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[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Don't be fooled, they just want to mooch a lunch off you cuz they spent their allowance on instruments!

[โ€“] fastandcurious 19 points 10 months ago

We are just accepting donations for our divine presence ๐Ÿ˜‡

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Look, if the frontman would just loosen the purse strings a little bit, I could afford to buy a much better bass while I continue to starve.

[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Me at 14 trying to recreate my favorite palm-muted metal strumming patterns from songs I know: "what the hell why does their shit sound so good and thumping and my shit sounds like AM radio static in a tin can?"

Me, many many years later: "BASS! IT WAS ALL MISSING THE FUCKING BASS!"

[โ€“] fastandcurious 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A song without bass is like a glass without water or something like that

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

It took a while as a guitarist/keyboard player just learning and starting out to realize how fundamental it is. I kept trying to turn up the low end of things in the mixer in my software to compensate without realizing what I was missing.

[โ€“] symthetics 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As a bassist, can confirm.

[โ€“] Caesium 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've only recently really started to appreciate notcing the bass in music. It's an underdog no one seems to respect :(

[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I didn't listen to bass untill I become one

Now 99% of the reason why I like certain songs is because of the bass

[โ€“] FlawedSyntax 11 points 10 months ago

I am become bass, destroyer of riffs

[โ€“] fastandcurious 6 points 10 months ago

How did you become bass?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was watching a documentary, and apparently if you become a vegan you gain psychic abilities, get to have sex with Brie Larson and make your bass sound like a guitar as necessary.

Maybe you should try that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Bassists are based

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thundercat is a master at the base who really opened my eyes to their unappreciated percussive role in music.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

OMG yes!!! ...And now I have to go listen to some Thundercat.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

But doctor, I am ~~Pagliacci~~ the bassist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Why don't you make like a bass and be inaudible"

"BASS IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE BAND!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Geddy Lee is the GOAT who kinda looks like one

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If you don't mind me asking What show is this from?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Bocchi the Rock

[โ€“] fastandcurious 9 points 10 months ago

Bocchi the rock

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hitori Bocchi

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Les Claypool would like a word.

[โ€“] Noodle07 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

As a metalhead I'm very ashamed that I can't make the difference between the guitar and the bass, please don't tease me

[โ€“] debil 2 points 10 months ago

No shame in that. You could start accustoming your ears by searching YT for "bass and drums isolated" and listen to those versions and then the originals and see if you separate the bass better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Hmm, is there supposed to be much of a difference? I recon, if it was physically possible to make a trumpet sound like a tuba, that would be very popular. And as I understand, that is possible with e-guitar and e-bass, because electronics...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are a few websites that can separate stems. I use lalal.ai to get the bass line and then convert it to tabs using another service.

[โ€“] BreadOven 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can convert to tabs from an isolated baseline? Is it someone just transcribing it? Or like a program?

Edit: pocket sand

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, you can use lalal.ai to separate the bassline, then feed that to another service like Guitar2Tabs on klang.io. Also, my bad, was busy and couldn't remember the name of the tab converter.

[โ€“] BreadOven 2 points 10 months ago

No worries at all. This is all so foreign to me. Gives me some cool stuff to research though. Thanks for the info, appreciate it.

Sh-sh-sha.

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[โ€“] Zekas 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's why I want to start playing it at 27 years old

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Geddy Lee (Rush), Les Claypool (Primus, others), Dominick "Forest" LePointe (First Fragment, others), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Chris Squire (Yes), Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead), Sting (The Police), John Deacon (Queen), Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees)...

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There is also a Bocchi lemmy ... thing. Thread, board, magazine, whichever.

https://sopuli.xyz/c/bocchitherock

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] slumlordthanatos 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man, I just think about the opening for "Would?" by Alice in Chains. People who underappreciate the bass haven't heard that song.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The bassline is front and center in nutshell

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

John Paul Jones

[โ€“] Skkorm 3 points 10 months ago

I mean I don't feel underappreciated. I've never once had a problem finding a group to play with.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Donny

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[โ€“] JPJones 2 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What's a bassist?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=UPuuhFB5Yt4

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

And then there was Paul McCartney.

[โ€“] kamen 1 points 10 months ago

Steve DiGiorgio

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