Is their a bigger cuck instrument then the bass guitar? >It's

bass is very important to song structure

>>26052226
I'm sure this is a bait or whatever; but as a bassist, and I'm sure I speak for all of the other bassists when I tell you we aren't in it for the girls or the glory.

We're in it for the music, famalam. Probably moreso than anyone else in the band.

Also you can get way more fuckin' drunk and still play competently.

only in rock music. bass is important in a ton of other genres.

Have you ever listened to a song without its bass track? It doesn't sound right.

>get paid
>everyone leaves you alone

Sounds like a great deal to me

>>26052226
if you want your song to be good, good chance you need bass of some sort. Bass guitars is better than grandpas guitars for dats. Also part of what makes metal great

fair points but a repeating bassline over a guitar solo is otherworldly

>>26052226
>OP has never heard an amazing bass solo
Shake my head senpai

Listen to the song and either turn off the bass or take out the bass track.
It sounds hollow.

>>26052226
If you don't get the importance of bass you probably listen to pleb shit.

I'd like to have a bass.

>>26052226
>Is their a bigger cuck instrument then the bass guitar?
*than

>>26052226
That's a meme. Bass is up there with the best.

>>26052226
I think bassists are pretty important. Take Andy Rourke and The Smiths as an example

No such thing as a cuck instrument desu.

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Post patrician instruments

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>>26052470
Pretty hard to look rad with this. Though I suppose you can get a sound with it that you can't get from anything else.

>>26052256
Basically this. I enjoy being able to improvise without it sounding pants on head retarded. Then again, I primarily play bass-driven shugazi and jazz, but not rock.

Only if you play in pleb Metal bands.

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>>26052470
>microkorg
>patrician
wew

Gorrilaz main instrument is bass.

All people who listen to rap care about is bass.

Just cause lead guitar is more screechy and noticeable and better doesn't mean bass has no purpose.

>never heard one (1) song with a dope bassline
How pleb can you get?

>>26052528
True , that bass intro in Dirty Harry is not from this world

>>26052226
thats why all the chads and normies always want the biggest subwoofers in their cars

op is right, this song here would sound so much better without the bass :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFAYAEgKMA

>>26052524
This tbqh. All the people complaining about bass not being important are always those who listen to metal. So their opinion isn't worth anything in the end

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>>26052226
Its pretty easy to write songs with and create the over all layout of a song

One minute and 25 seconds of you're pretty wrong, OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bimNMiz250

>>26052813
One of the best albums ever. period. You listen to Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards album The Viking?

>>26052526
I would suck 1000 cocks to get my hand on one of these

>>26052833
Yessir; fuck man, everything revolving around Rancid (Lars' stuff, Transplants, etc). I fancied myself a bit of a punk back before I started getting old

>>26052255


Bass and drums are the least respected yet either one of them is what makes or breaks a band. A guitarist and singer can do any kind of bullshit they want over a hot rhythm section and it will work, but the opposite is not true.

Definition of cuck.

>>26052226

http://youtu.be/RmTOAUEZRBo

>implying a good bassist won't cuck the shit out of any guitarist

>>26052906
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dsyo2Ox-0
take john entwistle, no one ever paid him attention. yet he is probably the most important part of the who

>>26052858


I'd suck 1500 for a PPG Wave. Just typing PPG Wave = instaboner.

>>26052226
Do normies even care about guitar anymore? Rap doesn't use guitar, Top 40 pop doesn't have guitar solos, rock has been taken over by Christians.

>>26052226
I play bass as well as lead guitar. 95% of rock/metal songs would sound like shit without a bass. Bass guitar is pretty much the glue that holds a piece together. Bassists are also in high demand as everyone and their dog can play lead.

Most bassists I know also play guitar.

Also the cuck status of an instrument varies by genre. Bass rules on funk but is cucked on metal

>>26052939

Even a band like Blue Cheer where nobody was technically that great, the bass and drums just lock in and bring it. Guitar is easy mode.

Source: I'm a pretty good guitarist.

>>26052949
i dont get why they dont produce those pieces anymore. a lot of people would still buy them, who the hell can spend 15k on a synthesizer??

