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View Poll Results: How long have you been playing bass? | |
Less than 6 months
|    | 5 | 1.59% | |
6 months - 1 year
|    | 9 | 2.86% | |
1 - 2 years
|    | 18 | 5.71% | |
2 - 4 years
|    | 41 | 13.02% | |
4 - 6 years
|    | 28 | 8.89% | |
6 - 8 years
|    | 16 | 5.08% | |
8 - 10 years
| | 11 | 3.49% | |
10 - 15 years
| | 27 | 8.57% | |
15 - 20 years
| | 43 | 13.65% | |
20 - 30 years
| | 117 | 37.14% |
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05-31-2011, 03:40 PM
| | | | How long have you been playing bass?
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I've been for 2 years (3 in september)
Edit: There was supposed to be another vote saying "30 years +". Post a comment if you've played for 30 years or longer with how long you've been playing
Last edited by FBS1996 : 05-31-2011 at 03:45 PM.
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05-31-2011, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Scotland, UK | | not 30+ but I can't believe I'm in the 15-20 category ... feel soooooooo old 
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05-31-2011, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Northern California | | | I've been seriously playing bass for the last 4 years now. However, I started playing guitar when I was 5 and off and on since then. Also, I have been playing drums pretty consistently for about 20 years now.
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05-31-2011, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Nickthebass  not 30+ but I can't believe I'm in the 15-20 category ... feel soooooooo old | just be grateful that you're not a noob like me aha  |
05-31-2011, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Bayville,NJ/Milton,Fl | | | 35 years.... with a few breaks here and there.
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05-31-2011, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: ohio | | | Been playing since mid nineties wish i started younger as im 39 now |
05-31-2011, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Aloha, Oregon | | | Oh my God I just did the math. I have been playing 49 years and next Spring it will be a half a Century. I can hardly believe I am saying that.
I still gig all the time but not as much as I would like. I have 3 band projects and a weekly jam going right now.
I truly believe that playing music will keep you young at heart. Especially if you keep your ears open and keep learning.
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05-31-2011, 04:11 PM
| | | | Around 9 months now. That's when I bought my first bass, I played a friend's a little over last summer. Soon to be a year. I'm such a young in'. |
05-31-2011, 04:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Columbia, SC | | | started playing bass at 12, and i'm 29 now.
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05-31-2011, 04:14 PM
| | | | Probably around 25 years or so now, on bass guitar. I started playing upright last November and I've been enjoying it so much that if I hadn't been in a band that requires BG for six years and don't want to quit I'd probably switch to upright full time.
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05-31-2011, 04:14 PM
| | | | 20-30 years max???????
Is everyone here a beginner? |
05-31-2011, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Saginaw, MI | | | 43-44 yrs
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05-31-2011, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | Started playing the upright bass in the beginner's orchestra in 6th grade at my middle school in san francisco. we had an amazing music program and learned to read at that time. I was 11 and am now 41. holy toledo! |
05-31-2011, 04:17 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Cohasset, Massachusetts | | | 33 years this year. |
05-31-2011, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by StereoPlayer 43-44 yrs | Hail....The Grand PooBah. |
05-31-2011, 04:19 PM
|  | Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human race. | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Greenfield, WI. | | | Technically my second go around.
Played for 10 years. Quit all music for 18 years. Picked up the bass again 5 years ago.
Unlike a some others with similar layoffs like mine, for all intents and purposes I had to learn all over again.
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05-31-2011, 04:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Denver, CO | | | I got my first bass on Christmas Eve, 1985 -- so 25 years now.
I'm playing as much as I can, but life sneaks up and gives you other priorities (kids) that take away from playing time.
Then again, I bought my daughter a drum set recently, so now she and I can jam...
Which reminds me; here's "old guy" advice to the newbies out there -- WEAR EARPLUGS!!
If you think wearing earplus isn't cool or macho, remember that the alternative is wearing hearing aids... |
05-31-2011, 04:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Saginaw, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Aussie Player Hail....The Grand PooBah. | There is many more here that have been playing longer! 
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05-31-2011, 04:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Palm Coast, FL | | | Since 1982...
28-29 years. |
05-31-2011, 04:27 PM
| | | | A little over 3 years, but I've played piano since I was six, stopping a little after I got my first bass. I'm only 16 and it's been a really fast trip, my worship pastor says I'm the best at our church and I've been told by a sound tech at Gaither stduios that I should pursue it professionally... No pressure.
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