I have this exact UBass. I agree with all of your comments. It sounds great and brings the smiles. It's also much kinder on my tendonitis than my larger basses.
I’ve had the candy apple red model since September, 2023. I also own a Kala Journeyman with flat wound strings. The solid body is my favorite. I’m an older player, with only a few years of playing experience, playing with a ukulele group. The lighter weight and shorter scale suit me well. I tried out a Fender Mini, but the additional 5” scale length would require more fretting hand shifting than I wanted. Your review was an excellent overview based on my experience.
Thank you so much! My almost 10y old daughter during ukulele lessons was picked up as a natural bass player and so we have been researching the best bass to get her as we hope she will stick with it for a while but it still quite little. This is the perfect bass! They just came out with a pink model.
Thank you Travis for your clear and honest review of this Kala U Bass. I want to purchase a mini bass to start my enjoyment of playing a bass. I have considered the options such as the Squier Fender mini bass & the Jackson Minion bass, however, now I have seen your review it’s the Kala mini bass for me. Thanks again. Paul (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)
See...I have a problem with people talking smack about the silicone strings. I have an acoustic Kala Ubass and out of all my guitars and bass guitars it stays in tune the best. I've only had to make slight tuning adjustments a handful of times. I've owned it for about 5 years. Same strings. Still sounds warm and silky.
Just bought one, love it! Well made, with actually usable tones. Great tone control, turn it up for modern bite and twang, turn it down for classic rock fatness. I like having this little thing handy by my desk and just grab it when I need it and it doesn't get in the way when I don't. I previously had a Kala Rumbler, which has its charms but it's got a few annoying problems that can take the fun out of it. The Solid body is all fun!
I'm a guitarist and I have small hands - I just needed a bass in my studio for arrangements and not being used to bass even short scale basses are too big and my hands hurts. This solved the problem
Hi Travis, this really looks like a good alternative for travelers who would like to keep practicing during vacation, but can’t take their bass into a car, bus or plane.
Thanks for a good review. Had an original Kala Ubass, all wood, silicone strings, $600. Played it in our local ukulele group for a while before shifting over to real bass and selling the old Kala. But this looks like it might be a big improvement over the original. I'd love to see a comparison of this UBass and the Squier mini Pbass. Seems like the same thing for lots less money.
I'd love to have one of these for daughter. 🤔 It'd be perfect for her small hands. You made that sucker sound like pro level instrument. I'd have no problem laying that down on recordings. If my family wasn't boarding a plane to move to Kenya, East Africa next week, I'd buy one.
I picked up the fretless version last Saturday and love it, hoping that Kala comes out with a flatwound string for my fretless in the near future. But I'm likely going to want to add a fretted version of this bass sometime next year.
Travis, Thank you for the review. I have a few bass parts lying around. Quarter pound pickups & kickass bridge. Can this be modded with typical bass upgrades? Flat wound strings available? Thanks Tom
Even after watching the “who is this for” section, I don’t really get the use case for these. They’re still an awkward shape and size for airplanes and living rooms. Is it just feel? Novelty? I really like the feel and plunkiness of conventional short scale basses and guitars. And I’ve been known to play toy guitars. But gosh, in a high fi setting like this and when you already have a p-bass? I’m not sure I get why one would need it other than the views? It sounds great, btw.
Thanks for the rundown on this bass, Travis. I’ve got a nine year old grandson that has been messing around with my short scale basses ( (danelectro longhorn, ibanez tmb30). I think this little Kala would be a better fit. How much do they weigh?
Hello! Does the tuning hold well or does it cause problems? I bought this Ubass Kala Fretted Solid Body but the strings sound very “metallic” and the tuning is wrong, it is difficult to find the tuning with a clip tuner and it also sounds out of tune, no matter how many times I play a note it doesn't give the correct note? what will it be???
If you put kala flatwound strings on this, can you get a decent James Jamerson tone? I’m looking to buy a cheap p bass to get that sound and wondering if this would get the job done
thanks for the review...but, one test i never ever ever see of an instrument's sound...and i always do before i even pick up an instrument to play it...i run my fingers across the strings and get them ringing while it is still on the rack, and compare every instrument's (unamplified) sound to see what is the most resonant...you could have done that on this video and compare it to some other quality basses.