>>26052979


Guitarists usually aren't very good on the bass. A decent bassist is usually fine on guitar.

>>26052226
Audiophile here trust me bass is incredibly important I mean yeah it doesn't make a difference if you have crappy headphones but get a nice expensive pair and listen to a song with and without bass. You'll see how important it is

>>26052528
Bass is essential to jazz too

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As a drummer, I love bassists err...platonically... yeah..

>>26052979
>metal
>a valid musical genre

I mean maybe we can let MEMEBATHER pass, but c'mon.

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>be op
>try to b8 some people
>fail miserably
did you already kill yourself op? even failing at this? how much have you left in life?

Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, and Geddy Lee laugh at your post.

Srsly listen to any of their songs and you'll truly understand how important bass is.

>>26052979
That's not entirely true; the best metal has great bass - Pantera, for example. Or oldschool Megadeth.

I mean sure, it can be similar to what the guitarist is playing but that doesn't make it any less important.

>>26052991

The Mutable Instruments Ambika was the closest modern thing I've seen (digital with analog filters) but it was DIY only and discontinued a year ago so it's pretty tough to get one now and even tougher to make one.

I think it's because the big companies know they can make more profit by putting a mediocre VST in a cheap keyboard and selling it for $500 (probably about a 1000% markup) than they could by making a high quality analog synth and selling it for $1200 (maybe a 20% markup) and the small companies are more interested in inventing new stuff. The only quality modern synths that are reasonably cheap are usually monosynths.

I'd kill for a modern, genuine analog string synth, too. That Waldorf thing is nice but it can't hold a candle to even a Crumar. Never going to happen though.

>>26053089
you are probably right. its easier to sell those things to some wannabe edm faggot

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>On r9k to shipost and troll trolls
>MFW have real conversation relevant to my interests

POST SONGS WITH GOD TIER BASS LINES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I

My wife's son plays a pretty good bass.

>>26053189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA

>>26053189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUPiJ5-nNPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkMFgFjC8E

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpR8r0D2EyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ter0p_iyIxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjEzx7Glr8

A solid bass line is what gets you to tap your foot.

>>26053003
>A decent bassist is usually fine on guitar

Literally not even remotely true.

>>26053189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS91knuzoOA Original m8

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>>26052226
Only an absolute faggot who has never played in a band would say this shit.

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>bass players
>beta
Kill yourself

>>26052226
Bass is crucial to a good overall sound

Bass fucking blows. I used to play bass at school for presentations, I'd literally play the melody from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_nhPyT__jk and no one would notice except my friend who played the drums.

I thought it'd be funny to do that but it was more infuriating than anything. Chad was playing the guitar and there was I doing jack.

>>26052226
Sure, let's take away bass from music. That will be a great improvement!

>>26052226
>highly important instrument in keeping time and help drive a song
>insulting it in any way shape or form

How old are ya pal? Do you not realize that you are insulting one of the biggest and most important instruments in all music?

no one gives a shit about guitar anymore. source - I've played guitar for 20 years

it's more about drums, bass, vocals, and electronics now. guitar is just a side thought instrument thrown into the mix for normie music

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>play mostly 70s prog rock on bass
>dont know any other instruments
>no one wants to join a band of 70s prog rock cover band
>just want to be john wetton and chris squire on stage for once

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You can see all the beta bassfags coming out of the woodwork now.

>>26054140
>now
have you read the thread?

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Primus is the best exception to this rule, because the bass is the lead instrument. And Les Claypool makes the bass look cooler than the guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OhIU-PmB8

>>26054272
all primus songs sound like they're recorded in some chicken coop shit shack

there is like no variation in their sound

>>26054400

The recording quality is proffessional quality, because they were actually one of the more popular bands in the 90s.

And they have more variety than most bands of that era, because Les Claypool had no boundaries when it came to song writing. Which resulted in a lot of goofy sounding songs, but a lot of classics.

>>26054634
professional doesn't automatically mean good

whatever room they are recording in sounds awful

>>26052226
Have you ever seen someone playing the cowbell, or shaker, or something? Not a drummer hitting it as part of his instrument, but just some poor chum sitting on a stool hitting a shaker against his leg in half-notes for an entire song.

