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08-16-2006, 11:52 AM
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How do you explain the differnce between bass guitar and guitar to people who don't know the difference. People at work seem to think I play the guitar when I play the bass. How do you explain it to people so that they get the difference?
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08-16-2006, 11:56 AM
| | | | tell em guitars go tzang tzang tzang and basses go boom boom boom. |
08-16-2006, 12:02 PM
| | | Not that I'm often asked, but I usually rattle off something that I know they're not going to get anyhow, and forget about it because it's not important that they understand what instrument I play.
I say something like "I play bass - electric bass - the big one with the four strings on it? Like McCartney that Beatle guy - " all in one breath, even if I happen to play a 5- or 6-string bass and I know Paul's Hoffy isn't all 'that' big' and he's no longer with the Beatles and everything else.
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08-16-2006, 12:10 PM
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08-16-2006, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowner How do you explain the differnce between bass guitar and guitar to people who don't know the difference. People at work seem to think I play the guitar when I play the bass. How do you explain it to people so that they get the difference? | Just tell them that the bass is a 4-string or 5-string instrument that looks like a guitar, but is larger, has a low and deep sound that a guitar can't make. The strings are thicker, too. People who play bass co-exist with drums to make the rhythm of a song. However, they can also be more than just rhythm - we bassists can solo, too! 
The guitar, on the other hand, has 6 puny strings, and has a high and whiny sound. People who play guitar usually make incoherent noise and play lots of fast notes for no decent reason at all.
Emphasize "whiny" 
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08-16-2006, 12:45 PM
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08-16-2006, 12:58 PM
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or tell them one has soul and the other doesn't they should get it
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08-17-2006, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by morf tell em guitars go tzang tzang tzang and basses go boom boom boom. | No, for guitar it's:
"wheedley wheedley wheedley wheedley" and bass is:
"dow DOW dow dow DOW DOW dow".
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08-17-2006, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Blisshead No, for guitar it's:
"wheedley wheedley wheedley wheedley" and bass is:
"dow DOW dow dow DOW DOW dow". | Hahaha, comments like thses make me picture random people just making these noises, and it's funny!
As for when people ask me, I tell them that: "You know that rumbling senstation you felt when we were playing?"
THey say "yea?"
I say: "that's the bass"
They say "o"
(though we all know that theres much more to the bass than that, it's the easiest way. either that, or I attempt to compare the bass to a sandwhich....don't ask  )
One time, I had a smarta$$ at hand, and he responded: "I thought I was rumbling cause I was hungry?" 
heh.
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08-17-2006, 09:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Florida | | | Technically speaking it is a guitar. It's an electric bass guitar.
Same notes as a 6 string guitar, just tuned lower, so they have more depth.
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08-17-2006, 09:53 PM
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08-18-2006, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Blisshead No, for guitar it's:
"wheedley wheedley wheedley wheedley" and bass is:
"dow DOW dow dow DOW DOW dow". | Fair enough, I gave the french version of it |
08-18-2006, 05:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Kickin'Fruit Tell them that guitars melt faces and basses bust guts | YES! That is exactly right. |
08-18-2006, 06:03 AM
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08-18-2006, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by shayn Give them a slap? | Actually, I like this response best. Make sure it's open palmed and that you hit the fleshy part of the cheek for maximum sting... of course, you must immediately walk away without saying anything and act as if nothing happened.
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08-18-2006, 11:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rochester NY | | | are you sure your not one of those people who doesnt know the difference, that always asks his friend about it at work???
it seems that if you play bass, youd know the difference well enough to be able to explain it |
08-18-2006, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Over Here | | | I tried expaining it and this lady keeps saying. You play guitar then. SHe just cannot get it thrrough her head that I play bass. The other guitar that rumbles. She sees bass as another guitar. Not a a rhythmic instrument.
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08-18-2006, 11:58 AM
| | | | Then tell her its a rhythmic instrument and if she doesnt believe you thats her loss? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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