Zuma kindly lent me his Bass guitar for a while last night , I'm in the process of getting a tuner & an amp, does know of any good links on learning the Bass?, remember it's Me we're talking about, so nothing to complicated
I've googled and found a couple but I'm sure some of you will know better ones
Ta.
Idiot proof Bass playing.
http://gvelay.free.fr/gta/ has some Sisters tabs if that helps. For scales, there's http://www.guitarists.net/scales/index.php . And that's the sum total of my online bass knowledge
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exercise 1 - get a fuzzboz
exercise 2 - get a 'heavy metal' pedal
exercise 3 - get a phlanger
exercise 2 - get a 'heavy metal' pedal
exercise 3 - get a phlanger
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? ? .......................is it rude?James Blast wrote:exercise 1 - get a fuzzboz
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not really, you'll be disappointed to hear
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no, exercise 3 is
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OK, I can see where this is heading, I just want to know about "Chords" & things before I get an Amp.
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leave chords to Lemmy and Pete Steel, jist yew stick wi wan finger at a time n'yer tongue poking oot yer gub
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My advice, use a pick it gives a great punchy sound.scotty wrote:Zuma kindly lent me his Bass guitar for a while last night , I'm in the process of getting a tuner & an amp, does know of any good links on learning the Bass?, remember it's Me we're talking about, so nothing to complicated
I've googled and found a couple but I'm sure some of you will know better ones
Ta.
Bass: Gibson Grabber if you can find one.
And above all learn to hammer the s**t out of the bass.
I remember many moons ago watching another band rehearse.
They took a break and a friend of ours announced to the them that we had another group of musicians in the house.
They invited us up to play a tune or two. After trying my best to get the bass strap to sit low (silly FUD had the thing pulled up so high I thought he was playing a violin). We barely made it through one song when the bass player ran up to me white as a ghost shouting "your going to break my bass beating on it like that!" Good times, good times.
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Was he in Modern Talking or 5ive or something?9while9 wrote:After trying my best to get the bass strap to sit low.......blahblahblah............... the bass player ran up to me white as a ghost shouting "your going to break my bass beating on it like that!"
Sounds like a real FUD to me!
A guitar is a sword...
A bass is a two-handed WAR AXE!!!
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"it is impossible to break a bass" -
James Blast of Hell, Death + Destruction, speaking to Plank Spanker International magazine c. 1989
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AWSOME!!!...Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Was he in Modern Talking or 5ive or something?9while9 wrote:After trying my best to get the bass strap to sit low.......blahblahblah............... the bass player ran up to me white as a ghost shouting "your going to break my bass beating on it like that!"
Sounds like a real FUD to me!
A guitar is a sword...
A bass is a two-handed WAR AXE!!!
IZ.
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Are you sure they were interviewing you for your skill on bass?James Blast wrote:Plank Spanker
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Personally I would p*ss myself laughing if a band walked onstage with a bass player 'slinging' that one.
They would then have a lot of ground to make up.
They would then have a lot of ground to make up.
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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then you can progress to D.A.D. (once known as Disneyland After Dark) who use two...Sleeping My Day Awaymh wrote:Try some Joy Division to start with - a lot of them are one string jobs.
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Cheers folks, 20 posts and still on topic , some kind of record I think .
It's the Left hand fret thingy that's a bugger
I'll get the hang of it..............I hope!!!!, I've seen the "Tabs" on various sites but I don't know what they mean really , I've always been to impatient to learn things
It's the Left hand fret thingy that's a bugger
I'll get the hang of it..............I hope!!!!, I've seen the "Tabs" on various sites but I don't know what they mean really , I've always been to impatient to learn things
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neither dae I, jist play what feels richt
HONEST!
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Give this one a try > http://youtube.com/watch?v=LH0iHHWqOI4scotty wrote:Cheers folks, 20 posts and still on topic , some kind of record I think .
It's the Left hand fret thingy that's a bugger
I'll get the hang of it..............I hope!!!!, I've seen the "Tabs" on various sites but I don't know what they mean really , I've always been to impatient to learn things
comes with mini bass solo....
Batteries not included..
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Tabs are easy.
Each line represents a string, but - get this - they're upside down from what you'd think. Anyway, the little numbers are which fret to use, with 0 being no fret.
Which fingers to use are up to you, just fall into whatever feels most comfortable and don't worry about whether it's the "right" way.
Then start slowly and don't be too ambitious about it. The first coupla times you might sound like an elephant farting, but keep at it and you'll get better.
Getting both hands working at the same time, and keeping a good rhythm going (ooooerrrr missues) could be very hard at first, so slow right down, concentrate on getting the notes right, and work at it at your own pace.
If you hit a wall with something, back off. Find something different. There's no point in frustrating yourself when you're only starting out.
Each line represents a string, but - get this - they're upside down from what you'd think. Anyway, the little numbers are which fret to use, with 0 being no fret.
Which fingers to use are up to you, just fall into whatever feels most comfortable and don't worry about whether it's the "right" way.
Then start slowly and don't be too ambitious about it. The first coupla times you might sound like an elephant farting, but keep at it and you'll get better.
Getting both hands working at the same time, and keeping a good rhythm going (ooooerrrr missues) could be very hard at first, so slow right down, concentrate on getting the notes right, and work at it at your own pace.
If you hit a wall with something, back off. Find something different. There's no point in frustrating yourself when you're only starting out.
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.