The video would only be 10 second long if he just said "it's a bass guitar with only the E and A string" rather than the 45 second (or whatever) labyrinth he created.
@@trytotakeit3916 not as much as a normal bass. It's just a novelty. That's why we keep adding strings to instruments. To make them more diverse. Not mad, this is just a waste of money. You can literally do that with any bass, and just not play the other strings. It's just completely superfluous.
@@Musician837 alright, get a hold of one of these, show me how you can do as much or more than a conventional four string. I'm sorry you get offended by physics. There is no possible way only two strings vs. anything more is literally impossible in our universe to be more diverse. That's almost textbook novelty. Give the two string to any decent bass player, there is no possible way mathematically, physically, or even skill wise. I'm logical, not narrow minded. Please, show me how that is incorrect. You cannot do it.
This is actually a genius way to make a short. turn a 2 second sentence to reach the minimum 15 secs and explain it in a way that is guaranteed to make people comment. nice work.
One of my favourite bands growing up was a band called D-A-D. Their bass player made these extravagant 2-string basses that just looked so cool and weird. Go look up "Stig Pedersen basses" or something like that
This feels like the bass I would have in a nightmare. I'm at a gig, failing to play a note, because the D and G strings are missing from my bass for some reason, and I couldn't sing because my mic was missing for some reason, and my clothes were missing for some reason...
@@althealligator1467you don't use a video reading app? It gets rid of all the nonsense and puts it all into text for normal people. You can also order the transcript in the mail
@@althealligator1467 Well, there's a caption at the beginning that reads "Two String Bass, from a guitar player's perspective" and his guitar reads "GUILD".
But that doesn’t even replicate what he’s talking about… you can’t tune guitar strings down to bass octave and have it sound good because they’d be too loose.
If you remove the two strings left, you'll get yourself a drum guitar. No need to mute the strings while you're knocking on it, clean knocking. Perfect for gangsta rap. Works with acoustic best.
There was a band in the late 90’s called MORPHINE and their bassist played a 2-string bass and used a slide on many sounds. Look for BUENA, my favorite from them!
This reminds me of what we did in a garage band in my teenage years. We had no money for a bass, so we took an old Harmony electric, removed the top two strings and tuned the remaining strings down an octave and turned the guitar's and amp's treble off and cranked the bass all the way up. It sounded horrible, but you make do with what you've got.
@@aircraftnut15 a two string bass is not really intended to be played the same way as a four string base so although the pick ups and strings can be exactly the same, the playing style that Mark Sandman employed just sounds very different from somebody playing a four string because the limitation necessitates a particular technique. I just have a listen and you will see. Buena by Morphine is a good place to start
@@DaveHilling slide is playing multiple notes at ones. The lower the notes on the bass the more murky and indistinguishable they become when played at once. so yeah all chords and harmonies are in the upper registers and slide would only sound good there too.
@@ItsMeYourRealDad Truth be told, it's nice to have, but you definitely don't need 4 strings to make it work. This is coming from a strictly 5 string bass guy.
@@WilDBeestMFI could see that being true if you're playing alone or just riding root notes in a hobby band. Set a metronome and try playing Thin Lizzy's Opium Trail without leaving the E and A strings, you'll keep time like a Taiwanese watch.
The lead singer/bass player for P.U.S.A.(songs such as- Lump, Peaches, etc) turned a flying V into a custom 2 string bass, and that's what he played on their albums. The guitar layer also made a modified rig. They called them "Guitbass" and "Bassitar" respectively. It's what gave them their unique punchy sound
So are these guys. The bass player is actually famous for his use of 2 string basses: ua-cam.com/video/2Umu5mI2Fqs/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/ASfVIFUw20Y/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/O8H_0RoHhUs/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/HEe2_wr6TQ4/v-deo.html
The music shop near me had one of those two string basses. A guy working there said any time they heard a bassist trying to play a little loud and show off with some slap stuff they would go get them and be like "hey look, isn't this an interesting bass, only two strings. Give it a go" and then watch as they would be stuck not having octaves to fall back on to play something that sounded good.
haha, funny joke giving someone a different instrument to make them look bad, if I hear a guitarist playing wonderwall I'll give them a banjo and laugh at them because they don't know how to play it.
