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11-20-2006, 01:03 PM
| | | | you don't learn bass, you fail at guitar
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i laughed when someone told me this, its funny even for a bassist |
11-20-2006, 01:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | I don't see the humor in it. Sorry. |
11-20-2006, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by BrandonBass i laughed when someone told me this, its funny even for a bassist | And you didn't smack them upside their empty head?
That statement is one of those things that stupid and arrogant people who play guitar and think they are God's Gift To The Music Of The Earth tend to say. Never listen to such goobers.
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11-20-2006, 01:21 PM
| | | | i saw this while surfin the net...and no, im not the violent kind of person and they meant it in a funny way i guess....
i also like this one
what do you call the guy who hangs out with the musicians? the bassist |
11-20-2006, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by BrandonBass
what do you call the guy who hangs out with the musicians? the bassist
| See, I look at it like this: Q:What do you call the guy who hangs out with the musicians? A: The Drummer |
11-20-2006, 01:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Canterbury, United Kingdom. | | What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?
You only have to punch the information in once with the drum machine!  |
11-20-2006, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by xgabriel See, I look at it like this:
Q:What do you call the guy who hangs out with the musicians?
A: The Drummer | I was a music store on Victoria Island and they had a newpaper headlined that said "3 musicians and a drummer die in boating accident". I wish I could have taken a picture. |
11-20-2006, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Long Island | | | I took up the bass after failing at cowbell and triangle......
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11-20-2006, 02:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Southern California | | | I took up bass after I failed at trombone... |
11-20-2006, 02:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | kazoo was my first love. my lungs couldnt handle it though, i guess i was made to be a musician:-P
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11-20-2006, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by BrandonBass i laughed when someone told me this, its funny even for a bassist | What if you never tried guitar? Does that mean you've still failed it?
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11-20-2006, 04:03 PM
| | | | Actually, I play a pretty mean guitar. Bass just kept my attention better. The tones are more distinct, the styles more varied.
The low notes sound mellower, sexier, and speak more in my natural vocal range, and thus, the way I think, compose, blow [on my axe], and sing.
It can be as creatively melodic, and even harmonic as a guitar, and yet used as a rhythm instrument, more punchy than the sharpest drummer in defining the pulse, and yet still be able to even deliver a song's primary melodic hook on occasion [Money, Money].
It speaks with my voice. |
11-20-2006, 04:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mentor, Ohio | | | Ive been playing in our church praise band since June. Even though all my notes are roots (on the down tuned to D) E and A, several people have said to me that our music now sounds "fuller" and "deeper". I even keep time a little better than our drummer--he sometimes has followed me!
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11-20-2006, 06:58 PM
| | | | When my daughter was going through her anti-bass phase, I turned off the bass in our car radio and turned up the treble. It changed her mind pretty fast. |
11-20-2006, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ZombieGhosTrain I took up bass after I failed at trombone... | Funny, I started learning lead guitar for about a month when I failed metronome |
11-21-2006, 07:03 AM
| | Bassists do it with 2 fingers...and a thumb | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: East Coast | | | i only ever played bass. I only ever WANTED to play bass. In fact, I scoff at ex-guitarists who are "kicked down" to bass.
Except that's EXACTLY what happened to Geddy Lee....
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11-21-2006, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by QORC i only ever played bass. I only ever WANTED to play bass. In fact, I scoff at ex-guitarists who are "kicked down" to bass.
Except that's EXACTLY what happened to Geddy Lee.... | never knew that about geddy lee, but there are tones of guitarists turned bassist. but very little bassist turned guitarist
geezer butler, john taylor, noel redding, paul mccartney, ben kennedy just to name afew |
11-21-2006, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by BrandonBass never knew that about geddy lee, but there are tones of guitarists turned bassist. but very little bassist turned guitarist
geezer butler, john taylor, noel redding, paul mccartney, ben kennedy just to name afew | yup, he was "kicked to bass" during a very early version of Rush. He had joined as a guitarist.
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11-21-2006, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by QORC yup, he was "kicked to bass" during a very early version of Rush. He had joined as a guitarist. | really? I'd always heard there was an other bassist in the band and Geddy got in after loaning the band some of his bass gear (don't remember the rest of the details) |
11-21-2006, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart really? I'd always heard there was an other bassist in the band and Geddy got in after loaning the band some of his bass gear (don't remember the rest of the details) | I seem to recall hearing him say so in an interview....I can't find the source now. I'll keep looking
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