Imagination

[mr_layback]

Your imagination is the most powerful tool you have when creating bass lines!   
Does anyone else feel this way?  You won't find your own musical voice in a method book, video, or LGM.  I feel that imagination is what separates the average from the above average. You can memorize every scale ever created, study theory for years, and know where every note is on the bass down to the 24th fret, but these are just tools to help you use your imagination to create basslines.

[BassMan2000]

That's what I was told along time ago.  I was trying to play like everyone I heard. One day when a bass player told me to play my own style. Every since then my style is left hand slap and ghost triples/quads. My main influences are Louis Johnson and Marcus Miller.

[MikeGee]

I like that, I spend most of my time creating verses learning the original bass part. I hardly play a song like the orignal bass player.

[Groovesmith]

Thats so true you have to have imagination otherwise you wont be able to play in any other setting other than a concert with rehearsed songs and nothing else


Groovesmith