That sounds like the local music shop from my town that went out of business the second a competing store opened up and nobody had to put up with him any longer.
Morphine, every bass enthusiast should familiarize themselves with them. Go do it, right now. Stop scrolling and look them up, NOW! Youre still reading this commemt, friggin stop it, you got work to do... go!
Look up the band “morphine”; the lead singer and bassist basically made up his own instrument (a two string bass) so he can play a lot of riffs easier, especially with power chords, while singing. Especially prudent when you don’t have a guitarist, the band was mostly him and a drummer and sax player. Goes to show that ingenuity and creativity is more important than how many strings you have (looking at you, 6 string bass players and 7 string guitarists)
Dont shame 7 string guitarists like myself who just play the top 6 strings and have the low string in their arsenal to just fucking rip on when they’re feeling unhinged 🗣️
@@SofaKing880I used to play that way too but let me blow your mind real quick. Let’s say you’re in BEADGBE. If you just tune the G down half a step to F#, now you have a regular baritone guitar with an extra *high* string. Now you can actually incorporate that low ass B string fun stuff while playing like normal. In my head, I now have a guitar tuned to EADGBE A, and even that extra high A string is easy because it’s the same notes as your regular A string.
les claypool and tosin abasi for example use the many strings to their fullest potential though, just play what you like but be aware of your skill limits, sometimes more strings is just confusing
@@roachdoggjr155 Hmmm....It appears I am one of the short bus kids I have been hearing so much about. I guess that would explain why I have been hearing so much about them.
Imagine being in an actual punk band and playing a neck that thin. That thing's gonna snap in half the first time you hit something when you're jumping round on stage. Maybe suitable for some pussy form of pop-punk.
@@Denkersis It never was up for debate though. You can call them what you like but the objective reality is that the thin string are the top strings. Doesnt matter if you dont want to call them that, but you can "disagree" that its correct lol. Well you can if you want to be wrong abut something for no reason I guess. I call the thick strings the top strings for kids learning. Too much else for them to be confused by at that point.
Normal person: The 2 string bass is a bass with only the E and A string. This guy: The intricately calibrated duo of metallic filaments adorning the 2-string bass, in their refined manifestation, navigate the labyrinth of the harmonic spectrum with exacting precision. Each string, a meticulously tensioned conduit of auditory potential, is attuned to a distinct fundamental pitch, thereby orchestrating a harmonically sparse yet sonically nuanced symphony. These metallic entities, poised upon the resonant body crafted from tonal woods, engage in a dynamic dance of vibrations when subject to the virtuosic manipulation of the performer's digits. Through this finely choreographed interplay, the strings, resonating with mathematical resonance, channel their vibrational energy into a transmutation process mediated by magnetic pickups, paving the way for an intricate journey of electro-acoustic transduction that ultimately materializes as a rich and evocative auditory experience.
OH HELL NO, don't patronize punk music by making the terrible assertion that bass playing in that genre is by any means so simple! 1/10 man, do better 🤦
Rob: Basically take a 7 string guitar. Remove one string to make it a 6 string guitar. Tune all string down two octaves. Remove two strings to make it a suboctave bass. Now tune up an octave. Remove two strings and now you have a two string bass.
When you’re trying to reach the word count on an essay:
LMAO
😂
😂👌🏾✋🏽💯💥🔥
❤ Lol! 😂
You caught me! 😂
That was the strangest way to describe what two strings it has.
The video would only be 10 second long if he just said "it's a bass guitar with only the E and A string" rather than the 45 second (or whatever) labyrinth he created.
@@SpicyPotatoe or a guitar tuned down with only the e and a string
"Take a regular old guitar add three strings, remove five, pitch it down an octave and remove two more strings..."
Not sure how much clearer he could make it…🤷🏻♂️🙄
As a guitar player it made perfect sense to me.
The power cord bass
How to get an instrument with very little use.
@@rickwilliams967 someone mad? It’s just a guitar you could get many of uses out of it
@@trytotakeit3916 not as much as a normal bass. It's just a novelty. That's why we keep adding strings to instruments. To make them more diverse. Not mad, this is just a waste of money. You can literally do that with any bass, and just not play the other strings. It's just completely superfluous.
