bass first or guitar?

[mike phillips]

well about 27 years ago i wanted to play bass. since my granddaddy had a flatop g@it^r they figured i should learn that then get into bass. the teacher confirmed that. so i takes a few lessons and give up. i didnt want to learn that damn thing in the first place. i wanted bass, after all roger glover played bass. fast foreward 27 years. im learnin to play bass. and i love it. so heres my question. did you learn bass first or g@it^r.

[anderbass]

I'm a recovering getardist, bass player...

[jwl]

banjo first, then bass, then geetar. peace, jeff

[Snarf]

My first serious instrument was bagpipes. Started bass a year after, continued for a good 4 years with pipes as my main instrument. Slowly bass became more prominent, and now I don't play pipes anymore. Kinda miss it. Next I'm going to start teaching myself jazz and new-age piano.

[Bard2dbone]

In order of starting instruments I played:

Trumpet>Violin>Guitar>Baritone Horn>Piano>Double Bass>Tuba>Bass Guitar>Mandolin>Chapman Stick

Now this iwas not as schizophrenic as it looked. I played trumpet in 6th grade band, and switched to baritone in 7th grade. They made me switch to tuba for marching band in 9th grade.

My sister started violin when I started trumpet. I made the mistake of picking up her violin while she was out of the room, and an hour later, I was better on it than she was. So Mom made me take orchestra in 7th grade. Later in the year the teacher let me switch to DB. But The school I moved to wouldn't let you be in orchestra AND band. So I quit Orchestra.

My grampa was an old jazz cat. ( He had played western swing with the Lightcrust Doughboys.) He was a guitar player and said he would give me pointers on guitar. I played guitar for a couple of years. But the DB and tuba had taught me to listen for the low end. So in 9th grade, I saved my lich money for about seven months and bought my first bass guitar. I haven't looked back.

Sometimes I would get interested in a different sound and learn a new instrument to have that sound or to better understand the other instruments I already played. Sometimes it worked (keys, mandolin) sometimes it didn't (Chapman Stick)

[d8g3jdh]

Alto Saxophone, then bass, then guitar.

[Don W]

For me it was:

Clarinet-> Trombone-> Guitar-> Bass

[anonymous278347457]

for me it was piano->clarinet-> bass-> bit of guitar aswell

Piano --> Trumpet --> Bass, and soon I'm picking up a guitar. I can still play some piano and trumpet, but primarily I'm a bassist and vocalist right now.

[Poop-Loops]

Same situation as you. Sister has an acoustic guitar (that she's playd maybe for like 100 hours on over the course of 5 years. Yeah) that I picked up and liked playing it.

But I decided I wanted a bass. Parents persuaded me to get a regular guitar. Bass is boring. Guitars are cool. So I did. It was fun (and I started learning it again), but in the back of my mind I still wanted a bass. So I just bought a bass and found new teacher, who also started on guitar and switched to bass, albeit he actually got good at guitar before switching.

I eventually want to be able to play both well.

[tplyons]

Alto sax -> Tenor Sax -> Bari Sax -> Soprano Sax -> Bass -> Guitar

[Synplicity]

bass - acoustic guitar - electric guitar (badly) - keyboard

[spudmaster34]

sax-trombone-guitar-bass

sax and bass are the only two I have stuck with

[Jeff Martinez]

piano > alto sax > drums > tenor sax > guitar > trumpet > bass guitar > mandolin > banjo

[Blackbird]

Guitar -> Bass -> Piano

Back on guitar after 19 years playing bass.

[FrigginChris]

trumpet=> bass=> ???

[Chase_The_Bass]

I like the name change lol. The 'g@it^r" probably threw some people off lol.

[mjolnir]

guitar -> clarinet -> bass.

I still play all three. Any hardcore bassists, feel free to shoot me now for being a guitar player.

[Bottom Feeder]

I first had a cheap 6 string acoustic. I broke the B and E strings and essentially played the lower strings as a bass. I always was able to pick out the basslines and was inherently attracted to them so I started playing the bass lines. Made sense to get a bass after that.

[Shakehandswbeef]

Flute, Piccolo, Tenor Sax, Bass