# Bass vs 6-string guitar

Same EADG letter names (octave lower) — different job.

## Transfers
Fret math, TAB, left-hand boxes. Not: chord-first thinking.

## Job
Guitar: cool harmony/riffs. Bass: lock with kick, root motion, space.

## Physics
Longer scale, more sustain → muting is core. Fingers (not pick) default here. Slap has no guitar twin.

## Chords
Prefer roots, root+fifth, root+octave. Full guitar grips usually muddy the mix.

## Habits to drop
Strumming changes, flashy endings, ignoring kick, ringing strings, barre-grip thinking.

## One-week drill
Same progression: wholes → 1+3 → ghosts → one fill → two written grooves.

## Ready when

- You can say what a bass player listens for first (the drummer and the song's floor) and why a guitar-style chord grip fails on bass.
- G – Em – C – D with whole-note roots locked to the click, then roots on 1 and 3 with silence between.
- Root, root + fifth and root + octave as your default harmony tools, kept mostly on the E and A strings.
- Two contrasting grooves written for one chart, with one fill in bar 4 and bars 1–3 boring on purpose.