Bass Playing

My favourite hobby

Girl with pink hair playing bass
Nicole Row and her bass guitar Woman playing bass on the sofa Victoria De Angelis playing bass live Bass player at a concert

Bass is more than just a guitar with two fewer strings. It has a different tone, scale length, feel and musical role, and in many cases it requires a different conceptual and technical approach. Guitarists who are new to playing bass will often double the guitar part one octave lower. There is certainly a place for lockstep octave doubling - just listen to Aerosmith’s Sweet Emotion, Led Zeppelin’s The Ocean and Pantera’s I’m Broken. But there is so much more that can be done with the bass guitar.