@@rickwilliams967 Narrow-minded, technical musician alert. Everything you've ever known in music was originally founded in "novelty" instruments.
@@Musician837 alright, get a hold of one of these, show me how you can do as much or more than a conventional four string. I'm sorry you get offended by physics. There is no possible way only two strings vs. anything more is literally impossible in our universe to be more diverse. That's almost textbook novelty. Give the two string to any decent bass player, there is no possible way mathematically, physically, or even skill wise. I'm logical, not narrow minded. Please, show me how that is incorrect. You cannot do it.
2024 :One string bass
2025 : 1/2 string bass
2026 : 0 string bass
0 string bass is just drum
0-0-0-0-0 string bass)
2027: 0 bass bass
2030: -1 bass
2040: ssaB
This is actually a genius way to make a short. turn a 2 second sentence to reach the minimum 15 secs and explain it in a way that is guaranteed to make people comment. nice work.
He said it was from the perspective of a guitar player
"this is not a two-string bass, this is a guitar with four less strings, tuned down"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson, probably
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
what tha fuck yr
"it has two strings less than a six string guitar that already has two strings removed"
well, that’s basically what bass is - a tuned down guitar
Davie’s blood is boiling by that statement
One of my favourite bands growing up was a band called D-A-D. Their bass player made these extravagant 2-string basses that just looked so cool and weird. Go look up "Stig Pedersen basses" or something like that
Yes!
Oh my God, that is the greatest thing I've seen in a while!
Just searched it up. It's awesome
Another fun thing is that their name stands for Disneyland After Dark, they had to change it after Disney sent them a cease-and-desist letter.
@@DenSvartaStjarnan Disney had a laugh and a half
This feels like the bass I would have in a nightmare. I'm at a gig, failing to play a note, because the D and G strings are missing from my bass for some reason, and I couldn't sing because my mic was missing for some reason, and my clothes were missing for some reason...
been there partner
Same except the last part. That part was real.
@@stuiedamancant be missing if they’re never there
Naked at a gig ? Sounds more like a dream to me
and then you woke up soaked in piss?
GUITAR: EADGBE
BASS: EADG
THIS SHIT: EA, SPORTS IT'S IN THE GAME
Edit: Holy! 250 likes!
Okay what the heck 811 likes!
~challenge everything
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂❤❤
🤣🤣🤣
This bass was definitely made to troll those genres bassists lol
These are actual production basses, Sandberg basses are no joke.
Mark sandman would rip on this
@@robmd887came here looking for mr. Sandman ahah
Yeah no.
Tldr: Tune your thickest guitar strings down an octave and ignore the rest of the strings.
Honestly. Like why did he take so many steps?
There's nothing to read bro it's a video
@@althealligator1467you don't use a video reading app?
It gets rid of all the nonsense and puts it all into text for normal people. You can also order the transcript in the mail
@@althealligator1467 Well, there's a caption at the beginning that reads "Two String Bass, from a guitar player's perspective" and his guitar reads "GUILD".
But that doesn’t even replicate what he’s talking about… you can’t tune guitar strings down to bass octave and have it sound good because they’d be too loose.
the spirit of sandman lives on!
I love sandman
Came here for the sandman comments
The comment I was looking for 😁
Here, because I got a call back from the wishing well...😊
@@whispersignal1 I got one million…
If you remove the two strings left, you'll get yourself a drum guitar. No need to mute the strings while you're knocking on it, clean knocking. Perfect for gangsta rap. Works with acoustic best.
If Lil wayne can than anyone can...
😂😂
@@TheMegaGamingWizardWHAT DO YOU MEAAN
@@arcsadventure5245 remember when lil wayne tried playing guitar live on stage?
You know a guitar player has really lost it when they start slapping and punching their guitar more than playing the strings.
An ancient Kazakh🇰🇿 musical instrument - "Dombra"
Two string bass in the view of a bassist: wtf is this
There was a band in the late 90’s called MORPHINE and their bassist played a 2-string bass and used a slide on many sounds. Look for BUENA, my favorite from them!
Buena is a masterpiece
Chris Ballew from the presidents of the USA also used 2-string base btw!
