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04-23-2008, 09:24 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | | Was Bass the first instrument you learned to play?
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Well, how many other instruments did you learn, or attempt to learn, before settling on the bass? Do you consider bass your "primary" instrument?
I started on guitar in 1st grade
Picked up trombone in 5th grade band
Started piano in 5th grade too
Started on sax my sophomore year of HS
Became a bass player my junior year because we needed a bassist........AND THE LIGHTBULB CAME ON!
Started double bass as a HS junior
Started tuba as a HS senior
Bass is absolutely my main instrument, in fact I rarely touch any others anymore, other than occasionally noodling on a guitar. |
04-23-2008, 09:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bremen, Germany | | | Before I settle for bass, I primarily played classical acoustic guitar, which I'm thankful for seing that it helped me with my right hand technique.
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04-23-2008, 09:36 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | | No doubt........I took classical guitar lessons for several years, and it was definately helpful, especially where technique is concerned. |
04-23-2008, 10:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mid Hudson Valley, NY | | | I played violin and flute before bass. Violin is probably why I gravitated to fretless.
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04-23-2008, 10:42 PM
| | I <3 Darkstar | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Riverside, CA | | | Bass is the first instrument I learned.
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04-23-2008, 10:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Northern Ontario | | | Piano, Trombone, Bass, Guitar..... |
04-23-2008, 11:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Orlando | | | Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Bass, Xylophone/Marimba, Other keyboards.... I only play bass and keys/ synth now. Quit winds around 9th grade. Stopped percussion after high school...
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04-23-2008, 11:42 PM
| | | | Piano was my first instrument, when I was a little kid. Guitar later on and bass within a year of that. Bass is my "main" instrument, but I still love to play a lot of keyboards and guitar... and really anything I can get my hands on! |
04-24-2008, 12:00 AM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | My first attempt was guitar at 10, but I don't count it, because I couldn't even make a G chord, due to my sausagelike fingers.
Learned drums in my Dad's church at 12 because we had no musicians.
Started on bass a few months later, because I wanted to play two instruments.
Over the years, I have gotten decent enough on guitar (still can't do barre chords  ) and drums to play live music. I can mess around a bit on piano and keyboards too, but wouldn't attempt that in front of people.
I am far away better on bass than any other instrument.
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04-24-2008, 12:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada | | | If you don't count "voice" as an instrument. (Elementary school always had music class. I dreaded it. Looking back, I regret not taking a larger part in it.)
It goes... alto recorder, xylophone, ukulele, classical guitar (IIRC), soprano clarinet... and here I now am... bass guitar.
Actually, looking back, I learned quite a few instruments. Too bad I don't remember how to play any of it. |
04-24-2008, 12:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: South West Sydney | | | yes. simply, yes. |
04-24-2008, 12:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Big Island | | | No. Viola was the first instrument.
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04-24-2008, 12:56 AM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | | i started out hitting pots and pans and various other kitchen-things with wooden spoons and such when i was very little, then piano when i was a little older, then bass when i turned... 12, i think. i've picked up many other instruments along the way... anything that can make a sound, y'know?
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04-24-2008, 09:04 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Parabolic Box  If you don't count "voice" as an instrument. (Elementary school always had music class. I dreaded it. Looking back, I regret not taking a larger part in it.)
| While I can't say I "dreaded" music class, I was never really comfortable singing. I wish I had developed more vocal skills as a kid, as I really don't have any singing skills to speak of. |
04-24-2008, 09:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | Yes sir, it was |
04-24-2008, 09:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pacific Northwest USA | | | Age 10, took piano lessons, but my heart wasn't into it.
Age 20, took piano/keyboard lessons again, my heart was in it.
(I've been in love with playing bass since 1985)
I'm no virtuoso at either one, but I've enjoyed playing both instruments live.
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04-24-2008, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | 1st: Piano (age 6)
2nd: Violin (age 10)
3rd: Upright bass (~age 12)
4th: Trombone (~age 14)
5th: Electric Bass (~age 14)
Current age: 40
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04-24-2008, 09:57 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | Started on bass, picked up some acoustic guitar. |
04-24-2008, 10:17 AM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | | I was a clarinetist before I was anything else. Then I was a (GASP!) guitard, then I came to my bloody senses and picked up a bass.
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04-24-2008, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | Started out as a drummer for the school band in 3rd grade. Stuck with it up until I graduated High School. Freshman year of college is when I first started to noodle around on bass, but I've only been serious about it since senior year of college.
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