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[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 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 5 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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 5 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 5 months ago (2 children)

As a bassist, can confirm.

[โ€“] Caesium 9 points 5 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 5 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 5 months ago

I am become bass, destroyer of riffs

[โ€“] fastandcurious 6 points 5 months ago

How did you become bass?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago

Bassists are based

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 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 5 months ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 5 months ago

Geddy Lee is the GOAT who kinda looks like one

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Bocchi the Rock

[โ€“] fastandcurious 9 points 5 months ago

Bocchi the rock

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hitori Bocchi

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Les Claypool would like a word.

[โ€“] Noodle07 7 points 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

https://sopuli.xyz/c/bocchitherock

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] slumlordthanatos 4 points 5 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 4 months ago

The bassline is front and center in nutshell

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

John Paul Jones

[โ€“] Skkorm 3 points 5 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 4 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Donny

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[โ€“] JPJones 2 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

What's a bassist?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 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 5 months ago

And then there was Paul McCartney.

[โ€“] kamen 1 points 4 months ago

Steve DiGiorgio

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