r/BassCirclejerk

Was told it will be great for at home or to play a stadium? How do i scoop the mids to make it sound like flea?

Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, I'm new to the bass guitar but not to music, can't read bass clef but I know very basic music theory.

I'd say I'm an okay beginner but I was wondering if you had any recommendations for music theory/bass lesson resources that'll help me understand the instrument and understand how to write counter melody bass lines similar to Dookie era GreenDay. I started learning when i come around and I want to know what crack they put in dirnts food growing up

Any help is appreciated!

Hey guys so this is probably not the typical kind of post in this sub, please delete if not allowed.

I have a friend who is a really nice girl and has had a rough go of it romantically. She’s been trying to get back out there into the dating world and asked me if my bassist was single the other day. I told her I don’t know because I honestly don’t. She asked me if I would try and set them up on a blind date of sorts. They never met in person, she just saw him tagged in one of my Instagram posts from a festival we played.

My dynamic with my band mates is mostly professional. We are friendly and joke around with one another but we don’t really hang out outside of rehearsing and performing. This is largely due to the fact that the other two members, my guitarist and drummer are in their 40s and either live kind of far or are married with young kids and don’t have a ton of free time. We don’t really discuss personal or romantic things and keep things mainly focused on music.

The reason I’m considering it is because based on my limited knowledge of my bassist’s personal life, I could actually see him and my friend hitting it off. They’re also similar in age and they live close to each other. I just don’t know if this would be weird or come across this immature or unprofessional.

Let me know if any of you guys have had a similar experience and have any advice. Thanks.

Hey all, sorry if this is considered irrelevant but it’s been on my mind a long time and this weekend finally made me want to try to find an answer.

Ever since I was young most bands I’ve seen (whether in person or online) have the bass player positioned stage left. I’ve just spent the last few days in Nashville and EVERY band I’ve seen here also has the bass player on that side of the stage. Is there any particular reason for this, or is it just pure coincidence?

I just took a lesson with a very well known, accomplished bass player.

He had me play an open E and then an F on the first fret. Then he had me hold the F and fret the F#. He said my nut should be filed so low that those distances are the same. Essentially zero fret height.

Is this possible? Advisable?

FWIW, I play with a super light touch. 0.010” relief. 3/64” action at the last fret when depressing at the first.

Hi, I've been playing for around a year and I'm a big fan of Iron Maiden in fact Steve Harris got me into bass and when I got my first bass and I went to play I rested my palm on the bass kind of like Steve Harris as I didn't know there was any other way and I played like that. I can play almost everything in that position and it's incredibly comfortable but when I looked up more "bass tutorials" because I wanted to learn a song I couldn't work out by ear I noticed they were putting their thumb on the pickup and when I watched more videos and they also put the thumb on the pickup. Can anyone tell me why people do this as when I tried it was uncomfortable and painful after a while. Is there a theory reason because I'm not into music theory or anything or is it a historical or a practical reason?

Edit: sorry if this doesn't make sense I have autism and ADHD so sometimes I nonsensically ramble incoherently