does anyone have any tips on how to write punk bass lines?
Punk Bass
Grayson Evans
Christopher Diaz
what wave of punk are we talking about?
Julian Kelly
Hit random strings until it sounds good
Ethan Carter
just learn basic music theory
learn about things like the circle of fifths and mess around with the major scale
Adrian Cox
You gotta suck at it
Henry Miller
en.wikipedia.org
now just hit up /fa/ and you're good to go
Charles Taylor
t. pic related
Juan Wood
>punk
>theory
Don't listen, learn some songs by your favorite bands, then make sure you understand what the theory behind it was so you can start learning to write.
Nolan Evans
>4/4
Gabriel Gray
mark hoppus
Luke James
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Tyler Cook
and thats actually the more difficult and basically redundant way to play a G
just simply blunt the A string
Xavier Hill
how the fuck could someone not play bass guitar for a punk band. could he not even play open notes and the dotted frets?
Ryan Moore
learn the major scale for pop punk and maybe the phrygian dominant for heavier stuff and just play around with it, but mostly use your ears, learn a bunch of songs and experiment
Aaron Ortiz
>could he not even play the dotted frets?
quality trips
Jason Bennett
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Xavier Murphy
just play the fucking root notes
Joshua Ortiz
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Julian Richardson
yes? you're already playing a B like one octave up on the B string. The only reason to play it the way in that pic would be for a specific finger picking pattern.
you just blunt the A string with the side of your middle finger that's playing the low G
Justin Powell
Isaac Price
*skip to 0:59
Lucas Mitchell
run some scales, just follow the root note of the rhythm guitar but experiment as well so you can have fun putting more complicated chains together
Nathaniel Foster
Matt Freeman
Mike Dirnt
Fat Mike when he puts his mind to it
But if you take away any name from this post, make it this one: Tom Crease.
He plays bass for Frenzal Rhomb, a great example of slapping in punk
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And just listen to anything by them. Saw them last night, they're a great live show.
Austin Rodriguez
Shit, I forgot Tony Lombardo from Descendents. Just listen to Milo Goes to College all the way through.
Charles Ortiz
Listen to The Minutemen and take your cues from Mike Watt.
Evan Lopez
Bro, that would make at least a G6 if you only blunt the A string. get good and play a G, even fucking cowboys can play guitar better than you
Chase Russell
That's not I IV V wtf lol
Bentley Jackson
just copy any reggae bass line and you're good
Aiden Gutierrez
>blunt the string
Fuck are you talking about
Do you mean mute or fret?
Christopher Campbell
When my friends and I jam we do something called the crappy punk segment.
Basically it starts out with me humming the rhythm to the guitar or bass player (it has to real simple). The simpler the better.
Than we ask the crowd for something they either do or don't want to do.
We have such local hits as
I want to wipe my ass sideways
I don't want to shower with you (talks about cleaning your dick in front of your gf)
I want to play grand theft auto for real
And literally anything else. Just make up the words as you go.
Real basic bass lines generally just follow the guitar directly, or play whole notes opposed to their rapid notes.
For super balls easy bass lines play early black flag.
Nicholas Hall
The Jesus Lizard has fun bass lines, if they count as punk. So does Minutemen and the Clash
Gavin Cruz
This guy is right. Punk is not a real musical genre, it is just a fashion trend. The music is pretty much the least important part of it.