I have started playing the bass (elec.), and I can play a few songs, like GLAY and stuff, any tips?
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You should play with every recording that you like, over and over and over until you have great strength and good callouses built up. Learn to 'walk' a bass line. Think of it as a percussion instrument- if you mess up don't stop playing, that will really stand out...just find the right note and keep going! Good Luck!
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Know that bass lines vary greatly from guitar. If you're used to playing chords on bass (at least 5ths), then you should be fine for the initial move to guitar. \n\nThe strings are smaller and easier to bend, therefore you might wanna start with a larger gauge of strings as well (just be careful not to get them too large and warp the neck). \n\nRemember that rhythm guitar doesn't always work with percussion like a bass (usually) does. Oftentimes guitar plays a counterpoint to bass and drums, so be prepared for this. \n\nIf you can learn to play bass, you can more than likely learn to play guitar. \n\nGood luck!
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what type of music do you listen to?\n\njonny b. goode if you want to do what every other player has done.\n\nif you are just starting I would highly recomend that you start out in blues and jazz, most modern music has it's roots in these genre's.\n\nlearn some basic 12 bar blues stuff as your foundation.  It'll give you strumming patterns, chord contsruction and progressions, and solo techniques.\n\nbut the bet advice you can get is this:  PLAY WHAT YOU LIKE!
457107
How about an electric bass?  That's not too far removed from the Cello, so you could probably pick it up easily.  Things you learn on one would transfer to the other.  \n\nGet good on the bass, then pick up a guitar.
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download different dj software\nstart out with fruity loops, then move up to things like reason and sonar. when you get good with the feel and terminology start hanging out with dj type people, go to clubs etc. then invest in some real equipment if youre still interested.
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The way I do it is by downloading the "sheet music" from www.mysongbook.com and the program called "Guitar Pro" will display and play the notes, most of these guitar pro files have the parts for vocals, guitar, bass, drum, and keys etc. \nYou can find tons of songs on that site
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I like the web site www.talkbass.com  they have lessons tabs and all other sorts of stuff its a free community of bass players
1017217
I've been playing the acoustic bass for about 7 years. I got better by learning other bands songs and then eventually writing my own.  Try to learn both easy and diffucult songs.  This will teach you how to move your fingers.  When listening to other music, listen for the bass and how it plays with the drums. Usually, the bass will hit each time the drummer hits a tom/snare drum. And as always.....practice.
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MUSIC!!! start a band:Dplay guitar together:D
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You should learn "To Defy The Laws of Tradition" by Primus. It has a sorta difficult tapping technique in there so it might take some practice. "Them Bones" by Alice in Chains is pretty much all chords, and "Man in the Box" is alright to learn. You could learn "Killing in the Name" By RATM, too.
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I've been playing bass for ten years now and got my degree in music with the bass as my major instrument.  I personally have never been that excited by Fender basses.  To me they have no character in their tone and they just seem very generic.  BUT alot of other people fell every different. MY advice is to spend some time in a number of music shops (if possible) and play every bass they have.  I would even take in your amp and other equipment because that can have an effect on the sound as well(again if it's possible) once you find the bass that has the right sound feel and of course price then you have found your bass and don't care what company made it.
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well if you want to learn bass, you might as well get an electric bass because acoustic bass guitars are rare and almost no one uses them.\n\nif you want to learn guitar, the best way to learn is the acoustic guitar.  if you start out on the acoustic you will build up your finger strength and build a callus  on all your fingers.   if you learn the electric first, your fingers will not get stronger, and you will probably not grow any callus on your fingers.  \n\nelectric would be easier to learn on, but stupid because you will be left behind from everyone else, youd be skipping the basics and find out your only setting yourself back\n\nstart out on acoustic guitar\n\nand the guitar and bass are two different instruments by the way
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Definitely stick with it.  Glad to hear you're starting with acoustic; alot of people start with electric and I think it robs them a little.  Acoustic takes a little more to play because the action of the fretboard is greater and bends and hammer-ons have to be done more crisply.  I learned with tabs you can find on any of hundreds of tabulature sites.  Once you get the timing down you'll pick it up.
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I too use a MusicMaster (1978) for some songs in a few of my regular bands. From the list of bands you mentioned (I have seen Switchfoot and Sanctus Real live), one uses a MusicMan Stingray (Switchfoot) and the other two use Fender Jazz Basses. You can get a made in Mexico Jazz bass for under $500, but make sure you try it out first (at a store) because they do not have a really uniform build quality, unlike Ameriacan made Fenders. If you think you will be playing other types of music in the future, you might want to get a more modern instrument (something with an active preamp) like a Yamaha or something similar. Make sure you try out differnt types and makes of basses until you find something that feels good to you. I know of bassists that own $5000 basses but their favorite is a $1200 fender they picked up at a pawn shop. It is all about how you feel. If the instrument helps you express your ideas and feelings, and feels and sounds like "you", go for it, even if it a cheap Squire or Rogue.
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search "panic! at the disco tabs"\nthere isn't a song called panic! at the disco, so i can't tell you how to play it.\n\ntabs aren't always that relible. so if you really want to learn it, you'd be better of to just sit down with your bass and figure it out. play the song over and over, pick out the bass line and figure it out. you could use then tabs as a guideline.
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Some tablature has arrows that go up and down. The best way is to just really listen to the song. If you listen to it long enough and practice at it you'll get it eventually. It took me awile to develop an ear for rythem when I first started playing guitar. So just hang in there
660507
i doubt you will find a isolated bass line for that song--but if you go to guitar tab universe--you will find the tab for it there or on some other tablature site--tablature is real easy  to read if you haven,t tried it before--anybody can do it----the bass part in that song isn,t very difficult anyhow--good luck!!