@@ritchiesims1369 i disagree...unless you are talking about something different with pickups, but you can change those out if needed. even if you mute the strings, more resonant is better.
I have this bass. The string tension is extremely tight. The upper register fret size is almost unusable but up to 12 is fine. Mine has a grounding problem so when I turn treble up full it hisses like crazy. I have a Kala silicone strings. Love it. I wouldn’t buy this thing again. Just me.
I have a Glarry 5-string right now, and was planning on upgrading soon. However, this wouldn’t be the option for me for the sole fact that the fret board is so short. It would just feel so weird to play.
I always thought that you have to be tall to be a bass player... not with this bass . And it is so easy now to travel with something like this and giging with something like Sansamp or Darkglass preamp .
Fender and other manufacturers are finally throwing their hat in the ring, but from my experience Kala has been doing it for a while. I was cheap and got a no name one that doesn't sound all that bad after tweaking for half the price of the Kala.
@@sterlinart yeah there’s a couple. I actually saw one in a guitar center a while back. It was pretty much what I thought it was. A u bass with steel strings.
What is this song in this video ?. Love this bass, it's so simple. Not the U bass, I mean the song. Who is playing that bass ?. What kind of a groove is this ?. It's 1970's I think and it sounds almost like Latin or Jazz But it's also Funky, I really like that song. Double notes are the Swiss Army knife of Bass, this line is perfect use of double note. I use them for so many reasons, situations. Drummers like it to hear that a lot. it's just good timing and this is what grooves us for the song. It's not a easy line to get it perfect. It's something I might even try to do myself, it almost sounds like me. There's only one thing to play, really if you're being smart. I would play it like 90% the same because only one right way to sound, not 67 random ones, not if you're playing Bass and it's strict job. It's not a job you can learn in a paragraph. The freelance Bassists on Fiver are interesting but I would need to hear samples first, if I hired a player. That was a good video you made, very interesting and hard to stop watching it, I had never seen that app before, I don't use social media much since well...I warned everyone to stop it, or else bad things would happen. This is what I said in 2009, about Facebook, I said pls stop using this app, thanks. Some good players though, some decent ones on Fiver. The internet is bad news now, people have just not linked it with badness yet, but...I am not sure what everyone can do after that, besides like Fiver...weird overall to base music on social media feels so bizarre. I will still be saying this when Im dead, that social media is no good. You guys agreed to a lot, when you uploaded here and for me I am just not interested in this same agreement. Even if this is the only way to get a job in 20 years, that wouldn't be good. I doubt I will do much besides stay home, play Bass and that's fine as long as I can hear myself, I could play at Church maybe, even if it was a Black church I think it would be okay to play I have played for all types of people and they like the same thing, anyways, they will like me a lot better now than college, I am much funkier now than college, objectively speaking I didn't know much about that back then I thought I was like Flea or someone and then people are like...what is he doing ?. I like that, slappadabass. But, now there's a rhyme to my reason and back then, no I was trying to do speed slapping like Flea, works for Disco to play a lot of octaves, something like disco but it's not even that funky, Flea is not exactly the same thing and he can be funky if he wanted, a lot of people do not hear the difference between him and like, Bootsy or someone originally funky, Larry Graham but I always liked Sly, so I knew that Larry was the funkiest one of the two, so I was always thinking well Larry, what about Larry guys ?. He slapped it before Flea did, but in 90's people had forgotten Sly almost except for a couple hits, everyone liked those. Thankyoufaletmebemiceelfagain, that one and everyday people everyone liked those songs in the 1990's, except for a couple people who are jerks and pretended it's not good music, there's always those people with bad taste, I don't think I am one of those people with horrible taste, people can be cool it's definitely possible to remain calm and play music. You don't need like, to freak out, dance or pretend to dance...play air guitar, make faces at me and then yell like the devil !. nothing, but you're great and thank you for your support. This is the kind of things people would do before, people are so funny when they see live music, it can be a twirling person in the crowd, like a human twizzler, we call those spinners, then you have skippers, steppers, boppers, it's all welcome and it's more fun than home studios at least people are getting active outside. What happened to the outdoor music ?. I have not seen a decent