you can't even hear it? i mean bassists does looks fucking cool playing it but it's kinda pointless musically
>>128837368do you not like funky rhythms?
>>128837368>you can't even hear it?Buy better headphones or subwoofer. EQ the bass up.
>>128837368>You can't even hear itIn shitty, uncreative, often non-musical music, that's true. Metal especially, it mostly exists just to beef up the low end. Good music? It is an integral part of the song's foundation.No band with guitarists and no bass guitar sounds good. Any band with bass guitar and no guitars sounds great. This is a hill I will die on.
>>128837430The Doors don't have a bass guitar
>>128837368>you cant even hear itThats because you feel it
>>128837457Fair, but they recorded their albums with session bass guitar players. Live, the bass lines are played on the keyboard. So yeah, live bass guitar isn't always necessary. In fact lack of one is usually just a cost-saving measure (why pay an extra member/touring member?). But it's integral to the song. Sonically, bass on the keys is probably clearer in a live event, depending on the venue. Definitely one of the reasons the bass players are seen as useless.
>you can't even hear itStopped reading your shit-tier bait there / 10
>>128837430metal is literally the only genre that does anything interesting with the bass
>>128837368rhythmand sometimes melodyIts better than drums.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4McVxHYg24
>>128837368Chris Squire
>>128837712What about Funk
>>128837712I'd love some examples, because most I can think of (at least in contemporary metal) is just adjusting the tone of the bass to be heard over the guitars. I'm so damn tired of that darkglass djenty sound so many metal bass player uses.I suppose that is something new, but the tone is just dogshit to my ears. CLANK CLANK CLANK every note sounds like CLANK. I find it exhausting. If your goal when listening to music is to hear the heaviest thing possible, ok, I guess it works. Otherwise, it doesn't do much musically for me. Trash metal, as a whole, has some great use of bass guitar though.
>>128837368imagine Come Together without the bass. It's absolutely necessary and makes the song
>>128837368>can't even hear itListen to early jamiroquai
>>128837909>CLANK CLANK CLANKbut what a CLANKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6iUdK1ngiQ
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>>128837368It helps give rhythm to the song along with the drums. Drums are the most driving force for rhythm. Bass helps break it up and accentuate the lows because the guitar guys will be the ones that get the pussy. The drummer gets left overs and you bassists get to carry out all the equipment to the van. Thems the rulez.
I had a similar perspective when I was a teenage guitarfag and didn't realize that bass is what makes a song heavy. Guitar by itself sounds pretty thin and midrangey, and what you hear as powerful guitar riffs are guitar combined with rhythm section of bass and drums. Another way to illustrate this is to listen to a song with the bass removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsnSy05ONc
https://youtu.be/eQPoVNrCZTk
million tracks where the bassline is unmissable https://youtu.be/FT4fZnNiWnY
even in music where you can't generally hear the bass, you can still do fills and intros and stuff like that with bass. it's absolutely not necessary but bands like DFA1979 and Royal Blood could make the same arguments about guitars. not to mention basss/piano/drums is a goated combo (Crash Kings)
Maybe he gets talked about too much, but like don't forget about Flea. In "Dark Nessesities" he does the whole Into and the main riff of the song with just the bass.
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>>128837712retard
>>128837712>Playing a simplified version of the guitar riff but octave lowerWow, so interesting
>>128837368>What is the point of bass guitar? To provide a back beat, to emphasize and establish rhythm. It accentuates whatever is being played and provides a structure that can be soloed on top of or harmonized with or just follow after the main chord progression and do that. >You can't even hear it Depends on the genre, the mix, and the bassist's skills. Funk, disco, post-punk immediately come to mind for being bass prominent.
>>128846467>i don't listen to metal or know anything about it, but here's my idea based on nothingWow, thanks
>>128842758The guitar is supposed to sound a bit mid rangey because the bass guitar is supposed to take up the lower frequencies. Metaltards get their first line 6 or crate amp and don't know how to dial in a tone so they crank up every knob to 10 or just do 10 on bass, 10 on highs, 0 mids, 10 gain, and have a scooped nasty muddy tone. It leaves no room for the bass and it sounds like crap. The kind of guitar you use also changes things since single coils have more of a bright twang and a pop to their sound while Humbuckers have a fuller and warmer tone
Prog and fusion bass is where it's atWetton, Squire, Levin, Jeff Berlin etc
>>128846522https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hY8zdTO0pvg&list=RDhY8zdTO0pvg&start_radio=1&pp=ygUfbWFzdGVyIG9mIHB1cHBldHMgaXNvbGF0ZWQgYmFzc6AHAQ%3D%3D
