Bassists

[Anima-Theory]

I have noticed that us Bass guitaist are a dying breed. Mainly because most people want to play lead guitar because of the "oh so hard" solo's. Fuck that, i can play most guitar solo's on bass, though its harder to play them on bass, but i still can.

People think Bass guitar is a background instrument or a back up instrument. People who say this are the most ignorant fucks ever. Bassist give the song melody and generally play exactly what the lead guitar plays, just not chorded. If not, bassists play stuff which has the most pain in the ass timing that comes in on half beats.

You people should judge bass players on Mark hoppus - Blink 182. He plays the most easy crap ever.

[PiePie]

At 11/10/05 08:55 PM, Anima_Theory wrote: I have noticed that us Bass guitaist are a dying breed. Mainly because most people want to

nah I dont think there dying breed where I come from ppl tend to play more bass for some reason

but I geuss if you think hard then yes kind of your right

[TotallySpies]

I started out as a bass player but I thought it was too damn boring, so I switched to lead guitar. I have much more fun now, I'd call that a pretty valid reason...

[Anima-Theory]

At 11/10/05 09:33 PM, duffeknol wrote: I started out as a bass player but I thought it was too damn boring, so I switched to lead guitar. I have much more fun now, I'd call that a pretty valid reason...

What did you play? Obviously Punk, punk always has a shit house bassline, and obviously you sucked and didn't know any hard music on bass.

[PiePie]

At 11/10/05 10:10 PM, Anima_Theory wrote:

What did you play? Obviously Punk, punk always has a shit house bassline, and obviously you sucked and didn't know any hard music on bass.

lol nice way to put it in words

how long youve been playing bass for?

[Anima-Theory]

At 11/10/05 10:14 PM, PiePie wrote: lol nice way to put it in words

how long youve been playing bass for?

About 3 or 4 years, I have a Five string, about 1 500 dollars

What about you?

[PiePie]

At 11/10/05 10:32 PM, Anima_Theory wrote:

how long youve been playing bass for?

About 3 or 4 years, I have a Five string, about 1 500 dollars

What about you?

uhm never played bass or guitar I jsut like listening to ppl play

[Anima-Theory]

At 11/10/05 10:56 PM, PiePie wrote:

At 11/10/05 10:32 PM, Anima_Theory wrote:

how long youve been playing bass for?

About 3 or 4 years, I have a Five string, about 1 500 dollars

What about you?

uhm never played bass or guitar I jsut like listening to ppl play

cool, cool

[PiePie]

is anima the only one that plays bass here?

if so thats sad a audio forum with one bassist

at least you have no comp

[Anima-Theory]

At 11/10/05 11:15 PM, PiePie wrote: at least you have no comp

I guess thats one way of looking at it :P

[WillPostForFood]

although it is my worst instrument i play bass. i do agree that it isnt like everyone thinks, its just as hard as lead guitar.

[Anima-Theory]

At 11/10/05 11:29 PM, WillPostForFood wrote: although it is my worst instrument i play bass. i do agree that it isnt like everyone thinks, its just as hard as lead guitar.

What else do you play?

[AdmiralConquistador]

At 11/10/05 08:55 PM, Anima_Theory wrote: I have noticed that us Bass guitaist are a dying breed. Mainly because most people want to play lead guitar because of the "oh so hard" solo's. Fuck that, i can play most guitar solo's on bass, though its harder to play them on bass, but i still can.

People think Bass guitar is a background instrument or a back up instrument. People who say this are the most ignorant fucks ever. Bassist give the song melody and generally play exactly what the lead guitar plays, just not chorded. If not, bassists play stuff which has the most pain in the ass timing that comes in on half beats.

You people should judge bass players on Mark hoppus - Blink 182. He plays the most easy crap ever.

I play bass. Bass guitarists are not a dying breed. People wanna play guitar because it probably sounds better to them, I think the guitar has a prettier sound than bass. Solos? Most people play rhythm, and not lead. Whoop-de-doo, you can play a guitar solo on bass, it's in fact easier because you have more space and the strings are thicker. Bass guitar in most popular music today is a background instrument or back up, and that doesn't make people who think that the most ignorant fucks ever. However if you do a little digging, some popular music has pretty damn good bass playing.

"Bassist give the song melody and generally play exactly what the lead guitar plays, just not chorded" that's called playing the roots, and it's much much much easier than playings chords. Bassists do have the occasional strange rhythm to play, but most of the time it's simple so that he and the drummer can lay down the rhythm for the rest of the band.
I don't know why you started this off all pissed, but it doesn't give bassists a good name...
Try and work on anger management.

[AdmiralConquistador]

Sorry for the double post

I think that bass can easily be as difficult as lead guitar, I don't know if anyone has listened to stuff by Victor Wooten or Marcus Miller or John Pattitucci, Stu Hamm... etc. but these men are beasts, masters of their instruments, and they will show you just how complicated and difficult the bass guitar can be.

[SWiTCH]

At 11/10/05 10:10 PM, Anima_Theory wrote: What did you play? Obviously Punk, punk always has a shit house bassline, and obviously you sucked and didn't know any hard music on bass.

