Cello, then Violin, then took vocals seriously(not sure if that counts, voice is an instrument I'd say). Bass guitar is my new home, which I am very happy with!
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Was Electric Bass Your First Instrument?
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Yea, right!! How about accordian at the age of 5 moving to guitar, then to saxophone eventually supplemented by bass. Now bass and bagpipes.
I faintly taking a class in like middle school years and they had us learning something like a melodica. I'm pretty sure it was a melodica with a tub attached to it, but for some reason I can't remember if it was called a melodica. I can't find any other instruments similar to the melodica, so I think that's what I first played.
But that was like one class, I wouldn't really count it as my first instrument, so yea, bass. Wanna learn drums and a little guitar as well.
But that was like one class, I wouldn't really count it as my first instrument, so yea, bass. Wanna learn drums and a little guitar as well.
I started on bass - played a little guitar, studied bass in college, switched to drums as my main instrument, picked up piano, bought a cello and some harmonicas. I now say bass is my main instrument, though my only gig is at church where I play drums and sometimes guitar.
When I was about 6-7 years old I started with drums...had to leave them because my neighbours were breakin' b###s...
Then I stayed without playing nothing for years...I started playing the bass at 14, when I really began to be interested in music and noticed that I was following everything the bass was doin' in the song context...so it was love at the second sight!!!
Then I stayed without playing nothing for years...I started playing the bass at 14, when I really began to be interested in music and noticed that I was following everything the bass was doin' in the song context...so it was love at the second sight!!!
Started with piano around 5 and still play it (whoa, never thought of that before - I've been playing the piano for 15 years now!), though it's far from being my main instrument. Singing was next, been doing that "seriously" (in choirs and bands and such) since I was 7. Then started electric bass and guitar on the same summer, I was around 12. Bass got me the gigs, so that's what I've played the most since. Then double bass after a few years, and also viola, tin whistles, melodicas...
I first had a guitar but didnt feel it at all so I started on drums. I loved them and still do. But I wanted to be like my dad so I started the bass.
Having little to do with making any academic progress and needing to keep myself busy the bass proved to be an instrument I would quickly grow fond of.
A lot of 4 hour a day practices for a few years. Spending way too much money on equipment and trying to be the best damn bassist I could has made me one thing.
Frustrated.
Everyone in town still associates me with the drums .
Having little to do with making any academic progress and needing to keep myself busy the bass proved to be an instrument I would quickly grow fond of.
A lot of 4 hour a day practices for a few years. Spending way too much money on equipment and trying to be the best damn bassist I could has made me one thing.
Frustrated.
Everyone in town still associates me with the drums .
Like OP:
Cello, then moved double bass, then realized that the "4-string guitar that Bill Wyman played" was the same as the bass fiddle!
Cello, then moved double bass, then realized that the "4-string guitar that Bill Wyman played" was the same as the bass fiddle!
Tell me about it -- it's pretty hard to entertain a room of people on four strings alone!
Clarinet... I squeaked too much so moved to Alto Sax.. Switched to Trumpet in 5th grade because it was lighter... played throughout highschool. Picked up guitar around 7th grade... Just started with the bass and love it so much!
yes, i started out on the guitar, and was constantly reying to downtune and get more of a "thud" out of my sound... one day this kid at a party i was at said after he tried one of my guitars" damn kid, why not just play the bass?" and it was like someone had just turned on the lights. never looked back since!
Started out on French Horn in grade school. Actually, it was an old Euphonium that the school had. It was also a right-handed horn.
Then, a brief period of piano lessons.
Then, a brief period of piano lessons.
School band I played Trumpet, then Alto Sax and back to Trumpet and made first string when my braces got taken off 
Still to this day I would say musicians like Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins are a bigger influence to me than Geddy or Jaco...
Still to this day I would say musicians like Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins are a bigger influence to me than Geddy or Jaco...
I actually started on the recorder. Don't laugh. I worked hours on that instrument, sometimes until spit would come out from the front end (details you could live without, I know).
I really p-ed off everybody with this thing. Easy instrument to start with and that's how I learned to read scores too.
I am a pure self learner, by the way.
I really p-ed off everybody with this thing. Easy instrument to start with and that's how I learned to read scores too.
I am a pure self learner, by the way.
Recorder (age 8-9) -> Flute (10-15) - > Guitar (12- ) -> Bass (22- ). In my early twenties I fooled around on a drumset as well, so I know a little of that as well. Even did a couple of gigs as a drummer. I miss having access to a drumset.
Bass is and will remain my #1 instrument though, if you don't count vocals.
Bass is and will remain my #1 instrument though, if you don't count vocals.
Played Trombone in school for a little bit then stopped and picked up bass in early high school. I didn't even own another instrument until last year.
Started out at age ten on the drums; added banjo in the mid-seventies. As a drummer every bass player I ever played with was the third worse guitar player in the band. So I in the early eighties I decided to make some drummer really happy and play bass.
Drums starting at age 8, bass age 26, harmonica age 33 (started about 30 days ago) still play all I'm 33 now.