concert in like 10 years, I used to see them a LOT more, cause somehow I have seen a ton of great concerts and most of them were for free, I forgot how or why it was free, that's not good. We had a lot of fun, this is why i forgot half of the concerts we drank a lot. I seen everyone, like 4-5 times pretty much except the Stones, only seen them once but that was a great show. My life would have been really dull, no live music. Duller than a butterknife, is what it would have been like and we hung out, every day. I can only cry when I see kids hang out, on Fiver. You guys are like zipping through the app, I am there balling my eyes out looking at your faces, thinking about humanity on organic mode, just go back to normal pls lol. Meet me at the drum circles, let's do a jam and this is what we would do, why I always had acoustic basses so I could play unplugged. We didn't need cell phones, just listen for the drums and you would find the groups of musicians and if you wanted a band, could make one there and you would meet 30 musicians in one day, you find out who is cool right away. If you were good then we would get like 200-300 people in a parking lot, just to hear some drums, if we had some really good drummers. Finding a drummer was really simple when I was half this age I am now, social media is like the end of humanity, it's so impersonal. You have no idea who I am here, it would be different if we went back to our human ways, not humans anymore online we are...snapping turtles, I think online. If this was the early 1990's we would see each other in some concerts, parking lots or shows probably somewhere, in the country. I saw Soundgarden when they were like, in the bar...10 feet away and we were like, these guys are pretty cool, huh. Uh yeah that guy is Chris Cornell, he's the singer, and I will always remember being like there that close to those guys, I knew they would be pros and they definitely were pros and I remember the feeling of music just coming out of the woodworking, overflowing with music and bands and musicians coming out of every corner and every circle. I have no clue what I was doing there, I mean I looked the part but this was about it. I was a mediocre bass player, in the 1990s lol but I knew a ton of good musicians and I knew how to fake playing bass, really well to where it seemed passable, or I would play muddy or extra low bass sometimes, so just being a very basic bass player then. Believe it or not, this almost got me in some pretty good positions, once upon a time. I played on lot of stages actually, more than 10 is kind of more than a few stages, but it was weird I knew I was faking it on stage, nobody cared if I was faking it I guess. It's probable a lot of people faked it then, in the 90's most the bass players were actually not that good, Nirvana changed the way people played Bass for a while, anyone could do that stuff if you tried it for a couple weeks. If you didn't catch Nirvana, then you just don't have total musical edu yet, cause I wouldn't have missed that moment of history either, it just became iconic so I mean all styles are useful to know at the end. One thing that will guarantee that you're never confused about music is if you stay more open minded than the next person, whoever it may be. I might be the most open minded Bass player, in the world cause I do not judge the music coming from whichever corner, whichever group or circle, I think it's like ridiculous. I think most people have some musician boundaries, I don't feel gay or weird playing anything. You want me to play like a girl ?. Fine, can you play like a girl ?. That would be pretty sick, if u managed to fool me into thinking it was the sound of female bass, cause I am joking it's not going to matter what you are, like culturally I probably make better Chinese than you, I bet...but I am not Chinese, it would never matter if I was. I might sound more "black" than you, there's no black bass or white bass sounds, I can do both sounds. Maybe shocking to you to meet a white guy that sounds like color is not relevant to what he is playing, like anyone else. I like the same music as you, it's not going to matter. So, you can equally play whatever music played by white people, Nirvana sounds, and this is not going to matter at all. It's not like, a physical property where the music isn't conscious of that type of skin color or what are we talking about ?. I say this kind of thing to like everyone cause, nobody just takes it all in like I do. Nobody wants to mix culture, for music ?. Lol no, nobody does and only me I am the only open minded person I think. Everyone else I met is cultural, they have musical boundaries, I am a freak I have no boundaries and I am not sure why people do. My open mindedness and my discipline will pay off in the end, cause I won't be judgmental about whatever is being taught, I just know when people judge any music that's objectively good music, you objectively lose abilities to play good music. Nirvana is like objectively good, everyone should know it anyways. I wasn't like super into all of a lot of things I went to learn, I did it cause it's the right thing to know.
