• MentalEdge
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    5 months ago

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

    • eltimablo
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      105 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.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    495 months ago

    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!”

      • TimeSquirrel
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        175 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.

  • balderdash
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    175 months ago

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

  • @Zozano@lemy.lol
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    “Why don’t you make like a bass and be inaudible”

    “BASS IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE BAND!”

  • @Noodle07@lemmy.world
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    65 months ago

    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

    • Ephera
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      25 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…

    • @debil@lemmy.world
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      25 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.

  • @HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    55 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)…

  • Zekas
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    55 months ago

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