that's more of a baritone guitar than a bass.So important I bought a bass and looking to get the new Fender Pawnshop Bass VI.
that's more of a baritone guitar than a bass.
yeah ...... they're pretty cool.I saw one last weekend for the first time. I was like "wtf is this thing?" Didn't get to play it though. It looked like a Jazzmaster with some big ol honking strings on it.
yeah ...... they're pretty cool.
I suppose technically they're a bass since they're tuned an octave below a standard git and a baritone is tuned ...... I'm not sure but I think the low string on a baritone is tuned to 'B'.
So they're not really a baritone because they're tuned lower than a bari.
But everything I've ever read about them says they don't do the bass thing very well and are 'thin' sounding compared to a normal bass.
They're pretty short scale for a bass ...... something like 30".
you can play it either way. Leo designed it and I think he had in mind that you could play the low strings like a bass and the high ones like a git.Are they played "single-note" like a bass, or do you play it like a guitar? What amp would you run it through? .
you can play it either way. Leo designed it and I think he had in mind that you could play the low strings like a bass and the high ones like a git.
As for amps ...... I'd be skeered to run those low notes through any of my git amps so I'd want to run it thru a bass amp ...... something with 10's.
yeah .... just the speakers. The amp wouldn't care.
And actually guitar speakers can handle bass up to a certain volume level. I routinely record bass thru my little Marshall MG 15 with an 8" speaker ..... I just don't turn it up very much.
And I imagine some git speakers could function fully as bass speakers if need be. For example that 200 watt EV that's in my Marshall 6101 might be able to do fine. In the 70's I used 4 EV SRO 12's to play bass thru and they had no problem with it.
.... but the only way to know for sure would be, "Crap! I blew my speaker" which is a test I wouldn't want to use nowadays.
^^^^ Ja, ja ^^^^For me the advanced aspects of the instrument are in the timing and arrangement. You can create whole new landscapes and emotional feelings in a tune just by changing the way the bass is played.
Adding some bass melodies during the drum rolls or quickly between chord changes really adds some nice flavor and texture to the song.
I think it's really important for just about every kind of music