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

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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.

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!"

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

As a bassist, can confirm.

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

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

OMG yes!!! ...And now I have to go listen to some Thundercat.
And the OG les claypool. Both are incredible in their own right

Bassists are based

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

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

"BASS IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE BAND!"

Geddy Lee is the GOAT who kinda looks like one

Bassed

Les Claypool would like a word.

And he can have one once he stops playing all the notes.

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

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

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.
listen to Ride the Lightning then Justice for All.
Just, you know, don't throw me under the bus for it.
- Wow.
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...
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.
- You can convert to tabs from an isolated baseline? Is it someone just transcribing it? Or like a program?
  Edit: pocket sand

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

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

https://sopuli.xyz/c/bocchitherock

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)...

The nihilist who takes a bowling ball to the gut?
The taxi driver from Hardware?
... Feyd Harkonnen?

Let's remember Jaco, the great. https://piped.video/watch?v=Rjea9_mscLE

John Paul Jones

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

The bassline is front and center in nutshell
Other bass-first songs include "You've Seen The Butcher" and "Radiant City" by the Deftones.

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

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What's a bassist?

And then there was Paul McCartney.

Steve DiGiorgio

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I'd rather not

Just my opinion, but bass is disgusting, both the instrument and the sound it makes. The strings are so fat I felt nauseous the first time I played one.

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as a bass player, I agree. It's a form of self harm.