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Koy Carson
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I played guitar 3-4 years and recently picked up bass. I wouldn't say it is easy, but it is easier compared to learning from scratch. The easier comes from already knowing the notes on the fretboard, not struggling so much w/ fretting (although it is a little different) and already having a sense of timing and musical structure. But, you still have to learn to think as a bass player, not a guitarist.

I had learned a lot about timing and music theory learning the guitar, but I've learned a lot more just in the few months I've been playing bass. With guitar, I rarely counted the beats; I played more by feel and just knowing the strum or riff. With bass, I've really been paying attention to the beats and counting. Once I become fairly proficient and comfortable playing guitar, I'd like to pick up bass. I would love to have an electric and an acoustic bass. I read somewhere that bass is easy to learn but hard to master.]]> Bass Players Discussion Minotaur https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-314129 https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-314119 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:10:13 +0000 Bass Players Discussion jwmartin https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-314119 https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-314116 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:07:16 +0000 Bass Players Discussion Guitar_Guy https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-314116 https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-313501 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:48:19 +0000
I played guitar 3-4 years and recently picked up bass. I wouldn't say it is easy, but it is easier compared to learning from scratch. The easier comes from already knowing the notes on the fretboard, not struggling so much w/ fretting (although it is a little different) and already having a sense of timing and musical structure. But, you still have to learn to think as a bass player, not a guitarist.

I had learned a lot about timing and music theory learning the guitar, but I've learned a lot more just in the few months I've been playing bass. With guitar, I rarely counted the beats; I played more by feel and just knowing the strum or riff. With bass, I've really been paying attention to the beats and counting.]]> Bass Players Discussion jwmartin https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-313501 https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-313472 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:00:09 +0000 Bass Players Discussion mercury187 https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-313472 https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-312530 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:57:22 +0000




These are the pics from the seller. It has four brand shiny new strings now and sounds and plays pretty good. It's actually a lot lighter than my electric guitar, log-of-mahogany hagstrom swede. It's also my first single coil guitar, and at first I had a pretty terrible hum problem at times. Most of the time it was fine, but then once in awhile it would just suddenly become unbearably noisy. As it turns out, my housemate has a pair of those fluorescent energy saving bulbs in a socket controlled by a dimmer switch, and if those don't get full power from the dimmer switch they make an audible buzzing sound, the same sound my bass picks up and spits out of the amp...

Thoughts on playing so far: I can throw together decent sounding chord progressions or little scale based riffs on a guitar, but I really have no idea yet how to come up with a decent bass line from a chord progression. Finger plucking with any speed will need some work. Finally, I didn't realize how much string muting I would need to do, but I guess that makes sense because the strings have so much mass, they're going to take more muting to get them stopped after you play a note on them.

Very fun though and different enough from guitar to be interesting on its own.]]> Bass Players Discussion Noff https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-312530 https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-312315 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:21:18 +0000 Bass Players Discussion XylemBassGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/bass-players-discussion/so-i-bought-a-bass/#post-312315