|  | | 
06-17-2009, 07:57 AM
| | | | Don't you just hate people that say bass is easy?
Sign in to disble this ad
Have you ever had someone tell you that it is easy to play bass guitar... if you have then don't you just hate them  |
06-17-2009, 07:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ellenwood,Ga. | | Don't hate them for making an ignorant statement. Just hand them an unlined fretless or a 6 string and let them see how easy it is! 
__________________
Music Man Sterling 5HS/Tobias Killer B 6/ Thunderfunk 550 /Ampeg Heritage 810.
|
06-17-2009, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User
Managing Editor, Bass Guitars Editor, MusicGearReview.com | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | Hate? No. Feel sorry for? Yes. Their minds work on the simple principal that four strings, being fewer than six, must therefore be easier to play.
__________________
Lakland 55-94D, Steinberger XL-2, Hofner Icon, Kala U Bass, Stagg EUB, Line 6 Studio 110, Genz-Benz Shuttle 6.0 112T & NEOX 112T.
|
06-17-2009, 08:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | | I've been hearing it all my life. It doesn't really phase me at this point.
Long ago, I came to the realization that "bass is easy" is what the majority of the population thinks (assuming they even know what a bass is! lol). When I hear those comments now I just let 'em go.
__________________
Josh
|
06-17-2009, 08:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Santiago de Chile | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mccartneyman  Hate? No. Feel sorry for? Yes. Their minds work on the simple principal that four strings, being fewer than six, must therefore be easier to play. | not only that, they think bass is easy to play because most bassist write crappy lines that do the same all the time.
anyway, this kind of thinking doesn't apply in pro enviroments [I haven't got that kind of comment in a looooooooooooong time] |
06-17-2009, 08:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chicago SW 'burbs | | | ...easy to disrespect something you know nothing about...
...applies to many things...playing bass being one of them...
__________________
Rickenbacker Club #230
Gibson Club #124 Tbird Club #26
Fender Precision Club #46 47 48
50+ Club #46
|
06-17-2009, 08:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | Doesn't bother me at all. The last time someone said something like that to me I handed him my Lakland 55-01 and said, "Here. Go for it."
Shut him right up.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
|
06-17-2009, 08:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Jacksonville, FL | | | It is annoying. People who tend to say such stupid things are often guitarists. I am a guitarist too. They think because you are playing only one string at a time (typically) and that there are only four strings, by default it must be easier. They don't understand that bass is more of a rhythm instrument and is not meant to be glaring and obvious. Most don't understand the feel aspect of the bass.
Anthony Wellington made a great point on bass playing... he said if someone comes up to him and says, "I love the notes you played" he has not done his job. However, if someone comes up and says, "It just felt great playing with you" then he HAS done his job. That's an aspect that a lot of people don't understand. Bass often has a very intangible quality to it. |
06-17-2009, 08:17 AM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | To be fair, I find that bass is quite simple to pick up. To master however, well... 
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by spade2you ...Too many anti-gun people messin' with Texans. I hear they get guns in their Happy Meals down there. :p | Lefty Union Member #110 Carvin Club Member #14
Texas Bassist Club FOUNDER
|
06-17-2009, 08:19 AM
|  | @Crawfication
Endorsing Artist: Gravity Picks | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ohio/West Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mjolnir To be fair, I find that bass is quite simple to pick up. To master however, well... | Well yeah! Seeing that only weigh about 10 pounds, picking up a bass is easy! 
__________________ Fender - Gallien Krueger - Avatar - Gravity Facebook Twitter |
06-17-2009, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: dallas,tx | | | BASS:
easy to learn,hard to play well
__________________
Progressive Rock Club #2
19mm club member #40 / Ibanez BTB club #7
|
06-17-2009, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lafayette, LA | | | most people say that because bassists usually only play one note at a time. Ask them if they call a viol instrument easy. or a flute. a sax. trumpet. etc
__________________
My posts are definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
|
06-17-2009, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: San Antonio, Texas | | | The magic of bass is: Beat, Groove, Timing, Feeling, Things that most guitarist can not comprehend. |
06-17-2009, 08:23 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mjolnir To be fair, I find that bass is quite simple to pick up. To master however, well... | I never found it any easier than guitar, keyboards, or drums though.
Hell, sucking on any instrument is easy! |
06-17-2009, 08:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Aarhus, Denmark | | Why let it bother you? If they've heard you play and then tell you it sounds easy, take it as a compliment  The greatest musicians make the hard stuff sound like anyone could do it, right? |
06-17-2009, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Markham, Ontario | | I don't hate them, I just ignore them. Ironically, these are often the same morons that complain that it's hard to find a good bass player.  |
06-17-2009, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Tampa Bay, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky McDougall The magic of bass is: Beat, Groove, Timing, Feeling, Things that most guitarist can not comprehend. | My guitar player once said it best: "most guitar players who try to play bass sound like....a guitar player trying to play bass".
I had to give him credit for that one, it stuck with me.
__________________
Sadowsky - Fender - Rickenbacker - MTD - Carvin - Valenti |
06-17-2009, 08:38 AM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by wnelson BASS:
easy to learn,hard to play well | Yeah, its like a lot of things in life, any fool can do it, but only a pro can do it right every time. Saying bass is easy is like saying working on a car is easy. There are instances where it may be, but the variables are so many that this statement is hardly qauntifiable.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by jive1 .....It's sorta like a man complaining that a tampon doesn't fit him. | |
06-17-2009, 08:39 AM
|  | quid verum atque decens
Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by v1paul Have you ever had someone tell you that it is easy to play bass guitar... if you have then don't you just hate them | Nope, I just hand them mine, "Here show me how easy it is", mine's left handed at that. |
06-17-2009, 08:42 AM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | It IS easy to do most things... badly. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
