How to Choose Your First Bass | #MyFirstInstrument | Thomann

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Julia shows you some of the things you should pay attention to when choosing your first bass! How do the different pickups sound like, should you get a 5-string as a first bass and why it could make sense to get a short scale. Hopefully this will help you a bit to choose your very first bass!

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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Intro
0:39 The Pickups
1:03 Playing Singlecoil Pickup
1:44 Playing Split Coil Pickup
1:59 Playing Humbucker
2:07 4 or 5 String Bass?
2:47 Playing 5 String Bass
2:57 Scale Lenght? Short Scale?
3:34 Playing Medium Scale Bass
3:42 Fretless Bass
4:11 Playing Fretless Bass
4:25 Roundwound and Flatwound Strings?
4:42 Playing Roundwound vs Flatwound Strings
5:03 Please comment if you have any questions!
5:24 Thanks for watching!

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