Timeline for From what guitar tuning downwards do you stop needing a bass player in a metal context?
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| May 12, 2016 at 8:44 | comment | added | papakias | You always need a bassist. Especially for metal. Bass compliments the guitar and adds other frequencies and harmonics that even make the guitar sound better and more complete | |
| May 12, 2016 at 7:05 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Frankly, being a bassist myself, I'd be more inclined towards sacking the guitarist ;) For a fine example, see Royal Blood - youtube.com/results?search_query=royal+blood Check out the live sets to see they can also do it live. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 20:24 | comment | added | H3R3T1K | I was assuming that we all agree that a bass player is needed in a metal context. I just wanted to know if that changes when guitar players tune insanely low. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 20:00 | answer | added | Нет войне | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 11, 2016 at 18:02 | comment | added | Yorik | The Doors didn't need one (live). | |
| May 11, 2016 at 17:38 | answer | added | yossarian | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 11, 2016 at 17:23 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Seems like a matter of opinion to me. Do you ever "need" a bass player? Standard bass tuning is an octave below guitar, so another way to look at is that as soon as you have an E an octave below the low E in standard guitar tuning, you have access to all the notes a four string bass in standard tuning can play. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 17:19 | history | asked | H3R3T1K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |