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I think I caught a GAS for some synth bass keyboard. Have anybody here used it? Anolog or digital. Expensive or cheap. Bigger or smaller. What is your experience? Moog analog bass synths sound sweet but cost just too much for me. Probably gonna get something less pricey.

Should I always cover a kick drum with a bass note or may I leave it "naked" sometimes? When I was making music on my computer I felt like it is better to not leave a kick drum alone without a bass played over it. Exceptions could be drum fills including a kick drum or some parts where drums...

I'm just curious. Why do we use our main hand for picking and the secondary one for fretting? Picking, plucking and even slapping seem to be relatively simple kinds of motion in comparison to fretting that is way more complicated and requires much more stretch, strength, attention and sometimes...

Hi everyone. I am not familiar with how bass electronics work and have a nooby question. Wanted to google it first but don't know what exactly to search. So decided to ask people. My bass has two passive pickups and a 3-way pickup switch. Neck pickup has deep tone, bridge is bright, but in the...

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Did you notice that sometimes when somebody shows how to play an excercise he just can't stop at the end of it and adds something like long vibrato, a couple of extra notes or even several bars of noodling? I've seen that plenty of times in instructional videos on YouTube and yesterday found my...

What is your view on "just jamming" with no certain goal? I can't get rid of feeling that it is something bad. Even when i see really talented people doing it pretty well. It kinda disturbs me and I can't properly explain why. It feels like something is being wasted. Is something wrong with me...

Hi, I am a beginner. I usually have about 1.5 free hours a day for practicing and feel like it is not enough for me to get better. But when I somehow manage to practice more then 1.5 hours a day it just doesn't go well. I start feeling emotionally tired, lose passion and my practicing turns into...

Reading this forum I can see that many of you play in several bands concurrently. And I'm curious what do you do when your bands get rehearsals or even gigs scheduled at the same time? Or how do you avoid this kind of situations? Especially with gigs that are impossible to reschedule. I play in...

I'm by far not a fan of an overdriven bass sound. But yesterday I brought to the rehearsal an overdrive pedal just for fun. Only wanted to fool a bit with it and then take it away. I completely forgot that our BL is a big Motorhead fan. He was surprised that didn't I bring that pedal before and...

Hi everyone, here is another question from a horrible bass noob with super small hands. My unruly pinkie (and sometimes even a ring finger) always tends to curl when I'm playing notes with my other fingers. When I play on thinner strings it even goes under the neck and I waste a lot of motion...

Can you please give me some examples of good bass players who have small hands and generally are not big guys but still use standard scale basses? Just for some motivation. I also wanna see how do they work with their fretting hand.

I was just sitting and wondering. There are things we love to do but find boring to watch others doing (like eating something tasty). And there are things that most of us would prefer to watch instead of doing it themselves (like boxing). May this apply to bass playing too? People start...

Hi everyone, I started learning bass just few weeks ago and have a strong desire to play in a band. I practice in my bedroom every day but I'm not going to be a bedroom player forever. I want to join my first band as soon as possible. Hence I have a question: when should a beginner join his...