Definition of cuck right there. Worse than not even being in the band at all.

>>26055143
those people usually play multiple percussion instruments and have to do stupid stuff like that occasionally to fill in the mix

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>>26052226
This fuckboy hasn't listened to Jaco Pastorius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEs5sKDXZuk

>>26054885
poor you

you need music to be one homogenous mosh so you can brainwash yourself with inane computer generated melodies, the kick of the drum offends your fragile sensibilities

fucking millenial candy-asses. dickless fucking fairies sitting on your ass all day gossiping about the lives of strangers pretending you're a political movement. religious zealots say we lost our contact with god. i say you lost contact with your nutsack.

t. lost contact with my nutsack

>>26055273
I've played guitar for twenty years...

>>26052256
Fuck this I play bass.
And I use this to get girls.
Why shouldn't I? Everytime there are girls in the music room of our band I get them. The guitarist is an absolute idiot and the singer is a fag without self esteem.
Don't mind the drummer, he can't hold count.
So fuck it, bass is cool.

>>26052226

Faggot butthurt guitarist detected.

What's wrong, omega - are your shitty generic riffs and scales not getting you laid?

>>26054025
literally the only cool bass player in the entirety of human existence

>>26053642
Yeah, bassists are usually better than complete novices, and they're got okay technical skills because they've got some experience with fretting, but when it comes to writing songs, or playing faster, most bassists aren't great.

>>26055778
imo it depends not on the instrument, but on the musician.
If you are into your instrument you will get it.
But if it's just a "hey let's lurn an instrument, cause it's cool" thought, it will end in crap - mostly.
Bass is an instrument ( sadly ) which is played by a lot of idiots cause they think it's easy to play it.
So fuck all this idiots and get into real music.

Uhm Bros,I'm fairly good at guitar and I wanna learn the bass because guitar draws too much attention. So how do I approach it ? Is it like guitar but instead of chords just play the base notes ?

The bassist of Tool sounds like he could be playing guitar half the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiR1hmpk-x4

She's not world class but she's really okay.
... and handsome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlymJ1uoNUg

>>26052226
Ten-a-penny-guitarists are worse. Unless the bassist is the worst ten-a-penny-guitarist in the band who had to take bass.

>>26055836
I agree completely, great bassists rarely translate well to guitar, because they fill completely different roles, and they've spent decades playing one way, it's hard to relearn completely.

Same with great guitarists, it's a completely different instrument, them being stringed doesn't really mean it translates very well.

Anyone who learns an instrument because they think it's an easy choice opposed to another one will nearly always end up being boring and uninspired, if not just dropping it.

>>26055774

John Paul Jones (who was better musically than the other three combined
Steve Harris
Dee Dee Ramone

Christ, this isn't even hard... There are so many cool bassists

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>>26055942
>John Paul Jones
>Better musically than the other three combined

found the bassist

>>26052226
confirmed to have never played an instrument live in a studio/practice room setting

>>26055778

Most bassists are principal song writers. Who do you think wrote all the best Sabbath and Maiden songs?

>>26056005

John Paul Jones is WIDELY recognised as the best musician in that band. The guy is a multi instrumentalist musical savant.

>le Jimmy Page shitty, sloppy ripped off blues riffs maymay

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>>26056201
I like Page even though he's not a guitar god like everyone says he is, he's still pretty good, but yeah, John Paul Jones is the fucking OG of that band, same with Bonham.
They sold the fucking sound man. They were why people came back.
>the drum solo on Moby Dick

>>26055774
>cool
the 90s called, they want their words back

>>26056171
Acid bath!
dont forget acid bath!
After the bassist died, the band just ripped apart because the bassist had done all the work.
In my experience the bassists are the mostly couraged guys in a band and stay their musical skills on the other hand.

>>26052256
>>26052284
These op. I played a bass and never gave a single shit about getting attention and actually enjoyed the alone time I had writing songs and listening to music.

>>26056278

Page is good, don't get me wrong, but JPJ could play circles around him. Bonham was amazing, but JPJ was still a better musician.

It's like Megadeth, everyone focuses on Mustaine, but he'd never have got as far as he did without Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson dragging him up musically. Even he happily acknowledges those two were way above him at the start.

