A love for the low end

Schecstar · #1 09-24-2006, 01:51 PM

I just wanna know what and how everyone else fell in love with bass

spudmaster34 · #2 09-24-2006, 03:47 PM

*please don't hurt me

I tried guitar and decided it was to hard, but I liked the parts where I only did one string at once, so I decied to play bass "because it was easier" I have since changed my opinion on it being easier, but I still love bass

Poop-Loops · #3 09-24-2006, 04:00 PM

Chords were a big part of my switching to bass. I just hate chords on guitar.

But it was mainly me picking out the bass lines to many songs and generally liking the lower end, although I don't like to groove.

Spector_Ray · #4 09-24-2006, 04:29 PM

When I started playing in the '80's, everybody seemed to think that the power in metal came from the screaching guitars so they all boosted the treble on their radios. I knew the power came from the bass so I bought subs and installed them into my car and turned up the bass and mids. Bass is what makes you literally feel the music.

Not to mention that guitar players were a dime a dozen and I wanted to be different.

Schecstar · #5 09-24-2006, 05:20 PM

I wanted to play in my friends band and he said "we already have too many guitars, why don't you play bass?" So I practiced and ultimately I fell in love with bass

FrigginChris · #6 09-24-2006, 05:46 PM

I was first going to play guitar but then I heard some guy in the bass section palying some sweet walking bassline and I went " I WANT THAT ONE" in my head. 6 and a half years later i'm still with it and enjoying it more and more

DigableGrooves · #7 09-24-2006, 05:53 PM

My parents gave me a squier for christmas one year. I ran with it and never looked back.

Schecstar · #8 09-24-2006, 08:59 PM

As I practiced the thing that really sealed the deal for me was watching victor wooten play amazing grace for the first time

Otso · #9 09-25-2006, 03:04 AM

BOOM BOOOM!! that's why I love the bass

Lowner · #10 09-25-2006, 05:22 AM

I love the bas too. But for me it is easier than guitar because I cannot play barre chords and certain other chords which use all the fingers on my left hand for some odd reason. With bass there is verly little chording and I can keep a groove much better than I can keep a rthymic strum pattern. Not only that the lower sound of bass is much more pleasing to my ears than a screechy electric guitar.

Depth_Charge · #11 09-25-2006, 06:34 AM

2 weeks into learning guitar I asked a friend to start teaching me For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica).

He did.

Dissatisfied with what he shows me, I argue thats not how it goes theres this whole part you're not showing me during that intro. He says "Oh you mean the bit that goes (he sings the part)" and I'm going "Yes, that bit!!!"

He laughs, hands me a bass and says "Well then, you'll be wanting one of these then". Then he confiscates my pick!!!

I haven't looked back since.

BrandonBass · #12 09-25-2006, 07:18 AM

becuz bass is easier, i jammed w my first band after playing for 2weeks

Drifta · #13 09-25-2006, 09:45 PM

i started playing guitar but my friends (one plays organ, other drummer, and other guitarist/melodica/ dabbles in bass too) left me with a chance to jam out if i played the bass so i quickly took it up and started learning to groove rather than to wail

JNBlack · #14 09-26-2006, 08:47 AM

I played acoustic guitar for about 7 years before picking up the bass. I started playing b/c my friends were starting a band and we already had two guitarist, no bassist. I played off and on for a few years and picked it back up after seeing Vic's Improv/Amazing Grace solo on a DirectTV Freeview; Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Live at the Quick. That, plus my discovery of TB got me back into it like never before.

excane · #15 09-26-2006, 08:59 AM

12 years old is a very young and impressionable age, so the first time you hear the cheesy groove coming from the adult videos you found stashed in your parents closet, well, the rest is history. Who wouldn't want to play bass?

dangnewt · #16 09-27-2006, 07:52 PM

I played guitar as a kid, then pretty much put it away for 20 years. Picked the guitar back up when my church started a praise and worship band. Then, our bass graduated from college and moved away. We had plenty of guitars that were more talented than I. I picked up the bass and fell in love, took some lessons, and have barely touched a guitar since (not even my buddy's Sadowsky Tele!) I got a band together with folks I knew from my work and church and I am a much better (and happier

) on bass than I ever was on guitar.

Kronos · #17 09-27-2006, 08:18 PM

A guitar felt fragile in my hands. The strings were too close together for my taste. So, I played bass.

CHILDISHGAMBINO · #18 09-27-2006, 09:50 PM

Spector_Ray

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Not to mention that guitar players were a dime a dozen and I wanted to be different.

My Dad plays guitar and has tiny fingers. I can reach further with three fingers than he can with five. Right before my birthday about 12 years ago he said he'd break my hands unless I played and instrument(he was frustrated with trying to learn a Stevie Ray Vaughn riff). I picked bass because everyone and their mom had a guitar and I'm too much of a spazz to play drums.