THE BASS ISN'T EASY!!

Guss · #1 10-12-2002, 01:40 PM

I'm starting to get really mad about people saying playing bass is easy, espacially those who don't even play music at all! Can someong please give me something smart to say when ever someone tells me this?

incognito89x · #2 10-12-2002, 01:56 PM

Just tell them to listen to a Jaco, or Wooten solo. Or listen to an Incubus, 311, Mudvayne, etc song with amazing bass players. THEN ask them if they think bass is easy.

MuShRoOmhEaD · #3 10-12-2002, 02:08 PM

um tell them listen to MudVaYne, and ****in TOOL, ah so much more

Captain Awesome · #4 10-12-2002, 02:09 PM

Those people are just trying to get on your nerves. Don't sweat it.

FunkThumb · #5 10-12-2002, 02:19 PM

such cranky wally you are.

RAP'S NOT MUSIC!

PEOPLE SUCK!

you make a good affirmative case for the administering of psychotrops to children.

XavierG · #6 10-12-2002, 03:44 PM

I have yet to have someone come up to me and tell me that bass is easy. It helps to weigh 250 lbs., but being able to play a few good licks doesn't hurt either. It's easy to play a bass badly. It's a challenge to learn how to play it satisfactorily. Once you've learned, it's easy to play the bass. That's not to say it's easy to play like Wooten or Willis or Nitti, etc.

bassmonkeee · #7 10-12-2002, 04:14 PM

Why don't you ask a drummer? I'm sure they deal with idiots telling them that they aren't even musicians--maybe they've come up with some good responses...

**Pacman** · #8 10-12-2002, 04:25 PM

Bass is easy.

Turock · #9 10-12-2002, 04:53 PM

How easy it is depends on how far you want to take it. For the most part, it is easy.

just_a_poser · #10 10-12-2002, 05:11 PM

Yeah, it is.

Dave Castelo · #11 10-12-2002, 06:16 PM

another vote for the "Bass IS easy"

Ryan Berry · #12 10-12-2002, 06:23 PM

It s easy if you dont play anything difficult. Its only as difficult as you want to make it, and you can make it damn hard. Why would bass being easy make the bass a lesser instument then something like a guitar? Is a guitar harder to play and therefore better? I dont think so.

Chip · #13 10-12-2002, 10:54 PM

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

if you think its easy, you obviously arent progressing much

pmkelly · #14 10-12-2002, 11:00 PM

sometimes playing the bass is simple.... sometimes I want to throw it across the room! It's more like a relationship, with expected ups and downs...

P@

Brad Johnson · #15 10-12-2002, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bassman46
I'm starting to get really mad about people saying playing bass is easy, espacially those who don't even play music at all! Can someong please give me something smart to say when ever someone tells me this?

Say "Thanks".

That's the smartest thing I can come up with. Let me know how it works out.

Oh yeah... and calm down.

After all, bass "is" easy, heck, even Pacman said so

. OTOH picking your nose is hard. Ever get one that's really up there and you just can't...

you get the idea, right?

Happy prospectin'

Brad Johnson · #16 10-12-2002, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by pmkelly
sometimes playing the bass is simple.... sometimes I want to throw it across the room! It's more like a relationship, with expected ups and downs...

P@

Except for the throwing across the room part, I agree

Marty Forrer · #17 10-13-2002, 12:05 AM

I agree that bass is easy, that's why I've been gigging for 20 years or so. However, if you want to obtain a level of virtuosity, then it becomes as hard as any other instrument.
I've heard that "bass is easy" stuff, and I disarm the utterer by agreeing totally with them.

alx564 · #18 10-13-2002, 12:11 AM

Bass is a fairly simple instrument. What makes it difficult is the theory and applying it to the bass while playing with others, or solo.

**Pacman** · #19 10-13-2002, 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Brad Johnson

After all, bass "is" easy, heck, even Pacman said so.

Hey! Was that a wise crack?!?

Matt Till · #20 10-13-2002, 01:20 AM

I'm with Blackie Lawless... Bass is a tool of ignorance. It's so easy, all they do is follow the guitar and like... play an open E all the time... uhhhh.... sLIPkNot RUlZ!!!