>>26053189
any level 42
https://youtu.be/Wvq85yKCydg

>>26056171
I was referring to writing guitar portions, they're used to a completely different style of playing. I should have clarified.

Also, I'm pretty sure Tony Iommi was more of an influence on Sabbath's sound than Geezer was, though they were all obviously important.

Pic related will be here in the mail tomorrow, how cuck is this?

I also bought a $600 fender amp and a MojoMojo pedal.

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>>26057127
Forgot pic

Original

>>26057127
Looks like a decent guitar to me, is this your first one?

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>>26057127
Gretsch is a really good brand. Their hollow bodies are beautiful. I really want one but can't justify dropping that kind of money on it.

>>26057218
I've been playing on an acoustic since I was 12, and I'm pretty damn good if I do say so myself. Haven't had an electric before though, so it'll be fun to learn some solos and get new tones.

>>26057127
>>26057142
Start learining on a fuck guitar.
You will learn there basics you will need on any good guitar.
Learning on a good instrument will you just give good tones on bad skills.

>>26052256
Dude.. like for real. I play the piano and the guitar (not in band format though), so I know a thing about music. Why the fuck does the bass exist? Nobody can hear it! I'm not insulting you here, I'm honestly wondering why there is a bass player in the band if no one hears what he's playing. Please answer me.

>>26057265
I already play senpai.

>>26057285
Go listen to a song and turn the bass all the way down.

>>26053189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsJlJdWof8
>>26056387
also this
Slap or get slapped

>>26057257
Seems like a good choice then, I'd recommend you play around without the pedal or any effects apart from some gain to start off with though, just so you know what sort of sound you're going to get out of it, and what you want to change to get the sound you want.

>>26057285
But you can easily hear the bass in pretty much any song, it's less pronounced than your lead or rhythm guitar, but it's still clearly there, it's what gives the song its body, and makes the guitars not sound screechy or empty.

If you've never played in a band though, I really don't think you should start talking about how all the different instruments impact a bands sound, because you've got no real idea.

Bass is just as important as drums in setting the tempo and beat of the song.

>>26052528
All types of funk revolves around bass too, metal sounds hollow without bass. These guys must probably listen to bands like Foo Fighters or Imagine dragons

Seriously I love playing on my (really) shitty bass with my friend on the Djembe.
I never learnt how to play it though.

>>26052226
Well it's your own fault playing Song which is not emphasising bass it's your own fault being cucked. Just search for bands founded by Bass players, your best is either Jazz or Iron Maiden if you want to play Bass elaborately.

>>26057575
90s Foo Fighters were pretty fucking good. The bass in their songs is just as crucial, too

If you can't hear the bass player it's because he's copying exactly what your power chord guitarist is doing with just root notes
If this is the case the bass player is shit or the music you listen to is shit and wrong

>>26057285
The human eye also can't see over 30 FPS.

>can't hear the bass

are you retarded? remove the bass track and watch how shitty your music gets

Only people who don't play music think bass isn't the second most important in your traditional set up

>>26057675
>second
retarded?

>>26057077

You very clearly said writing songs. Fuck your goalpost shifting

>>26057652
Sounds about right. I play guitar so when I dick around onthe bass I just do the root note shit, which is a good starting point but wrong to stay on and just keep hitting.

>>26057675
What's most important?

>>26057728
Bassoon

>not being the bass, guitar and percussion player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDdzNuJto4

>>26057285

>I'm literally deaf guiz!

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>>26052470
the banjo is undeniably a top tier instrument

>>26057285
If you can't hear them slappin de bass you're listenin wrong mon

Actually girls really like bass players because they have strong fingers

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bass > eguitar OP is a retarded fgt bass is way more important than the guitar OP might listen to lame genres

>playing an instrument

What is it like to be an effete failure of a man?

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> you'll never be a competent bass playing qt girl
why live

>>26059313
>not playing an instrument
>being a literal beta cuckold

>>26052983
Did not expect to ever hear anyone toss out Blue Cheer here, they were fucking sweet though, awesome Summertime Blues take. Opened for hendrix a few times I think

>>26052256
Bass is easy mode thats why.