Mark Sandman was a legend, and Buena is also my favorite.
Si si morphine molaban!
I Love Morphine
Could you have explained which strings you kept on the instrument in a more confusing way?
Right?
"Top string" usually refers to the light strings.
He kept the two thickest strings.
This reminds me of what we did in a garage band in my teenage years. We had no money for a bass, so we took an old Harmony electric, removed the top two strings and tuned the remaining strings down an octave and turned the guitar's and amp's treble off and cranked the bass all the way up. It sounded horrible, but you make do with what you've got.
Now days it would probably be considered great and hip in the metal scene
damn i wanna hear that actually
Mark Sandman was an excellent two string bass player. Very unique sound.
Why would the sound be unique. I’m actually asking I’m not trolling.
@@aircraftnut15 a two string bass is not really intended to be played the same way as a four string base so although the pick ups and strings can be exactly the same, the playing style that Mark Sandman employed just sounds very different from somebody playing a four string because the limitation necessitates a particular technique. I just have a listen and you will see.
Buena by Morphine is a good place to start
@@Nexuhssit’s pretty bad
Was he the guy in the "Presidents of the United States"? Seattle, grunge era trio.
@@MegaSmitty51 Morphine
New instrument unlocked: Bass Dombra
and he ended the video with Master of Puppets
I don't normally like or comment but that shit was hilarious
Master of Puppets has bass?
My thought exactly ahaha
@@michaelhaydenbellMaster of Puppets ≠ And Justice for All
@@unmatchedindifference8606 Man it's still barely there for the most part, but you're correct, it's not near as bad as AJFA.
Play it with a slide like Mark Sandman from the band Morphine!
Best band ever
My first thought. Morphine does not get enough credit
I was going to say this but I believe his bass is the D and G strings, which are better for slide
@@DaveHilling slide is playing multiple notes at ones. The lower the notes on the bass the more murky and indistinguishable they become when played at once. so yeah all chords and harmonies are in the upper registers and slide would only sound good there too.
Was hoping someone would mention Morphine here 🖤 Ain't nothing like Candy
The Presidents of the United States lead singer/Bassist played one.
Some 2 string, 1 string, no string guitars.
@@mattb4251old man on the back porch and that old man is meee
Shes lump, she's lump, she might be dead.....
As did Skating Polly's frontwoman before she added a third!
What a great album. Zero skipped songs for me. Naked and Famous for the win.
Nobody understand that he turned bass into dombra💀
frfr
Bro strummed that bass like a guitar and I could feel my bass hurting
I saw this band called "Pop Evil" & their bass player was strumming the bass, with a pick!
Bass players these days.
😮
As a bass player I'm gonna say this:
That's the perfect bass for 4 strings bassist
As a guitar player I'm gonna say this:
You need 2 more strings not 2 less
yes 2 more of LOW B AND LOW G
@@ItsMeYourRealDad Truth be told, it's nice to have, but you definitely don't need 4 strings to make it work.
This is coming from a strictly 5 string bass guy.
@@WilDBeestMFI could see that being true if you're playing alone or just riding root notes in a hobby band.
Set a metronome and try playing Thin Lizzy's Opium Trail without leaving the E and A strings, you'll keep time like a Taiwanese watch.
Coming from a standard 4 string bass player, anything other than 4 strings is unacceptable. Unless it’s just a guitar or 69 strings
i wanna see the two string bass from the perspective of a business man now
moneh
Lower string count decreases downtime of each string, reducing complexity and increasing margin
Чтобы входящие видели свет, свечу ставят на подсвечник, а не прячут в сокровенном месте!..📖☀️🕊
The lead singer/bass player for P.U.S.A.(songs such as- Lump, Peaches, etc) turned a flying V into a custom 2 string bass, and that's what he played on their albums.
The guitar layer also made a modified rig. They called them "Guitbass" and "Bassitar" respectively.
It's what gave them their unique punchy sound
the band Morphine is a great example of a 2 stri g bass being put to good use!
I was wondering how long I'd have to scroll to see Morphine mentioned 😁
Happy to see I wasn't the only one who remembers this band!
( I just started listening to them a few months ago, lol. Great band tho!)