I play punk. I've been playing guitar forever, but recently moved my attention more to bass. Punk bass.

[SWiTCH]

At 11/10/05 11:39 PM, AdmiralConquistador wrote: I play bass. Bass guitarists are not a dying breed. People wanna play guitar because it probably sounds better to them, I think the guitar has a prettier sound than bass. Solos? Most people play rhythm, and not lead. Whoop-de-doo, you can play a guitar solo on bass, it's in fact easier because you have more space and the strings are thicker. Bass guitar in most popular music today is a background instrument or back up, and that doesn't make people who think that the most ignorant fucks ever. However if you do a little digging, some popular music has pretty damn good bass playing.

"Bassist give the song melody and generally play exactly what the lead guitar plays, just not chorded" that's called playing the roots, and it's much much much easier than playings chords. Bassists do have the occasional strange rhythm to play, but most of the time it's simple so that he and the drummer can lay down the rhythm for the rest of the band.
I don't know why you started this off all pissed, but it doesn't give bassists a good name...
Try and work on anger management.

I'm not biased either way because I play both instruments, but from my experience most of that is wrong.

Playing a guitar solo on a bass is in fact much harder, because like you said, the strings are thicker and more spaced out. It's easier to fret faster and pick faster in a smaller area.

Playing the roots on a bass is not easier than playing power chords on a guitar. They're essentially the same thing. Making a power chord is just as easy as barring a fat string on a bass. You can also play chords on bass, and they're just as hard as guitar chords.

Also I'm in a simple 3 piece punk band, and the bass is almost never playing the same thing as the guitar.

That's just my experience though.

[Sheck]

I play guitar which led me to play and love bass. They belong together.

[PERVOK]

Even tho i am a drummer, i can play a bit of guitar.

so i picked up a bass that my bro bought about 6 years ago, and fooled aroud on it.

i love the sounds, but the frets are fucking huge.

bassists aren't quite a dying breed....

...yet.

theres gonna so much more fan-boys that wanna play guitar, and will suck at it...

[TotallySpies]

At 11/10/05 10:10 PM, Anima_Theory wrote:

At 11/10/05 09:33 PM, duffeknol wrote: I started out as a bass player but I thought it was too damn boring, so I switched to lead guitar. I have much more fun now, I'd call that a pretty valid reason...

What did you play? Obviously Punk, punk always has a shit house bassline, and obviously you sucked and didn't know any hard music on bass.

I play death metal and black metal. In the quiet words of the virgin Mary: PRETTY DAMN COMPLICATED
I just started hating it after a while, I needed chords and a brutal distortion...

[Laiderdaiv]

At 11/10/05 11:42 PM, AdmiralConquistador wrote: Sorry for the double post

I don't know if anyone has listened to stuff by Victor Wooten or Marcus Miller or John Pattitucci, Stu Hamm... etc. but these men are beasts, masters of their instruments, and they will show you just how complicated and difficult the bass guitar can be.

PRIMUS

Les Claypool rules. He's an awesome bassist

[WillPostForFood]

At 11/10/05 11:37 PM, Anima_Theory wrote:

At 11/10/05 11:29 PM, WillPostForFood wrote: although it is my worst instrument i play bass. i do agree that it isnt like everyone thinks, its just as hard as lead guitar.

What else do you play

guitar and drums

[Anima-Theory]

At 11/11/05 06:47 AM, duffeknol wrote: I play death metal and black metal. In the quiet words of the virgin Mary: PRETTY DAMN COMPLICATED
I just started hating it after a while, I needed chords and a brutal distortion...

Ok, thats understandable then :D

[T7online]

I'm not a bassist but i am very aware of the importantness of a bass(especially in a acoustic track). With the drums it helps keeping the rythm of a track meanwhile showing the base chords(which is very important).

[doG-Liv3]

Dude, I'm a rhythym guitar playe/vocalist and I have the utmost respect for bass players. You guys rule, seriously i tip my hat to you. I hate the white stripes cause they don't have a bass player an shit. But yeah Steve DiGeorgio of Testament is the lord and master of bass.

[TotallySpies]

I have utmost respect for bassists too. Especially when you're Dying Fetus' old bassist... I've seen that guy do shit on his 6 string I thought wasn't even possible on a bass... great stuff!

[Anima-Theory]

Wow, maybe all the Bass hating jerks are only where I live, thanks for the positive reaformations guys ^_^

[TotallySpies]

At 11/14/05 05:58 PM, Anima_Theory wrote: Wow, maybe all the Bass hating jerks are only where I live, thanks for the positive reaformations guys ^_^

The place you live obviously sucks...

[Anima-Theory]

At 11/14/05 06:18 PM, duffeknol wrote:

At 11/14/05 05:58 PM, Anima_Theory wrote: Wow, maybe all the Bass hating jerks are only where I live, thanks for the positive reaformations guys ^_^

The place you live obviously sucks...

I live in Australia, it doesn't suck, only the people in my area are dickheads

[axeman666]

thank you's to everyone in this topic for making lead players seem like dickheads who dont care about bassists. i feel ashamed now...lol.

[doG-Liv3]

Yeah you lead guitar players are assholes, go rythym! Just fucking with you man.