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[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't be fooled, they just want to mooch a lunch off you cuz they spent their allowance on instruments!

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

We are just accepting donations for our divine presence ๐Ÿ˜‡

[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Look, if the frontman would just loosen the purse strings a little bit, I could afford to buy a much better bass while I continue to starve.

[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me at 14 trying to recreate my favorite palm-muted metal strumming patterns from songs I know: "what the hell why does their shit sound so good and thumping and my shit sounds like AM radio static in a tin can?"

Me, many many years later: "BASS! IT WAS ALL MISSING THE FUCKING BASS!"

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A song without bass is like a glass without water or something like that

[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

It took a while as a guitarist/keyboard player just learning and starting out to realize how fundamental it is. I kept trying to turn up the low end of things in the mixer in my software to compensate without realizing what I was missing.

[โ€“] symthetics@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a bassist, can confirm.

[โ€“] Caesium@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only recently really started to appreciate notcing the bass in music. It's an underdog no one seems to respect :(

[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't listen to bass untill I become one

Now 99% of the reason why I like certain songs is because of the bass

[โ€“] FlawedSyntax@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I am become bass, destroyer of riffs

How did you become bass?

[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago

Bassists are based

[โ€“] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thundercat is a master at the base who really opened my eyes to their unappreciated percussive role in music.

[โ€“] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

OMG yes!!! ...And now I have to go listen to some Thundercat.

[โ€“] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

And the OG les claypool. Both are incredible in their own right

[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

But doctor, I am ~~Pagliacci~~ the bassist.

[โ€“] Zozano@lemy.lol 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Why don't you make like a bass and be inaudible"

"BASS IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE BAND!"

[โ€“] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 10 points 1 year ago

Geddy Lee is the GOAT who kinda looks like one

[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you don't mind me asking What show is this from?

Bocchi the Rock

Bocchi the rock

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[โ€“] Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a metalhead I'm very ashamed that I can't make the difference between the guitar and the bass, please don't tease me

[โ€“] debil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No shame in that. You could start accustoming your ears by searching YT for "bass and drums isolated" and listen to those versions and then the originals and see if you separate the bass better.

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm, is there supposed to be much of a difference? I recon, if it was physically possible to make a trumpet sound like a tuba, that would be very popular. And as I understand, that is possible with e-guitar and e-bass, because electronics...

[โ€“] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

listen to Ride the Lightning then Justice for All.

Just, you know, don't throw me under the bus for it.

[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could've been worse, he could've lived and become like Dave Mustaine.

[โ€“] ComplacentGoat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a few websites that can separate stems. I use lalal.ai to get the bass line and then convert it to tabs using another service.

[โ€“] BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can convert to tabs from an isolated baseline? Is it someone just transcribing it? Or like a program?

Edit: pocket sand

[โ€“] ComplacentGoat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, you can use lalal.ai to separate the bassline, then feed that to another service like Guitar2Tabs on klang.io. Also, my bad, was busy and couldn't remember the name of the tab converter.

[โ€“] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No worries at all. This is all so foreign to me. Gives me some cool stuff to research though. Thanks for the info, appreciate it.

Sh-sh-sha.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Zekas@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's why I want to start playing it at 27 years old

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[โ€“] Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 points 1 year ago

Les Claypool would like a word.

[โ€“] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is also a Bocchi lemmy ... thing. Thread, board, magazine, whichever.

https://sopuli.xyz/c/bocchitherock

[โ€“] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Geddy Lee (Rush), Les Claypool (Primus, others), Dominick "Forest" LePointe (First Fragment, others), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Chris Squire (Yes), Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead), Sting (The Police), John Deacon (Queen), Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees)...

The nihilist who takes a bowling ball to the gut?

The taxi driver from Hardware?

... Feyd Harkonnen?

[โ€“] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, I just think about the opening for "Would?" by Alice in Chains. People who underappreciate the bass haven't heard that song.

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[โ€“] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

John Paul Jones

[โ€“] Skkorm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I mean I don't feel underappreciated. I've never once had a problem finding a group to play with.

[โ€“] JPJones@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] doofy77@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Steve DiGiorgio

[โ€“] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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