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08-16-2011, 03:08 PM
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The other day at work, I mentioned to two other "musicians" that I have a really cool gig lined up this Friday.
After some more small talk, they both, seperately said; " Pretty much anyone can play bass and get away with it"
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08-16-2011, 03:12 PM
| | | | I had to take my bass out to dinner a couple of times and a movie before it got easy. |
08-16-2011, 03:19 PM
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President, Baer Amplification | | | | | The bass guitar is fairly easy to learn the very basics of playing some notes, compared to a lot of other instruments, but no instrument is easy to master. Becoming a well rounded musician takes somewhere between many years and a lifetime to accomplish!
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08-16-2011, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Bongofour  After some more small talk, they both, seperately said; " Pretty much anyone can play bass and get away with it"
*** !!!! | Just ignore them...These guys dont know what they are talking about... |
08-16-2011, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Bongofour The other day at work, I mentioned to two other "musicians" that I have a really cool gig lined up this Friday.
After some more small talk, they both, seperately said; " Pretty much anyone can play bass and get away with it"
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There is an element of truth to this....
most bass players are overly blowhardish to forget they really don't have to master chords or melodies to land a paying gig...
Time and time again I hear band leaders comment that their biggest issue with bass players is our willingness to lay back and play less.
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08-16-2011, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | Electric Bass is an easier instrument to play than say guitar, drums, piano sax etc..IMO
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08-16-2011, 03:33 PM
| | | | I just tell them that they are right. Then I don't have to talk to them anymore. |
08-16-2011, 03:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | It's as hard as you want to make it, the bass I mean of course  |
08-16-2011, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Left Coast | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongofour " Pretty much anyone can play bass and get away with it"
*** !!!! | This is true. Case in point: ME!! heh-heh |
08-16-2011, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Louisville, KY | | | It's never been easy for me... still isn't, that's for true!
Seriously though, next time someone says that to you, say; "Cool! I'm glad you think so, I've always wanted to see if I play YYZ(or name that tune) correctly. Now, YOU can show me"!!!
I can play Smoke on The Water on guitar, I guess that makes guitar easy too!
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08-16-2011, 03:51 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Easy? Meh. I get paid at the end of the night, and I sweat a lot less than the drummer......
I guess it's relative.
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08-16-2011, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Bongofour After some more small talk, they both, seperately said; " Pretty much anyone can play bass and get away with it" | Honestly, the mechanics of playing the bass are pretty simple in comparison to a lot of the other instruments out there.
Playing the bass and grooving with a drummer, providing the rhythmic and harmonic foundation for a song, moving the song along as on top or on the back of the beat, backing up the vocalist(s) and soloist(s) all at the same time... yeah, that's a little harder. |
08-16-2011, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Rogue River Oregon | | | i'm having a hard time with'it'
i can shove in a CD or open an old casette and almost instantly find the groove/jam along with it and a jam buddy says wow that's cool!,,the same one who accuses me of playing'lead bass',,pound on that root note',,or,,people seem to want you to have a music degree(seemingly)
so somewhere out there in the middle is where i want to be,i don't want to know it all because learning new licks is part of the fun,,but when people say'playing bass is easy' and they do  ,it's either because they don't TRULY listen to the basslines in a song (non musicians)or want some freakin metronome basswork done while they shred,emphasis on freakin,,
it's easy to play after awhile but it's the hard copy that's tough,reading music, understanding how to put bass lines to work in a song,doing what you can to enhance the song,,
of course ya'll didn't say what kind of music they're playin',,down at the senior center open mic night it's 'one-TWO' one-TWO ,or,,ONE-two ONE-two,anything other than that or simple 1 2 3-4turn around and it's some of that 'rock and roll' witch Jerry Lee Lewis is about as rockin as they get and without JLee it don't light me up at allhahaha so if they're playing Bob Wills then yeah keep it dirt simple=peace man it's all good just keep rollin' 
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i'm gonna rock all over you!,or maybe some western swing would fit better?
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08-16-2011, 03:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dublin, Ireland | | | Yeah. I find electric guitar FAR easier than bass. go figure.
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08-16-2011, 04:05 PM
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08-16-2011, 04:06 PM
|  | Expendable | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Shreveport, Louisiana | | | You should have said:
"Talking out of your *** is easier." |
08-16-2011, 04:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Oakland, CA | | | The thing that's neat about music is that it's all pretty subjective. Aside from injuring yourself (due to bad technique) there really is no wrong or right.
It's as hard or easy as you want to make it.
10 people can play the exact same notes and they will all sound completely different.
Sounds like your "musician" co workers aren't really musicians to begin with.
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08-16-2011, 08:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Saint John, NB, Canada | | Playing bass IS easy.......playing bass well, on the other hand...... 
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08-16-2011, 08:21 PM
| | | | One thing I've discovered is that it is a lot easier for me to sing lead when I'm playing guitar as opposed to when I'm playing Bass. So I really appreciate Bass players who also sing lead well. |
08-16-2011, 08:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Missouri | | | I always thought bass was very mentally challenging:
"How do I do more than just hold down the root - 5 and not end up completely screwing up the song?"
"What the #$@% is the drummer doing with his kick drum now? This wasn't what we rehearsed."
"Why the hell are all the covers that get picked boring as @#%$ for the bass? Better pack caffeine." | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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