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11-18-2007, 03:51 AM
| | | | Is it possible to learn the bass using a guitar?
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I don't currently own a bass. Is is possible to learn the bass using an acoustic or an electric? |
11-18-2007, 04:05 AM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Well yeah you can learn the basics, many people started this way.
But really, nowadays you can find beginner instruments new for less than $100, it's really not worth bothering. |
11-18-2007, 04:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Blackburn Lancashire | | | It's not ideal really. Wrong octave range and wrong finger/string spacing make for a waste of time which you'll need to relearn when you do eventually get a bass. I must admit that I did initially learn this way until I could afford my first bass. But I would recommend against it fully. It won't do you any harm, but neither will it do you any favours. Anyone can afford a bass these days, especially off eBay. If you're deadly serious about learning the bass pester the parents, sell off unwanted stuff like books or cd's on eBay etc, and before you know it you'll have a bass to call your own.
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11-18-2007, 04:21 AM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | While I was saving money to get a bass, I too played a guitar "as a bass" to practice when I couldn't borrow a bass. I found that a classical guitar has a wider nut than a typical electric or steel string acoustic, allowing a little better fingerstyle plucking. Otherwise, you might be tempted to just play with a pick--which is OK, but's not the ONLY way.
However, I agree with the other posters that basses are so cheap now, why not get one? In 1963, a cheap bass cost me $94. That was 34 years ago.
According to an inflation calculator here: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi, "What cost $94.00 in 1963 would cost $605.35 in 2006."
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11-18-2007, 05:05 AM
| | | no!
but maybe yes...but why would anyone wanna do that?  |
11-18-2007, 08:26 AM
| | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cnltb  no!
but maybe yes...but why would anyone wanna do that? | To have an instrument to practice on while saving money for a bass.
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11-18-2007, 08:35 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Montreal,Canada | | | Is it possible to learn trumpet on a trombone? |
11-18-2007, 08:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by peaveyuser Is it possible to learn trumpet on a trombone? | In some ways yes, especially if it's a valve trombone 
Anyway, when I was little I learnt to play simple bass on a guitar mainly because I had small hands and had no money. Never tried to play guitar on it though.
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11-18-2007, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by peaveyuser Is it possible to learn trumpet on a trombone? | Exactly!!
also , If it is bass you want to learn why not sell the guitar? |
11-18-2007, 02:31 PM
| | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by peaveyuser Is it possible to learn trumpet on a trombone? | In a way, yes. You can learn the basics of breath control, tonguing, embouchure, ensemble playing, reading music, etc. etc. In fact, many trombonists started on trumpet, which is the other way around, but it doesn't have to be.
There are even value trombones, which use piston valves, like the trumpet. Fingering systems, I admit I can't commment on without some research. 
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11-19-2007, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rochester, NY | | | You can, it's not ideal, because you have to go through some transitions once you switch. Things like neck length, string gauge, string spacing, fret distance, left hand strength, right hand strength, suddenly losing respect and female attention...
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11-19-2007, 07:30 PM
| | | | Sans the French Horn, if you can play one brass instrument, you can generally play them all with a small learning curve. In another musical world, I'm a jobber on the trumpet, and that's been my experience.
As has been said though, you CAN learn bass on guitar, but it's far from the ideal solution. If it'll help you out, you can buy a whammy pedal such as the one used by Jack White, but even then, the money invested in the pedal could be better spent on a starter bass if that's the route you're serious about taking. |
11-19-2007, 08:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | | | I guess you can learn fundamentals (reading music, note names, scale shapes) on guitar as it is tuned the same way, just an octave up.
The problems will be in your technique (as stated by others) and maybe your ear, depending on how much ear training you want to do early on. All in all, you'll be able to learn notes and become familiar with the fretboard but you won't really be playing bass.
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