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It does open your eyes about different ways of doing things - not just technique, but your approach to gear and how you use it. I wasn't joking about amp power - my gigging amp is 500W. But it's a 1x10" combo! It's lighter than the guitarist's 30W valve *head*, let alone his 2x12" cab... and I have an identical head as a backup, which goes in something the size of a small laptop bag.
The funny thing is that I don't even use them normally. If the venue has a usable bass amp - usable as in good enough to hear myself on stage - and a PA, then I don't take an amp at all... I have an EQ pedal which is my 'amp' if I can't get the sound I want out of the house one. So I go to gigs with my entire equipment in a gig bag.
Once you've done this for a bit and found you can dial in your own sound through more or less any equipment, you'll wonder why guitarists make such a rod for their own backs by being so dependent on their own particular amp that they have to take it everywhere...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
This all sounds quite appealing to me. As I've discussed here before the thought of playing guitar live to an audience brings me out in cold sweats, but I've already warmed to the idea of playing bass.
Got a couple of practice dates with @munckee + Jrs in the diary for Water Rats, I'm on acoustic for one track and bass for the other.
So, i bought a Mustang Short scale bass, that did the trick, and sounded most excellent.
But they do too!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
For years I wasn’t interested in lead guitar, so worked up my rhythm guitar and did a lot of bass playing. The bass playing was improvising over chord charts and I fell into following Bootsy’s mantra of “play whatever the heck you want, just make sure you hit the 1”, albeit also focussing heavily on keeping the groove going.
So on lead, which I’m still crap at, I kinda noodle around the chord notes making sure that in each phrase I end up at the note I want, at the time I want (which might not exactly by the 1, but often is).
Am I doing it all wrong?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein