Does bass matter? Is it even that important?

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Every once in a while, you’ll come across people who’ll say things like:

“Is bass even that important?”

“You can’t even hear bass - it’s just there to look cool” or even:

“If the bass wasn’t there, it would still sound the same”

Does any of this actually hold any water?

I’m here to tell you though, that bass is monumentally important to how music sounds and feels - even if it’s not immediately obvious.

The best way to show you the difference that bass makes to a song is to play tracks with the bass taken out, then inject the bass back into it.

I’m not talking about just rolling off the bass frequencies in a song though - I’m talking about removing the bass track from the recording. I found a ton of tracks with the bass track completely removed, so in this video, I’ll let them play without any bass and then add the bass back in.

As long as you’re listening on a decent sound system or on headphones, I guarantee you’ll notice a huge difference. Whatever you do, don’t try this on laptop or phone speakers - they just can’t reproduce those low frequencies so you won’t get the same effect at all.

In the lesson, I’ll also talk about the 2 legitimate reasons people might think that bass doesn’t matter, plus the one slightly less legit reason, and what to do when you come across people who say these things.

Of course if you’re just starting out on bass, it can sometimes be confusing to know what to learn first. Scales? Songs? Arpeggios? Reading? The list could go on and on. In my experience though, when you’re just a beginner, you don’t need to focus on a million different things.

In fact, if you just focus on 3 things in your playing and really nail them, you’ll be ahead of 90% of other bass players who don’t work on them. To make it easy to learn these three things, I’ve put together the Become A Bassist Starter Pack. It’s a collection of some of my best material for beginners and it’ll show you what to work on as well as how to get better over time.

To get it, just head to this page:



Sign up on the form under the video and I’ll send it straight to you - 100% free.

As always, if you have any questions, just drop it in the comments - I always love hearing from people who are watching these videos.

Cheers,

Luke

By the way, here are all the resources I mentioned in the video:

Bass-less tracks:



(This is just the bass-less tracks, but there are plenty more as well)

The specific tracks I used in this lesson:






Learn to hear bass better in recordings:

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