I recently revived my Reeder 3 app on my iPad, only to discover that most of the #RSS feeds to which I had formerly been subscribed are defunct. Might pay to upgrade to the newest version.
RSS promised to free us from the balkanization of media, but the billionaires have been trying to kill it ever since and force you into views their websites directly to generate more ad revenue.
So, I thought I’d start making a list of sites I read that have RSS feeds that actually show up with previews. …
Wow, I just got a compliment from David Pastorius on my #bass playing… honestly didn't expect something like that to happen… ever 🤯. Time to sit down and practice some more #bassguitar now. This is hugely motivating!
venya back on his bullshit playing bass guitar like actual guitar only worse. Overlays show the #VoidConspiracy hashtag and logo, text saying "this might be something someday" and more text proclaiming "Unsupervised bass player". In the upper left corner is a picture of the EHX Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi which is providing the effects, with markers highlighting the settings on the pedal.
A "good enough" #bass is not necessarily very expensive. I like #Ibanez; even their GSR180 is very playable. (#Yamaha TRB series is also popular for beginners.)
The #Yousician app/site is a pretty good starting tool for learning the basics.
My favorite bass teaching channel on YouTube is BassBuzz: realistic, funny, well-produced, and not ridiculous with the shilling for his paid stuff.
I bought it on BandCamp (even though I have literally dozens of copies of this album strewn about my hard drives, from various stages of completion) purely so I could leave a comment
Played 2 Gigs last weekend and had a blast. It's not that often that you get approached by the sound guy with "Hey, I pulled your volume up during the gig, your #bass sounded great!" 😹 #bassguitar#metal
Former co-worker told me "Holy f**k, first I thought I didn't hear you but during your solo I realized you provided the entire bottom end and the guitars were merely tweeters" 😹 That's basically my job description baby! #bass#bassguitar
I am very sad. I've lugged my #BassGuitar everywhere in my Gator Transit case since 2018, but one shoulder strap abruptly gave up the ghost last night, fortunately in such a way that the bass didn't fall far.
This may not be your cup of tea. (This isn't actually even really my kind of metal.)
The messages about the hypocrisy of organized religion and dissociation of self may not resonate--they might even freak you out a bit. (Same here.)
But there is somebody in your sphere who could really stand to hear this, whether because it's their jam or because the message is one they need to hear
Fender's new Made in Japan Deluxe Jazz Bass V #KazukiArai Artist Model, available exclusively at the #Fender Tokyo Flagship Store in Black or Vintage Blonde for 231,000 JPY, is the first appearance of the small body Jazz Bass V design since the 2009 American Deluxe Jazz Bass V. It is the only Fender instrument I consider truly beautiful, and originated with the 1990 US Plus Series Jazz Bass Plus V, Fender's first ever modern 5-string #bass. #KingGnu#bassguitar
Community club acoustic jam night was pretty light tonight so I ended up getting to play a lot of guitar (not my normal thing) instead of cajon (also not my normal thing, except on acoustic jam nights)
Lots of fun doing something I'm not as good at. This is how I get better.
But I'm also looking forward to Thursday, regular jam night, where I'll get to take on some of the week's frustrations with #BassGuitar therapy
I’ll eventually get around to distributing Salvation to BIG STREAMING but we are gonna ride the FairCamp train for quite a while yet.
From our song, “Unspeakable”:
“The violence
The silence
It’s all so unspeakable
The cowardice
The lies let slip
It’s all so unspeakable
The bloodshed
The ground, red
It’s all so unspeakable
The muffled cries
The faithless die
It’s all so unspeakable”
I think this is probably the one track where I am most doing what metal #BassGuitar players are "supposed" to do and following along with the guitar line, at least during the verse and chorus.
(I guess it kind of goes off the rails a bit during the bridge/solo part.)
I apologize for spamming you about the "Salvation" #VoidConspiracy album, but we have been working on this a very long time and I'm very proud of my #BassGuitar work on it.
But also it will get worse once I start talking in nauseating detail about interesting things from every individual track
so I won't be offended--even if I knew, which I won't--if you mute me for a while
Okay, thanks to @ambergrey, I'm reliving the most recent #GearSquad posts here and am inspired to contribute my own. I'll go into detail on each guitar in comments.
But to start, this is my tiny home studio, which is also where I do basically all of my career work. It can be... distracting, sometimes, lol.
3.) Player Mustang bass. Holy god I love this thing. Like I said, I played bass for ages, but this was my first short scale, and I'm never going back. So much more comfortable, so much more low end snarl. Just a super versatile instrument. Only mod is the sticker.