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  1. greghagger
    Ah, got you confused with the other poster, sorry about that!
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    Ah, I mistook your previously reply as frustration that no one was replying to your question on this thread!
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    You may want to set up a separate thread, as your question is a completely different topic, and people wouldn’t know your question from the title of this thread.
  4. greghagger
    No not necessarily although as discussed previously in the thread, this is certainly a factor.
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    Great, worthy of being added to the list then. Thanks.
  6. greghagger
    Some good choices there thanks. I’ll definitely be editing the list.
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    The strings are so dead that I don’t have that problem 😀 Also palm mute and thumb so absolutely no tone whatsoever 😂
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    To be honest, my P-Bass with flatwounds on it, is pretty similar. and I definitely tune it when needed!
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    That is a really great idea!
  10. greghagger
    Thanks, some very good advice here.
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    Personally I would think you can get an ok starter bass from £100 to £200.
  12. greghagger
    Good list and great suggestion to recommend straps, leads, etc.
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    I tend to agree here about ease of playability. I had a really hard-to-play bass, with pretty crap pickups to start with. I had to really work hard, to try and get anything like a decent sound, and I feel that has helped my tone in the long run. In my experience, most music students start on pretty ropey instruments. Mainly because their parents can’t afford to, or don’t want to invest a lot of money initially.
  14. greghagger
    Very good point. It would be sensible to flag up short scale basses on the list.
  15. greghagger
    Great, this seems to have cleared the issue up somewhat. So good choice for the beginner bass list 👍
  16. greghagger
    That’s a bargain then, with a hardwood body 👍
  17. greghagger
    These basses sound like a solid choice, I’ll research them more. Cheers.
  18. greghagger
    Cheers for your reply, yeah most beginners (including me when I started) don’t have much cash!
  19. greghagger
    Thanks, glad you liked it!
  20. greghagger
    @lownote12Yeah, it was productive for a while. Thanks for yours, and other’s contributions. Found out about some good basses to add to the list.
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    Ah, I get the confusion now!!! This is a frequent question I get from beginners. It’s not my question! So I am providing an answer in my FAQs page on my website. https://gregsbassshed.com/faqs I get your point, that this is a bit of a vague question, but rather than telling the beginner to go away, and come back with a ‘more correct’ question, I am providing a list of potential basses that they may want to try out. Hopefully that has given you more context to the question? Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. There are a lot more entry level basses out there that I didn’t know about. Keep the suggestions coming.
  22. greghagger
    If you can afford a more expensive bass, then that’s a great option. But some beginners can’t.......
  23. greghagger
    Want to add some funk to your bass lines? How is your popping? In this week’s video lesson, I will be looking in detail at how to get a great pop sound. This is a vital part of the slap technique. Even if you are not particularly interested in slapping, the pop is extremely useful for adding some funk to your finger-style playing. Follow the link below to view the full lesson. The PDF can be downloaded under the video description. https://youtu.be/JrQg1jSSXDQ
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    I don’t think that this is a polarised, right or wrong discussion. The aim of this list, that I am providing is to give beginners, who ask the question, ‘what is the best beginner bass’, a list of basses to go away and try. I very quickly went on to play jazz, and many other styles of music. Any bass, that I could develop on, would have sufficed at the time. In fact the Encore I managed to obtain for £40, from a guy at school, was my only option! You were obviously very fixed on what you wanted to play from the start, by what you have said. Many players aren’t.
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    Yes, I think this is the case for some people, but remember that ‘the music they like’ could be a lot of different styles. When I started playing bass, I played along to Cream, Hendrix, Weather Report (unsuccessfully 😂), RHCP, Nirvana, Faith No More, Senseless Things, Free, etc. etc... I wanted to play bass over everything! More entry level basses would have sufficed, as I developed the sort of sound I wanted, over time.
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