| The double bass used to be the instrument that | | | | in music. He wants to learn all aspects of playing. |
| kept the beat in the band. But that changed in the | | | | Once a guitar player has played a little bass he will |
| middle of the twentieth century when electricity | | | | have a better understanding of what he's doing in |
| took over everybody's job. They still use acoustic | | | | a band. |
| instruments in classical orchestras but rock and roll | | | | Of course, a bass guitar looks a lot like a regular |
| came on the scene at the same time as modern | | | | electric guitar. It might even have the same |
| art and labor saving devices. Modern music joined | | | | number of strings but mostly it has four. The |
| modern art in the search for new ways to | | | | strings on a four string bass play the notes E A D |
| express feelings. A whole family of electric guitars | | | | G, the same as a regular guitar but an octave |
| had arrived on the doorstep of the music loving | | | | lower. You can play a regular electric guitar |
| public and we invited them in to stay. | | | | without an amplifier and it will still sound somewhat |
| Just in case you don't listen too closely to music, | | | | like a guitar. If you don't plug your bass guitar in it |
| the bass guitar gives the music those heavy, low | | | | won't sound like much. If you can read music you |
| notes. You'll find them in jazz, blues, pop, Latin. | | | | will notice that the bass lines are written in the |
| There isn't a modern musical genre where you | | | | bass clef only one octave higher than the notes it |
| won't find bass lines churned out by the electric | | | | actually makes. |
| bass guitar. Every musical style has its own way | | | | If you can already play an electric guitar and you |
| of interpreting bass lines. | | | | want to learn bass you have a start already but |
| Sometimes a guy will take up the guitar, learn | | | | only time will tell how good you are going to be at |
| some rock and some blues. He'll learn the minor | | | | being a bass player in a band. Your talents could lie |
| pentatonic scale, buy some guitar effects and see | | | | in the direction of lead or rhythm playing, but if |
| how they sound. Then he tries bass guitar. A | | | | you give bass guitar playing a try, you will not be |
| guitar player who decides to learn to play bass is | | | | worse off for the experience. |
| often a guy who wants to get a good grounding | | | | |