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bassist

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bassist.

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I'm a bassist, and was aware that Parker made basses, one of them for the legendary electric bassist Steve Swallow.

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Quick take

A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially the bass guitar.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially the bass guitar.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bassist.

noun

A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially the bass guitar.

Example sentences

1

I'm a bassist, and was aware that Parker made basses, one of them for the legendary electric bassist Steve Swallow.

2

And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist.

3

Written by Dave Allen, the bassist in Gang of Four, and now a digital stategist.

4

Could it be there was an uncredited studio bassist playing these parts?

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I'm a self-taught bassist, and I come from a very musical family, but I have no theory training at all.

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I've been playing jazz as a bassist for nearly 50 years, including with several big-band groups.

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I'm a bassist, so it's 40 Hz up into the midrange, with not that much going on in the tweeter zone.

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But like I said, I have a feeling I will fail to convince my drummer/bassist.

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So the video is by a bassist and meant to be applied to musicianship, however, it is immediately apparent after watching this that you can basically apply it to anything that you'd like to master.

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The bassist from ok go, Andy, also builds mobile apps.

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The bassist (that's me) is supposed to maintain the tempo.

12

Boneheadedly, we let the bassist do the talking and the Canadians googled their way to quite a few holes in his story.

Quote examples

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Imagine listening to a recording and going "ooh, that bassline", and then turning up the bassist and turning down everything else to hear it better.

2

I'm a bassist, of the "don't quit your day job" variety.

3

Added bassist Mike Dirnt, more succinctly but just as effectively: "As the biggest record store in the America, [Wal-Mart] should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art." Where does this logic end?

4

Klaus Flouride, the bassist for the Dead Kennedys had mentioned in an interview from 2003 that personal differences between band members, regarding the " Work 219: Landscape XX (penis landscape) " painting, were the breaking point determining the band's breakup:...the Frankenchrist thing was, say, a final straw as far as [Jello Biafra] going in a different direction than what we wanted to do.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use bassist in a sentence?

I'm a bassist, and was aware that Parker made basses, one of them for the legendary electric bassist Steve Swallow.

What does bassist mean?

A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially the bass guitar.

What part of speech is bassist?

bassist is commonly used as noun.