MY 1st bass!!!!

[acronym]

Seller promised to get my bass sent before Jubilee and that didn't happen, said he get it sent today and again nothing happened. What a farce.

[Mornats]

That sucks. Hope you get your bass soon. Whilst you wait, you could pick up a copy of Bass Guitar for Dummies and jump to chapter 5 - Understanding Major and Minor Structures (unless of course you know this stuff already) and get some good solid theory behind you for when your bass arrives. This chapter was the lightbulb moment for me and I'm still learning bits from it now.

[alyctes]

Bass Guitar for Dummies is good, if rather American in style - not really to my taste.

The Bass Handbook by Adrian Ashton is also good, [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bass-Handbook-Complete-Mastering/dp/0879308729/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339008473&sr=1-1"]http://www.amazon.co...39008473&sr=1-1 [/url]
It covers much the same stuff, but I prefer it.

Edited June 6, 2012 by alyctes

[TheGreek]

Did your bass arrive today?? It might be an idea to post your location - you might find a BCer who's local who'll give you a few pointers..

[bigsmokebass]

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Cool absolute music is like a hour away from me, stringing doesn't seem that much different that the guitar:). You guys had me worried it was something more difficult than that, though I haven't strung a guitar for over 5 years.
[/quote]

Easier if anything


Welcome to the bass world and most importantly Bass Chat

Word of advice, keep away from the marketplace, you'll get a bad addiction XD

BSB

[acronym]

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1339092442' post='1683584']
Did your bass arrive today?? It might be an idea to post your location - you might find a BCer who's local who'll give you a few pointers..
[/quote]

Nope, I'm hoping it arrive on Monday if not I have to file a paypal claim:(

[louisthebass]

[quote name='acronym' timestamp='1338384007' post='1673626']
Also this guy is amazing, well I found them educational.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/devinebass?feature=g-u-u"]http://www.youtube.c...s?feature=g-u-u[/url]
[/quote]

Best teacher on the net

[Emanew]

[quote name='acronym' timestamp='1339344820' post='1687138']
Nope, I'm hoping it arrive on Monday if not I have to file a paypal claim:(
[/quote]

I cross my fingers for you.

My first bass was a SR Ibanez too. Good instrument thin neck, active/passive PJ pickups and... a dark metallic blue color. I loved it.

Welcome to the low frequencies playground...

Edited June 10, 2012 by Emanew

[Grand Wazoo]

Get this book, it's from a very good teacher who is also a member of this forum:

Stuart Clayton - Bass Crash Course it covers every thing in easy to understand lessons and by week 7 you will able to pick up your bass and play along your fav records, guaranteed.

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crash-Course-Bass-Warner-Brothers/dp/1844920151"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crash-Course-Bass-Warner-Brothers/dp/1844920151[/url]

[acronym]

IT ARRIVED!!!!!

Its a real beauty but I'm terrible playing it at the moment, finger walking is going to take some adjusting but man its soooooooooooooo awesome. My only regret is I'm not doing it justice at the moment.

[Rossington]

[url="http://www.tunemybass.com/"]http://www.tunemybass.com/[/url] <--- good site for info on how to set up the bass. Intonation, truss rod adjustments etc...

[yepmop]

I was almost as excited as you waiting for it to arrive where's the pictures????

[acronym]

I do some later when I nab a camera but I suck at finger walking. Is it this difficult?.

[yepmop]

Like everything in life it's practice, practice, be patient and yet more practice...........

Watch other players, listen to lots of different stuff...... Youtube is a good source and of course you have BassChat

[acronym]

^Thanks, at the moment its just day 1 but having real problems stretching my fingers out from fret 1-3 already. I thought the smaller fretboard would alleviate that issue but after a 2 hours practising my hand kills now.

Still going to stick to finger walking but the sounds from the sounds aren't the warm low sound you expect from a bass, instead it sounds choppy and lots of buzzzz.

[Musky]

[quote name='acronym' timestamp='1339445209' post='1688697']
^Thanks, at the moment its just day 1 but having real problems stretching my fingers out from fret 1-3 already. I thought the smaller fretboard would alleviate that issue but after a 2 hours practising my hand kills now.

Still going to stick to finger walking but the sounds from the sounds aren't the warm low sound you expect from a bass, instead it sounds choppy and lots of buzzzz.
[/quote]
Yeah, the stretch at the bottom end of the neck can be a bit of a killer when you first start playing but it does get easier. As do the aching forearms - take a break when that starts to happen.

Are you practicing through computer monitors? I really doesn't take much to make many of them crap out by playing a bass through them as they're not really designed with that in mind, The usual advice applies when your speakers are complaining - turn down the bass eq or volume, or both.

[Mornats]

Can't remember if anyone mentioned Scott Devine's bass lessons site. Great lessons, great player and very likeable guy so you can easily sit through all of his videos [url="http://scottsbasslessons.com/"]http://scottsbasslessons.com/[/url]

Glad your bass arrived and don't worry about it being difficult at the moment, it will all just come with practice. Scott did a great video lesson on walking basslines: [url="http://scottsbasslessons.com/walking-bass-lines/walking-bass-beginner-1.html"]http://scottsbasslessons.com/walking-bass-lines/walking-bass-beginner-1.html[/url]. There's a second part too. They were so helpful to me that I bought his backing track pack (should be linked to from the lesson page above). The bit in one of my tracks from 4:20 onwards is a direct result of watching Scott's lesson: [url="http://soundcloud.com/mornats/elude"]http://soundcloud.com/mornats/elude[/url] so it helped me straight away. In fact, I did all of the bassline for this one after watching Scott's lesson and pretty much took in his whole I III V structure advice. So thanks Scott!