So are these guys. The bass player is actually famous for his use of 2 string basses:
ua-cam.com/video/2Umu5mI2Fqs/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/ASfVIFUw20Y/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/O8H_0RoHhUs/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/HEe2_wr6TQ4/v-deo.html
Slide bass , sax and drums. They were ahead of there time R.I.P. Mark Sandman .
DJENT STICK!
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT 🤣🤣
You need more low end for that genre
Like Mark Sandman used to play. R.I.P.
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rob is that friend we all have who just loves everything about music. I bet he even has a sitar.
You can do way more than just hold down the root note, Mark Sandman played a two string bass in the band Morphine
With a slide!
The music shop near me had one of those two string basses. A guy working there said any time they heard a bassist trying to play a little loud and show off with some slap stuff they would go get them and be like "hey look, isn't this an interesting bass, only two strings. Give it a go" and then watch as they would be stuck not having octaves to fall back on to play something that sounded good.
Is still play octaves. Just need to stretch em out
haha, funny joke giving someone a different instrument to make them look bad, if I hear a guitarist playing wonderwall I'll give them a banjo and laugh at them because they don't know how to play it.
@@pptemplar5840that isn't the joke though.
Oh come on, that’s just evil
That sounds like the local music shop from my town that went out of business the second a competing store opened up and nobody had to put up with him any longer.
Unnessarsary..But it kinda makes sense, You "Knuckle Head"..Sorry about that.🤟
Morphine, every bass enthusiast should familiarize themselves with them. Go do it, right now. Stop scrolling and look them up, NOW! Youre still reading this commemt, friggin stop it, you got work to do... go!
Look up the band “morphine”; the lead singer and bassist basically made up his own instrument (a two string bass) so he can play a lot of riffs easier, especially with power chords, while singing. Especially prudent when you don’t have a guitarist, the band was mostly him and a drummer and sax player. Goes to show that ingenuity and creativity is more important than how many strings you have (looking at you, 6 string bass players and 7 string guitarists)
Dont shame 7 string guitarists like myself who just play the top 6 strings and have the low string in their arsenal to just fucking rip on when they’re feeling unhinged 🗣️
@@SofaKing880I used to play that way too but let me blow your mind real quick. Let’s say you’re in BEADGBE. If you just tune the G down half a step to F#, now you have a regular baritone guitar with an extra *high* string. Now you can actually incorporate that low ass B string fun stuff while playing like normal.
In my head, I now have a guitar tuned to EADGBE A, and even that extra high A string is easy because it’s the same notes as your regular A string.
les claypool and tosin abasi for example use the many strings to their fullest potential though, just play what you like but be aware of your skill limits, sometimes more strings is just confusing
The most obvious explanation for a two string bass
Fr
It was so needlessly complicated 💀
Literally could've said the first two strings on a guitar
That would be pretty inaccurate
*the 5th and 6th strings
@@roachdoggjr155 Are you one of those short bus kids I've heard so much about?
@@falsefreedom1713 A and E are the 5th and 6th strings
i think you might be the silly billy here
@@roachdoggjr155 Hmmm....It appears I am one of the short bus kids I have been hearing so much about. I guess that would explain why I have been hearing so much about them.
Now u got a big vers of dombra
So that’s different from the Brushy One String Guitar? 😂
Yes. Brushy’s guitar has one less string than this one.
For everyone saying this is silly or stupid, listen to Morphine.
Basically just keep the down E and A strings ☺️
A regular 4 string already has 3 more strings than it needs...
Imagine being in an actual punk band and playing a neck that thin. That thing's gonna snap in half the first time you hit something when you're jumping round on stage. Maybe suitable for some pussy form of pop-punk.
I remember this from POTUSA days.
You got that davie504 bass damn
SLAP THAT 2 STRING BASS RIGHT NOW
YEAH, SLAP!
Something that requires few notes to play, like punk
Mike dirnt: am I a joke to you?
Can u pls explain it from a banjo Players Perspektive? I didnt get it.
It's like having a 4 string bass but with extra steps and limitations.