An added note: There are left handed models. For a parent trying to teach their left handed child, the options are limited and leads to a tendency to just stick to piano.
Travis i really really want that bass so please give to me my mom just die I stopped playing bass but now I want to play that bass again to come back alive in side my soul
I have this exact UBass. I agree with all of your comments. It sounds great and brings the smiles. It's also much kinder on my tendonitis than my larger basses.
I’ve had the candy apple red model since September, 2023. I also own a Kala Journeyman with flat wound strings. The solid body is my favorite. I’m an older player, with only a few years of playing experience, playing with a ukulele group. The lighter weight and shorter scale suit me well. I tried out a Fender Mini, but the additional 5” scale length would require more fretting hand shifting than I wanted. Your review was an excellent overview based on my experience.
Thank you so much! My almost 10y old daughter during ukulele lessons was picked up as a natural bass player and so we have been researching the best bass to get her as we hope she will stick with it for a while but it still quite little. This is the perfect bass! They just came out with a pink model.
Thanks to this video, I just ordered one! Cant wait to try it and thanks so much for the awesome review Travis!!
Thank you Travis for your clear and honest review of this Kala U Bass. I want to purchase a mini bass to start my enjoyment of playing a bass. I have considered the options such as the Squier Fender mini bass & the Jackson Minion bass, however, now I have seen your review it’s the Kala mini bass for me. Thanks again.
Paul (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)
See...I have a problem with people talking smack about the silicone strings. I have an acoustic Kala Ubass and out of all my guitars and bass guitars it stays in tune the best. I've only had to make slight tuning adjustments a handful of times. I've owned it for about 5 years. Same strings. Still sounds warm and silky.
it's cool that you like yours. but you are one of the very few who can stand those rubber strings. they do have a sound, though.
3 years with Golt Tone mBass, acrylic strings sound like an upright bass, no tuning problems, I love my bass! One the very few? Really?
It’s just the feel of them 😕
Just bought one, love it! Well made, with actually usable tones. Great tone control, turn it up for modern bite and twang, turn it down for classic rock fatness. I like having this little thing handy by my desk and just grab it when I need it and it doesn't get in the way when I don't. I previously had a Kala Rumbler, which has its charms but it's got a few annoying problems that can take the fun out of it. The Solid body is all fun!
I'm a guitarist and I have small hands - I just needed a bass in my studio for arrangements and not being used to bass even short scale basses are too big and my hands hurts. This solved the problem
Great demo, Travis. I just pulled the trigger on one to go with my Fender Rumble 40.
3 years with a Rumble 40, 18 lbs, Jackery power supply, carry it everywhere, great amp!
Hi Travis, this really looks like a good alternative for travelers who would like to keep practicing during vacation, but can’t take their bass into a car, bus or plane.
Sick! Dope review! I ended up picking up the Journeyman U Bass bc I'm saving up for the 6 string Sire.
Just bought one and this thing rips! Mahalo nui braddah Travis, aloha! 🤙🏽
videos are getting better! keep them up!
I have same Kala bass with 5 string. Sounds awesome!
Hey. Im from Brazil. Id like to thank you so much for all lessons, you are being my inspiration to play Bass in my church. See ya
Thanks for a good review. Had an original Kala Ubass, all wood, silicone strings, $600. Played it in our local ukulele group for a while before shifting over to real bass and selling the old Kala. But this looks like it might be a big improvement over the original. I'd love to see a comparison of this UBass and the Squier mini Pbass. Seems like the same thing for lots less money.
That U-bass should make it to national tv for live performances, both the 4 & future 5 string versions.
Sounds pretty good on the video with your playing it of course!
I'd love to have one of these for daughter. 🤔
It'd be perfect for her small hands.
You made that sucker sound like pro level instrument. I'd have no problem laying that down on recordings.
If my family wasn't boarding a plane to move to Kenya, East Africa next week, I'd buy one.
I picked up the fretless version last Saturday and love it, hoping that Kala comes out with a flatwound string for my fretless in the near future. But I'm likely going to want to add a fretted version of this bass sometime next year.
