Which is harder to create music with Bass or Guitar?

froggsoldier · #1 10-12-2005, 09:13 PM

I was thinking about it, and the way it was explained to me, bass basically helps pull the band together. Well I wanted to purchase my first guitar, now my older sister has an acoustic guitar, and well it made started me thinking, I have played, little, both types of guitars, bass and not bass guitar, the bass was electric and the other was an acoustic. Well for the main part I will not need an amp, for it is simply for creative reasons, so I am wondering. Since I am wanting to be creative, which is easier for me to just start with my song writing process. Either one would be acoustic, it will just be simpler for me, since I live at home and I am going to college at the moment, I am still living out of boxes, and there is a chance that I will be living in a dorm setting within 2 years, I am going for a 4 year degree. So what would be your answer, and/or suggestion?

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P.S. I really had more fun playing the Guitar, and I know I will never be as creative as Cliff Burtan, He is a legand.

chips · #2 10-13-2005, 08:40 AM

urmm... i dont mean to alarm you dude... but your text is PINK AND LARGE.

acoustic guitar will probably do you better

SuperDuck · #3 10-13-2005, 08:57 AM

I've had much greater success attemping any kind of composing or songwriting on a guitar. In my own two hands, the bass never really came out being a compositional instrument.

I would assume that most people find it easier to compose music on a chordal instrument, such as a guitar or piano. I know there will always be exceptions (and, seeing as we're on a bass message board, they'll probably heartily chime in to say so), so take what I say with a grain of salt.

**Vorago** · #4 10-13-2005, 08:57 AM

Acoustic guitar will do the job

Ray-man · #5 10-13-2005, 09:01 AM

Go for the other type - the "not bass guitar."

Aj* · #6 10-13-2005, 11:57 AM

Bass is certainly harder to compose on, when I write lyrics, I write them, let my guitarist do his stuff then work out the bassline.

froggsoldier · #7 10-13-2005, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray-man

Go for the other type - the "not bass guitar."

LOL thanks guys, its what I thought just wanted someone to back me up on it. And P.S. I am a girl hence I can use the pink. Ok. Thanks

SnoMan · #8 10-13-2005, 12:18 PM

It depends.

I can write songs and melodies on bass, but they don't leave much room for accompanying instruments or vocal lines.
Hmmm...I may try and write a full accompaniment(you know what word I'm trying for) piece on bass.

But general I find it easier to come up with pieces for full band on not bass guitar.

Your font disturbs me greatly

SnoMan · #9 10-13-2005, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by froggsoldier

LOL thanks guys, its what I thought just wanted someone to back me up on it. And P.S. I am a girl hence I can use the pink. Ok. Thanks

I'm less disturbed now

You should fill out your profile. It says male.

Kelly Coyle · #10 10-13-2005, 12:22 PM

"Yeaaaah," he says, fingering the valves, "when she gets broken in, a few weeks down the road, this is going to be a nice horn."
"Sounds like she blows real easy, Diz."
He fixes me with a stagey stare. "Sheeeeet. Ain't none of them blow easy."
--Chip Stern, relating a conversation with Dizzy Gillespie.

(from Zen Guitar. So I read cheesy books. What of it?)

SnoMan · #11 10-13-2005, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kelly Coyle

"Yeaaaah," he says, fingering the valves, "when she gets broken in, a few weeks down the road, this is going to be a nice horn."
"Sounds like she blows real easy, Diz."
He fixes me with a stagey stare. "Sheeeeet. Ain't none of them blow easy."
--Chip Stern, relating a conversation with Dizzy Gillespie.

(from Zen Guitar. So I read cheesy books. What of it?)

may I be the firs to say:

Huh?

Kelly Coyle · #12 10-13-2005, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by SnoBassMan

may I be the firs to say:

Huh?

You see, all of them are hard. Right? Like, both bass and guitar. Was it obscure?

SnoMan · #13 10-13-2005, 02:10 PM

ok, I gotcha.. dig it

de la mocha · #14 10-13-2005, 05:35 PM

The song tells me what to write. I compose the bass line and program the drum machine. Then I lay it down at home. Take it to my drummer and we re do it with live drums. Then we record it at his place and then I write the lyrics, and then have the guitar player pour on top of it.