Crawford13

Given all my basses are Alphers made by great guys in Yorkshire, I guess it would have to be a Ginetta.

The crazy thing I have found is that when I fall in love with an instrument a lot of the time a Big factor has been the strings. When I put different strings on I haven't liked it as much.... Makes me wonder how many times have I played a bass and thought "not for me", and if I had thrown some low tension strings on it I might have loved it.

I totally agree there are some great vocalists in metal, I'm just never drawn to them.

I'm 36 and this is totally true, I reckon it's because we are trying to figure out how to be parents😂

Dammit your logic is sound. Unfortunately he is just giving fodder to people to say that bass is rubbish. However you are right it's a great business move.

I'm not a massive metal fan, mainly due to the vocals. I love the musicality of metal, I really enjoy instrument metal, but as soon as some one starts screaming I remember it's not for me.

Yeah BTB a beast onto themselves. They are absolutely nothing like the SR range. Possibly worth looking at the SR1805, it's a fantastic instrument.

Nothing wrong with dreaming about an Ibanez, it's all subjective. Also nothing wrong with dreaming about a Mondeo either. It's all about perspective.

I should clarify that in my original post I'm not meaning to imply that all of this content is depressing, or that YouTube bassist are depressing. It really just this particular video, as I think that the playing in it is really poor. All of these solos can be played on bass, but he does a really bad job of it in my opinion. As has been said he had found his audience and is certainly entertaining them, and presumably making a very nice living for himself.

I get what you mean, by the looks of it he has started to make a pretty decent living through YouTube. I reckon he can also groove with the best of them if that's what he chose to do. Probably never find out though, as I fear you may be right.

David's saving grace in my opinion is that he introduced me and I'm sure many other to Charles Berthoud. I'm pretty sure he is the most technically proficient bass player I have ever seen, plus he is very creative. I have a lot of time for him.

Yup totally agree with this. Unfortunately I can't handle his tone, and this video was particularly poor in my opinion.

It only gets worse I made it to sweet child of mine, but he basically started playing random notes not even in the correct rhythm I gave up.

Oh man, this came up on my feed tonight, and it has left me, well let's say sad for want of a better word. The guy just butchers guitar solos on bass and makes a hash of it. I couldn't make it to the end of the video so I apologise if he addresses the poor playing at the end. How does this guy have 9M subs?

Yup single coils can definitely work in a trio, listen to Try! By the John Mayer Trio.

Perhaps if you tell us your location, members from local area will be able to recommend specific Facebook groups. I'm in Glasgow and there are 3 or 4 really good musicians wanted Facebook groups, I'm sure it will be the same for most larger cities. Oh one other piece of advice would be don't be too picky about genre etc as once you are on the scene its much easier to find other musicians as you were be sharing stages etc.

I totally agree with this when the guitarist starts soloing the mid frequencies disappear and the music sounds less full, so start playing a little higher. It sounds counterintuitive but play the actual notes higher and kick on an octave pedal to keep the bass frequencies going.

I love the tone of Elixir strings and how long they last. I'm not a fan of the tension though, I much prefer the tension of Dunlop nickels.

Yup that would annoy me too. Poor packaging is a bug bear of mine.

Really enjoyed that track. The guitar solo is great and some monster bass at the end of the solo.

Pretty much exactly my thoughts.

Glad to hear that the sponge has helped. Next step is to practice moving your fingers completely from the last note to the new note you want to play, while using other fingers to mute the unplayed strings. Working on this will allow you to remove the sponge and still have the other strings muted.

I would also agree with this. In fact in Scotland its really hard to find a bassist full stop.

Yeah I would agree with that to be fair.

Yeah I do think he should use effects to generate the lower octave, and guitar would give him more flexibility to play that type of music. No offence taken, however the 2 instruments have very different roles in music and also in a band context. My personal opinion is that it's harder to be a top class bass player than it is to be a top class guitar player. Just my opinion.