Originally Posted by: RazboYou are subscribed but don't own a guitar? You should get one soon! :) To me, Bass is like the bridge between drums and guitar. It's the fusion of percussion and scale. I never really appreciated what bass was until I started dabbling with recording. Anytime I put drums down before bass, it was always a little off, and I'd have to go back and do the bass first, then the drums.

Bass and drums work together and are kind of a unit underneath the other instruments. At least that's the way I think of it.

Perfectly said! I was in a band in high school where we all tried to show off an out-do eachother, so to speak. I was bass, and the drummer was very flashy. Granted it was punk, but still...as a bass player, you need to think about the good of the song, not how you are going to show off. For rock music, a lot of the time, the better bass playing is the more rhythmic playing (working with the drums). I love 80s metal, and it is VERY apparent in that.