A Bass Guitar Analysis

A Bass with a Bit of Treble The bass player provides both the rhythm and harmonic structure of the band. Unlike the percussion, the bass, most of the time drowned out by the other guitars and only has the bass line to prove its self. The lower strings of the bass guitar are what attracted me to struggle for weeks, to order mine, and try to learn how to play it. Starting off it took months to decide which bass guitar to get, looking at the bass players of my favorite bands to see what they had. The bass players that influenced me to buy the bass in the first place were: Pete Lewis Kingston Wentz III from Fall Out Boy, Michael James (Mikey) Way from My Chemical Romance, and Michael Ryan Pritchard, or Mike Dirnt from Green Day. They all started

Going to Ultimate Guitar and looking up the song and printing off the tabs, to realize the song only used the first 2 strings of the guitar. I used my tuning application on my phone and made sure that the strings were in tune before I started playing. I played the first note of the song and had the song playing in the background to get a feeling for the rhythm of the bass line, slowly adding another note. After learning the intro that would be repeated six times, I realized that I had ended up playing just the intro of the song for an hour. Ending up with my right hand’s finger tips covered in the black residue from the strings. I took a rest, coming back to the bass every few hours to make sure that I had the bassline down, which by that point was the only rhythm in my head. Because of this, I was more invested in playing the bass, than ever playing the

Hannah responded, “Trees or Not Today,” which I choose Not Today because it only used two strings and was tuned to my bass. I quickly practiced until my fingers started to cramp. The following weekend I traveled over to Hannah’s house to pick her up to go get dinner and see some movies, to pull my bass guitar out of the car. She couldn’t hear it very well, as I hadn’t bought an amplifier for it yet, but once she realized the song that I was playing she started crying, tears of joy. When the song was done she jumped from the sofa as I took off the bass to get tackled to the ground in a bear hug. Hannah and their mother thanked me for making Elina happy, before I put the bass in the trunk of the car and left with Hannah to go get Texas Road House. Due to my experiences learning bass guitar, I think it will benefit my musical writing ability, to more than lyrics on a page. I am going to stick with the bass, in hopes to make my own music with others of equal or different musical backgrounds. With all the stress that came with buying it, I will create my greatest moments of my