Thanks for all the input and the jokes. I can read music somewhat. I took piano lessons when I was little. There is some basic music theory in my head somewhere. I manly just want to play for fun. I like a variety of music. I have books on learning. Just would like to have a real person there to help me
Hell, you're 80% of the way to being a bassist.
Once you figure out how the bass is tuned, where the notes are for each string, and the key of a tune, you got it made.
You can actually play along with literally thousands upon thousands of tunes just by playing the first and fifth note of each chord of the tune ... famously done in country music;
Or, on many tunes, just a single note (the first note of each chord) can be played over and over in time with the music, and changing the note along with the chord being played. Many rock'n roll bassist do nothing else ...
Then, as rp- says, you got guys playing like this over in the Music thread, a superb bass player, who actually played drums in a band I played bass in for a few gigs ... far, far better bassist than I, and I don't know which one of us cringed the most.
https://www.texasguntalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71314&page=26&p=1598911&viewfull=1#post1598911
ETA ... listen to Pete's bass line around 1:40, as he both backs up, and provides the vocal fills, for the vocalist. This is where rp-'s bit of wisdom of knowing "scales" really shines ...
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