Who plays guitar as well?

[Flamingo21]

Started on violin when I was 9. Added piano at 11. Switched from violin to viola at 14.

I stayed with classical music until, at the tender age of 50, I jumped into bass guitar and started exploring other kinds of music. I have finally found my true instrument.

I do not recall ever touching a guitar.

 

[Liam Wald]

Actually I am a better guitar player than I am a bass player. But I like playing bass better. There are very few things that feel better than playing bass with a really good drummer and driving a band. Few things with your clothes on that is!

 

[Seashore]

I love guitar, been playing for close to 27 years. I'm still more fluent on it. I put it down completely for a while to focus on bass, but recently got the chance to play guitar for a pretty killer band that's based nearby, so I've been putting in the practice time and reacquainting myself with those tiny little strings and tiny little frets. Gotta admit though, my six-string bass is my favorite instrument to play right now. It makes me smile just looking at it.

 

[Joe Nerve]

This is what I looked like in the 80s:

Its also why I quit drinking, drugs, smoking, and eating meat.

I'm much prettier today, almost 40 years later . IMO, anyhow.

 

[tehuti]

I started playing guitar first but actually prefer playing bass. Bought my first guitar to start seriously trying to learn in 2000 and my first bass in 2006. Now I mostly play bass.

 

[stringthrough]

Started on bass at 14. Have had one or more guitars continuously since 16. Yup, I can play both, but I'm much better on bass. It's good to have a "chording" instrument.

 

[Tom Gallo]

Bass first, then guitar. But I got an acoustic guitar maybe a few years after I played bass. I'm not a spectacular guitarist, but I can play well enough to jam and to play on my home recordings. I've done a few gigs as a guitarist, but never as a lead guitarist.

 

[Biggbass]

Bass is just one of the many tools in my musical toolbox.
Try Charango. It's a mind bend.

 

[dr doofie]

As well as, what? or, who?

Been doing so since well before you were, even, a twinkle in your father's eye, maybe even before his father's eye.

I KNEW you were gonna say that, cause it was my knee jerk reaction, but I thought, I’d better read a couple threads first, and there’s JS beating me to the punch...

 

[bassballs27]

So the title says it all. I’m curious what your experience with guitar might be? Did you start on guitar and switch over? Have you played bass from the get go and never picked up a guitar? Did playing guitar help you as a bass payer? I’d love to hear you experience with the guitar.

Me? I tinkered with the guitar, but never got very serious. I’ve really only gotten more serious about the bass over the past year or so...and I feel more at home.

I own guitars...it’s fun to expand your musical experience outside bass.
However, bass will always be my number one!

 

[bluesblaster]

I play guitar, am I a "guitarist" ? not so much, more of a fun strummer than a quick picker

 

[dr doofie]

I played bass and Chapman Stick for years. Put the stick down for a while, recently bought an 8 string guitar and I'm migrating my Stick and guitar stuff to that. It's been a lot of fun. And very inspiring.

Chapman Stick? Elaborate please?

 

[Oig]

Long time guitar player (I started playing about 31 years ago), who apart from a brief flirtation with a Yamaha BB1000 in the early 90's picked up bass 5 years ago. And man, I'm loving it. I play lead and bass in regular rotation at the church we go to, and I'm lucky enough to have a couple of other gigs where I can play both too!

 

[micgtr71]

I played bass for years and dabbled in guitar. My boss wanted me to take on guitar students so I started studying and playing. I got some gigs and now am 98% guitar gig and teaching-wise.

 

[And I]

Started on trunpet at 9, guitar when I was 12 years old. Played guitar as my main instrument from age 17 until I was about 30, several years of that was touring regionally, playing 50+ gigs a year, all as a guitarist and singer. My last band as a guitarist was a live hip hop group. I wasn't doing a lot of "guitary" kinda things, it was a cool and interesting. After that ended, I knew I wanted to give bass a try, my goal was to play bass in an Afrobeat band... trying to keep my options open I auditioned for a funk sorta project on guitar and when they asked me to join, I realized the guitar had just run its course for me. I would just be regurgitating the same stuff... so I declined and kept searching for and eventually found an Afrobeat group and played with them for a short time... didn't work out but it did get me playing bass with other people, and I knew it was my new home. Now it's... 13 years later? And I've barely touched the guitar and have played bass in several different bands, in a pit orchestra for a local theater company, on several recordings, and as a sub for a former band that I used to play trumpet for. It's definitely "home".

 

[Tim Skaggs]

Started on acoustic guitar & switched to bass when my acoustic jamming buddies broke out their electric gear. I still play acoustic guitar and fiddle, but bass is the only instrument a play well enough to get paid to play.

 

[Groove Doctor]

guitar as well. I absolutely despise trying to play guitar. It feels like a cheap toy to me.

A local luthier made an oversized baritone guitar (tuned a fourth lower B-B) with extra long scale and extra wide neck. Customer had hands of a giant - it was so big I felt like a child playing it. I reckon a 6 string bass with piccolo bass strings, but tuned like a baritone guitar, would be a close approximation.

Bass is just one of the many tools in my musical toolbox.
Try Charango. It's a mind bend.

So you DO have an armadillo down your trousers??

 

[Sue Egypt]

Chapman Stick? Elaborate please?

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[CoffeeLove]

I play acoustic decent, and dabble with the electric, but spent all my real wood-shedding on the bass. It's my favorite

 

[konfyouzd]

Been playing guitar for about 23 years now.