Playing the Bass, Explained In the previous entry I explained how a "song" works, and roughly how a bass works, and included pictures of my new bass and a description of learning how to play roughly 30% of my Spotify play list. A little more detailed description of how to play a bass is necessary. If this bores you, you may want to move on to the next entry which will detail a few of the early bands I was in, with pics and a few Soundcloud recordings (if I figure out how to upload songs to Soundcloud). As I described in the first blog of this series, when they teach you to play music in the school system, they only teach you to read and play the notes as written, and to behave yourself and don't cause problems. But they don't really teach you why you are playing the specific notes that you are, or why the composer arranged the bass line in that way. So you have to just know or figure it out. I talked about this a little in the second entry. The bass essenti...
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