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06-06-2009, 09:49 AM
| | | | So, tell me again why bass is more fun than G**tar??
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Well, tell me, give me reasons and opinions, pretend youre trying to convert someone from GUITARISM to BASSTIANITY!
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06-06-2009, 09:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Placentia,Newfoundland,Canada | | | Personally I feel both are equally fun,But i've played bass for 3 more years than I have guitar so a bass just feels more comfortable in my hands.Either way I've found that playing one helps my playing style on the other,both are great IMO.
-Ron
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06-06-2009, 10:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: AZ mountains | | | Standing in front of a stack of bass cabs keeps me regular.
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06-06-2009, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Boston, Massachusetts | | | Personally, I've always found bass to be a bit more by feel, which I enjoy because you can kind of sit back and relax (do not take that to mean you don't play as intricately on bass). Guitar on the other hand always seems more cerebral to me, a lot more thinking into what's going on.
For that reason, I enjoy playing bass more because I can just feel it out instead of playing a game of keeping up with what I'm thinking to do on guitar. Maybe that's just me though. |
06-06-2009, 10:02 AM
| | | I noticed years ago that when I play and people dance, all the women's butts move in time with the two fingers on my right hand. I find that very entertaining! 
BTW, I suppose it might work on guys too, but I don't know--never looked. 
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06-06-2009, 10:03 AM
|  | curiously looking back at what once was beautiful | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oregon | | | Guitarists get all the students - bass players get all the gigs.
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06-06-2009, 10:04 AM
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06-06-2009, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | | Guitar is a minuscule, boring instrument, to get the same amount of power out of a guitar as a bass you have to hit all the stings at once in complicated finger bending patterns to get the some power as hitting one note on a bass. |
06-06-2009, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Brunswick NJ | | bass players do it better. 
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06-06-2009, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Greyvagabond Goddamnit, most bands suck, and what gear they play is literally the least significant clue to them sucking. | |
06-06-2009, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by ByF I noticed years ago that when I play and people dance, all the women's butts move in time with the two fingers on my right hand. I find that very entertaining!
BTW, I suppose it might work on guys too, but I don't know--never looked.
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LOL, that's what a tell my brother all the time. Go ahead jump around on stage, stand on your toes, make those funny faces and swing your hair around. Just remember, I'm the one who gets to the booties shakin and the heads bobbin. No one can dance to a guitar solo. 
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06-06-2009, 12:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Bass is a calling.
You can not "convert" someone to that. |
06-06-2009, 12:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | i agree with steve..i play bass because ever since i was a little kid ive always wanted to play bass,and hearing songs like another bites the dust and money,i wanted to be the person that sounded that damn awesome in a song
It's gotta be something that fits you and something you want to do..you have to be comfortable and enjoy what you're doing..its ilke trying to convince a blue collar boy that working in an office wearing a monkey suit is better than working with his hands...he may do it,maybe for the money..but hes not going to do what he likes
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
06-06-2009, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ThaLowEndTheory No one can dance to a guitar solo. | Ha! I like that. |
06-06-2009, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Bass is a calling.
You can not "convert" someone to that. | +1 never wanted a lil toy guitar Im 6'2" 225lbs and everytime I pick one up I feel as though Im gonna break it . Bass just fits me when I wanna play hard the bass SCREAMS back when I wanna play soft it whispers . Thats how I am and thats why it fits me
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06-06-2009, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by ByF I noticed years ago that when I play and people dance, all the women's butts move in time with the two fingers on my right hand. I find that very entertaining!
Ed | +1 Control the booties from the stage. Like remote control sex.
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06-06-2009, 02:09 PM
| | | | oh wow, that was awsome remote control sex, lol
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ninefinger read my mind... A 32 foot scale bass? Who's going to play it? 90 foot jesus?
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06-06-2009, 02:12 PM
| | | | It's not,
They're just different, and different people find different things funner than other things |
06-06-2009, 02:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Louisiana | | Wow. Awesome (and quotable) responses. 
I don't know that bass is more fun than guitar for everyone, but it's more fun for me. Different things fit different people. It's not just size of the instrument but temperament of the player.
I do agree with dnarock, though that guitar seems so tiny, and unlike him I'm only 5'5". When I see electric guitars now it's with a feeling of disinterest because they are so puny.
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06-06-2009, 02:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NYC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jefenator Guitarists get all the students - bass players get all the gigs. | man that's the truth - I think I've done 3 gigs on guitar in the last year or so. my rig is collecting dust in my basement. I've done a ton on bass
fwiw I consider myself a way better guitar player than bass (been playing gtr for around 13 years longer - and now I'm depressed about being old  ) - so in that respect it's frustrating when I'm on a gig and I know if I had a guitar around my neck I might have a bit more fun. But bass is a very sexy instrument - in a non guitar-flashy way. not better I think, just different. I dig both! But lately I really do prefer bass playing . . . if my skill level improves just a little bit I'll be rockin' | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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