This is literally the dumbest thing I have seen in a while xD
As a drummer, the top strings are the thicker ones 😂
I'm a guitarist who cares a lot about technicisms and I still agree
@@Denkersis It never was up for debate though. You can call them what you like but the objective reality is that the thin string are the top strings. Doesnt matter if you dont want to call them that, but you can "disagree" that its correct lol. Well you can if you want to be wrong abut something for no reason I guess.
I call the thick strings the top strings for kids learning. Too much else for them to be confused by at that point.
You can use it as a lead just as morphine did on their cure for pain lp where bass is lead and sax supports.
the perfect nirvana bass
Krist using all the strings:
😡
Pov: you know their two most popular songs
@@mr.iiconic Truets statement of in the world
Очень похоже на электро версию домбры, национального музыкального инструмента Кахахстана.
How much for the bass? TAKE ALL MY MONEY FOR IT
Please don’t let him have kids…ever . They’d never learn to tie their shoes
that neck looks like it’s about to snap at any moment
"We have dombra at home"
The dombra at home:
Normal person: The 2 string bass is a bass with only the E and A string.
This guy: The intricately calibrated duo of metallic filaments adorning the 2-string bass, in their refined manifestation, navigate the labyrinth of the harmonic spectrum with exacting precision. Each string, a meticulously tensioned conduit of auditory potential, is attuned to a distinct fundamental pitch, thereby orchestrating a harmonically sparse yet sonically nuanced symphony. These metallic entities, poised upon the resonant body crafted from tonal woods, engage in a dynamic dance of vibrations when subject to the virtuosic manipulation of the performer's digits. Through this finely choreographed interplay, the strings, resonating with mathematical resonance, channel their vibrational energy into a transmutation process mediated by magnetic pickups, paving the way for an intricate journey of electro-acoustic transduction that ultimately materializes as a rich and evocative auditory experience.
Any bassist taking this to a show should know they can be replaced in seconds
You can play basically any riff of any tool song on that
.....schism, literally their most popular song is d and g mainly
schism, forty six and two, the pot use the top 2 strings from the very beginning, Sober uses 4-strings chords… what are you talking about
@@VioletKatana64 thought it was the top two
@@thedoggy480 for one I was joking and I did say the riff. And I thought that was the top two strings still on there not the bottom two.
All that, and NO example of how it sounds/plays? 👎🏾
This might be the most horrendous explanation of anything ever
2 strings look like Dombyra🇰🇿
But bass😁
If that’s your friend.. I wouldn’t let him go near my house
He could have just said take the E and the G string off a bass and would have made the same amount of sense...
Looks funny but it's kinda stupid. Better to have four strings and not need it than need the four strings and not have it.
It’s cool and stuff but can you still play smoke on the water?
If someone’s interested enough to click on this video, they’re probably aware of how a bass is different than a guitar 😂😂😂
Этот бас выглядит слишком брутально
A Danish band called D-A-D have a bass player who plays Basses like that
In Kazakhstan we call it "dombyra"
Let's be real basists need 2 strings max.
..like stig pedersen of the danish band d-a-d.. :)
❤ Willy Dixon said this is enoth for a blues bassist❤ yeaaaaaah man
Mark Sandman (Morphine)
I feel at the end of the video like a master of puppets
Это электро домбра
Guitarra perfecta para los que solo saben tocar el intro de comes you are XDD
Quem me dera ao menos uma vez acreditar que todas as pessoas são feliz só que isso não é verdade a maioria vive de aparência 🤣😝
I think next will be bass without any strings
I could prob play some primus
Is that Jesse from breaking bad💀
OH HELL NO, don't patronize punk music by making the terrible assertion that bass playing in that genre is by any means so simple! 1/10 man, do better 🤦
THEO string ( bases fronteiras a Player •••
what the hell is this video you didn’t even play it
Tony Levin has played 3 string Basses for decades.
The only song you could play on this is Shine
That looks like it would break so easy.
Rob:
Basically take a 7 string guitar. Remove one string to make it a 6 string guitar. Tune all string down two octaves. Remove two strings to make it a suboctave bass. Now tune up an octave. Remove two strings and now you have a two string bass.
It makes me really uncomfortable
This bro has a real bass dombra in his hands💥💥🥵
О этаже эликтрическая домбыра
too many strings sorry, i dont like it.
Dombra
Dombyra: Hold my beer
The guitar looked like a dombra