Fuel For The Feeding End

    Ok The Willing Well I: Fuel For The Feeding End by Coheed And Cambria Ok there is one part i'm sure you know it if you know the song it's pretty close to the beginning but it's like a huge scale thing or somthing that micheal todd does listen at exactly (0:27) and you'll hear it. I can't...
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    Bass Solo opinion

    ok guys i have my 1st show this friday and i wanna ask can you do to much on your first show like moving around on the fretboard because i have written all the bass lines ( those i already move around on the fretboard alot) and my band likes them all now all i have to do is at this solo but i...
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    Artificial Harmonics

    ok guys i was on power tab looking at the tab The Somatic Defilement by whitechapel and there was an artificial harmonic on the 2nd string 2nd fret or F# on the E string ( this is in drop A tuning AEAD) and i was thinking is that possible on bass. So if it is possible and someone knows how...
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    Stupid Buzz

    Ok i have a Oscer Schimdt OB50 by washburn. The string buzz so freaken bad and trust me my intonation isn't the problem because it does it when it's open and i could press on the string as hard as i wanted to and break my finger but it still buzzes. I don't know if it would be the truss rod or...
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    " Silence The Oppressors"

    The Band Impending Doom the song Silence The Oppressors ok i have dial up iternet ( it sucks ) and i was at my friends house where i looked up impending doom covers on youtube and there was one for Silence The Oppressors and that is one of my favorite songs by that band So if anyone would...
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    New band

    So i tried out for this band this last week ( a metal band) and they are pretty good. But there seems like there may be problems. for example the rythem guitarist has no idea what he is playing he just plays random stuff that dosn't really have anything to do with what the lead guitarist is...