Who here plays the bass guitar and if you do, what is the best tab for beginners? (4-string)?
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basstabs.net\n\nas for tabs to learn, go along with a style of music you like and try to find artists that play the style of music you want to play
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Hi!  When I was first teaching myself how to play guitar, I tried to find some good sites to help me do that.  I found a few, (www.cyberfret.com was a good one), but ultimately, what worked best was just learning song-by-song and picking up more and more as I went along.  However, www.cyberfret.com will give you many basic lessons to help give you a jump start.
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I taught myself and to be honest you don't have to go by every single little thing the books tell you. To be perfectly honest I just bought a guitar (actually it was a birthday present), bought some basic gear and went from there. \n\nAs I went on I learned what to do on my own like the scales and how to play them. Although to this day I don't know their names or whether they're minor or major I know their fret notes. If I can do this I'm sure a lot more people can. \n\nI also found out that as you go along you always learn from others who play guitar and what to do. I myself have committed to the self-teaching method and only ask a few questions when I take my guitar in for basic maintenance. Everything else has been by ear and never from anyone else but me. \n\nTo do this you just have to keep on playing until you find a style that suits you. I learned right off the bat that I was a rhythm guitarist so I decided to use drop-D tuning and it sounds fine. You just have to keep on learning and find your own style. If you just keep practicing you'll get better and better and if you also experiment on acoustic and the piano you can also find some very cool chords to play.
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Welcome to the family, Little Sister. I hope you have a very long and happy stay with us.\nTo start off, there are NEVER stupid questions, especially when discussing music. If anyone refuses to answer your questions, or gives you attitude, remind them that someone was kind enough to take pitty on their sorry souls at one point, and that they were not always the "gods" that they feel they are now.\n\nAnyhow, to answer your questions:\n1.) Do i have to use a pick while playing bass?\nNo. I usually do not use a pick, and many "professional" players do not use them. Many players do use them. It all boils down to which is most comfortable for you.\n\n2.) Do i have to play bass with an amp or is it ok to do with out for a little while?\nIt is definately OK to do without for a tiny while, however it will more than likely impede your learning at this point in your career. I very rarely use an amp; however I have been playing for almost 20 years and can feel when I made a mistake. There are many decent beginner amps on the market for $100 or less. I would recommend getting one as soon as possible so you acn hear what you are playing.\n\n3.) I am not exactly sure on how to tune it correctly and i don't wanna break a string so any advice on tuning bass would be great. \nMy best advice is to buy an electric tuner. They can be purchased for almost nothing, and will help you out immensel;y. Barring that ,there are a few online tuners that are available. Here is the one I usually send people to- www.guitarforbeginners.com/onlinetuner.html\n\n4.) and if there are any websites that you know of that can help me as a unexperienced begining bass player can you let me know them?\nhttp://www.activebass.com\nhttp://www.basstabarchive.com\nhttp://www.basslessons.com\nhttp://www.visionmusic.com\n\nOther helpful advice:\nPractice EVERY day. Not for long periods, but rather 15 minutes or so at a shot. By practicing for that short amount of time, you are able to learn in small doses, which is best, and it doesn't really give you a chance to get bored, which will kill your desire to play.\nDon't EVER let anyone get you down by telling you anything negative about you or your playing, or your desire to play. If someone tells you that you suck, think about who they are and what they hyave accomplished. If they are not musicians themselves, simply hand them your bass, agree with them, and ask them to show you what a "real" bassist sounds like. If they ARE a musician, and they talk trash, explain that you forgot that they were born being a great musician, and very quietly hand them your bass and ask them to show you how to be better.\n\nIf you ever get discouraged, or want any more information, contact me through here, and we'll see what we can do to make you the best you can possibly be.
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Go to Guitar tab Universe... there's lessons there... and a very good library of guitar tabs...
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I like to use www.guitartabs.cc or www.ultimateguitartabs.com\n\nThose are pretty cool sites - they have pretty much everything and they DEFINITELY have that song.
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www.olga.net  It is the online guitar archive.  It also has some bass tablature as well.  It is completely free, and covers many musical spectrums.
