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I had no comeback to this...

#43
I'm not ashamed to admit it...I took up bass because I was the weakest of the guitarists in the group and we needed a bass player.

That being said, once I picked up a bass, it was an amazing experience. It was like that was what I should have been doing all of my life. It immediately made so much more sense to me than playing guitar, and I improved rapidly, possibly because practice was more fun than anything else in the world.

My only regret is that I didn't start playing bass years earlier, and that I wasted so much time trying to master guitar.

I can't really say that bass is hugely difficult to learn, but certainly massivey difficult to master. One of the things that is hardest about bass, IMO, is the responsibilities that the bass player takes on in the band...providing the bottom, enforcing tempo, leading key changes, making sure there is somewhere for the guitarists to land when they come back from their solo flights, often providing the voice of reason in the band as well as the neutrality...the bass player stays busy all the time.
 
#45
tony909 said:
The other day, I was talking to a guitarist. He seemed like a reasonable guy, and had been playing guitar for ten years. I mentioned to him that I played bass and his friend then said "oh really? I'd like to play bass!" The guitarist was quick to say, "Bass is easy, you'll pick it up in a week."
Getting defensive, I said to him "Like you would know". He gave me a look and then stated he had been playing bass for eight years.

...ooops...:hmm:
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You should have said, " Well sure it's easy! If you want to play like Fieldy or Pete Wentz..."
:smug:

Peace
 
#46
He plays guitar because he has girlie fingers and can actually navigate the teeny weenie thin strings.

A real man plays Bass; thick, fat, gnarly strings that make your fingers go numb for weeks, with a tone that shakes the foundations and puts your arms through a workout.
 
#49
mutedeity said:
Threads like this really make me start to think that some people play bass because they really are insecure about their failure at guitar. Really all the justifications for how bass is just as hard as guitar make me laugh.
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Actually, in the grand scheme of things, both guitar and bass are pretty easy instruments on which to get to the point where you can play well enough to get along at the amateur level. Try being a concert violinist or oboist if you want to do something hard.
 
#50
he's right, it not like 85% of most of what we do is that difficult.

When I've had guitard's say something like that however, I normally say "cool, you can help me with this, and pop on classical thump or something similar." and play the one or two bars I can handle and pass my bass over and say I'm a little lost after that so.......
 
#52
ggunn said:
Actually, in the grand scheme of things, both guitar and bass are pretty easy instruments on which to get to the point where you can play well enough to get along at the amateur level. Try being a concert violinist or oboist if you want to do something hard.
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That's beside the point. At an entry level yes, bass and guitar are both quite easy instruments. It comes down to how far you develop your ability on a given instrument. The point is that all this whining about "guitards" is laughable.
 
#53
Bass is easier to play than guitar. Ill fight you to the death on that. However it is not a question of which is more challenging. It is a question of what calls out to you. Choose the instrument that lets you make the music you want to make.

BTW TALK BASS DICTIONARY:

Guitard-A blues, punk, or heavy metal guitarist.

Wanker-A highly techical guitarist.
 
#56
mutedeity said:
Threads like this really make me start to think that some people play bass because they really are insecure about their failure at guitar. Really all the justifications for how bass is just as hard as guitar make me laugh.
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I stopped trying to formally learn Guitar because my fingertips were too fat / thick for Guitar chords. I picked up Bass the day after I first heard a solo Bassist shake a room.

In my experience Bass is physically harder, but if you are chugging root-notes for some pop band then that difference is pointless.


And to answer your question, Guitar is an alright instrument if you are some teenage muso wanker... but the wonder just does not reach me anymore.
 
#57
It is soo much easier to sound good on a guitar then a bass.

Maybe to those with absolutely no music background, hitting a root note is easier than forming a chord. but someone can just strum a cord and move some fingers around in the key and it will sound pretty, but emotionally just hitting a root note, maybe a five or 3 in there doesn't sound as pretty.

Both are easy to learn, every instrument is easy to play a note on, the Player is the decider what is to them easier, so it's an persons opinion and it doesn't matter one bit, if a person is insecure about the instrument they play, then they will be effected by anothers opinion, but a musician play music as a whole not just a instrument.

I personally started playing the bass, then picked up the sax, then the harp, and now looking for more instruments to learn, people say i'm talented, but i know that i play music. With any instrument, i just take the time to learn and see it that way.

With more musical ground you can start to see the beauty and simplicity in all instrument, merely tools with different sounds to give your soul a different voice.
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