Just picked up bass guitar

>>74033877
Learn your scales; learn proper fretting, picking and muting techniques; practice to a metronome or a drummer so you can lock in with a groove and keep in tempo.

Slappin!

>>74033877
Only use a pick.

Learn harmonies, how to spice up your playing without sounding like a dick, practice scales, and practice keeping with rhythm. You can do some rhythmical fuckery at times, and the bass really has to be locked into a groove with the drummer in particular for it to work. It's really about understanding your role in the band and knowing what to keep an ear out while playing.

>>74034004
>>74033981
dont listen to these fuckers.

Picks are useful in some spesific senarios and slapping is a pretty advanced tecnique, wait until you're a bit more used to the instrument before trying these

>>74033877
Knowing piano will help you in the sense that it's best to play notes with a bass, you can write some lines on the left end and then transpose them to bass pretty easily and they'll sound more or less the same.

I play bass as well, though primarily as a guitarist bass is quite different since I'm used to playing chords instead of usually single notes up and down the frets.

build up those calluses asap

>>74034431
imo this isnt a big deal for bass players.