How the hell am I supposed to boil the strings? There's no way I can fit this entire bass into that pot of water.

Instructions unclear, boiled bass strings with spaghetti, ate both

Bassist: "What kind of strings do you like?"

I do think bass should be a little louder than it is most of the time. Not louder or as loud as the guitars or drums, but just loud enough so you could hear it better.

As a former bass teacher (Fucked the nerves on my hand, had to give up) heres what I used to suggest to bassists.

If Ben Franklin was a metalhead.

This guy is the main reason I started criticising my bass playing and started taking it more seriously. Since then, I have improved astronomically. Thanks, Glenn!

Boiling thing is actually true he’s right. Just found your vids today man. Dedicated bassist and loved everything you said here. Don’t hate us all! Real bassists are nodding their heads and smiling with ya man. Great work. Got yourself a real new subscriber, can’t wait to see what else lies in the future!

I swear to god this guy looks like lord gaben with really long hair

"Bass should never be aproached as guitar but lower", unless you're Lemmy.

After you've learned all of that, learn to play bass keying off of the drummer's rhythms rather than simply following the rhythm of the guitar players. Succeeding in that will make your band 1000% better and more interesting to hear.

I think one of the biggest reasons why so many bass players aren't motivated is because bass usually just ends up in the mix as some kind of pseudo ambient background noise. Most bass players aren't given any chance to do anything other than strum boring root notes. As a bass player, I like to hear what's going on with everything, not just guitar and drums. When you listen to most modern metal albums, bass is just kind of there, with anything potentially exciting just getting drowned out in the mix.

(a little bass player whining, but not the type of whining you would think of)

As a bassist myself,I subscribed after this vid!He is the very first guy I ever heard praising Ian Hill-when I was doing so,I was always getting the ''who the hell is that?'' stares.And for the guys out there that the're ''language sensitive''-learn how to stay calm,quiet,make the distinction between general and personal remarks and listen to what is said and not how it is said-I learned a lot this way!

I boiled my bass but it doesn’t work anymore, help

The reason bass got a bad rap is honestly because of the emergence of rock bands. It's true. A group of friends get together and the two of them can play. One of them thinks he can sing and the 4th guy? Well the 4th guy gets handed a bass. Bass guitar, in any other genre of music is taken very seriously. Unfortunately in rock and roll the bassist is usually the odd man out. Bass guitar is not only important it's essential. Bass controls the groove of the song. Bass can control the melody and or the harmony. Bass controls the tempo with the drums. The bass player can "push" the tempo or play a bit "lazy" to create dynamic tension in the music. I love bass as an instrument. I think it's essential for your bass player to be competent. I'm a guitar player and I do play bass on occasion and I find it a very demanding instrument when it's played correctly. For all you weekend warriors who grab a bass because you think it's easier than guitar and you want to joint a band. Hahaha good luck.