Bassists tend to be underappreciated. They are a vital part of a band. I've seen Michael Manring live and he's amazing. He was playing with Steve Lawson who specialises in solo bass and looping. He's great too
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I wonder about that sometimes. I am checking out this website www.studybass.com at the moment. The teacher on there says bass is "weird" but in a good way. What is looping? That teacher says the best approach is to first become an artist/musician or see yourself as an artist and then see your electric bass instrument as merely a way of expressing your art.
Looping is using digital effects to make tracks to play over. Bass is just a means to make music. It can have a very 'vocal' sound. It's up to the artist to make it work musically.
OK I see... I think I may have heard that before...
Steve Lawson is a master of looping, but lots of others do it too
Cool...how does he do that?
He uses gear from Looperlative. There are cheaper versions. I have a couple of devices that can loop in some way. It's handy for practice too. It's basically a digital recorder with more control
OK so you need some kind of special device... how do I get an amplug? do you know maybe?
How did you learn to do it?
I don't do it much. You just play around and see what works, but there are video lessons for everything these days
Nice man!! Why did you get into electric bass in the first place?
OK nice why did you get into it?