Can you also play guitar?

[Deleted member 284617]

I learned both at the same time, and piano long before that. I have really big, meaty palms, but long and thin fingers. I find it easy, and guitar technique often affects the method of my playing, and this is true for all instruments. But that's just me. It could be very different for other people.

 

[two fingers]

.....ish

 

[ofajen]

On a good day, I can play just about anything. But maybe my standards are getting lower: I even like my own singing now.

Otto

 

[riffermsytic]

I play guitar and have recently added bass. I am good at both. It is all the same really.

 

[wintremute]

I'm skinny and have long, thin, spider hands like Mr Burns. But that doesn't help me much. I can play single notes and very simple chords on a guitar, but anything more complicated seems incredibly unnatural to me. It's no wonder most guitarists I know have wrist problems.

I'm also a pretty mediocre bassist, so I wouldn't even claim to be "singly-talented".

I recently built myself a Warmoth Bass VI, which is a nice challenge to play. Sounds like a bass, plays like a guitar. Mind blown!

So much of this applies to me, I thought I'd just quote it.

 

[Celtic59]

A real easy way to learn guitar is to put together a side project for fun, and have someone else play the bass (make sure to be easy on the bassist) I did that and it ended up becoming my main project and the band eventually got signed and had their 5 minutes....Remember, no safety net, just throw yourself to the dogs and play guitar! I would recommend that to a guitarist flirting with bass. If you HAVE to do it, you WILL do it!

 

[Odinbass]

Learning guitar was and is a huge help. I can eyeball chords without asking or even listening.

Guitar is the primary language of rock music. Nice to know it.

 

[FrenchBassQC]

I could play some basic chords. That's about it.

Yeah same here, or an acoustic guitar around a fire on the beach after some beers and all are at the same point as I am...

 

[interp]

Playing bass and guitar for decades.

 

[Dallaspezz]

I'm mainly a drummer, but I can also play guitar fairly well. Bass seems to work pretty well for me, because I find it's a good mixture of the two.

 

[dave64o]

I suck on bass and, unfortunately, I can't play guitar as well as I play bass.

 

[DaDrew2112]

I've played both guitar and bass for 43 years. I started lessons at 10. I still consider myself a bass player first. I also play sax, keys and do vocals.

oooohhhhh someone's a badass!

(jk mad jealous)

 

[ShiftyFlatwound]

Yes, I can! I've played guitar for 17 years before I fully switched to bass... I guess we call that an epiphany

 

[Slough Feg Bass]

yeah, I started on guitar back in the day.
I play acoustic guitars at home, electrics on some of the demos I do for my band.
For a while I actually played guitar in a band because they said, "you have tasteful licks"
so I did some shows and stuff with them for a couple years. Lots of fun !

 

[stevecaronna]

I have been in a few bands in the past that I could play guitar much better than the guy with the guitar. I never did call them guitarists because they weren't. I have been blessed by not having to play guitar in a band because playing bass has kept me busy enough. I do love to play my strat and my martin in my free time and I do love recording when I can. I also play keys on my own music but never in a band.

 

[EriktheRed]

I started playing 6-string, but now my fingers are so used to the 4 fatter strings, that when I try playing a sixer it sounds terrible and hurts my fingertips.

 

[Camarillo]

I played guitar (not so good ) 20 years before switching to bass.

 

[Lownote38]

I play guitar a bit. Enough that I can write music on one, but I would never call myself a guitarist.

 

[greasyogre]

Sitting here on my couch, I can see the headstocks of 5 instruments. Only two are bass guitars. There is another one tucked away somewhere, but it isn't a bass.

 

[Fingerpickingood]

Also, I find it much easier to get riff ideas across if I record them on a guitar and send them to my bandmates during the week. It just seems to translate better.