Okay, I'm going all over the map with my new bass. I need to find a way to play the bass, and not try to make it a bottom-strung guitar. I thought the best way to get comfortable with my new Spector would be to just play the root notes of the songs I'm working on with my guitar, but I feel that something is missing.
Am I just being impatient? Here's an easy example: Billy Roberts' "Hey Joe" is a song played using all major chords in an easy repeating pattern: C-G-D-A-E. I can play all the root notes without moving my fretting hand off the open-first-second frets. But it just doesn't sound like much. When I add runs, fills, and riffs, it sounds more like the song I know, but in my mind I think if I were playing both instruments, the two would collide somehow.
Perhaps I should try the backing track route? Maybe record the guitar part and then accompany it with the bass? Or vice-versa? How do you do it?