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These last few days I tried to get to know my new toy, the TonePort interface, to learn it, to play with it, etc. In order to test it, I also took the bass guitar at home, to see how it sounds recorded through my new toy. I have found one great bass tone, a rock tone, full and sharp and I had the time of my life playing the bass in front of my computer.
But! Cause there is always a but, isn’t it? I am a guitar player, used to press light strings against small frets, my guitar is kind of a juwelry, small and nice, easy to use and easy to play (with). Now, the bass guitar isn’t anything close to this, isn’t it? Large frets, heavy strings, larger and heavier than a regular electric guitar!
I have always had fun playing the other instruments in the room, don’t you dare tell me you have never played drumms while at the rehearsal studio to everybody’s dispair! Or bass! I know we had a lot of jam sessions where we switched instruments and this is always a great moment! But when trying to record something, this is not always the easiest thing to do, since you need to be accurate and play every single note as clear as possible. While with the guitar this should not be a problem, while playing the bass, it suddenly becomes one because sooner or later something goes wrong! For example, I have observed that my pinky doesn’t quite want to behave when playing bass, after all, the low E string is almost half of my pinky so I guess it has it’s reasons to missbehave!
The fact is that after trying and after a bit of rehearsal, my small home recording session went fine but really made me think about my buddy and bass player in my band and man, and all I can say is…
…RESPECT!
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Ovidiu OprescuRomania, 33 years
Playing the guitar since 17 and enjoying every moment of it!
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salinaspaul
September 15th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Amen, brother! I am a bass player, starting to tinker with the guitar after realizing that it’s not a bad instrument after all. As I tell my non-musician friend, we bass players hold both the melody and the rhythm, and I appreciate your post!
Carol
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:30 am
Thank you!
Jonah
December 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Hallelujah! i was at this gig once with my band and a women came up to us advertising a drum and guitar workshop and i asked her if it includes basses and she said ‘well they’re all the same aren’t they? im sure (whatever his name was) will be able to help you.’ i mean, come-on! if you even try explaining to any non-musician then they get bored by the time you come to the point. In my old crap band i had to sing as well which as my comrades will know it quite hard. i have recently bought a 5-string and is FUNKY (if that can still be used as a good adjective). Thank you
Ovidiu
December 18th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Indeed, guitar and bass are 2 different instruments, even if they are related and even if you can switch from one to another, there are particular techniques that can not be easily learned. Like slapping for ex…and then the sound.
Giantsonicmonster
December 31st, 2008 at 4:40 am
I play bass, and have just been subjected to the usual post gig comments, like ‘gee you play a big guitar’, and ‘dude, nice guitar’. I’ve found the simplest way to explain it is ‘The bass is the glue that sticks the guitar to the drums’. That seems to make sense to most people, and it’s a good way to explain the basses function to music students. Even drummers understand it:-) Peace.
Hannah
July 1st, 2009 at 2:29 am
well it seems i came to the right sit to find out about this stuff! i’ve been mulling over in my head “what should i learn? bass guitar or just electric guitar?” and now reading this i am thinking “OH FREAK! i have tiny hands! even if my pinky is freakishly strong, should i play bass?” i have decided i will just learn some guitar, leave my brother to the bass playing. (one of them at least, i will probly get stuck playing secondary guitar :/ …