Bass Guitar

Are there any Bass lessons in Guitar tricks? I'm new and just got a Jazz Bass and am a rookie at that too. Thanks Friz : Also i'm lookin' for some sites with Blues backing tracks for lead. Its the next day and I wanna thank everybody who replied. Thanks FRIZ

No, but everything you learn for guitar can apply to bass and, likewise, whatever you learn on bass works on guitar, too.

Hey Dude, check out the Jam Section here for backing tracks. There is a link on the main page.

Useful things for Bass guitar , major and minor arpeggios, major and minor scales.

Dead good !!

Rask
I know you play bass. Tell me something; I really love the bass on the En Vogue song, "Don't Let Go". It's an oldish song, around mid nineties. How do you rate the playing in that song? Even if it's not your kind of music.

Originally Posted by: kingdavidRask
I know you play bass. Tell me something; I really love the bass on the En Vogue song, "Don't Let Go". It's an oldish song, around mid nineties. How do you rate the playing in that song? Even if it's not your kind of music.

I'm not familiar with the song, so I checked it out on the iTunes Music Store...

In the 30 seconds of it I could hear, I didn't catch the bassist doing anything too spectacular. Very tasty and solid, though.

That said, groups like that usually seem to hire some pretty rippin' studio musicians, so whoever it was who was playing can probably throw down if they feel the need; even if they didn't get the chance on that song or even the album.

I mean, look at Bill Dickens: The man can scale from the top note to the bottom note of his 7 string Conklin basses in steady 64th notes, but he's done a TON of session work that you could probably never guess that from. (He also wrote the Cosby Show theme song and has ghost written more songs than I think even he can remember.)

Heres what happens when a guitarist plays bass...

http://www.pavor.de/audio/PAVOR_-_Totemist_(excerpt).mp3

Jazzy huh?

Originally Posted by: RaskolnikovI'm not familiar with the song, so I checked it out on the iTunes Music Store...

In the 30 seconds of it I could hear, I didn't catch the bassist doing anything too spectacular. Very tasty and solid, though...

You'd have to get into at least one full verse and one chorus to get what I'm on about. I'd never really noticed, I guess back in the day I never really listened to music.
Maybe if you happen to be in a music store you can ask to hear it, assuming they have the album (or single, I think there was a single of it).
For popular music (as opposed to virtusotic stuff) that dude or dudess plays really well. I think I'll also go to a music store, and see if I can find from the album credits who the bassist was. Or do you know of a place on the net one can find out these things?

Originally Posted by: kingdavidFor popular music (as opposed to virtusotic stuff) that dude or dudess plays really well. I think I'll also go to a music store, and see if I can find from the album credits who the bassist was. Or do you know of a place on the net one can find out these things?

Like I said; usually the R&B and Pop types hire session players and I'm not sure what the conventions are for crediting them. Somebody else around here could probably help you out with that a lot more than I could.

I just know that a lot of very talented musicians pay their bills with that sort of session work and also in touring bands then use their free time for the Jazz or Fusion or whatever stuff they REALLY want to do.