I have been playing bass for about a year now, until this i have never picked up a instrument before, but what i found and enjoy doing and the fact that we dont get together with our guitarist that much considering distance, is the drummer and me will just hang out and start jamming and feed off each other and come up with riffs, then expand on them and decide on what to do for the chorus, verse, solo's, ect. I think it works for us alright and it seems that the guitarist has a lot of options that he can do or go from what i am playing.
Then I have a note book where i write down ideas for songs, alot of time a cool title will pop into my head for a song and i will write it down and come back latter and write words for it, usually only spending maybe 15 minutes on writing it (there pretty ruff sometimes)
Then when we have some riffs that kind of sound like a song, i go to the trusty note book and see if anything fits.
It works alright for us, its fun doing even if a lot of the songs are pretty stuppid, but it gives us experience and hopefully it will become easier as we do more of it and learn from our mistakes.
All of us are new at picking up any kind of instrument , so for all of us, this is a new experience and having a blast.
Then I have a note book where i write down ideas for songs, alot of time a cool title will pop into my head for a song and i will write it down and come back latter and write words for it, usually only spending maybe 15 minutes on writing it (there pretty ruff sometimes)
Then when we have some riffs that kind of sound like a song, i go to the trusty note book and see if anything fits.
It works alright for us, its fun doing even if a lot of the songs are pretty stuppid, but it gives us experience and hopefully it will become easier as we do more of it and learn from our mistakes.
All of us are new at picking up any kind of instrument , so for all of us, this is a new experience and having a blast.