Goldtone makes flatwounds for super short scales.
Kala said flats are probably coming spring next year. I have flats on my Ubass and I like them
Travis, Thank you for the review. I have a few bass parts lying around. Quarter pound pickups & kickass bridge. Can this be modded with typical bass upgrades? Flat wound strings available?
Thanks Tom
I own an acoustic U bass that I 3d printed and recently modified to use metal strings
Even after watching the “who is this for” section, I don’t really get the use case for these. They’re still an awkward shape and size for airplanes and living rooms. Is it just feel? Novelty? I really like the feel and plunkiness of conventional short scale basses and guitars. And I’ve been known to play toy guitars. But gosh, in a high fi setting like this and when you already have a p-bass? I’m not sure I get why one would need it other than the views? It sounds great, btw.
great vid! thanks for the review!
Thanks for the rundown on this bass, Travis. I’ve got a nine year old grandson that has been messing around with my short scale basses ( (danelectro longhorn, ibanez tmb30). I think this little Kala would be a better fit. How much do they weigh?
Great review! I'm very close to getting one! Did you need to adjust it in any way, or was it pretty good outta the box?
I am learning how to play bass and I am in a small apartment so it work for me I would love to have that bass.
Thats such a dope bass. Would really like a small bass like that to carry around to gigs.😅
I love mine, but I will be puttting better tuners on it. I had problems with two tuners since day one.
Was just telling my wife I need a travel bass. Good review.
Hello! Does the tuning hold well or does it cause problems? I bought this Ubass Kala Fretted Solid Body but the strings sound very “metallic” and the tuning is wrong, it is difficult to find the tuning with a clip tuner and it also sounds out of tune, no matter how many times I play a note it doesn't give the correct note? what will it be???
The tones are plenty useable, but it's not replacing anyone's main full scale bass.
Why not? Sounds fine
They should also make a 5 string version of that ubass. Nice 4 string ubass though.
If you put kala flatwound strings on this, can you get a decent James Jamerson tone? I’m looking to buy a cheap p bass to get that sound and wondering if this would get the job done
Hey Travis have you tested the 5-string version?
I have the fretless. It's awesome.
Excellent Travis thanks
Looking for strings, sugestions please? Really appreciate
What gauge are these strings usually?
Has this been given away yet?
Hi, , thanks for the review, would love to win this bass.
what is the synth on the table behind you ?
Hey Travis! This is so cool haha it’s all tiny!
thanks for the review...but, one test i never ever ever see of an instrument's sound...and i always do before i even pick up an instrument to play it...i run my fingers across the strings and get them ringing while it is still on the rack, and compare every instrument's (unamplified) sound to see what is the most resonant...you could have done that on this video and compare it to some other quality basses.
The most resonant is not necessarily the best bass. Many bassists damp their strings anyway.
@@ritchiesims1369 i disagree...unless you are talking about something different with pickups, but you can change those out if needed. even if you mute the strings, more resonant is better.
ok... I NEED THIS!!
Yoooo they have a 5 now!
I’m going to buy one
Great instrument and great review! ❤✊🏻
I have this bass. The string tension is extremely tight. The upper register fret size is almost unusable but up to 12 is fine. Mine has a grounding problem so when I turn treble up full it hisses like crazy. I have a Kala silicone strings. Love it. I wouldn’t buy this thing again. Just me.
How much does it weigh?
I have a Glarry 5-string right now, and was planning on upgrading soon. However, this wouldn’t be the option for me for the sole fact that the fret board is so short. It would just feel so weird to play.
I always thought that you have to be tall to be a bass player... not with this bass . And it is so easy now to travel with something like this and giging with something like Sansamp or Darkglass preamp .
My Man Travis !!
nice bass my man
So Fender dropped a u bass and not a single video online.. suspicious?
There are a few videos... but the fender ubass is pretty bad. Skip
Fender and other manufacturers are finally throwing their hat in the ring, but from my experience Kala has been doing it for a while.
I was cheap and got a no name one that doesn't sound all that bad after tweaking for half the price of the Kala.
Oh are you referring to the Fender Fullerton P bass?