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I agree with am1benz answer. I would add, however, that when I first started playing bass for a rock band (I used to be a classical guitarist) I found it to be much easier than guitar, but as I started playing more complicated music (Latin, jazz, fusion) I found it required even more work to play well than the guitar, because the strings are heavier, and required greater dexterity in my fingers in order to play fast and with a consistent tone and attack.
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I recommend getting the Ibanez 5 string. Very reliable, Very Versatile  You can pretty much get a Great bass with that kind of budget....if i were to really be picky, i would go to musiciansfriend.com and get an Ibanez BTB 5 string...you can't go wrong with that!!! FREE SHIPPING!!!\n\nGood luck on your endeavors!\nMike
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One good way is to follow the bass line and match it up with the chord.  There's a good chance that either the bassline will reflect the root note or be closely related to it.  However, the best way to discover the root note of a chord is to look at what the scale pattern is doing and use your common sense to suss out the progression.  Another thing to look for is a dual relationship by way of 5ths and 4ths to a note or a note and an octave.  In the final anlysis it will become meaningless because once you play with a degree of dexterity and fluidity you will no longer think of the notes theoretically but experience them with a kind of other sense.  For now you probably should pick up a copy of The Mel Bay Chord Book and learn every chord in it. Good luck and keep playing!
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In http://www.e-chords.com you can find a lot of chords for guitar and bass, it's a really good page.
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Guitar tabs are great, and very easy to read.  Perfect for the non-music reading guitar player, which is probably 99% of those out there.  Each line corresponds to a string, and the numbers correspond to a fret.  They take a little while to get used to, but maybe that was just me because I learned to read music notation first.
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If you've never played before, (and especially if you've never played any instruments) tabs might be easier to learn at first.  It's just one note at a time... but you tend to find tabs for more complicated guitar solos.  Chords aren't as easy to learn, but they're going to help you a lot more in the long run, and you'll be able to play MORE songs with those.  At any rate, the key is to practice.
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Unless something creeped up on my while i wasn't noticing, "tab" is just for guitar/bass. It's a roundabout way to read music by diagramming fret and finger position, some say tab is cheating cause it's not really reading true music notation. The only thing i'm aware of for piano is a "fake book" or fake sheets which provide basic chord layout for a song, but "basic" is the key word, it doesn't provide all inflection and doesn't account for the original sound and style.
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Hi there, the tabs are shown on 6 lines.\n\nEach line corresponds to each of the guitar strings.\n\nE ---1--- the thinnest string\nB -------\nG -------\nD -------\nA -------\nE ------- the thickest string\n\nMeans you put a finger on the 1st fret of the thinnest string and you play it.\n\n\nE ---1--- the thinnest string\nB ---0---\nG ---0---\nD ---0---\nA ---0---\nE ---0--- the thickest string\n\nMeans you play all the strings (strum) whilst putting a finger on the 1st fret of the thinnest string and leaving the rest open (that's why they are 0)\n\n\nE ---0--- the thinnest string\nB ---0---\nG ---1---\nD ---2---\nA ---2---\nE ---0--- the thickest string\n\nis the E chord, you put finger number 1 on G string, 1st fret, finger two on A string on 2nd fret, and third finger on fret 2 on the D string. Play all strings!
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Typically, I'll use the B string on my 5 string for material requiring those really low notes.  However, sometimes it becomes necessary to detune my E string due the the left-hand gymnastics that would be required to use the low notes on the B.  That is, some songs simply don't lend themselves to grabbing a C# on the 2nd fret of the B string; it can be MUCH easier if the E string is tuned down.\n\nIf the strings are hitting the pickups, there's a few possibilities: your action is too low to support detuning or the pickups are too high.  Lowering the pickups is the easiest; changing your action will require checking and fixing the intonation.\n\nIf the bass you're using still isn't working right, I'd suggest looking into a rental for a few days from your local music store.  Or, if you don't mind dropping a few bucks, a buddy of mine has the 6 string bass in the sources hyperlink and loves it.  $200 is short money.
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go to a  music store........there's lots of  books on tableture.\n\ngood luck  and never  quit playing.\n\nI  come from 22 yrs of bass guitar.\nROCK ON