The drummer? The singer? Neil Jordan? You?Originally Posted by eternal essence
The drummer? The singer? Neil Jordan? You?
You're talking abut crappy bassists. Playing crappy rhythm guitar is only slightly more difficult. Instead of one finger you're actually using a few fingers to find chords instead of single notes, but the concept is the same. You land on your handful of chords and strum instead of landing on a note and plucking.
However, I guess a point that can be made is that for uninvolved stuff saying you play guitar then following with the fact that you can play bass is pretty "duh" stuff. Any decent guitarist can at least get around on a bass, but to be seriously good the technique will vary a great deal.
:twoshortplanks: Sure, bass is easy enough to pick up. But to master? You've obviously only heard amateurs if you think mastery is easy.Oh...nothing. I mean, I'm sure all 4 strings are equally hard to master.
Come on, guys. It's not just bass. Every instrument can be "crappily" played. Depending on your talent, any instrument can also be "easy" to play. Crappily and easy just describe an individual's opinion.
How about a Sitar with its crappy 3 strings, huh? Don't leave them out of this.
Well, anyone can pick up a bass and learn quickly to follow a simple three chord progression. However, I'd disagree with that last part that any instrument can be easy. There are certainly instruments that cannot be simply picked up an made to sound good. Most wind instruments require a lot of training before they are even close to sounding good because so much is required to get good tone. Same for bowed strings where you have to train your bow hand a lot before you can really get good tone from the strings.
Probably one of the reasons guitar is so popular is that in general you can just pick it up and get good tone without knowing a damned thing about it. Learn a few awkward hand positions and get some callouses and you can play songs. If you're playing electric you can skip most of the time developing callouses.
Accordion (at least the basses) are the same way. Probably one of the easiest instruments to just pick up and play...except they aren't cool or nearly as cheap as guitars.
Violins, Violas, and Cellos must also be easy to play, what with their four strings and that stick that they all use.
Thought I would just throw this in...
someone on youtube, in the comments section about a video on dark matter claimed to have psychic abilities.
I found it amusing as I don't believe anyone does.I know I don't.
A fellow named James Randi has offered to pay a million dollars to anyone who can prove they are psychic.
Here's his website:
About James Randi
Someone won 211 million dollars in the powerball lottery yesterday. Sadly it wans't me.I guess that person had the talent of being lucky at the right time.
To play any musical instrument well requires talent.It isn't easy.
The harp must be 7 times harder to play than the guitar what with having 47 strings and 11 times harder than a violin
Kefka's coming, look intimidating!
Have a nice day!!
Ok guys, I was joking, let's not freak out. The bass player in my band is one of my favourite people in the world (and an amazing songwriter), but it's fun to rag on other instruments. "Oh, you play lead guitar? I should have known, the spotlight's really given you a healthy tan." "Say what you want drummer boy, at the end of the day we all know you're just going to be sleeping with the singer's leftovers."
Lie 10 up
P.S. Anyone who's seen Victor Wooten or Les Claypool would be insane to say that Bass isn't hard to master.
Well, it's too late to back out now. In for a penny, and all that! *flames ee*
B-b-but....I was asleep! ;_;
EDIT: Hold up, does this mean I get a mother smurfing penny!? Screw it, gimme all you've got.
imma use ur intenstines to restring my guitar!
Now THAT would be a secret talent.
Too bad one of your talents isn't coming up with decent flames. ZING!
I'm like Johnny Storm after a shower.
Glad to you hear you say that. I was sorely tempted to post a Victor Wooten video but I couldn't find just one that I wanted to post so I scrapped the idea.
It certainly isn't easy, but I disagree about the talent bit. There are plenty of kids (usually of Asian descent) that are phenomenal at playing a given instrument merely because they we're put on a piano bench at 3 and nearly forced to practice for hours a day. Many of them couldn't care less about it.
However, your statement holds a kernel of truth in that there seems to be some talent required in really being able to play musically rather than mechanically. Sadly I've seen so many people play with great precision but completely dispassionately with no real sense of nature rubato or ability to make trills and ornaments work organically without applying some formulaic knowledge to them.
When colleagues of mine talk about forcing their children to start instruments early and forcing them to play (usually the instrument of said colleague) I literally want to punch them in the mouth.
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