Should probably tune it that low b, it's so intense
What's up guys this is M3RKMUS1C and as you can clearly see I got a bass guitar
This specifically is a purchase that I've been wanting to make for quite some time now for those of you guys out there who might?
Not know, I've been playing guitar for over 10 years
I know a lot of you guys have come from my other channels where you're seeing me play video games all the time
But really music truly is my passion. I would take it over video games any day
I know that might not seem apparent because you're mostly seeing the upload video game videos to YouTube in the first place so my Youtube
channel actually started with me posting guitar videos non-stop so and with this third channel
I'm trying to be more musically involved, but yeah enough of a history lesson. Let's talk about this base so this base
I picked up is an Ibanez SR 505
I decided to go for five strings instead of four because well a lot like seven string and seven plus string guitars
You're eventually going to upgrade so you might as well make it early on that way
You don't have to spend for a second or third base later down the road not gonna go super heavy on the specs just know
That it's a five string it has 24 frets
And I also picked up this Fender Rumble 40 watt which can get surprisingly loud
I really dig the amp, but as far as goes for all the EQ options on this guitar and on the amp
I've got a lot of learning to do and in general the bass guitar is brand new for me
So if you guys have any helpful tips if you're a bass player
Or if there's any useful YouTube videos you can link me then make sure leave a comment and just essentially save me from being horrible
at bass
First impressions of really playing base for the first time is really just how THICC the strings are and how wide the frets are what?
Would really be a pretty easy stretch on a regular electric guitar is really hard on bass. I'm finding that at the lower frets
It's easier to use your pinky finger instead of your ring finger to pretty much play anything
I don't know, so I'm definitely have to get adjusted to that
Another one of the big challenges that I've been having to overcome is just the intervals
So this is a five string bass, and I have it currently tuned to B E A D and G
So the interval change between each string is a fourth if that's not totally making sense
It's very apparent when you go to tune your strings like this
Because that interval that you're playing from the open string to the fifth fret is a fourth which is a pretty commonly used technique to
Be able to tune a guitar
Except on a standard electric guitar you get to a point where you have to play like a major third
And if there was a sixth higher string on this bass guitar
I would be having it tuned like this where I play a major third instead of a fourth, but yeah
It's one of those things that really shouldn't bug me and it shouldn't bother me too much when I'm playing
but it's just all those years of muscle memory you get accustomed to a certain way of playing in the higher register on guitar and
Then when you can't play that way on bass
It just really throws you off so yeah
That's another really common thing that I've noticed when playing bass for the short amount of time that I have played
Something like that
Really think that one of the biggest obstacles that I'm going to have to climb is the right hand playing I do a little bit
of finger style stuff on electric guitar and acoustic
But I don't feel like it's going to translate as well over to bass
I feel like if you were to develop those skills first on bass and then play guitar
It wouldn't be as bad, but trying to do it the other way around is not as easy
But it's really interesting though because that's kind of what really got me into wanting to get a bass so soon in the first place
YouTube started randomly recommending me videos from Tosin Abasi
And I had heard of him before but I really hadn't heard too much of his music and YouTube was linking me videos about his
Play style and it was amazing his picking technique on guitar is just insane
He has mentioned multiple times that Victor Wooten is what really inspired that whole technique
But he brought it over to guitar instead of bass and of course Victor Wooten is an amazing bass player
And I'd seen him before it really just kind of snowballed my interest and Here. I am with a bass guitar now
let's not forget that Billy Sheehan is just he's insane at bass and Billy Sheehan has played and toured with Steve Vai before so that's
How I ended up hearing about him it's kind of awkward for me to get a good angle
But I'm trying to show this whole picking technique. You essentially downstroke an upstroke with your thumb to create this kind of a sound
Which can't allow you to play some pretty fast stuff
I'm not that good at it, but
Can't get the clarity out of the notes
I got to work on it more
But on top of what I just attempted to show you you can also throw in like picking with your pointer middle and ring fingers
Too, but it adds a whole nother dimension of difficulty
As you can probably tell there's different rhythms associated with different parts of that technique
I'm not gonna pretend like I know everything about this technique or that I'm a master of it
But I would assume that you can do some pretty steady eighth note stuff by doing the up-and-down technique
You could do triplets by incorporating the pointer to if you're aiming for like sixteenth know stuff you could do the up-down with a thumb
And then the pointer and the middle finger, too
But I'm not even going to attempt to try to like throw my ring finger into the mix yet
I honestly can't even play any part of this technique up to a decent speed or with any clarity
But I'm really looking forward to practicing and trying to get better on I'm gonna commit the cardinal sin and play with a pick
I'm just cheating. This is cheating
I've kind of just goofing around at this point so I think I'm just gonna stop the video short here
I do
Apologize for not getting the Gem vs Jay S guitar video out this week because well this whole thing actually surprised me
I was not expecting to get the bass guitar this soon
And I figured why not this is a pretty cool video to make it's a completely new experience in music for me
And I'm really excited to try to get better at it, but yeah, thank you guys very much for watching
I hope you guys enjoyed really my first time playing bass guitar if you guys would like to see me play any other kinds of
Instruments make sure to leave a comment and yeah
I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys did it and you like to see some more music videos make sure to drop
A like and I'll see you guys later!
