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What is it about the guitar?

#21
I get the opposite reaction in my relationships, the bass and guitar are seen as objects that take up space, time, and money that could be spent on them (the women in my life).

That only works with strangers-example-play in a bar and the women think its cool, then start dating them and they will get annoyed and try to keep you from playing!-lol
 
#22
T-MOST said:
Guitar, piano and sax are some of the coolest instruments ever. The voices are strike a nerve thats seldom achieved by most other instruments. thats just the way it is.
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ewww...sax is my least favorite instrument.

I do think that piano though probably has the most appeal in all instruments. The tone, and the use of two hands to play many simultaneous notes and chord, you can play almost anything and come across like you really can play. I mean it's a cliche in movies but its a bit true, guy goes to the piano, stats something, people gather around. And its such a romantic instrument by definition so if you do want to use it as a "hey girls check me out" tool, i'd suspect it works. Cheesy though.... Like I could never bear the guy that just happens to carry his acoustic around you know...in fact i pretty much hate acoustic guitar, probably for this reason. It's only lame ass people who can barely play that you see playing them.
 
#26
I love guitar! Got a few myself and just wish I had more time to play them. I haven't written any songs lately but when I do it's always on guitar. Funny, but when I write a song the bass part is always the last thing I think about.
 
#28
Every time I say to my husband, Hey sweetie! What do you think of this line for this song?, he listens, smiles, and then gets "handsy". :)

As a women, there is a perception that guys that play guitar are "sensitive" and "poetic", even if it hidden deep, deep down inside. Me, I always liked the brooding bass player in the back. One left his bass at my house 20 years ago when we broke up, and now I am the brooding bass player in the back.
 
#30
I think the pitch helps a lot but their is also the fact that most of the time bass is really simple and not flashy at all while guitar player plays flashier thing and singer well ... you can sing along.

Most of very low instrument are huge and a pain to play because of the sizes of the thing, so it is hard to play complex thing on it ... but still many DB player did play music that no one thought it was possible to play.

Also in mainstream music it is all about singer and in the past guitar player were also important ... since Nirvana it seems it is more important to have rythm guitar and let the band just be a huge boring "rythm section"

I find music more interesting with there is no rythm guitar and when the bass is more interesting, we can find that in jazz, classical and in world music.
 
#33
morrisonhendrix said:
I knew someone would say that. I'd still argue that guitar would be a bit more expressive overall.
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the problem with guitar which isn't the case of any classical instruments is : you can't recreate the legato playing coming from singing in a single breath. The only way to get close to legato with frets is to use tapping for the start and continue with hammer-on/pull-off...

Guitar and bass are also quite limited in dynamics ...

and well I also think that since rock music became a thing, music in general go quite simple. Now it is only a melody with an harmony in a rigide rythm almost like a groundbass and well even if there is a lot of instrument it is still only two things playing together, long gone are the days of 4 parts harmony and stuff like that.
 
#34
I've been playing bass for 25 years and I rarely practice it solo. 98% of the time I'm playing along to a song, the other 2% of the time, it's just to hear a certain part I'm working on more clearly. I love bass, but it's not an instrument that sounds good on its own.

On the other hand, I can happily strum my acoustic guitar for hours unaccompanied. The big difference is that you can play a song on guitar, but not so much on bass.
 
#36
duff beer said:
I've been playing bass for 25 years and I rarely practice it solo. 98% of the time I'm playing along to a song, the other 2% of the time, it's just to hear a certain part I'm working on more clearly. I love bass, but it's not an instrument that sounds good on its own.

On the other hand, I can happily strum my acoustic guitar for hours unaccompanied. The big difference is that you can play a song on guitar, but not so much on bass.
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