Bass Guitar, specifically.

Anyone have any tips on just getting started?

I have absolutely no aspirations of being a great musician, or even a great bass player. I'm not even really shooting for good. All I'd like to do is end up getting to a level where I can pick a song or three that I like, find the tabs for them, and then play the bass line passably well after a bit of practice. I bought an overpriced bass ages ago, and have never touched it. I finally have a few free months with nothing to do though, and this is probably the best chance I'll ever get to seriously take this project on.

I know a few places where I can pick up music lessons... and am sure that would help a lot. But (the ones I found, at least) are crazy expensive. The teachers seem qualified and then some but, like I said, I have no professional aspirations or anything.

My current plan is probably to get like 3 or 4 lessons to just make sure I have the basic-basics down correctly (because working from misconceptions is a terrible plan). But after that, I'm probably looking at doing it on my own.

Any tips from experience or otherwise?

Last edited by Valeli (05-14-2016 01:10:51 AM)