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08-03-2012, 06:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: White Plains | | | I started off on guitar a long time ago, and I still have the majority of my guitar equipment. I love to play it!
I do prefer/feel more comfortable on bass though.
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08-03-2012, 08:49 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Brubaker Guitars | | | | | I started with drums at 11 quit and switched to bass at 15. Never looked back. Never ever was interested in playing guitar. I have been a bass player all of my life. Bass is it for me.
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08-03-2012, 08:53 AM
| | | I play Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Double Bass and Violin...but nothing feels like a Bass. Bass is the instrument for me  |
08-03-2012, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by hrodbert696  Is it your bass you don't want to lug, or your amp? I don't see that a bass is really such a big deal to haul. How about getting an acoustic bass guitar? They don't get enough volume to gig without amplification, but they work fine for jamming in your dorm room. Or, get a headphone amp or something. | Good point. I may just end up plugging my bass into a crappy little guitar amp I have and just playing it at low level through that. |
08-03-2012, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Central CT | | | I'll play any instrument available to join and hopefully enhance whatever's going on. But bass is and has always been the most comforting and comfortable for me.
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08-03-2012, 02:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Dallas FtWorth Texas | | | get a headphone amp for your bass ... and take your bass... i even have a little set of speakers that i plug into my bass instead of headphones... sound comes out... doesnt' sound like bass... but i can make music with it.
im assuming your talking about taking your acoustic ...
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08-03-2012, 07:56 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | I own two guitars that almost never get played, because I'm so lousy at guitar. Bass is definitely my numero uno. But having said that, I seem to spend more time on keys than bass at home.
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08-04-2012, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Grand Rapids MI | | | I took my bass playing as far as I wanted to go. I don't aspire to be Jacco but I did have a goal and reached it. Went looking for a guitar / keyboard player for a band and realized that combination was rare. So I decided to brush off the guitar skills and learn keys. I haven't touched my bass in about a month except to play at chruch and that doesn't take too much as I've been playing those songs for years.
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08-04-2012, 07:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Northern Virginia | | | If I was equally good at playing any instrument, I'd still play the bass. I love everything about it, the tone, the role, and I love to feel the vibrations coming from the amp. It makes me happy. |
08-06-2012, 06:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA; Mitchellville, Maryland | | | I suck at guitar so...
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08-06-2012, 03:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Mexican Megalopolis | | | I don't think there is really a dichotomy of "bassists who love bass above any other instrument" vs "failed guitarist/drummer/whatnot who had to pick bass or starve... but still hates the bass", if that makes any sense.
But I'd suspect that most members here relate to the first category. I know I do. That being said, I wouldn't mind taking the guitar once again while still playing bas as my main instrument.
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08-06-2012, 04:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Ireland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by carlthegroover I don't think there is really a dichotomy of "bassists who love bass above any other instrument" vs "failed guitarist/drummer/whatnot who had to pick bass or starve... but still hates the bass", if that makes any sense.
But I'd suspect that most members here relate to the first category. I know I do. That being said, I wouldn't mind taking the guitar once again while still playing bas as my main instrument. | I think all musicians enjoy 'playing' other instruments a little. But most people play what they love most the most.
Bass sounds 'special'. Kinda like a good drummer that tickles you with the groove... there's a feel with a bass . . . even when you just tune up - you know the groove is on it's way. It can come from other instruments but bass is it.
I haven't tried DB yet but I know the resonance and other factors may only intensify my love for the low end 
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