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Do you go both ways?
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Started on the cheese-wires, started late, at 19, Master of Puppets by Metallica actually motivated me to pick it up.
Started my current band as the rhythm guitar player when we had two and the single guitar when we didn't. The joke runs that my band forced me to switch to bass so I would stop firing the bass player. I suppose there is a grain of truth in there, but it certainly worked from the band's point of view!
I still find for writing, I'll pick up the guitar first, get a melody line running, then I'll put it aside and work the bass line. Sometimes I'll bring the guitar line to song-writing/arranging rehearsals, sometimes I just bring the bass line and see what the guitar player comes up with. So no, I'm not just playing roots, the damn guitar player couldn't come up with anything other than chording my line!
Started my current band as the rhythm guitar player when we had two and the single guitar when we didn't. The joke runs that my band forced me to switch to bass so I would stop firing the bass player. I suppose there is a grain of truth in there, but it certainly worked from the band's point of view!
I still find for writing, I'll pick up the guitar first, get a melody line running, then I'll put it aside and work the bass line. Sometimes I'll bring the guitar line to song-writing/arranging rehearsals, sometimes I just bring the bass line and see what the guitar player comes up with. So no, I'm not just playing roots, the damn guitar player couldn't come up with anything other than chording my line!
Didn't want to, but once my brother (incredible guitarist) left the Bay Area I had no one else to turn to for recording, so started in my early thirties. It's damn sure not a priority, although here at the twenty year mark I can carry a gig, and have done so on occasion. But no desire to make it a lifestyle. Been playing bass and drums far longer and like 'em more.
Two Squier Japan "contemporary" Strats, a decent Marshall combo, the classic dirt/chorus/delay eighties Boss setup, that's it. My guitar rig is like a time capsule from 1985.
Two Squier Japan "contemporary" Strats, a decent Marshall combo, the classic dirt/chorus/delay eighties Boss setup, that's it. My guitar rig is like a time capsule from 1985.
Totally this. Learning guitar, piano, and any other instrument you like will help you...it's helped me a lot. When I was in school, I convinced a piano major to get a guitar because it made learning scales/modes/chords easier.
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Funny, I thought fretted and fretless.
I started on guitar in high school, switched to bass in high school.
These days I play guitar mostly on demos to show people what my ideas are, then I let the experts take it from there.
I did play guitar in a couple bands several years ago, was fun!
These days I play guitar mostly on demos to show people what my ideas are, then I let the experts take it from there.
I did play guitar in a couple bands several years ago, was fun!
I started guitar in 4th grade, and trombone in 5th. I still play both, and should be much better at both after all these years!
Bass came along about 10 years ago, and I wish I had started 30 years earlier!
Bass came along about 10 years ago, and I wish I had started 30 years earlier!
I played guitar for around 30 years before picking up the bass 5 years ago.
I'm a bass player..... and wish i'd picked it up 30 year ago. It just seems to suit me so much better. My guitar chops have deteriorated really badly and pretty much the only time I pick one up is for song writing or for showing a guitarist how a passage or lead line should be played.
I'm a bass player..... and wish i'd picked it up 30 year ago. It just seems to suit me so much better. My guitar chops have deteriorated really badly and pretty much the only time I pick one up is for song writing or for showing a guitarist how a passage or lead line should be played.
I seldom perform on guitar. But I do compose a fair amount of music on them. Usually I’ll use my Squier CV 60s Tele tuned in open-G (DGDGBD). Otherwise it’s any one of my SO’s collection of very fine guitars. She owns more (and better) gear than I do!
I am a bass player with a cheap acoustic guitar. It was on sale recently for less than a decent pair of shoes so, I figured it would be good to have around at that price. My reasoning is it just helps me understand the instrument better thereby, making me a (hopefully) more intelligent bass musician in relation to what the guitar is doing.
Don’t laugh! In my little pea-brain it makes sense.
Don’t laugh! In my little pea-brain it makes sense.
I've been playing guitar for as long as I've been playing bass, but bass has been way more consistent.
I picked up the guitar today for the first time in months and it felt so tiny and light... the strings are too close together and thin. When I do play guitar, I stick to mainly rhythm guitar with minimal lead type playing. Also, I'm a tall fella, a bass guitar just feels better on me.
I picked up the guitar today for the first time in months and it felt so tiny and light... the strings are too close together and thin. When I do play guitar, I stick to mainly rhythm guitar with minimal lead type playing. Also, I'm a tall fella, a bass guitar just feels better on me.
