Got my first guitar!

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by MattT

Is that all Dave???? Could get a few astro bass players using your gear ...still love the 6" frac BTW
Hey Stefan good choice on instrument, nothing beats playing bass lines IMO....as for amps I use the 60 Watt Roland Bass Cube, the orgional version, had it since the early 80's and it's still going strong.
Bass lines...one name says it all....Jaco
then there's Marcus, Stanley....
Matt

Yep, Stanley is awesome on electric and on upright bass. Some of the stuff on RTF Live is hard to believe. These days I'm more drawn to Charlie Haden, a man of very few, very well chosen notes (not that he's not pretty quick when he chooses). As an old progger I have to put in a plug for Chris Squire and a relative unknown - Jeff Berlin. His work on the first three Bruford albums is great but then he gave up gigging because he needed a steady income to look after a disabled child. He was interviewed in Bass Player a few years ago and his take on what makes a good player is worth a read. And I've just discovered (while writing this) that he is still doing albums http://www.bassplayer.com/article/je...j-records/5064.

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Thanks Matt!

Slowly getting the hang of it. I want to try and play at least an hour a day.

[Max Vondel (Peter)]

Like the others before.....Buy a proper bass amp.....
However:
I found that EL84 and EL34 based tube guitar amplifiers sound great
with bass too, and might be worth considering.....paired with good 12" drivers

All the best on your sonic path.....

As for bass...let's not forget Tony Levin and Les Claypool.....

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

I ended up buying a small, cheap, second hand amp. I do not need anything flashy as I am just playing at home.

So far I have been enjoying it! I went over to my friends house on Saturday and we had a bit of a jam session. They both play guitar and one plays the keyboard so all up in the room we had 5 guitars (2 acoustic, 2 electric and 1 bass) and a keyboard.

The first ever song I learnt on guitar was "Stand By Me" but the first full song I have learnt on Bass is "Spicks and Specks" by The Bee Gees. I could not find any Bass tabs anywhere online due to the song being played on keyboard so what I did was playing random notes looking for the correct ones and I finally did it! Not only I know how to play the song (it's a simple one since I am a beginner) but I also worked out what each tab was which gave me feel good that I worked it out!

[CJ (Chris)]

Good on you!
Playing with friends is one of the most enjoyable (and best) ways of practicing. When you feel it actually sounds like music it's a great buzz!

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Originally Posted by joe_smith

A very good book for learning is Complete Learn to Play Bass comes with 2 CDs and starts from the very basics. I have this one, the Blues guitar one, and the keyboard one. They are very good and easy to understand and cover a lot of ground. you can get it for about 40 bucks very good value for money.

Also The best program I use for learning, and its finally supports Linux now is Guitar Pro Its the best program for learning songs there is full stop, check it out

I got this book and it is very good. Easy to follow and provides very clear and simple information and diagrams for a beginner!

Thanks!

[joe_smith]

I could not find any Bass tabs anywhere online

let me know if you want a tab for a song, just PM me, I have 1000's of tabs I can print in pdf from guitar pro, here is a screen shot from the program.

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Originally Posted by joe_smith

let me know if you want a tab for a song, just PM me, I have 1000's of tabs I can print in pdf from guitar pro, here is a screen shot from the program.

Ooooo you happened to put an image of my favourite band the Beatles!

Thanks for that. Where do you get the tabs from anyway?

[joe_smith]

The old "my song book" web site had a vast number of people putting tabs up of songs they tab out, but unfortunately it got closed down. I saved a couple of Beatles tabs

Forgot to mention Guitar Pro is a tablature editor, and you can also compose your own music with it. The old site used to have music contests and people used to compose whole songs with guitar pro and we used to vote.