I PLAY GUITAR, I WANT TO LEARN BASS

[dpresti]

well, that pretty much says it, i've only touched a bass a couple times, but i love it! i'm good with guitar, and i wanted to know what i should do to make the transition to bass..

i wanna be able to jam out the bass well.. like i said, i know how to play guitar, i dont read music, i do know most of the notes though on the fret board... how should i go about learning bass?

[gumbomadness]

just pick it up and groove. its all the same notes and same patterns and same everything as long as you have a 4 string bass tuned standard. ( im not sure, but once you have 5 and 6 strings its a different tuning from guitar.)

[HCHaikuWarrior]

i feel you dude, i wanna do it as well..and the banjo and the drums and the keys

[i am sam2]

well i started out on bass(and still love it) so i cant help you with the transition...but i do know that you need to know the notes on the fingerboard, thats very important in bass. also, just in case you werent sure, the 4 low strins on the guitar (strings 3-6, GDAE) are the strings on the standard 4 string bass, which, from low(bassy) to high is E A D G....i think tic tacs can help you most with this cuz im pretty sure he started out guitaring it

[DUS7IN]

i want to learn bass too, my brother broke his arm so i s letting me have his warwick graphite neck which he paid like 3500 for to learn on.

[c_tietze]

It's only the top four strings, what's hard about that Jaco?

LOL! J/K

My good friend is a pretty good guitarist and he now plays bass in his band, for him it wasn't a hard stretch. If you're good at single note runs and have a knowledge of the guitar's fret board you'll have no trouble picking up the ole' four string.