New bass setup?

[c86uk]

So, after wanting a bass practically forever i have gone ahead and ordered myself a yamaha rbx170 which should be arriving in the next few days.

what i want to know is, when it gets here what steps do i need to go through to set it up to my liking? i have read how to adjust the action etc but im not sure what to do first etc also what are stock strings like? worth replacing straight away?

and also any other tips you have for a new bass player (but im sure the forums are already full of that)

bye...

[Spazzout22]

I'd say first thing to do is fix the intonation. You'll need a tuner. Tune the octave harmonic, then push down on the 12th fret. if the fret is flatter than the harmonic, scoot the bridge closer to the finger board (Away if its more sharp). Keep doing this with all the strings till they're in tune.

Action is all about how you want to play. I like my action pretty low, but not super. Go a head and experiment.

Personally, I think stock strings are fine to have on the instrument. You can usually find out what the strings are on yamaha's website. Most of the time they're fine.

My tip for all starting bass players is: Learn to read music!

[maco]

My tip for all starting bass players is: Learn to read music!
most important thing of any instrument

hey, why is it that when you're in 2nd grade and they teach you to read treble cleff, they never teach bass cleff? Then when you're in like 7th and find out about bass cleff (cuz the boys' voices changed) they never mention that to figure out what you're reading, just move all the lines down a line and all the spaces down a space in relation to the treble cleff? That makes it really easy to read.

[Spazzout22]

most important thing of any instrument

hey, why is it that when you're in 2nd grade and they teach you to read treble cleff, they never teach bass cleff? Then when you're in like 7th and find out about bass cleff (cuz the boys' voices changed) they never mention that to figure out what you're reading, just move all the lines down a line and all the spaces down a space in relation to the treble cleff? That makes it really easy to read.

It's like that with most music. To get bass cleff from treble you do the down a line thing. To get Tenor from Treble you go down a space (If you're on a line, it's the space below that line. If you're on a space it's the line below that space). Alto from Bass is the same as Tenor from Treble. Tenor from bass is a fifth up from whatever the note is (If you have what looks like a B in Bass Cleff, it's an F in Tenor).

Anyway, I've decided that learning to be able to sight read music is very important to musicians, in all clefs. I'm currently learning to read music in treble on the bass. It's hard because I can't really play all that well up high. Anyway...

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