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Do you also play guitar?

Do You Also Play Guitar?

  • Yes - Learned Before Bass

    Votes: 58 51.8%

  • Yes - Learned After Bass

    Votes: 40 35.7%

  • Yes - But don't play bass

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, but want to

    Votes: 6 5.4%

  • No and never will

    Votes: 6 5.4%

  • No, but I can slap a mean carrot

    Votes: 2 1.8%
  • Total voters
    112
#2
I learned to play bass about 2 months after starting a guitar class in eighth grade. If the teacher thought we were progressing well on guitar, her reward was to allow us to play a cheap, junky Japanese bass on Fridays. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I'm still a guitard and own several guitars, but bass is my main thing.
 
#3
I started on guitar and cello later got stuck on string bass and put it all together on what I do now.

I don't play guitar much any more just occasionally on a recording session if i hear a part that the guitar player is not covering and often that is on piccolo bass. I do have a couple of electrics, a classical and 12 string guitarr at hand.
 
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#7
As I've mentioned before--I don't remember a time when I didn't want to play a guitar--I've wanted to since I was a small child.
I started with a toy guitar, later took piano lessons, tired to teach myself guitar, then took lessons to help that out
When I switched to a new teacher there was a band/combo program and a pre-requisite to take part was to take bass lessons (Although I never played bass in any of the combos)--so I was reluctant to start--but after I started I found out I liked it.
Over the years I sometimes played bass a lot or sometimes not much.
But after time I started playing bass more often, and enjoying it more.
Then I got a fretless last February and I've probably played more bass since then multiple year periods before--definitely the most I've played in any one calendar year.
 
#9
I started play guitar 25 years ago. Seven years later, i bought a cheap bass in order to record some bassline over tune i had written. That was a revelation. I quickly sold my two Gibson Les paul to buy a Warwick bass and a bass amp.
I kept my acoustics guitar and played them from time to time, singing with friends.
Few month ago i bought a new electroacoustic guitar with nylon strings, and realized it was the feel i missed on guitar. I think i will write songs with it.
 
#10
I own two guitars and I pick them up now and then and strum a few chords or fool around with some effects, and that's about it. One day when I have more time maybe I'll make more of an effort to learn a bit more. Until then they are nice to have around and play with every now and then, like the several other instruments I also have but can't really play. I just like music gear.
 
#11
Like most in the survey, I started to play guitar before bass at a young age. I am a lefty and it was hard to get lessons when I was younger. I soon grew frustrated with guitar and felt like I was getting nowhere after many years of playing. about 5 years ago, I injured my right hand and wrist in a snowboard accident and realized that I could no longer play my guitars long because of wrist pain. I had a friend who was lefty and let me try out his Spector bass about 4 years ago and now I concentrate fully on playing bass since it does not bother my wrist to play a 4 string for long amounts of time.

I sold my guitar gear and was able to afford a Squier VM 70's jazz and my friend's Spector Legend along with a used GK 700RB head and a friend's EV loaded 115 cab and I've been obsessed with bass ever since. I'm glad I picked up the Spector and spent hours learning notes and scales. The search for lefty basses is always an ongoing thing and now five years later, I own 2 G&L's and a Spector Rebop and several amps and am very happy with my never ending bass journey.
 
#12
I've never had the desire. I've branched out into mandolin and Irish bouzouki for short periods. If I was looking to pick another instrument right now I'd choose octave mandolin. There's so many people who play guitar around me that it almost seems cliche. It's almost as if as soon as people tell you that they play guitar, you can predict what and who they are going to talk about for the next half hour. At least that's starting to be my perception after about 5 years of playing music.
 
#15
I started on bass in 1968 (after six years of piano and piano accordion) and within a year I started on guitar. I'm a fingerstyle player, mostly Piedmont blues and other acoustic blues styles. I'm also a singer. I let bass go for many years while pursuing a career, raising a family and such (the band thing just took too much time), but always played guitar as solo or in duo/trio acts. I'm as well known locally as a guitar player as I am a bass player, but lately get a lot more gigs on bass (upright, ABG, and electric bass guitar). I still own a Telecaster and haven't played electric guitar in years, however my acoustic guitar "collection" gets bigger every year. I get enjoyment out of every instrument I can play, and even a few I don't (struggling with lap steel, I can wank around on a mandolin a bit, and I'm thinking of seriously getting back my keyboard chops).
 
#16
Yeah - I play some guitar. Started on bass tho.. GAS comes in all forms as you can see.
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#18
My first instrument was guitar 26 years ago. Was going to be a rock star. When I got to high school I took saxophone in school band more serious. I got a music ed degree in college with saxophone as my primary instrument. I have taught middle school band for the last 16 years. I always played bass for my jazz and pep bands when I didn't have a bass player.

I gigged most of those years as a saxophonist. We would switch up and I would play bass on a few tunes. Then I started doubling on guitar and sax in a few bands. I took a break from the gigging world and now am trying to scratch that itch again. This time as a bass and have hit the shed pretty hard on it.
 
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