How to pronounce“basist”in English

as any and they said well we at Le at least need a Rhythm Section and I didn't really know what that meant at that point I was like what is that you know Iknew drums I guess and they're like well we at least need a basist and so that next day Bruce and I went out and bought a bass guitar and we started a band andwe just started writing right away we never did any covers because I think we would have made the cover sound so bad that we just did only uh original stuff