Guitar Noise

In celebration of his hot selling book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Bass Guitar, David has put together a couple of bass lessons exclusively for the readers of Guitar Noise. Learn how to play this classic Pink Floyd song. It’s as easy as counting to seven (and occasionally eight)!

Here’s a great piece for beginners trying to get a handle on this confusing subject. And Paul Ortiz has gone above and beyond, providing some truly excellent MP3s to illustrate Dan’s lesson. Kudos to both of these guys!

This is a wonderfully concise walk through on how to go about recording music on your computer. From knowing the computer to shaping your sound.

Here is the lowdown on British bass guitar amplifiers. We detail the similarities and differences between the various amps and give you some help choosing.

Dan shares with us his love of the fretless bass guitar. He explains the difference no frets make and offers some reasons why you might want to go fretless.

Many people have asked about playing chords on the bass, so here is a discussion on how chords are built up from notes, and how they apply to the bass.

This lesson looks at the basslines from Riders on the Storm and Radar Love. We’re going to see how to use open strings to your advantage.

In honor of the joy of guitar, columnist Dan Lasley shares with us some of his favorite things about the world of music.

A primer on bass amps for beginners. Here’s what you need to know when you look for something a little bigger than your first practice amp.

While one hour of gigging may be as important for a bass player as 10 hours of practice, it is still important to know all your notes and scales.

To handle any situation in a band, you know to know how to play many different styles of music.

There are so many things that go into making a bass guitar. Here is a starter article for novice bass players looking to buy a bass guitar.

How do you make a boring bassline fun to play? Here are a few more tools for creating your own basslines.

There are many ways to get different sounding tones out of your bass. This article covers some of the simple things you can do to change your sound.

A beginner’s bass lesson on Horse With No Name. This lesson accompanies our easy songs for beginners guitar lesson for the same song.

This beginner bass lesson analyzes and discusses a few fun basslines and riffs found in rock music.

How do you know what to play when you only know the chords? This lesson shows you some ways to come up with basslines that sound close enough to the original.

This lesson explains two tools bass players can use to get off the root chord without being too risky. They are known as the Box and the Walk.

The most important and most difficult aspect of playing bass is keeping time. This beginner lesson teaches the basics of keeping time.