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10-10-2010, 05:18 PM
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I want to take up guitar, well atleast pick up on where I left off. I am so torn between choosing an Electric Guitar Or A Bass Guitar. I'm literally loosing sleep over the matter. I don't like one more than the other either. When I hear basses I just blend right in with the music. It soothens my soul. When I hear an electric guitar I just get so energetic and wanna pluck some strings. However, I am torn with the decison. I don't know which way to go. Please, give me your insights. And even thought the majority of you are bassist, if not all, please be considerate of guitarists Lol. |
10-10-2010, 05:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | Ahhhh, This is Talk bass .com What do you expect to hear?
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10-10-2010, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | | Get a bass; it's so much easier to play. |
10-10-2010, 05:35 PM
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Luthier at Rainbow Music Omaha | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennW  Get a bass; it's so much easier to play. | Yes get a bass, but that's kind of the wrong reason... |
10-10-2010, 05:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | | Get a bass, it's much harder to play well.
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10-10-2010, 05:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Washington State | | Play both. 
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10-10-2010, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Albany Besides, I'm 15! I can't go around pullin thousands of dollars out my but. | |
10-10-2010, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: San Antonio, Texas | | The bassist is the leader of the band. Do you want, and can you handle that responsibility? 
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10-10-2010, 06:10 PM
| | | | just play both. if it's affecting you that much you sound like you'd have the motivation |
10-10-2010, 06:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | Good guitar players are a dime a dozen. A GOOD bass player is always working. Bass is way cooler than guitar anyway. |
10-10-2010, 06:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lexington, KY | | | It sounds like you want to play both. I play bass and drums equally, and find the drums for fun on some days, bass the others. Knowing how to play both well will greatly enhance your musical ability. |
10-10-2010, 06:16 PM
| | | | LOL at these comments |
10-10-2010, 06:17 PM
| | | | I've been playing the drums for 10 years lol |
10-10-2010, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lexington, KY | | There ya go. Pick the guitar for a few months, then grab a bass. It's all good. Sometimes you can't replace shredding on a guitar. I'm an equal opportunity musician. |
10-10-2010, 06:51 PM
| | | | thankyou |
10-10-2010, 06:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fredonia, NY | | We don't do that "considerate of guitarists" thing here. Bass! |
10-10-2010, 07:10 PM
| | | | I probably play (at home) 90% of the time on my guitars. I write on guitar. I record with guitar. If anyone asks me what I play I tell them I am a bass player. I'm not a guitar player. When I look for/start bands I am the bass player.
I don't want to be a guitar player.
I've played bass for close to 32 years, and it's a part of me. And I'm only just beginning to really understand the instrument. She's a tough mistress.
She speaks to your soul. Give in to her.
Asking questions like "Should I play bass or guitar?" on a bass forum is just asking for trouble. That said, your a drummist so you, of all people, should understand the dynamics of the bass and the interplay/symbiosis with drums. Buy a guitar, but leave it at home! |
10-11-2010, 06:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Deep East Texas Piney Woods | | | I play rhythm guitar and 4 string bass. The rhythm guitar helps my bass playing and my bass playing has helped my rhythm guitar playing.
Do you want to sit by the campfire and sing and strum. If so 6 string guitar. Amps are a little heavy to take to the campfire and finding electricity is usually a bitch.
I'll close with what the music store owner ask me when I first went in for my guitar. Which do you see yourself playing a year from now. That's the one to get.
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10-11-2010, 06:33 AM
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