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Old 03-02-2020, 08:05 AM
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I'm an electric bassist. Pocono resorts, weddings, corporate events etc.

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The Sadowsky 4 gets the call way more then all the others combined. I do about 10 bass gigs a month, and it can cover anything I need.
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Never had the privilege of playing a Sadowsky, but they're beautiful instruments.
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I am not a bass player. When I play bass it sounds like a guitar player playing the bass.
Bless you for acknowledging there's a difference. I almost wish that God had invented the bass with a different tuning so guitar players didn't automatically think they could play it.
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Old 03-02-2020, 12:54 PM
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Epiphone Jack Casady with flats. Large thin hollowbody with a unique pickup.
The Casady fits really well with acoustic guitars.

Ditto the old Danelectro/Silvertone "lipstick" basses, as well as the reissues. Long scale and short scale are both good, and while they were never sold in a fretless version, they convert very nicely.
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Old 03-02-2020, 01:05 PM
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I have an electric and an 'acoustic' bass that get played once in a great while. I do enjoy playing it. Like anything in music it helps open your mind up for ideas when you play around on different instruments. A little bass is good for ya.
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Bless you for acknowledging there's a difference. I almost wish that God had invented the bass with a different tuning so guitar players didn't automatically think they could play it.
I know what you're saying, and I agree with the observation that many guitar players play bass differently than those that specialized in the bass from the get-go, and some of those "guitar players who bought a bass" approaches aren't what some/many bands are looking for. Like obnoxious lead singers and turned up too loud guitarists there's a reason for the stereotype to be recognizable.

Groove and timing are obviously important in most contexts for bassists. As I told my son when he started taking electric bass as his primary instrument lessons: the wrong note played at the right time will sound better than the right note played at the wrong time on bass.

But additional melodic and harmonic information can be played by the bass player and still make a composition sound great. And we're not just talking about avant garde stuff here. I give you a testimonial: Paul McCartney.

Those of you that record, don't let the "guitarist who bought a bass" stereotype stop you from considering the electric bass. Yes, you should think differently when playing it, and the simplest of bass lines can still enhance a song. Sonically, I've tried a number of the MIDI ways to make an electric bass track, and while such things have got their uses, even a guitarist hacking out a simple bass line can add a lot of flavor that's hard to obtain otherwise.
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I've often wondered as a season guitar player how easy or difficult it would be to learn/play electric bass. (Not that I had or have any real desire to pick it up).

If I did play bass and given my taste in guitars, I'd probably be playing a Fender Precision or Jazz bass.

On a side note, I love the upright bass also but again, no real desire to play myself.
If you can read music and can read the bass notation ( and not get them confused all the time like me), it should be no problem. I picked up an inexpensive Squier Jaguar modified bass ( hass P bass and jazz bass pickups ..think I got that right?) about two years ago. I use it when I make backing tracks or to put a bass line on the Boss pedal when playing songs. Really fills out your sound..best move I ever made outside of other six string guitars.
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Bless you for acknowledging there's a difference. I almost wish that God had invented the bass with a different tuning so guitar players didn't automatically think they could play it.
I recently took a bunch of lessons on Bass technique because I have a similar affliction.
my basses are both Carvin LB-40s, but one of them is frettless!
So fun!
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i have an Ibanez bass now, thats all, sadly when i was younger i sold my 65 Jazz and 68 EBO for $125 and $60 respectively not knowing what the future beholds
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i have an Ibanez bass now, thats all, sadly when i was younger i sold my 65 Jazz and 68 EBO for $125 and $60 respectively not knowing what the future beholds


I’ve also learned the hard way... see above regarding my lovely Aria Black n Gold II...
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I'm a fair-to-middlin' couch guitar player and using isolation/quarantine time as an opportunity to fulfill a longtime ambition of learning to play bass. Where do I start? I've been listening to favorite classic rock music with an aim to filtering out the vocals and guitar and just focus on what bass players do. That's harder than it sounds when one has been listening to music for over six decades without hearing the bass. I sorted through my computer music library and pulled out songs with a real prominent bass. A good example would be...

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I'm a fair-to-middlin' couch guitar player and using isolation/quarantine time as an opportunity to fulfill a longtime ambition of learning to play bass. Where do I start?
I'd start you out simple. Actually, simple but hard. The notes are simple, but playing them in the pocket is the hard part.

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I'm a fair-to-middlin' couch guitar player and using isolation/quarantine time as an opportunity to fulfill a longtime ambition of learning to play bass. Where do I start? I've been listening to favorite classic rock music with an aim to filtering out the vocals and guitar and just focus on what bass players do. That's harder than it sounds when one has been listening to music for over six decades without hearing the bass. I sorted through my computer music library and pulled out songs with a real prominent bass.
There are lots of recordings with prominent bass. The loosely titled 'Pop and Dance music' would be my first points of departure. However you're talking about classic rock, and unlike guitar you have to play along with the recordings for it all to make sense. Otherwise it will sound (...to the unaccustomed ear) like a bunch of semi-random notes...





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I've played bass in bands since the mid 70's. Started out with a black body/white p/g, Fender Telecaster bass, 1968 model.

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I miss playing Motown covers in my 1st few bands, at college. Now I'm about 80% guitar 20% bass.

The Grainger bass, (gift from my wife) is an amazing bass, really easy to play, doesn't sound as good as the Telecaster (vintage) bass. Seeing Stu Hamm the first time, 1986, re-ignited my bass jets. Favorite bass-line: Bill Wyman- 2000 Light Years from Home.
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Clearly I'm going into waters that are uncharted by me as I start to learn bass, but at the age of 70 sounding like a guitar player playing the bass isn't even on the list of my concerns...
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