@@catvoncrimson666 Yeah, first couple weeks back when they first came out there was no videos.. There's surely some videos now.
@@sterlinart yeah there’s a couple. I actually saw one in a guitar center a while back. It was pretty much what I thought it was. A u bass with steel strings.
What is this song in this video ?. Love this bass, it's so simple. Not the U bass, I mean the song.
Who is playing that bass ?. What kind of a groove is this ?. It's 1970's I think and it sounds almost like Latin or Jazz
But it's also Funky, I really like that song. Double notes are the Swiss Army knife of Bass, this line is perfect use of double note.
I use them for so many reasons, situations. Drummers like it to hear that a lot. it's just good timing and this is what grooves us for the song. It's not a easy line to get it perfect.
It's something I might even try to do myself, it almost sounds like me. There's only one thing to play, really if you're being smart.
I would play it like 90% the same because only one right way to sound, not 67 random ones, not if you're playing Bass and it's strict job.
It's not a job you can learn in a paragraph. The freelance Bassists on Fiver are interesting but I would need to hear samples first, if I hired a player.
That was a good video you made, very interesting and hard to stop watching it, I had never seen that app before, I don't use social media much since well...I warned everyone to stop it, or else bad things would happen.
This is what I said in 2009, about Facebook, I said pls stop using this app, thanks. Some good players though, some decent ones on Fiver.
The internet is bad news now, people have just not linked it with badness yet, but...I am not sure what everyone can do after that, besides like Fiver...weird overall to base music on social media feels so bizarre. I will still be saying this when Im dead, that social media is no good. You guys agreed to a lot, when you uploaded here and for me I am just not interested in this same agreement. Even if this is the only way to get a job in 20 years, that wouldn't be good. I doubt I will do much besides stay home, play Bass and that's fine as long as I can hear myself, I could play at Church maybe, even if it was a Black church I think it would be okay to play I have played for all types of people and they like the same thing, anyways, they will like me a lot better now than college, I am much funkier now than college, objectively speaking I didn't know much about that back then I thought I was like Flea or someone and then people are like...what is he doing ?. I like that, slappadabass.
But, now there's a rhyme to my reason and back then, no I was trying to do speed slapping like Flea, works for Disco to play a lot of octaves, something like disco but it's not even that funky, Flea is not exactly the same thing and he can be funky if he wanted, a lot of people do not hear the difference between him and like, Bootsy or someone originally funky, Larry Graham but I always liked Sly, so I knew that Larry was the funkiest one of the two, so I was always thinking well Larry, what about Larry guys ?. He slapped it before Flea did, but in 90's people had forgotten Sly almost except for a couple hits, everyone liked those. Thankyoufaletmebemiceelfagain, that one and everyday people everyone liked those songs in the 1990's, except for a couple people who are jerks and pretended it's not good music, there's always those people with bad taste, I don't think I am one of those people with horrible taste, people can be cool it's definitely possible to remain calm and play music.
You don't need like, to freak out, dance or pretend to dance...play air guitar, make faces at me and then yell like the devil !. nothing, but you're great and thank you for your support. This is the kind of things people would do before, people are so funny when they see live music, it can be a twirling person in the crowd, like a human twizzler, we call those spinners, then you have skippers, steppers, boppers, it's all welcome and it's more fun than home studios at least people are getting active outside. What happened to the outdoor music ?. I have not seen a decent concert in like 10 years, I used to see them a LOT more, cause somehow I have seen a ton of great concerts and most of them were for free, I forgot how or why it was free, that's not good. We had a lot of fun, this is why i forgot half of the concerts we drank a lot. I seen everyone, like 4-5 times pretty much except the Stones, only seen them once but that was a great show.
My life would have been really dull, no live music. Duller than a butterknife, is what it would have been like and we hung out, every day. I can only cry when I see kids hang out, on Fiver.
You guys are like zipping through the app, I am there balling my eyes out looking at your faces, thinking about humanity on organic mode, just go back to normal pls lol.
