you have a gun pointed at your head and still cannot tune 2 adjacent strings to each other, let alone tune all 6 strings to what they are supposed to be tuned to
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You know you're a guitard when...
- Thread starter gahpg
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all this is a little bit of an overgeneralisation..particularly when a large chunk of users on this forum are only playing bass because they did'nt get chords.
- Apr 30, 2007
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What if I didn't get chords on guitar but can play chords on bass just fine?
P.S. my old guitarist got 10 of those.
The mass amounts of hypocrisy oozing out of this post make me laugh.
You don't need to ovegen#ela&Qu$$$naoanm (Or w/e ever you were attempting to say with that mass of letters) us mister guitarist. You just proved our point. (At least bass players passed 5th grade English)
i just don't get how on this site you aparently arent allowed to be a multi instrumentalist.
and if you want to talk about passing english..
ever heard of affixes? no?
over-general-ise-ation.
and yeah, fair enough, my coment itself generalised a bit, but at least i said 'a large chunk' rather than all. while it's obvious that a SOME of bassists AND guitarists are musicaly competant.
try and make ME sound stupid when YOU don't understand a word?
and if you want to talk about passing english..
ever heard of affixes? no?
over-general-ise-ation.
and yeah, fair enough, my coment itself generalised a bit, but at least i said 'a large chunk' rather than all. while it's obvious that a SOME of bassists AND guitarists are musicaly competant.
try and make ME sound stupid when YOU don't understand a word?
I think that by definition the term guitard implies a self taught guitarist with minimal grasp of music theory and a long term goal of learning to play chromatic runs so fast that the strings become hotter than the sun and people die.
The type of player who, when I ask if he run through the changes with me on his new original composition, tells you, "oh, dude, the song is in C". Then his solo consists various combinations of C, E, and G, along with lots of chromatic runs starting on C.
If your band includes the guitard make sure you are good at transposing the guy's capo-pitched chords. Do not ask him to transcribe the saxophone charts.
Exclude the extended chords from the guitard's chart. They will confuse him and he will end up playing the triad anyway. Don't bring this up in rehearsal, he will ask you, "what is this triad" and feelings will be hurt in the ensuing conversation.
Always remember that you are the bassist. This is because you are not good enough to play guitar and have graciously been provided with a simplified version. Ensure that your volume (and ego) are always subservient to those of the guitard. Remember that Kirk Hammett is rad. Who is Marcus Miller? Dude, do not discuss Marcus Miller with the guitard. Definitely do not discuss Victor Wooten with the guitard. The guitard has not heard of Bela Fleck. In fact, the guitard has not heard of the banjo.
I like the term basshole much better than basstard, by the way.
The type of player who, when I ask if he run through the changes with me on his new original composition, tells you, "oh, dude, the song is in C". Then his solo consists various combinations of C, E, and G, along with lots of chromatic runs starting on C.
If your band includes the guitard make sure you are good at transposing the guy's capo-pitched chords. Do not ask him to transcribe the saxophone charts.
Exclude the extended chords from the guitard's chart. They will confuse him and he will end up playing the triad anyway. Don't bring this up in rehearsal, he will ask you, "what is this triad" and feelings will be hurt in the ensuing conversation.
Always remember that you are the bassist. This is because you are not good enough to play guitar and have graciously been provided with a simplified version. Ensure that your volume (and ego) are always subservient to those of the guitard. Remember that Kirk Hammett is rad. Who is Marcus Miller? Dude, do not discuss Marcus Miller with the guitard. Definitely do not discuss Victor Wooten with the guitard. The guitard has not heard of Bela Fleck. In fact, the guitard has not heard of the banjo.
I like the term basshole much better than basstard, by the way.
You guys all get to serious when other people say stuff, you may have found this to be offensive
i found it funny
there's humor to be found everywhere, and there's negativity(sp?) to be found everywhere
be carefull of what you're looking for
btw: basstard> basshole
First of all, i think whoever posted this is a trolling guitard, what about the guys in this forum that HAVE studied guitar and can kick most guitard´s butts, in matters of taste and arrangement and became bassists by choice? What about the extended range colleagues that know "one thing or two" about chords? What about the ones that have studied harmony to move with grace between three clumsy chords and make a simple and boring song something actually interesting to listen to?
C´mon...if you´re really a guitard that wants to study bass, it´s not going to bite you....remember...there are many bands without guitar, but not that many without bass (electric, acoustic,upright, balalaika, guitarron, etc...you get my point)
Anyway...you know you´re a guitard when:
You can´t stop noodling between each and every song to save your life!!!
(no pun intended to all of those GUITARISTS that are outstanding musicians in their own right, i have worked with a few of them and those have been wonderful constructive experiences
)Here are some from my real expeerience:
- You have so many different pedals in your pedalboard that you forgot what some of those do at all
- You go on playing during a soundcheck even when the soundman tells the guitarists to STFU
- You show your bandmates some awesome solo you've just composed, but they just say "It's just more of the same noodling in D Dorian
"
- No matter what gear you have, you're never content with it
- 30 seconds after meeting another gutar player the conversation converges into discussing guitar gear
- You have so many different pedals in your pedalboard that you forgot what some of those do at all
- You go on playing during a soundcheck even when the soundman tells the guitarists to STFU
- You show your bandmates some awesome solo you've just composed, but they just say "It's just more of the same noodling in D Dorian
"- No matter what gear you have, you're never content with it
- 30 seconds after meeting another gutar player the conversation converges into discussing guitar gear
You know you're a guitard when:
-Your bass player asks what chord you're playing and you tell him "C" even though it's Cmaj7, because the bass player only needs to play the root note anyway.
-Your bass player has to show you what F7sus4 is.
-Or what any chord is, for that matter.
Man, bass players have to know more about chords than anyone else... that way we can make your weak-ass licks sound better by highlighting the right chord tones.
Fortunately, I have been blessed and crossed paths with more guitarists than "guitards". The lead guitarist for the band I'm in now is probably the best guitarist I've ever met; he knows more theory than I do and he's dedicated to the GROUP sound instead of just wanking on stage... always telling me to turn UP, haha. Although I must admit, it gets a little annoying when he tries to set my EQ for me... I think he might be more of a tone freak than I am, which is pretty weird.
Well, no major complaints here, except the EQ thing.
