well about 27 years ago i wanted to play bass. since my granddaddy had a flatop g@it^r they figured i should learn that then get into bass. the teacher confirmed that. so i takes a few lessons and give up. i didnt want to learn that damn thing in the first place. i wanted bass, after all roger glover played bass. fast foreward 27 years. im learnin to play bass. and i love it. so heres my question. did you learn bass first or g@it^r.
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bass first or guitar?
- Thread starter mike phillips
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My first serious instrument was bagpipes. Started bass a year after, continued for a good 4 years with pipes as my main instrument. Slowly bass became more prominent, and now I don't play pipes anymore. Kinda miss it. Next I'm going to start teaching myself jazz and new-age piano.
In order of starting instruments I played:
Trumpet>Violin>Guitar>Baritone Horn>Piano>Double Bass>Tuba>Bass Guitar>Mandolin>Chapman Stick
Now this iwas not as schizophrenic as it looked. I played trumpet in 6th grade band, and switched to baritone in 7th grade. They made me switch to tuba for marching band in 9th grade.
My sister started violin when I started trumpet. I made the mistake of picking up her violin while she was out of the room, and an hour later, I was better on it than she was. So Mom made me take orchestra in 7th grade. Later in the year the teacher let me switch to DB. But The school I moved to wouldn't let you be in orchestra AND band. So I quit Orchestra.
My grampa was an old jazz cat. ( He had played western swing with the Lightcrust Doughboys.) He was a guitar player and said he would give me pointers on guitar. I played guitar for a couple of years. But the DB and tuba had taught me to listen for the low end. So in 9th grade, I saved my lich money for about seven months and bought my first bass guitar. I haven't looked back.
Sometimes I would get interested in a different sound and learn a new instrument to have that sound or to better understand the other instruments I already played. Sometimes it worked (keys, mandolin) sometimes it didn't (Chapman Stick)
Trumpet>Violin>Guitar>Baritone Horn>Piano>Double Bass>Tuba>Bass Guitar>Mandolin>Chapman Stick
Now this iwas not as schizophrenic as it looked. I played trumpet in 6th grade band, and switched to baritone in 7th grade. They made me switch to tuba for marching band in 9th grade.
My sister started violin when I started trumpet. I made the mistake of picking up her violin while she was out of the room, and an hour later, I was better on it than she was. So Mom made me take orchestra in 7th grade. Later in the year the teacher let me switch to DB. But The school I moved to wouldn't let you be in orchestra AND band. So I quit Orchestra.
My grampa was an old jazz cat. ( He had played western swing with the Lightcrust Doughboys.) He was a guitar player and said he would give me pointers on guitar. I played guitar for a couple of years. But the DB and tuba had taught me to listen for the low end. So in 9th grade, I saved my lich money for about seven months and bought my first bass guitar. I haven't looked back.
Sometimes I would get interested in a different sound and learn a new instrument to have that sound or to better understand the other instruments I already played. Sometimes it worked (keys, mandolin) sometimes it didn't (Chapman Stick)
Same situation as you. Sister has an acoustic guitar (that she's playd maybe for like 100 hours on over the course of 5 years. Yeah) that I picked up and liked playing it.
But I decided I wanted a bass. Parents persuaded me to get a regular guitar. Bass is boring. Guitars are cool. So I did. It was fun (and I started learning it again), but in the back of my mind I still wanted a bass. So I just bought a bass and found new teacher, who also started on guitar and switched to bass, albeit he actually got good at guitar before switching.
I eventually want to be able to play both well.
But I decided I wanted a bass. Parents persuaded me to get a regular guitar. Bass is boring. Guitars are cool. So I did. It was fun (and I started learning it again), but in the back of my mind I still wanted a bass. So I just bought a bass and found new teacher, who also started on guitar and switched to bass, albeit he actually got good at guitar before switching.
I eventually want to be able to play both well.
guitar -> clarinet -> bass.
I still play all three. Any hardcore bassists, feel free to shoot me now for being a guitar player.
I still play all three. Any hardcore bassists, feel free to shoot me now for being a guitar player.
I first had a cheap 6 string acoustic. I broke the B and E strings and essentially played the lower strings as a bass. I always was able to pick out the basslines and was inherently attracted to them so I started playing the bass lines. Made sense to get a bass after that.
