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Heyo bass community, recently I have had a mind block with creating riffs and songs. I've played bass for two years but understand a good chunk about the bass, i'm interested in funk and metal/rock, me and my friend have a duo going on and we are planning after high school to make music a full time job*.
I'm trying to be more creative with my riffs, I mostly tune in EADG (Standard) and DADG (drop d) and have recently discovered a marvelous tuning EGEG (Egg?) and love using creative power-chord based Flea-esk bass riffs. I enjoy using harmonics for melodic riffs (I highly recommend EGEG tuning for beautiful harmonic playing).
MY PROBLEM:
I'm having a mind-block/stump with creating new and better base riffs that are funk based with rock roots. I'm trying new and different tunings but it continues to be difficult, if anyone has any ways to improve playing based of simple standards that would be greatly appreciated, i just want tips on improving my playing for coming up with riffs, please and thank you, criticism is taking lightly, so bash away and please, be brutally honest.
*You should check out my “band page”, it's a small community consisting of my school mates and family, but we would love the support, we only upload covers and musical comedy
Facebook search or google search ‘Sibenavo’, its literally the only thing to come up.
