Bass Learning Resources

[snitchez]

JMJ?

i was hoping to pick up a black jmj and just missed out on one, but picked up a Mikey Way mustang which has a humbucking pup from the looks of it.
Yet to look under the hood if i can put normal mustang pickups in (i believe its doable), but having fun with it unplugged for now!

Will attempt to plug it into a headphone amp tonight.

[snitchez]

I’d recommend buying a keyboard and learning chords. Bass is essentials a harmony instrument, once you’ve got you’re harmony concepts tight that changes everything.
I’d also buy a good sampler/ drum machine or learn to play some basic drum patterns, developing that drummer/bass player rhythmic telepathy is crucial.

Recommendations on a sampler/drum machine Kev? bought a fun little mustang to reignite my bass playing

So, here is a genius little application for the new ditto looper. The new version has USB and 99 slots for tracks. So I’ve uploaded all my loops/breaks into the ditto and the knob controls the looper wet dry. I load up a break beat and then jam with the looper. You can load backing tracking, whatever it’s got something like 6 hours of audio.
I’ve had all the samplers, this is tiny, more memory and slots. If you’re interested I can share my drive of breaks/samples

i was hoping you were gonna tell me to go down the teenage engineering route or some fun way... i'll look out for a ditto looper and let you know. i find it annoying with apps and software sometimes.... maybe it just the laziness of overcoming the learning curve.

[Kev77]

I’ve had an OP1, super fun for a little while. I’ve had all the Boss samplers and I’m more of a play to loops than twiddle with loop layers guy, at least at a hardware level. Setting up the ditto is drag and drop setup once.
Happy to help if you need it