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10-15-2002, 06:43 PM
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About a year ago I was at a party.
The band I was with started playing Wild Thing.
I handed a girl the bass and said put you finger here, then here, then here. Pluck with the other hand. She didn't sound half bad for someone that had never played. Poor girl, she is about 5' 1" and I handed her my sweaty RIC.
Oh course the rest of the band said it was the best my bass had ever sounded. |
10-16-2002, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | bass is easy to play, but hard to be good at.
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it only gets hard after you've been playing 10 years |
10-19-2002, 07:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada | | | Fieldy = easy
Hamm = hard (or hardish)
depends on how far you push yourself
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10-20-2002, 08:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: uk | | | dont mug yourself man......"thanks" is a good reply like the man Brad said....
on the subject of whether bass is hard or easy.......
chops is easy
groove is HARD
once you are relatively competent...the hardest thing is to learn when NOT to play....when to lay back.......
Last edited by bggeezer : 10-20-2002 at 08:13 AM.
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10-20-2002, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Re: THE BASS ISN'T EASY!!
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? | Tell them to view this clip! http://www.gazzbass.com/Videos/HotWater1.WMV
I bet they'll be changing thier opinion.
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10-20-2002, 01:09 PM
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Just tell them, "Playing the bass isn't easy, I just make it look that way". |
10-21-2002, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Florence | | | I would say bass is an easy instrument to begin with.For example with a wind instrument,it is very tough to play 1 note for a total beginner.While with a bass you can more or less play your 1st note after 15 minutes.
That is where bass easyness ends.
For the the rest,it all depends on how much well you want to play it. I want to play better,and better,and better...so, bass is never easy for me! |
10-22-2002, 10:03 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote: Originally posted by bggeezer
dont mug yourself man......"thanks" is a good reply like the man Brad said....
on the subject of whether bass is hard or easy.......
chops is easy
groove is HARD
once you are relatively competent...the hardest thing is to learn when NOT to play....when to lay back.......
Man, talk about saying a mouthful
Words to live by.
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10-22-2002, 02:52 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | I've got zero chops........but I always get work
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10-22-2002, 03:13 PM
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Endorsing artist: Gallien Krueger | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: nashville tn | | | Bass is easy...the only thing easier might be the skin flute
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10-23-2002, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Re: Re: Re: THE BASS ISN'T EASY!!
Quote: Originally posted by Wrong Robot
izzat you?
its pretty cool whoever it is, got the left handed slap down pat.
correction: I found the gazzbass site...cool stuff.
to bad its not you, I love hearing smoking Tb'ers | I wish it was me!
I too like to see smokin bassists ... that's why I wanted to share the clip with you.
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