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The Guitar Topic
imapiratearg:
--- Quote from: ledhendrix on 06 Mar 2009, 13:55 ---I'm borrowing my friends bass at the moment. I haven't really played it properly yet, just picked it up and mucked about with it. Where's a good place to start with a bass?
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How do you mean? Start looking for one?
Probably try out some Fender or Squire Jazz or Precision basses.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Beastmouth on 06 Mar 2009, 14:53 ---
--- Quote from: Patrick on 03 Mar 2009, 13:23 ---I really really love the clean sounds I get out of bass amps. A cheap-ass solid state Fender bass amp was the only amp to ever make my nearly-forgotten Les Paul clone sound tolerable.
I should really have that guitar refretted and have the pickups replaced. The pickups sound like shit (no definition in any frequency) and the frets slice up my fingers like they're made out of katanas.
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That doesn't sound like you need a refret; a crown and polish should do fine and is really pretty easy to do.
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Eh, that's not the only thing. The frets are also enormous, and I don't need/want/like frets that big. I like Fender's medium-jumbo frets a lot better than these railroad tracks.
ledhendrix:
Ah should have been a bit more specific. I don't really know what to play, I'd like to start playing it like a bassist rather than a guitarist that owns a bass if that makes sense. Are there any particular songs that would be good to learn?
The Joker:
I own the cheapest Les Paul-shaped guitar known to man. It's an Epi Les Paul Special-II that was used and on sale. It goes out of tune if you leave it alone for an hour or more (this is utter exaggeration) or capo it (this is not).
However, since I am such an epic guitar master, it makes up for it.
Also, it has no pickguard, which makes it look about twice as good, and has a beautiful cherry sunburst finish. It looks basically like this, but I think mine looks better. I don't know why. I just do.
Ballard:
--- Quote from: ledhendrix on 07 Mar 2009, 03:12 ---Ah should have been a bit more specific. I don't really know what to play, I'd like to start playing it like a bassist rather than a guitarist that owns a bass if that makes sense. Are there any particular songs that would be good to learn?
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I'm in the process of doing this right now! Really the best thing is learn to play walking bass in any key and ask to play bass for a band.* There's no better teacher than experience.**
* If you are a competent lead guitarist this should come naturally- it's basically just thinking of a simple lead guitar riff and making it even simpler, following chord and key changes, and learning to play a repetitive melody.*** Also remember, octaves are your friends.
** Mind you, if you've never picked up a fretted string instrument before, you may want to get a teacher or at least a book or something. This really only applies when you know some basic music theory and are comfortable in a band setting which it sounds like Led Hendrix is.
*** This is actually the hardest part for me, personally. As a lead guitarist I'm used to improvising, which means that my mind moves on to a new musical idea as soon as or before I'm done playing the first. What this means when I play bass is that I can never consistently play the same riff or musical idea throughout a song- I keep on varying it slightly and this is a pain in the ass for everyone else involved.
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