noob question...

Clips:
http://www.gazzbass.com/Features/bass_sounds.htm

Completely different beasts. The necks are longer/strings thicker etc... 4, 5, and 6 string basses are all common, the brave few have more strings. Most of the time you'll be playing one or two notes at a time max (this doesn't translate into 'easy'). You can solo with a bass, but the BP's main job is to hold the music together: keeping the rhythm going with the drummer and move the music along with the guitarist.

Fine choice in instruments, I have to say!

 

Are you serious? Tell ya what... Put any Primus CD in your stereo and crank the volume and you'll hear what a bass sounds like. You could also put in a Rush, King Crimson, John Patitucci, Dream Theater, or Tony Levin CD and here some of the best out there. Just listen for the low-end. If you're new at bass, you want to remember that bass is 'mainly', but not limited to the rhythm of a band.

Knavery

 

The main thing is that the strings are a lot thicker and won't julienne your fingers.

 

Usually guitars have more strings unless you're like John Turner on these boards who own a fine collection of 7stringers (guitars usually have 6), and you'll never get as many ladies as your guitarist

 

Thats why you try to get a really ugly fat guitar player! If you r a fan of jazz as i am then alot of times the guitar player doesnt have many or no parts to play in a song! Gotta love jazz. Dontget me wrong there is some great guitar in jazz but you can have a jazz band without a guita player! But its hard to do it without a bass player or drummer!

 

The thirtieth rule of Fight Club is, all badgers present will be eaten.

 

Why do you need clips? Do you not understand that 99.99999% of CD's have a bass "Sound"? Put a cd in a cd player and listen... Its not that hard... Listen for the deep sounds the LOW notes... The whiney Little Bi*ch you hear is the singer or guitarist (LOL Jk)

But seriously, Just listen to a cd, its that easy...

 

bass makes
the melody in the drums,
the odd movement on your chest
you want to stomp your feet or bob your head
the intro in tool's sober
you spend more money than the guitarist

bass is bass. you know.. left of the equaliser.
but something tells me you may want to go to direction of electric guitar...

 

Like my man Lemmy says "This is bass!" This is an mp3 clip of the self titled song by Motorhead. Enjoy!

 

if i were you id take regular guitar lessons... i used to kid myself and think that guitar didnt transfer well to bass but its more like the other way around, i think guitar is harder to play and the skills transfer well to bass... if i had to do it over again i would have took guitar lessons, then again i would have picked a good teacher who didnt do more harm than good

 

You have choosen a really hard genre. In Metal a lot of times the bassist will double the guitar parts an octave lower. So that "wall of sound" is the bass and guitar. Wait for the solo, that will almost always be the guitar on top. The bass will then play something more repetitive underneath to hold everything togeather and keep the guitarist from getting lost

 

I think of it this way: drums are the beat, bass is the pulse.

Noob: check out www.activebass.com for some good learning resources. Also the forums on guitarists.net might be better for the noobee. Good luck and welcome the bottomfeeder community.

Guy

 

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