Tutorial Series - Bass Tone

[monquixote]

I'm currently writing an article series for easyeartraining.com on Bass Tone.

[url="http://www.easyeartraining.com/Series/bass-tone/"]http://www.easyeartraining.com/Series/bass-tone/[/url]


It's a beginner to intermediate focussed series which is about the different bass instruments, amps and effects and the sounds that you can get out of them.
There are lots of sound clips and a podcast of each episode if you like that kind of thing.

The [url="http://www.easyeartraining.com/2011/03/24/bass-tone-the-upright-bass/"]first part was on the upright[/url] and [url="http://www.easyeartraining.com/2011/04/13/bass-tone-playing-with-precision/"]this weeks is on the electric bass[/url].


I would be really interested to hear any feedback, or anything you would like to see in a future episode etc.

[Skol303]

Thanks for the link! Looks interesting.

I've bookmarked this for browsing over the weekend... I'll let you know if I have any useful feedback for ya.

[monquixote]

[quote name='Skol303' post='1200855' date='Apr 15 2011, 03:39 PM']Thanks for the link! Looks interesting.

I've bookmarked this for browsing over the weekend... I'll let you know if I have any useful feedback for ya.[/quote]


Great, look forward to hearing what you think.

[ZMech]

Judging by the title I was expecting something about shaping the tone of my bass, but it seems to be more of an overview of it's function. I'll admit I haven't listened to the second podcast, but the first seemed to be a reading of the page before it

May I ask what the intent of the article is?

[monquixote]

The series is for the Easy Ear Training website which as the name suggests is primarily aimed at helping musicians do things like recognise scales and chords by ear, but also does features on the sounds and roles of instruments.

The people I had in mind when writing it were: Non bass players who wanted to understand a bit more about what they are listening to (i.e. which one is the bass, is it fretless, acoustic, electric) and beginner bass players who wanted to know what all the knobs do and how to get a good sound.

The first podcast and article is a bit of an anomaly as I didn't have an acoustic available so it is pretty much a straight read through with clips. The second part is based on the articles content but diverges and is done with a bass on my knee so I demonstrate everything live as I go.

The next parts are going to be on: how playing technique influences tone, amp settings and effects and might have more stuff that interests you in them.