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08-12-2008, 09:16 AM
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I don't know about you all but 'lead guitar' just doesn't cut it for me. You can play lead on a bass guitar. I wish that there was a good prefix for what most people consider to be the guitar. Baritone guitar is taken and so is tenor guitar, alto, and soprano. Maybe contra-tenor guitar. But, I don't know what is lower, the tenor guitar or the "normal" guitar. By the way, a tenor guitar is a four-string guitar that is designed for banjo players who want a guitar sound.
Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas? |
08-12-2008, 09:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wichita, KS | | | what's wrong with just plain old "guitar?"
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08-12-2008, 10:09 AM
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08-12-2008, 10:09 AM
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08-12-2008, 10:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Somewhere in Canada | | I'd say it depends on the band situation. If the band is something like Primus (*shudder*) then you would call it Lead Bass. However if it's more like Van Halen or Guns n Roses, you would say Lead Guitar.
Never liked the sound of the name Lead Bass though. Even with how conceited I pretend to be, that name doesn't give me a feeling of power because it just doesn't flow.
How about...God Bass? 
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08-12-2008, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by jacofan12609 Each saxophone has its own prefix, and so does each type of clarinet. | ok, what's your point?
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08-12-2008, 12:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Riverview, FL, USA | | | I am just asking what you all think is a good prefix for the "lead" guitar. I don't know how important it is. I just want to know what you guys think. There is nothing wrong with just calling it a guitar, but there have been situations where I wished that there was a good prefix for it. |
08-12-2008, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by jacofan12609 I am just asking what you all think is a good prefix for the "lead" guitar. I don't know how important it is. I just want to know what you guys think. There is nothing wrong with just calling it a guitar, but there have been situations where I wished that there was a good prefix for it. | Leed guitar?
lead sounds too heavy...
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08-12-2008, 03:50 PM
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08-12-2008, 04:25 PM
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08-14-2008, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by rarisgod I'd say it depends on the band situation. If the band is something like Primus (*shudder*) then you would call it Lead Bass. However if it's more like Van Halen or Guns n Roses, you would say Lead Guitar.
Never liked the sound of the name Lead Bass though. Even with how conceited I pretend to be, that name doesn't give me a feeling of power because it just doesn't flow.
How about...God Bass? | cant you only call something lead if there is another of the same playing rhythm? i never understood that terminology... if there is only one guitar in a band you never hear them say "he's our lead guitar" cause there's no rhythm guitar behind him. so calling les claypool a lead bass is kind of off because there is no rythm bass (yes i know you can say every bass is the rhythm). he just a bass player that stands out more than a regular bass player i guess. no means to offend here just saying.. |
08-14-2008, 07:46 AM
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08-14-2008, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by jacofan12609 I don't know about you all but 'lead guitar' just doesn't cut it for me. You can play lead on a bass guitar. I wish that there was a good prefix for what most people consider to be the guitar. Baritone guitar is taken and so is tenor guitar, alto, and soprano. Maybe contra-tenor guitar. But, I don't know what is lower, the tenor guitar or the "normal" guitar. By the way, a tenor guitar is a four-string guitar that is designed for banjo players who want a guitar sound.
Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas? | "Lead" refers to the role, i.e. lead guitar versus rhythm guitar, not lead guitar versus bass guitar. If there's only one guitar, then it's just guitar, it's not lead anything. When the lone guitar player uses his guitar to play "lead breaks," and you could say that when he's doing that, he's playing "lead guitar," but it's kinda axoimatic to call it lead guitar in that case, it's still just guitar. Do we call the flute in Jethro Tull "lead flute" or the sax in Van Morrison "lead sax?"
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08-14-2008, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver Yeah, or just call all instruments in the band lead whatever. | We did that once at a gig, introduced the "lead guitar player and lead backup vocals" then the "lead singer and lead acoustic guitar player" then the "lead drummer" and then the "lead bass player." 
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08-14-2008, 08:57 AM
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08-14-2008, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Riverview, FL, USA | | | I already know that the term "lead" has more to do with what the person is playing than the instrument itself. |
08-14-2008, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Bard2dbone My 12-string is the 'little guitar', and my six strings are the 'really little guitars'. | What would you call a soprano guitar? |
08-14-2008, 12:10 PM
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08-14-2008, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jacofan12609 I already know that the term "lead" has more to do with what the person is playing than the instrument itself. | So then what is this thread about?  |
08-14-2008, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by jacofan12609 What would you call a soprano guitar? | 'Teeny guitar'?
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