Thanks for all your help man. I will be an phenomenal bassist one day. Couldn't do it without you and @woodchuck helping me out.
Anyone On Here Play The Guitar/Bass?
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Stevie was know to pop strings so he would have several back up guitars ready to go in live performances. What crazy is he used heavy ass 13 strings. And still broke them.
That's hard to do. But he would strum heavy. 
I used to own a Spector. I just sold it to a friend of mine. Didn't cost anything close to this one.
I have a Sadowsky Metroline J-bass. I have a Fender P bass with round wound strings as well. This one will round out my collection nicely with different feel for each of my basses.
Quick update: I'm still kinda trying to learn the basics. Practice has been a little sporadic, but I'm getting there, I think.
I'm working through the whole finger comfort thing. I wish someone would have been clearer that "working through the pain" would likely translate to calluses on some fingertips, but I guess that makes sense. Anyway, it's gonna be a minute before I'm jamming out or anything, but slow progress is better than no progress.
I'm working through the whole finger comfort thing. I wish someone would have been clearer that "working through the pain" would likely translate to calluses on some fingertips, but I guess that makes sense. Anyway, it's gonna be a minute before I'm jamming out or anything, but slow progress is better than no progress.
You on an electric or acoustic?
Great news man. I'm proud of your efforts. Which guitar are you playing?
I just got a basic 50-60 buck starter guitar (I couldn't name it if you paid me), mainly because I didn't want to invest in anything too heavy until I was convinced that I would actually do something with it.
Acoustic (again, just a price thing).
Makes sense. I did the same when I 1st started. Once I knew it was something I would grow to love, I began researching and investing in high end guitars and basses.
Cool..I would recommend a cheap electric though...you can get a guitar amp combo pretty reasonably. Electrics have closer action on the fretboard, meaning a bit easier to press down also a smaller neck radius...either way you'll have to fight through finger pain and fatigue to obtain muscle memory for chords and scales. If you stick with the acoustic, it will be an easy transition to electric if you want to later though. Good luck either way..
Listen to Barney Kessler. What he says about improvising applies to all genres of music.
Great video about exploring in different tunings
Excellent video.
I wanna work on Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes "I Miss You" Bassline. It's a sneaky good baseline that actually holds the song. Will give me practice up teh neck as well.
Great song and bassline.I wanna work on Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes "I Miss You" Bassline. It's a sneaky good baseline that actually holds the song. Will give me practice up teh neck as well.
Gonna work on both guitar and bass parts.
Good suff in here
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Fellas, is Benard Edwards picking Lefreak? And I never knew Maurice Gibb played with a pick on Stayin' Alive.
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Fellas, is Bernard Edwards picking Lefreak? And I never knew Maurice Gibb played with a pick on Stayin' Alive.
Bernard Edwards never used a pick. He did have a technique that simulated the sound of a pick using his index and middle fingers. You can hear it on Everybody Dance. On Le Freak, he is playing finger style. Maurice Gibb always played with a pick as he was mainly a guitar player who also played bass. However, I'm not thoroughly convinced that he played bass on all their music.
