Bass players?

[Captain P?l]

how many here play's bass? just wonder....

bass is fun!so is guitar.... i dunno wich one i love best...

[duffman]

I play bass and guitar also.

[Captain P?l]

its kinda cool to be a bassist too.... you always got work!! its better to be a medicore guitar player and a good bass player then only a killer guitar player.... esier to find a band [ok]

but if you are a killer guitar player then you might find a band anyway.. but there are WAY to many guitarists out there!!!

[YaMaGaTa]

Any of yas play a six string then...?  

[Captain P?l]

six string?no way.... i gotta use an 8 stringed bass to fullfil my talent...not [smoking]


or did you mean guitar? i play guitar too!

[sweet_child_of_axl]

I play bass and guitar, ive got a guitar but resently I got into playing bass and been practising a bit on guitar, but now my dads buying me a bass...      .....TOMORROW

[willy4pres]

I've been playing guitar for the last 15 years, picked up the bass off and on throughout that timeframe.

Im thinking of buying a new Carvin rig in the near future, something very large, to go with my new Carvin LB75.  Your right though, it is easier to find some guys to play with when you play Bass, everyone play's guitar.

[YaMaGaTa]

six string?no way.... i gotta use an 8 stringed bass to fullfil my talent...not [smoking]


or did you mean guitar? i play guitar too!

No i meant a 6 string bass man....

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Its a beauty...=)

[Butch Français]

I mostly play guitar, but thats because i dont have a bass, whenever I get the chance to play bass I sit and pick on the strings for hours, and LOVE it!! [yes]

[Seb]

i mostly play guitar but sometimes bassand it's pretty funny to do [hihi]

[eNgIeS]

Hey guys

I dont play any instruments, but my mates are thinking of making a band (they both play guitar) & they're asking me to learn Bass. The thing is I dont know anything really about Bass Guitar, can someone just give me a breif run down about whether Bass is hard to learn & play, how much hours of practice do you think you need to become a decent bass player, what is the purpose of the bass guitar (as in what it brings to the music & band, does it mix well with other instruments)

or would Keyboard be easier to learn (I played long ago but have forgotten now)

[Chris Misfit]

I play a bit of Bass. Not a great bass player, but I can pull off a few Punk tunes.

[Captain P?l]

I play a bit of Bass. Not a great bass player, but I can pull off a few Punk tunes.

no shit???? you are an awesome bass player! so you know 3 chords? hehe...
punk are fun to play sometimes...but kinda easy... you go!

[Jim]

I have played Bass for a couple of years now

I play a four string

[Aero]

i have no bass, but i think that it's preety easy... i can play any song in bass when i get one  [peace] i just need some time to hear the bass in the song and get it

[Pviljoen]

well there are songs that you couldnt do that with... but yeah it takes a certain attitude to be a bass player.

[Jim]

I hate when people who play guitar say "I don't like bass, it's boring, it's piss easy"

I just think what the fuck?

[Miz]

I don't like bass, it's boring, it's piss easy... [ok]

I don't actually have anything usefull to add, except, its very hard to play with fingers instead of a pick.

[Jim]

I usually play with my fingers as opposed to a plec.

[Dragon]

I'm not a bass player but i have played it sometimes. And I have a friend that love his bass. Playing bass can be really easy and really hard. If you only play the bass notes it easy but try to play some funk with all those slaptechniques and pulloffs and all the other things they do to their bass.
Listen to Victor Wooten, that's a guy that can use his bass.
 

[Captain P?l]

i agree with dragon..... its all in the kind of music... bands like GNR dont have complicated bass lines.... punk has even less complicated bass lines... and you can make some really kick ass fills with a bass!

also, if you can play like Colonel Claypool  [drooling] you're kinda good...



*ashamed* i play with a pick [confused]

[Butch Français]

I like to play with the fingers a LOT better then playing with a pick!
yeah, Claypool rules the bass.........Flea is pretty good too [yes] [ok]

[Evolution]

yeh i play bass.i have a beginners westfield and have been meaning to upgrade but funds are LOW i play with a pick but want to swap to fingers once i develop some strength in my fingers

[Slashly]

Well, I  am a guitar player.But, by luck, I got a bass about  1 and half years ago.I have played bass in a band (true what you say about finding very easy a band that needs a bass player, Captain P?L ).
I play with pick, (I feel more like duff playing with a pick ) probably because I?m already more  used to play with it, cause im a guitar player.
But you really need attitude to play bass !! !!



Baby Slash//

[chineseilusions]

I play bass but I suck

[Captain P?l]

i "just" bought my self a new bass! Squire P-Bass.. it rocks (and i forgot about this thread)

and i also bought myself a Behringer BX1200 combo amp! it rocks! and its cheap! and it rocks! can shape the sound however you fucking want!


as a bass player, how do YOU like the sound? the sound of metal or the really warm rich sound?

i personally use the warmest sound i can, mixed a litle with some treeble in there... i need to feel my playing. i like to feel the room shake! and my body quake  

[Evolution]

im not a fan of a metallic sound.i like a rich wumm

[outlawaxl]

Bass is not as hard as guitar(obviously) 4 strings or 6 to learn?  

I dont own a bass but everytime im in the guitarshops i always go plug in a play the display Bass guitars... I was able to play the SCOM bass line just in 30 seconds of sitting down the first time with a bass..

yeah bass players are full of attidute
look at
Rob Trujillo
Gene Simmons
Sixx
Flea
Duff
Jason Nestead

those are some bad mother fuckers in my opinion...

