Bass guitar vs. Guitar

[stoned_soldier]

weedseed: this isn't a challenge or meant to be mean, but if bass is so easy why don't you become the world's best bass player and become that inspirational bassist you were looking for.

IMO - there are too many good guitarists and not enough good and famous bassists. start a revolution. so many songs are copied and the style are too similar in so many bands. then again so is the bass but bass is meant to be simplistic

most songs do not demand skillful bass playing but you need bass all the same

to that video: HO-LEE-FUK

[weedseed]

Originally Posted by stoned_soldier

weedseed: this isn't a challenge or meant to be mean, but if bass is so easy why don't you become the world's best bass player and become that inspirational bassist you were looking for.

IMO - there are too many good guitarists and not enough good and famous bassists. start a revolution. so many songs are copied and the style are too similar in so many bands. then again so is the bass but bass is meant to be simplistic

most songs do not demand skillful bass playing but you need bass all the same

to that video: HO-LEE-FUK

never said i was in search for a great bass player.....i said i started guitar because i had influences...since i dont have much appreciation for bass, i have no intention on learning it.......and would you rather be the worlds greatest bassist or would you rather be a pimp like Hendrix or Page? theres too many guitarists because noone wants to play the bass lol.....bass was most play when they find out they cant handle guitar..lol j/k (maybe though)

i never said it was a challenge either btw, i gave my opinion and my reasons why..ty

[Chrysamere]

Originally Posted by G-MAN

imo Flea is the best bassist in the world. He got me into playing bass.

that's completely wrong.

[IL_Duce]

Originally Posted by BongBassed

I think bass guitar sound aesome when I'm stoned, every one plays guitar and the bass is usallually overlooked

its a bass, not a bass guitar. a guitar and bass are differnt things

[tdot]

Originally Posted by IL_Duce

its a bass, not a bass guitar. a guitar and bass are differnt things

actually, i'm pretty sure that it's a bass guitar (technically), and that bass is said for short. a guitar is defined as a stringed instrument with a fingerboard and frets, USUALLY having 6 strings.

and a bass could also be something like a chello.

but i can see your point though, i call it a bass myself, but a bass and a bass guitar are not different things.

[J@ck]

I agree I think bass and bass guitar are the same instrument. (as tdot described)

I've been playin bass for years. Love the instrument. Just got turned on to that, probably cause most of my friends play guitar. But it's an awesome instrument.
I've never seen anybody who plays guitar have the ability to just pick up a bass and start rippin. Look at Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, flea... That's amazing stuff. I'd even challenge a strict guitarist to try to play sublime or marley off the bat.
Guitar us great, but they're two different instruments who play there own very significant roles in music. The rhythem, the very different techniques and what they focus on... I've heard to often from guitarists that they could probably tear it up on bass but have never seen anyone do it. Both are great instruments don't knock them.

[zackalack]

To say that one instrument is better than the other is completely ignorant.

[weedseed]

so you think an accordian is just as good as guitar? lol ...there are lots of instruments better than others....you wouldnt learn to play the souzaphone would you?lol

[Chrysamere]

Originally Posted by weedseed

so you think an accordian is just as good as guitar? lol ...there are lots of instruments better than others....you wouldnt learn to play the souzaphone would you?lol

no what they mean is you shouldn't compare the instruments in terms of being "better" than one another, that's just stupid.

[Joint]

I've been playing bass for about 2 years now, although I haven't picked it up in about 4 months so it wouldn't suprise me if I don't sound all that good now. Meh.

This thread makes me want to go play. Too bad the 9V battery in the active electronics is dead

[stash_up]

Originally Posted by weedseed

im guessing you play it like a 6string except you pluck 2strings at once....eh ima go smoke anyone got info on that lemme know!!

12 strings, made up of 6 pairs: E, E an octave higher, A, A an octave higher, D, D an octave higher, G, G an ocatve higher, got the pattern yet? no, because the last 2 strings are different, it just goes B, B, E, E, they just have a replica note on their espective paired strings, since the note are high enough by then, just to fill in the sound a bit more.

[med mechanica]

i think comparing bass to guitar is stupid because they serve different purposes in music.

this is also why i think it's bullshit to say bass is easier to learn than guitar. i think learning bass on par with most pop music bass is much easier than being on par with pop guitar since pop music doesn't stray to far from the treble on the mainstage since TV's and radios are so unideal for bass. but, to be an AMAZING bassist is just as challenging as being an amazing guitarist.

[MrBubbles]

Ive been playing bass for over 2 years this march, and its not because "guitar is too hard to play", i just love the depth of bass! like when you get that awesome bass line from a big ass amp at an outside concert, and its so powerful it shakes you in your sternum. I prefer bass over guitar because i feel a good bass line is what connects the drums and guitar.

[hempdude420]

yea bass is great. john paul jones was rele good.

[UniXelation]

Guitar and bass are two best friends and are half of what they could be without each other.