“When I was in junior high, I wanted to be in the school orchestra,” says Rod EilicOtt, bassist for Cold Blood, “so I asked my father what I should play , and he said, “Learn to play bass and you’ll never be out of work. Good bass players are hard to find.’”

The electric bass can be a difficult instrument to play but the basics' are fairly easy to learn. First off, there’s only four strings, tuned from the fourth string to first string (thickest to thinnest), E, A, D, and G. To tune the bass with a guitarist (who is in tune), it is usually easiest to start by tuning your G string to the sound of the guitarist fretting a G (third fret) on his sixth String.(low E). The following is a little bit about each one of the people I consider to be the best bassists in the industry.