Bass Myths, share ones you've heard

[ped]

“It’s all in the fingers”

[SH73]

To sound better you need to put one foot on the monitor or wear a hat

Edited June 29, 2020 by SH73
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[Old Man Riva]

Rick Beato is having similar conversations... 

 

[mcnach]

3 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

 

Beginners should start with a cheap bass.

 

 

This, this, and a thousand times this.

I can't think of anything more soul destroying for a beginner than having to fight a poor instrument, on top of the inherent difficulties of the learning process.

And yes, sure, cheap does not mean bad, but when you look at those starter packages and in general guitars aimed at beginners, you're not usually getting something nice to play straight from the box and very few beginners understand about setups.

 

[mcnach]

1 hour ago, Raymondo said:

Worked for me so must be true !

 

Same here! 

I guess it just doesn't work for ugly bass players 😛

 

[mcnach]

57 minutes ago, SH73 said:

To sound better you need to put one foot in the monitor or wear a hat

 

ooooh... I was doing it the wrong way around! 

[SICbass]

4 hours ago, SICbass said:

Playing bass in a band will get you girls.

 

1 hour ago, Raymondo said:

Worked for me so must be true !

 

8 minutes ago, mcnach said:

 

Same here! 

I guess it just doesn't work for ugly bass players 😛

 

Well that can’t be right because it would imply that....

Oh, wait...

[Bobthedog]

4 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

Beginners should start with a cheap bass.

The corollary of that being " you must be a really great player to have spent that much on a bass"

[Bleat]

"plays like butter" … no, no it doesn't, it plays like someone playing a bass guitar. 

 

[Nail Soup]

"It's easy, it's only got four strings"!

Edited June 28, 2020 by Nail Soup

[shoulderpet]

2 hours ago, jezzaboy said:

This bass is definitely a keeper!

Hahaha , this comment is priceless

[Rich]

5 hours ago, musicbassman said:

Scene - a band rehearsal back in the day...

Guitarist:  (stops widdling for a brief moment)

              "Anyway, a 200watt amp will be twice as loud as a 100 watt amp, won't it."

Bass player:  "Err, no, I don't think it works like that"

Guitarist:  "Yeah, of course it will, you thick or summat ?"

Bass player: "No, no, it's a logarithmic scale or something"

Guitarist:  "You bass players are so full of sh*t"

                 (carries on widdling)

 

The answer being: You guitarist (singular) have got your fat cloth-eared head up your *rse"

[miles'tone]

The magic ingredient to Jaco's sound was the chicken grease he rubbed into his strings.

[Raymondo]

6 hours ago, SICbass said:

Playing bass in a band will get you girls.

 

2 hours ago, Raymondo said:

Worked for me so must be true !

 

2 hours ago, ped said:

“It’s all in the fingers”

Yep ….definitely the fingers😁

[MacDaddy]

The bass player is the quiet one.

and/or

The bass player stands at the back

[ezbass]

Lined fretless is cheating.

[miles'tone]

3 hours ago, ezbass said:

Lined fretless is cheating.

Coming from upright bass I did used to think that. However, after one gig which was so silly loud I had to use earplugs I saw the light on the matter. 

I thought I was in tune (I was, with myself actually), I could FEEL I was in tune, but listening back to the recording was painful!

Yes, use your ears and don't look at the fingerboard, great - but those little lines can save everyone's night sometimes! 

Playing well every time is so much cooler than looking 'cool'. 🙃

[fretmeister]

If the bass drum is mic’d up you don’t need a bass guitar.

 

 

[Richard R]

49 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

If the bass drum is mic’d up you don’t need a bass guitar.

What??? Has someone really said that? Maybe the other way round, at a push. 

[ezbass]

49 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

If the bass drum is mic’d up you don’t need a bass guitar.

 

 

If the FOH crew are like the ones I’ve come across in the past, it’s not that you’re not needed, it’s more that might as well not be there. 😤

[MoJoKe]

4 hours ago, ezbass said:

Lined fretless is cheating.

I used to own a Wal unlined fretless, and was discussing fret lines with Steve Lawson a couple of years back, and he said "why would you not want to give yourself every chance you possibly can to be pitch perfect?".

I agreed.  I sadly had to part with the Wal, and now have a lined fretless....

[ezbass]

23 minutes ago, MoJoKe said:

I used to own a Wal unlined fretless, and was discussing fret lines with Steve Lawson a couple of years back, and he said "why would you not want to give yourself every chance you possibly can to be pitch perfect?".

I agreed.  I sadly had to part with the Wal, and now have a lined fretless....

Gary Willis says the same. Unlined does look cool though.

[Bobthedog]

4 hours ago, ezbass said:

Lined fretless is cheating.

 

8 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Gary Willis says the same. Unlined does look cool though.

I have to say that for me having a lined fretless is pointless (although my fretless is lined) as I simply cannot see the lines on the fretboard at all. I can only see the side of the neck. 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Bobthedog

[Bleat]

6 hours ago, miles'tone said:

The magic ingredient to Jaco's sound was the chicken grease he rubbed into his strings.

Couldn't he just use Fast Fret like the rest of us?

[Nibody]

10 minute pointless slap bass "flexing"  video's = really great bass player

The best way to demonstrate a bass or amp is to do the above

Bass players dont wrote songs

You chose that because you are a failed guitarist

No-one plays up the dusty end