What's your poison?

[Pings Bass]

Fascinating. Is this a poll of what players play or listeners listen to? Bit surprised at the HipHop if it's the former.

It is by US album sales, calculated as follows:

Total Album Project Units = Album Sales + (Song Sales/10) + (On-Demand Audio Streams/1500)

ref: Music album consumption in the U.S. by genre 2018 | Statista

In other words, this is what people in the US are paying to listen to.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Jazz Fusion.
Prog Rock/Metal.
Ambient/New Age.
Djent.
On six string basses.
Fretted/Fretless.

 

[dkelley]

Every Rose Has It's Thorn

That's the poison you mean, right?

 

[dkelley]

Funk and Hip Hop are entirely different genres.

I love funk

Not so much hip hop

 

[beatdatthang]

Rock, Blues, Metal, and as of late a little Country. I’ve always played classic/hard rock and metal but of late I’ve been playing with a Southern Rock (right up my alley) and Modern Country band. Sometimes it’s nice to work outside your comfort zone. I really still don’t listen to country music at all. Never have, but now I have to learn the bass lines for some covers and write them for our originals and that’s always fun.

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Same here, but add lots of old school jazz and some alt.weirdo stuff as well.

Seriously?! I would never have guessed that! Awesome!

 

[Plectrum72]

Rock, Pop, Soul/R&B, Country, Funk/Hip Hop, Blues, pretty much in that order.

 

[RJC1811]

I’m kicking myself for not guessing the %’s before i voted and saw the results. It would have been interesting To see how close (or far off) I was.

 

[RJC1811]

Wait, what do these %’s represent?

 

[Tosh]

I was playing keys in a Funk & Disco band until Feb this year.

Now I'm learning bass, & playing Americana in an online duo, which we hope to take on the road next summer.

In the past, on keys, I've played Prog, Fusion, Blues, Rock, Country, and Western.

 

[TrevorG]

Wait, what do these %’s represent?

My intention, after a couple of threads about fret numbers, was to see how many people played music that, traditionally, stayed below the 12th fret. Hence my small number of genres. There are a lot more blues players than I was expecting and fewer jazz fusion players. I know you can't generalise too much but there are trends attached to particular styles. Fender and many other companies probably have these figures and know who to build for to make the biggest profit.

 

[Phlipper]

The poll is actually pretty interesting. Pretty broad spectrum of tastes here. I like polls.

Hey ... we need a poll that includes:

- If I ever have to play 'Sweet Home Alabama' again I'm going to vomit

- If I ever have to play bass behind another guitarist who wanks endlessly on Hendrix and SRV someone is gonna die

- If I ever play bass where the keyboard player doubles the juicey bass lines on awesome 70s funk songs I'm going to poke him in eye with pointy headstock of my Jackson Concert XV

For the record, when I am the lead guitarist I actually cut some of the SRV solos short and I refuse to play Hendrix. Period. That crap bores me even if I'm the wanker.

 

[Tosh]

..... - If I ever play bass where the keyboard player doubles the juicey bass lines on awesome 70s funk songs I'm going to poke him in eye with pointy headstock of my Jackson Concert XV

Hey some of those juicy '70's bass lines were originally done on keys! "Chameleon", anyone?
Our bass player had a Black Eagle - the commensurate funk bass (so I'm told). Nicely carved/curved headstock.

Oh yeah - I play all the frets I can get! right now I have only 21. 88 frets would probably be too many...

 

[REV]

I've played everything except opera.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Everything except funk/hipclop. Devastated not to see Nordic techno-folk listed as a genre.

 

[DogsNbeer]

Post punk
Psychedelic
90’s inspired indie rock leaning towards the proggier side
Garage rock

all original

stuff that gets performed live to drunk people

 

[Admiral Akbar]

I put all of the above....

interesting to see so many (40% at this time of posting) choosing blues. You would think this poll was taken of guitarists!

 

[Deleted member 165050]

I put all of the above....

interesting to see so many (40% at this time of posting) choosing blues. You would think this poll was taken of guitarists!

I sat in as house bassist in a local blues club a couple of times in the summer. Not knowing anything that was going to be played was a nice challenge and it's a quick education that blues isn't all 12 bars and the bass lines that work best are closer to jazz. There were a fair number of guitar solos though.

 

[Hurricane Jimmie]

So Anyway, Zydeco!
Et Toi.....Aieeeeeee!

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

No Disco?
No Contemporary Gospel?

The above along with Jazz /Soul/ funk/ pop/ rock/ R&B/ CCM/ Modern Praise & Worship.