Anyone else here who cant play "Guitar" AT ALL?

[CrimsonGhost]

Hi guys, anyone else here that cant play guitar at all?
I could never remember chords!,(except for power chords!, hah) and I have smaller hands but I guess my fingers are too fat and stubby.

my hands just turn palsey tryin to finger chords too.

I pick back up a bass, strung with big stiff 50-110 flats on a C width p-bass neck and i feel like im back home. perhaps somthing like a fender bass vi would be more guitar-like but with more room..

Alot of bass players also play guitar and alot of guitarists think they can play bass it seems like ;P

 

[Baird6869]

Nope. I play guitar ok but only pick up a guitar for a few minutes every couple of months.

I switched to bass in the mid '80's when I was a teenager. I was a blusey player and I couldn't keep up with the EVH/Malmsteen type stuff so I switched to the dark side. Glad I did though. I still have a Les Paul and a SG guitar which I'm also glad I have!

 

[DeanT]

I can't play a lick of guitar.

I tried once years ago but due to wrist injuries, I couldn't form some barre chords. Anyway, I'm happy playing bass and have no need for that other thing with all those skinny strings.

 

[Sound Chaser]

I can play bits and pieces of songs, but I have no kind of skill at guitar.

 

[theshadow2001]

I think it's an advantage to be able to play at least a little bit of guitar. You can check out what your guitarist is playing and just go with it. No need to stop and ask what the chord is. My skills seem to be exactly where they were about 5 or 6 years ago when I stopped playing guitar and took up bass. I'm definitely glad I can play a little bit of it though.

 

[JamesC]

I started on bass. Never learned how to play guitar.

 

[lomo]

went straight to bass and never learned guitar, but i do play some chords on bass. no desire to squeal at all

 

[nad]

My hands cramp up a bit when I haven't played ye olde guit in some time, but I'm okay at it. I prefer doing chords on 17mm spacing basses, but that doesn't mean I can't play the skinnies.

I believe that the music created is infinitely more important than the instrument played.

 

[Baird6869]

Funny thing.... I am a wicked Guitar Centre GUITARIST but a crappy Guitar Centre BASSIST. When I pick up a guitar, people always ask me what band I am in, do I want to audition for a band, etc. On bass.. not so impressive at a GC type store.

I guess really fast arpeggios sound cooler on a 6 string. Those little wee frets and little wee neck on a 6 string make playing fast easy after months on a big 5er bass!

Too bad I can't play a single complete song on guitar.

 

[Asa Samuel]

I can.

 

[Darkstrike]

Can't do chords for the life of me, can fingerpick a litle bit.

 

[JohnH2H]

Started on bass and never bothered to learn guitar. I plan on eventually getting around to sitting down once in awhile to learn the basics, though. There's several other instruments I'd like to pick up as well ie. cello, piano.

 

[BasslineFrenzy]

I am HORRIBLE with the guitar! I honestly tried though. I still have a Schecter Omen 6 that I keep around in case I am ever inspired to attempt to mess around with it

The one big problem I have is that I tend to fumble picks. I am absolutely not adapted to using a pick (I never use a pick with bass).

 

[IconBasser]

dude, it's embarrasing how bad a guitarist I am. I can do all sortsa chords and solos and stuff on bass, but on guitar I'm pathetic. It sounds SOOOOO bad!

 

[Debased]

I've played finger-style acoustic guitar since I was a kid, and I still do, but bass is where the heart is for me. Playing guitar gives a bassist a tremendous advantage in understanding chord chemistry and melodic writing and playing in general. It's also handy knowing exactly what a guitarist is playing at a glance, so you can spend more time spontaneously composing your bass parts and less time figuring out the tunes.

 

[RickenBoogie]

I have a sweet Ric 620 6 string that matches my 4003 nicely. I can play it, somewhat, enough to rough out a song structure, but that's it. I will sometimes even lay a rythym track for reference, though my guitar player will do the real recording. It does make sense to play guitar to enhance your bass skills, and that's it for me. It's all about the bottom, anyway.

 

[alembicbones]

I own a mexi strat and can only do basic chords and use it for noodling at home. I was a tuba player that then picked up bass. Clearly I'm a bass clef kind of guy.

Bones

 

[spade2you]

I used to be a decent guitarist. I picked up bass because I couldn't find any available bassists at the time that were worth anything. I found most to be too conservative or crappy at the time. For a few years, I was playing both. Now I'm not that great at guitar, but with my running/biking season over for the year, I should work on some guitar.

 

[caragel]

Always played bass, early on never had any interest whatsoever in playing guitar. Later on once I started writing I began noodling around on a nylon strung acoustic, then later a cheapo nasto electric guitar. Still can't play a thing unless I've wrote it!! Only ever play guitar to write, to show the ideas behind the melody etc to a guitarist who can then write/bastardize what I've written!!

Don't you just love it when you play or pick a cool sounding chord that you 'invented' only to have the guitarist you are showing it to identify it by name? I just greet that with a 'Huh'? (Even better when the guitard can't identify it!!!)

 

[Andy Brown]

It's not that I can't play guitar, I don't want to play guitar. I actually started out on guitar and switched. I've still got the chops but guitar to me is boring.