[Skeba]

Bass is not as hard as guitar(obviously) 4 strings or 6 to learn?

That is just about the most ridiculous thing I've heard on this board.

Bass playing can be easy yeah, but once you drop the pick and start really playing, it becomes a shitload harder. Out of the players you listed Flea can be called a bass player. Maybe Rob too, I'm not that familiar with his work. But you go and listen to Victor Wooten and tell me that is not as hard as Satriani's or Vai's or who ever's work on the guitar.

Besides. Ask any guitarplayer if they had their 2 highest string clipped off and if it would be easier to play the songs they've been playing now that they only had 4 strings to learn. Trust me, it is not.

[outlawaxl]

I found it easier... just my opinion..

[AdZ]

No way is that shit easier.

It's hard as hell, playing like Flea is hard as hell to begin with.  If you could play slap bass with your first few times playing a bass, that would be phenomenal.

But you couldn't, it isn't easy.

[Butch Français]

I see I already have replied to this thread, don't remember doing it....but it's been months though

bass players? yeah Ive got one of those wacky characters in my band..

and playing bass is hard, maybe not to begin with, like "oooh I played an E!!! damn that was easy!" but you know, there are soooooo much more to learn than just doing the easiest things. it is that way with most instruments from my experience.

[Captain P?l]

outlawaxl, you play guitar? or anyother instrument?

im sure a bass player can play the guitar intro to sweet child on guitar after 30sec.... so just 'cuz a part is easy dosnt mean the hole genre is easy...

playing AC/DC may be easy. but playing primus, maiden, metallica, red hot chilli peppers, queen of the stone age and such aint that easy....

and there are 5strings basses too....


by the way, slap bass is only cool for 20sec's... it get's boring and dull real fast. sure, you have to be good to do it, but i rather stick to my pick.... only use finger on slower songs like Dont Cry, Patience and that kinda songs...

[Slashly]

im not a fan of a metallic sound

Dude, I really feel sorry about Jason Newsted, I?ve never heard his bass!!!
Listen to almost all newsted era songs and you hear: Guitar-Guitar-Drums, you hardly hear bass!!!


Baby Slash//

[Is he struggling?]

I've been teaching myself bass for about a month now. I tend to find using fingers muchn easier than using a pick.

A lot of rock and blues basslines are pretty easy to learn, but many are often difficult to master (i.e. using hammer ons, pull offs, slapping and other techniques.

im not a fan of a metallic sound

Dude, I really feel sorry about Jason Newsted, I?ve never heard his bass!!!
Listen to almost all newsted era songs and you hear: Guitar-Guitar-Drums, you hardly hear bass!!!


Baby Slash//

You can hear a lot of great Newstead basslines on the Black album (especially 'Sandman' and 'Misery') although yes, IT was often very difficult to pick out the basslines on most Metallica records. Actually, there is often the same problem on the Cliff Burton albums too.

[Genesis]

I hate when people who play guitar say "I don't like bass, it's boring, it's piss easy"

Make them listen to Cliff Burton or John Myung and see what they think...

[Metallifuck]

Dude, I really feel sorry about Jason Newsted, I?ve never heard his bass!!!
Listen to almost all newsted era songs and you hear: Guitar-Guitar-Drums, you hardly hear bass!!!


Baby Slash//

You can hear a lot of great Newstead basslines on the Black album (especially 'Sandman' and 'Misery') although yes, IT was often very difficult to pick out the basslines on most Metallica records. Actually, there is often the same problem on the Cliff Burton albums too.

Also, watch/listen to Live Shit Binge & Purge for his beastly fast bass solos.

[Butch Français]

outlawaxl, you play guitar? or anyother instrument?

im sure a bass player can play the guitar intro to sweet child on guitar after 30sec.... so just 'cuz a part is easy dosnt mean the hole genre is easy...

playing AC/DC may be easy. but playing primus, maiden, metallica, red hot chilli peppers, queen of the stone age and such aint that easy....

and there are 5strings basses too....


by the way, slap bass is only cool for 20sec's... it get's boring and dull real fast. sure, you have to be good to do it, but i rather stick to my pick.... only use finger on slower songs like Dont Cry, Patience and that kinda songs...

there's not only 5 strings, Les Claypool uses a 6 string a lot. Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam recorded 'Jeremy' on a 12 string bass.

and if anyone say playing bass is piss easy, tell them to download something live with Primus. they will probably realize soon after seeing it that what they before used to call bassplaying is the same as knowing a couple of chords on a guitar.

[D]

some bass is easy just like some guitar is easy


if u pick the root note only on bass its easy, just as if u play 3 power chords in a song on guitar


there is difficult bass lines there are easy bass lines


on my songs sometimes i really shine on bass and some i just kind of use the bass to give my songs a fuller sound and dont do much with it.

i love runnin through fills on bass in my songs, sometimes i try to use counter rhythms on bass to fit in with my guitar

i think its easier learning to play bass than it is guitar.

not saying bass is easy, but u can be a passable bass player and even join bands quicker than u could tryin to be a guitar player.

actually when i use to give guitar lessons, i would start the people out on bass just to give them a fill of playin notes and movin their fingers

they all learned guitar pretty quickly afterwards.