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submitted 9 months ago by fastandcurious@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 12 points 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 20 points 9 months 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 9 months ago (1 children)

As a bassist, can confirm.

[โ€“] Caesium@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago

I am become bass, destroyer of riffs

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

How did you become bass?

[โ€“] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 months ago

Bassists are based

[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 10 points 9 months ago

Geddy Lee is the GOAT who kinda looks like one

[โ€“] Zozano@lemy.lol 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

"BASS IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE BAND!"

[โ€“] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

Bocchi the Rock

[โ€“] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Bocchi the rock

[โ€“] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Hitori Bocchi

[โ€“] Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 points 9 months ago

Les Claypool would like a word.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Bassed

[โ€“] Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow.

[โ€“] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] ComplacentGoat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months 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€“] Zekas@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

https://sopuli.xyz/c/bocchitherock

[โ€“] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months 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)...

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[โ€“] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Let's remember Jaco, the great. https://piped.video/watch?v=Rjea9_mscLE

[โ€“] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months 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.

[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Other bass-first songs include "You've Seen The Butcher" and "Radiant City" by the Deftones.

[โ€“] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

The bassline is front and center in nutshell

[โ€“] Skkorm@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] witchergeraltofrivia@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

John Paul Jones

[โ€“] doofy77@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Donny

[โ€“] JPJones@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Subscribe

[โ€“] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Steve DiGiorgio

[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

And then there was Paul McCartney.

[โ€“] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuuhFB5Yt4

[โ€“] ULS@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

What's a bassist?

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