Meet me at the drum circles, let's do a jam and this is what we would do, why I always had acoustic basses so I could play unplugged. We didn't need cell phones, just listen for the drums and you would find the groups of musicians and if you wanted a band, could make one there and you would meet 30 musicians in one day, you find out who is cool right away. If you were good then we would get like 200-300 people in a parking lot, just to hear some drums, if we had some really good drummers.
Finding a drummer was really simple when I was half this age I am now, social media is like the end of humanity, it's so impersonal. You have no idea who I am here, it would be different if we went back to our human ways, not humans anymore online we are...snapping turtles, I think online. If this was the early 1990's we would see each other in some concerts, parking lots or shows probably somewhere, in the country. I saw Soundgarden when they were like, in the bar...10 feet away and we were like, these guys are pretty cool, huh. Uh yeah that guy is Chris Cornell, he's the singer, and I will always remember being like there that close to those guys, I knew they would be pros and they definitely were pros and I remember the feeling of music just coming out of the woodworking, overflowing with music and bands and musicians coming out of every corner and every circle.
I have no clue what I was doing there, I mean I looked the part but this was about it. I was a mediocre bass player, in the 1990s lol but I knew a ton of good musicians and I knew how to fake playing bass, really well to where it seemed passable, or I would play muddy or extra low bass sometimes, so just being a very basic bass player then. Believe it or not, this almost got me in some pretty good positions, once upon a time. I played on lot of stages actually, more than 10 is kind of more than a few stages, but it was weird I knew I was faking it on stage, nobody cared if I was faking it I guess. It's probable a lot of people faked it then, in the 90's most the bass players were actually not that good, Nirvana changed the way people played Bass for a while, anyone could do that stuff if you tried it for a couple weeks. If you didn't catch Nirvana, then you just don't have total musical edu yet, cause I wouldn't have missed that moment of history either, it just became iconic so I mean all styles are useful to know at the end.
One thing that will guarantee that you're never confused about music is if you stay more open minded than the next person, whoever it may be. I might be the most open minded Bass player, in the world cause I do not judge the music coming from whichever corner, whichever group or circle, I think it's like ridiculous. I think most people have some musician boundaries, I don't feel gay or weird playing anything. You want me to play like a girl ?. Fine, can you play like a girl ?. That would be pretty sick, if u managed to fool me into thinking it was the sound of female bass, cause I am joking it's not going to matter what you are, like culturally I probably make better Chinese than you, I bet...but I am not Chinese, it would never matter if I was. I might sound more "black" than you, there's no black bass or white bass sounds, I can do both sounds. Maybe shocking to you to meet a white guy that sounds like color is not relevant to what he is playing, like anyone else. I like the same music as you, it's not going to matter.
So, you can equally play whatever music played by white people, Nirvana sounds, and this is not going to matter at all. It's not like, a physical property where the music isn't conscious of that type of skin color or what are we talking about ?. I say this kind of thing to like everyone cause, nobody just takes it all in like I do. Nobody wants to mix culture, for music ?. Lol no, nobody does and only me I am the only open minded person I think. Everyone else I met is cultural, they have musical boundaries, I am a freak I have no boundaries and I am not sure why people do.
My open mindedness and my discipline will pay off in the end, cause I won't be judgmental about whatever is being taught, I just know when people judge any music that's objectively good music, you objectively lose abilities to play good music. Nirvana is like objectively good, everyone should know it anyways. I wasn't like super into all of a lot of things I went to learn, I did it cause it's the right thing to know.
An added note: There are left handed models. For a parent trying to teach their left handed child, the options are limited and leads to a tendency to just stick to piano.
Travis i really really want that bass so please give to me my mom just die I stopped playing bass but now I want to play that bass again to come back alive in side my soul
maybe I'll finally have a chance of playing Portrait of Tracy on this thing lol
nice
Can you slap this bass?
Nice, but got the GLARRY, (A No-Brainer!!) Just as GOOD, Half the PRICE!!
First to watch ❤
Not worth the price, but would be good for kids to learn bass on
I wouldn't hand over a $350 bass to a kid.
Play before you judge
I have this exact bass and absolutely LOVE it. It does ROCK!!
Main issue? How it looks on stage. 😂
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Um did I miss you playing it. Too much talking my dude!
3:40 is groove city.
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