I’ve been playing for over a decade. My 6-string is a Rogue LX406. Wasn’t insanely expensive when I bought it 5 years ago, Rogue being a cheaper brand, but its sound is amazing, and the bass certainly doesn’t look cheap either.
Back in the states I had a Fender Frontman 60B amp, and a Digitech BP50 modeler. Sold the amp because it was too big to store or send to china, coupled with the fact that it was a lower voltage that Chinese power outlets, and let a friend borrow the modeler. Just got a practice amp here, a Roland Micro Cube Bass RX, that sounds pretty good, and coincidentally, has a modeling setting to mimic the Fender Bassman, so I can pretty much emulate the sound I had back at home.
Ehh…IMO he’s got impeccable technique. World’s best bassist? I beg to differ…
Don’t really want to get into a musician bashing sort of thing, but I’ll just say his song writing should be a lot better for someone of his musical talent.
I just bought a electric guitar for christmas and I’ve been practicing a hour a day everyday with a beginners dvd. I’m currently practicing E major triad, A major triad, and D major triad. I’m running into trouble playing the E major triad without my index finger muting the B string. Can you guys maybe offer me a tip to get over this hurdle?
How are you holding the neck? With your hand wrapped around it like a broomstick, or with your thumb planted against the back and your fingers arched over the fretboard?
My hand is curled under it with my thumb towards the top of the of the back of the neck. The base of where my fingers are/top of the palm sometimes mute string 1 but I’m conscious of making sure to curl my hand more so it doesn’t.
I recently inherited a couple bass cabs, both of them Hartkes transponders ones a 1x15 (100watts) and the other is a 4x10 (300 Watts)
What would be the beat ideal head to buy without overpowering or underpowering the cabs or damaging the head? And what kind cables do I need to connect them all together?
Without knowing more about the fingering you’re using (open position? moveable? etc.), my suggestion would be to move your thumb closer to your palm so that your fingertips are meeting the strings more vertically.
Although less so for chords, moving your thumb closer to the middle or bottom of the neck will free up your hand to curl around more making stretches and intervals easier to hit.
I replaced the old humbucking jazz style pickups in my 6 string to single coils and upgraded the stock pre-amp to an Audere classic 4 band, made a world of difference in my old Carvin
*Thanks for the tip fellas. It worked moving my thumb down on the back of the neck towards the middle. My fingers were able to be more aligned vertically with the strings.
Also what did you mean by opening vs moveable position?*
An open position chord involves open strings–in other words, strings that ring out but aren’t fretted. Moveable means that every string involved in the chord is fretted, so you can move your hand up and down the neck in the same fingering shape and get the chord in a variety of keys.
-0-
-0-
-1-
-2-
-2-
-0-
would be an open position E major chord.
Whereas
-9-
-9-
-9-
-7-
would be a moveable major chord, because you can move the same fingering to a different position and it’ll still be a major chord–just in a different key. E.g. moving it two frets down would make it a D major chord.
