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10-27-2005, 11:15 AM
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Why did you decide to pick up a bass? What are the personal differences of playing each instrument?
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10-27-2005, 12:07 PM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | Bass is much misunderstood by guitar players.
After playing bass for a few years in a few different bands, I can't help but hear and pay attention to the bass player now. To the point of near micro-management (I am controlling myself...barely). Bass ain't just playing the root of whatever the song is, it is so much more.
The bass controls the feel of a song. It doesn't matter what the guitar player's doin', if the bass player's in the pocket, the song will move.
If the drummer is out of it though, we're all SOL.
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10-27-2005, 12:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ireland | | | I was curious about bass. I picked up a cheap jazz copy and a peavy microbass and I've never looked back. I've rarely pick up a guitar since. Although I've been fiddling with open D tuning on my acoustic guitar alot lately.
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10-27-2005, 12:45 PM
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10-27-2005, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Got a chance to get a cheap bass, did, and enjoyed it more than guitar . . .had only really been playing guitar for about 3 months tho, so, dont know if it really counts
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10-27-2005, 12:52 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | | Yup, me. But I still play guitar. |
10-27-2005, 12:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada | | | Needed another class in grade 10, my guidance counselor suggested band, I took it, they didn't need another guitarist, told me to pick something else, I picked bass, decided I enjoyed playing it way more than guitar and barely ever play my acoustic anymore(once every 8 months or so). That and having 2 other bassists in band was beneficial 'cause they helped me out with any questions I had for them.
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10-27-2005, 01:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: kansas | | | Band needed a bass player I decided to play bass. I don't approach playing bass like I did playing guitar and I haven't played much guitar since taking up the bass 4 years ago.
It does help me to know what is happening with the guitars in the band though. I catch onto the changes faster than I would if I had no idea what the guitards were doing. IMHO
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10-27-2005, 01:23 PM
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10-27-2005, 01:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | Whoever is trying to play bass like a simplified guitar is prolly gonna get disappointed, but I was at this fusion jazz concert once upon the time, and the bassist kicked some serious ass, even tho the guitarist was the main attraction.
I just went like "I didn't know you could do that on bass" and was sold basically 
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10-27-2005, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | I'm a bassplayer turned guitar player turned bassplayer who splits time playing bass and guitar.
But my primary instrument is bass these days.
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10-28-2005, 08:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tkarter Band needed a bass player I decided to play bass. I don't approach playing bass like I did playing guitar and I haven't played much guitar since taking up the bass 4 years ago.
It does help me to know what is happening with the guitars in the band though. I catch onto the changes faster than I would if I had no idea what the guitards were doing. IMHO
tk | Pretty much happened with me about 12 years ago, but I still have my acoustic lying around, and play it regularly. I gave up guitar for an already existing band here in Minneapolis that needed a bass player. And this was after the singer and I did a one-off band project called Baked, Not Fried in where he left me not only to handle rhythm, but leads as well. He owes me one.
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